#1511 – Oven
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
When I was a kid the interiors of cars in the summer were covered in leg-melting vinyl and frying pan chrome. If I was wearing shorts I would have to pull them down a bit to protect the part of my leg that touched the seat. I also mastered the art of buckling the seatbelt by only touching the fabric straps attached to the blisteringly hot metal. Eventually my mom gave us beach towels to cover everything in the back seat.
Tags: car, chicken, dinner
heh, I remember those seats, even when it wasn’t all that hot outside, you could still practically feel your skin sizzle as you sat down.
I have no memories of any cars with interior like that (maybe because I’m too young?), but my dad’s car has these little buttons you can adjust the temperature with, and for some reason I always get the temperature too hot or too cold when adjusting it on my side of the car. Or is it just me, because I always get annoyed by the temperature, no matter how hot or cold it is…?
Ma had beach towels for the car too. One for passenger, one for driver, and one to lay across the back seat. They make great seat covers. When she did laundry, she would just throw the towels in, just like that. Always get matching towels, unless your car is made from parts of other cars.
Oh man, I remember that. My dad had this truck that we took to haul the boat down to the river, and it had one giant bench seat made of what can only be the surface of the sun.
It was particularly fun when you didn’t have a shirt on, and tried to sit down…
OWWWW I remember that. I swore to my mother at the time I needed skin grafts after those hot seats. Yes, the towels eventually came into play, and brought relief to many a traumatized pair of legs everywhere.
Couldn’t do much about the seat belts though except, like you, try and grab it by the material, not the metal.
Oof, those seats were horrid. The worst ones were the ones where the vinyl upholstery was anchored by chrome buttons IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEAT. What short-sighted idiot thought that was a good idea???
Is this chicken on the wall in this one?
That time we forgot a half chicken in the oven and went for a two weeks vacation I really regretted not being a fisherman.
Noooooooooooooo!
#truestory.
A long-lost schoolmate of my girlfriend was visiting us when we discovered the chicken and its, erm, inhabitants. Best icebreaker EVER .°D
And in the high desert in winter, it was so dry, we learned to slap the door handle before trying to get out. Slide across the seat, slap, pull — or slide, reach, and jerk back as the half-inch spark contracts all the muscles in your arm! Similar problem in the house, with carpets.
People tell me to “Dress for Success!” and I tell them “I already have success. Now I dress in cotton, for comfort and Electro-Static Discharge!”
one time our car got so hot we poured ice water on it to cool it down so we could touch the door handles, and the water just kind of turned into steam.