moving along

It has been a very unexpected month.  We said good-bye to my 1993 Corolla that I purchased in 1994.  Although the Corolla was a dream for parking and zipping around city streets, we had outgrown it literally as N's legs were stuck behind the driver's seat.  Instead?  We bought one of these:

Yes, I know it is quite a step up from the 1993 Corolla (which I had intended on getting rid of in the early 2000s but then...) but, in addition to providing the girls with extra leg room, it is one of the few vehicles available on the market that has the same lumbar support for the driver's side as for the passenger's side.  Ahhhh.  My dh loves to drive, I love to be a passenger so we are both happy now!  I no longer have to do the majority of the long-distance driving!  Hurrah!  We got a good deal on it as well as it was a model used by the dealership so technically it was used.

En route home from a drive, my dh complained about how the new vehicle's passenger's seat seat-warmer.   His exact words were, "What a piece of junk!  When you pay this much money for a new vehicle, you would think the car seat-warmer would work" and asked me to add this concern to the list of concerns to be addressed by the dealership.  As he complained, I noticed him sitting with his mittened hands between his bottom and the seat to cushion his buttocks from the cold seat.

The next day as I was dropping the girls off at school and daycare, I decided I had better check out his complaint. Looking closer, I discovered that the seat controls ranged from red 3 to 0 (presumably "off") to blue 3.  The passenger carseat was set at blue 3.  Hmmm.

I saved myself the time and embarrassment of phoning to raise this complaint to the attention of the dealership: my dh had set the passenger carseat to the coldest level feasible!