I rode in an older luxury one (I’m not sure how luxury a Chrysler New Yorker was seen at the time, but it had clearly been a premium model) years later as an adult and it was plush and comfy. Kind of annoying to get in and out of because it really grabbed at your clothes, but I can understand why it was once seen as a luxury feature, especially compared to the vinyl in my dad’s pickup truck!
No special car seats, either, except for babies/toddlers. I know I used a booster seat when very small, and grew out of it when I was “tall enough to see out the window.” Then a few years later (some point in the mid-90s), the law extended the age that required car seats.
Thankfully I was above the age cut off - I’m pretty sure that after being told I’m “a big girl” and that I “grew out” of my booster seat, I would’ve put up a fight over needing to use one again.
When you get home, she turns on the TV and it's 3/4 of the way through a rerun of the Beetlejuice animated show premier. You hear your mom cough and light another.
26 Comments
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 1y
Don't worry, in a few years it will be Kenny G and Virginia Slims.
kautau@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
And eventually XXXTentacion and a Juul
undergroundoverground@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1y
Sex education was a muttered warning about the school janitor
klemptor@startrek.website · 25 pts · 1y
I am in the back of the station wagon, unfettered
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
Living on the Edge is a completely different song.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
Man I do miss the red velur/velvet whatever people used to put in cars. I thought it was a nice ascetic.
jqubed@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
I rode in an older luxury one (I’m not sure how luxury a Chrysler New Yorker was seen at the time, but it had clearly been a premium model) years later as an adult and it was plush and comfy. Kind of annoying to get in and out of because it really grabbed at your clothes, but I can understand why it was once seen as a luxury feature, especially compared to the vinyl in my dad’s pickup truck!
DrSleepless@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
Wouldn’t you be listening to Living on the edge by Aerosmith?
db2@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
This is what I opened the comments for.
Also a reminder that Steven Tyler is a predator in the bad ways.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y
Hes not even subtle about it. I cant listen to aerosmith anymore, half the damn song lyrics are about how much they like underage sex
Funkytom467@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
As long as you're not Living on a prayer. I've listen too much of that song.
TheBat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
No special car seats, either, except for babies/toddlers. I know I used a booster seat when very small, and grew out of it when I was “tall enough to see out the window.” Then a few years later (some point in the mid-90s), the law extended the age that required car seats.
Thankfully I was above the age cut off - I’m pretty sure that after being told I’m “a big girl” and that I “grew out” of my booster seat, I would’ve put up a fight over needing to use one again.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Man I'm glad my mom never smoked
samus12345@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Same, her or my dad!
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 1y
I can smell this meme, and I don't like it 🤢
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
God it seemed like that fucking song was on a neverending loop for about six months. MTV must have played it once an hour.
TomMasz@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Now your mom has to turn her oxygen off before she can light up.
Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 1y
When you get home, she turns on the TV and it's 3/4 of the way through a rerun of the Beetlejuice animated show premier. You hear your mom cough and light another.
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y
Oh, no. My mom wouldn't let me watch Beetlejuice because he's a demon.
andyburke@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y
Stop hurting me like this.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
I grew up in the back of a messy station wagon, but at least I wasn’t the kid who grew up in a smelly station wagon.
I can still smell my friend’s car. Was it because of cigarette smoke or did an opossum DIE in there??
kibiz0r@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
The fumes make it hard for Elmo to think.
BarbudoGrande@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Try the front seat of a single cab. Cruising highway speeds at 5am with only a slightly cracked window.
Those Newports hit
jsheradin@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y
Has anyone, even a child, ever fit in the back seats of a Porsche 928?
samus12345@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · -4 pts · 1y
Ok boomer