When you're talking to yourself about seats

rodentranger

New member
do you use forum abbreviations in your head?
For instance, do you think "Evenflo Triumph Advance" or "EFTA"?
I keep catching myself wanting to call seats by their abbreviations to non-car seat people. My SIL isn't going to know what an EFTA is...
(Sorry if this should actually be in off-topic.)
 
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Pixels

New member
Yeah, I do. Depending on the seat. EFTA is EFTA, but Radian and RN is always Radian (I read "RN" as Radian in my head), MA is always Marathon.
I also think "SIL" instead of "sister in law" if I'm saying it that way to other people. "DH" instead of "my husband," too.
 

zeo2ski

Well-known member
Hahahaha!
Yes.
And it gets worse--when I get my summer/winter tires switched they mark "left front" as "LF" etc, and of course all winter long I've had a "rear facing" tire...
My DH has a pair of mechanics gloves that say TrueFit.
I had to send some diapers to addresses with Blvd.
Everytime I see GN for gender neutral I see Graco nautilus.
It's bad.
 

NannyMom

Well-known member
do you use forum abbreviations in your head?
For instance, do you think "Evenflo Triumph Advance" or "EFTA"?
I keep catching myself wanting to call seats by their abbreviations to non-car seat people. My SIL isn't going to know what an EFTA is...
(Sorry if this should actually be in off-topic.)

LOL! Yes I do :) I was even talking to the manager at BRU once (he likes to talk carseats with me). I mentioned the EFTA and he asked what that was :confused: Oops! :)
 

Mama Jo

New member
I was talking with another shopper at BRU today looking at carseats. She was asking me my opinion on a couple of them because I must have looked like I knew a little something about them because I was playing with all of them! lol... And so when she asked me, I told her I thought that the EFTA would be a good option for her because she was grandma and it was going to be used RF'ing and FF'ing for 3 different kiddos at different times, and it had the infinite adjust harness, but then I couldn't for the life of me remember what it was actually called!! I kept calling it the EFTA, and she was looking at me like I was speaking another language, so then I kept trying to call it the Evenflo Turbo-something or other... I had to look at the sign to remember what it was actually called!!
 

Pixels

New member
I was talking with another shopper at BRU today looking at carseats. She was asking me my opinion on a couple of them because I must have looked like I knew a little something about them because I was playing with all of them! lol... And so when she asked me, I told her I thought that the EFTA would be a good option for her because she was grandma and it was going to be used RF'ing and FF'ing for 3 different kiddos at different times, and it had the infinite adjust harness, but then I couldn't for the life of me remember what it was actually called!! I kept calling it the EFTA, and she was looking at me like I was speaking another language, so then I kept trying to call it the Evenflo Turbo-something or other... I had to look at the sign to remember what it was actually called!!
So much for looking like you actually know what you're talking about!
 

Shaunam

New member
It depends on the seat. EFTA is always abbreviated in my head. Regent is never (does that even have an abbreviation?).
 

joolsplus3

Admin - CPS Technician
I'm SO lucky I haven't used an abbreviation when speaking with customers at BRU (uh...yet... :eek:).
It's bad enough I expect people to know what 'tall top slots' means and usually have to end up explaining it after they ask me what the heck I'm talking about :rolleyes: (Oh, and that they think I'm an insane woman for saying the AO/E's don't go to 100 pounds...but that's a whole 'nother story, lol, "No, no, you have to look at THAT number, the harness weight....")
 

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