You can be lucky

[old man emu]

The front passenger seat of my car wouldn't lock upright nor back and forth. I decided to take it out and check for broken springs, spring hooks or whatever. Typically, I was expecting the worst, with the possibility of having to buy a whole new seat base.

 

So, I took out the seat, which was easy - only four bolts. But I had to get a panel beater to disconnect a wiring junction for me. I can never work out how to release those "push to connect" joiners. First bit of luck. I found a bluetooth headset on the floor. Obviously a previous owner had dropped it in that inaccessible gap between the seat and the centre console. This one looks to be a newer version of the one I've been using for years.

So I got the seat out and onto the kitchen bench. I couldn't use my workbench outside or I would have been bled to death by the mozzies. After I undid the seat pan and runner assembly, I tipped the seat over and noticed something between the seat sqaub and the frame. You know those called "milk bottles" - white, soft, chewy things on the shape of a bottle. Well this thing was in the shape of a bottle, but was brown and hard. I didn't test the chewiness. Anyway, I put the seat upright and heard a "boyg" sound, and the forward/aft lock snapped into place and the seat-back lock worked.

 

So, what I feared was going to be an expensive repair turned out to be inexpensive and I got an $80 phone headset to boot. Actually, it was the milk bottle that I booted into teh paddock next door.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Was probabbly an old cola bottle.. Never liked them...

[Old Koreelah]

The last unexplored frontier: under your car seat. Amazing what you find. Foreign coins, fishing lures, pens, bits off phones...

[old man emu]

Never let your Other Half clean under the car seats.

[pmccarthy]

The mind boggles OME.

[Old Koreelah]

What have you been up to, OME?

[old man emu]

13 minutes ago, Old Koreelah said:

What have you been up to, OME?

I invoke the Fifth.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Had to read that twice.. For a second I thought you wrote, "I involve the filth"...

[old man emu]

Unless you happen to be a person whose occupation involves sterilizing crime scenes after their investigation, don't offer to clean out the passenger side footwell of a woman's car. 

[onetrack]

I had a former (married) business partner who was as randy as a buck rabbit, and made it his lifes aim to screw anything on two legs that was willing. He left a pair of panties from one of his conquests in his car glovebox, and his wife found it.

Such was his skill at talking (or her acceptance of his constant unfaithfulness), that he managed to convince her it was a rag he'd picked up, to clean the windscreen with. I reckon she knew what he got up to, but chose to ignore it.

[facthunter]

She's just waiting for the right time.  Nev

[nomadpete]

Two blokes in the gym....

 

Q:- "So you got a bad back too? How long have you been wearing that girdle thing?"

 

A:- "Ever since my wife found it in the glove box"

 

 

[willedoo]

3 hours ago, facthunter said:

She's just waiting for the right time.  Nev

They never forget. They just wait until the other half forgets, then they pounce.

[Marty_d]

Reminds me of the old joke about a drunk who gets pulled over on Christmas Eve.

 

The cop, feeling generous, says "Tell you what.  Because it's Christmas, if you can find one thing in your car that's related to Christmas, I'll let you off with a warning."

 

The drunk looks everywhere but can't find anything christmassy.  Finally he puts his hand under the seat and finds a lacy pair of knickers.  With a big grin, he hands them to the cop.

 

The cop looks at them, then him, and says "What the hell do these panties have to do with Christmas??"

 

"Well," the drunk says... "They're Carols!"