littleangelfire
Well-known member
UGH! I went garage saling (is that word?) yesterday, and there's always at least one or two with expired seats. At one sale, I was talking with the homeowners some b/c of shared interests, home schooling, babywearing, growing their own food, etc., and I bought my sister some clothes and a coat and a couple toys. And I saw an old Cosco Explorer, I think, shield booster. EEWWW. So, as I was paying, I mentioned, nicely, I swear, that that seat actually wasn't safe to use anymore. That not only was it expired but that the industry has stopped making shield boosters b/c of how unsafe they were.
To which she gets incredibly huffy and says (like she's said it before...hmmmm..) "My husband is a police sargeant and they're still approved for use by the Missouri Dept of Transportation. They're just fine and my kids still use them."
Yeah. Since when does the dept of trans 'approve' car seats for use? So, I said that as awesome as police sargeants are and everything they have to know, they are not experts in car seats. And she just sat there and looked disgusted with me, she didn't even want to hand my change back to me. She only wanted $2 for the seat - but I really don't have $2 to blow on something I'm going to throw away. So...I wrote down the address as I left. Would it be incredibly creepy of me to mail her the correct info?
To which she gets incredibly huffy and says (like she's said it before...hmmmm..) "My husband is a police sargeant and they're still approved for use by the Missouri Dept of Transportation. They're just fine and my kids still use them."
Yeah. Since when does the dept of trans 'approve' car seats for use? So, I said that as awesome as police sargeants are and everything they have to know, they are not experts in car seats. And she just sat there and looked disgusted with me, she didn't even want to hand my change back to me. She only wanted $2 for the seat - but I really don't have $2 to blow on something I'm going to throw away. So...I wrote down the address as I left. Would it be incredibly creepy of me to mail her the correct info?