Car Seat

Now why is it that I can move K’s car seat from Critter’s car to my truck in about five minutes, but it took me almost half an hour to get the one I just bought properly installed in my truck? And I’m not even including the time it took to figure out the belt-path for the five-point harness and getting that adjusted (although I think the Apollo astronauts had an eaiser system to use) which was another twenty or so minutes. Just so everyone knows it’s a fair comparison I made sure to buy the same seat Critter did, and I’ve set the harness in mine in the same slots as hers so it’ll be easy to do a final fit the first time K rides in it.

And of course, my truck being a 1999 model it doesn’t have the LATCH system that most newer cars have so I’m having to use the center-rear seat belt. I looked in the owner’s manual for directions on how to install the seat just in case Ford was forward-thinking enough to include the LATCH harness points and it turns out that the harness points are an optional kit THAT CAN ONLY BE ATTATCHED TO THE FRONT PASSENGER SEAT. And yes boys and girls, passenger airbags were already standard equipment on my vehicle at the time. What the hell? Did they not read their own owner’s manual that says "the safest place for children under the age of 12 is the back seat"? Morons. And before anyone suggests it, my truck doesn’t have the newer two-stage airbag on the passenger side that makes it slightly less lethal to install a car seat there.

Grrrr.

Off to the pharmacy to (hopefully) pick up my meds. They’ve had two days to get them ready.