This car does NOT make me look cool...

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by LostSalad

Not the Salad! . You even capitalized it.... I will be ready when you come for me ;..;

Well just ensure you are dressed properly as that apparently is his issue with you.

[soulreapersteve]

Anyone have any "incidents" happen to them when exiting other cars, particularly ecoboxes?

There was this one time where muscle memory kicked in when I was exiting the old Corolla. Without a second thought, I moved the seat all the way back, opened the door as wide as it can go, stuck my left leg out, and put my left hand on the door sill while swinging the right leg out.

Still not realizing what was going to happen, the right side of my face kissed the gravel. I got up, looked around in embarrassment, brushed my self off, then scurried inside.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I have pulled a couple of sweet PLFs getting out of the wife's SUV lately. I have no issue getting in and of my low one but I tend to forget I am sitting almost 2 feet higher in hers. She laughs her ass off at me.

Originally Posted by soulreapersteve

Anyone have any "incidents" happen to them when exiting other cars, particularly ecoboxes?

There was this one time where muscle memory kicked in when I was exiting the old Corolla. Without a second thought, I moved the seat all the way back, opened the door as wide as it can go, stuck my left leg out, and put my left hand on the door sill while swinging the right leg out.

Still not realizing what was going to happen, the right side of my face kissed the gravel. I got up, looked around in embarrassment, brushed my self off, then scurried inside.

I am now deathly afraid of getting out of my buddy's lifted pickup!

[Bergen23]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I am now deathly afraid of getting out of my buddy's lifted pickup!

Funnily enough, I drive a lifted truck for work. I think because I spend most of my time in the truck, the worst stuff happens while driving the car. I tend to drive the car like it's the truck and forget about potholes and the like and end up scraping stuff bad.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Bergen23

Funnily enough, I drive a lifted truck for work. I think because I spend most of my time in the truck, the worst stuff happens while driving the car. I tend to drive the car like it's the truck and forget about potholes and the like and end up scraping stuff bad.

Since I have the complete opposite situation I frequently scare the crap out of the wife dodging potholes in her car. People must also think I am paranoid of getting hit by a train since I almost completely stop before crossing tracks in the high standing SUV. Railway tracks are my car's biggest nemesis around here.

[Bergen23]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Since I have the complete opposite situation I frequently scare the crap out of the wife dodging potholes in her car. People must also think I am paranoid of getting hit by a train since I almost completely stop before crossing tracks in the high standing SUV. Railway tracks are my car's biggest nemesis around here.

Haha, train tracks I always slow to around 10 or 15 then cross at an extreme angle. I feel like I constantly piss people off behind me because of this.

Had a bad experience somewhere in the GTA where I scraped the shit out of the bottom of my car crossing some tracks. RIP skid plate.

It's only a matter of time before my oil pan is the next casualty.

[Vroomin86]

Originally Posted by kcarlson_sf

.... So when I get out of the car, I look like a walrus trying to haul itself out of the water. It's a ridiculous process of banging my feet on the bottom of the door, scooting my butt to the edge of the seat, banging my head on the door frame, and sort of chucking myself out of the car, often with an audible grunt.


Anyone else have this problem?

First off I commend you on a good laugh... Second.... I am 25, 145lbs and still feel like a walrus everyday I get in and out of my car....

[Deep Six]

Funny thread but I have to share some advice. I spent my forties the same way until I realized where things were headed. I really encourage other mid life guys to consider making your your fifties a return to better health. Your family will be the benefactor!

[SkAsphalt]

As a big guy (football player sized) I can get in and out fine 90% of the time..that is all


^^^ this guy, right here. a CHAMP!

Originally Posted by Deep Six

Funny thread but I have to share some advice. I spent my forties the same way until I realized where things were headed. I really encourage other mid life guys to consider making your your fifties a return to better health. Your family will be the benefactor!

As a kid who weighed over 400 pounds by grade 10, I agree with this guy. Push for your personal health, everyone around you will benefit in so many different ways. Such a positive experience.

[Teseo]

You guys complain too much like women

[soulreapersteve]

Originally Posted by Deep Six

Funny thread but I have to share some advice. I spent my forties the same way until I realized where things were headed. I really encourage other mid life guys to consider making your your fifties a return to better health. Your family will be the benefactor!

I'm motivated to go workout again. It's been a while since hitting the gym or stairs around here. Last time was probably the day before I bought the car about a month and a half ago!

[Namuna]

44, 5'10" and I ain't gonna put up my damned weight but will say my gut's been compared to being in the 2nd trimester of pregnancy.

To give an idea of how NOT limber I am; If I have to pick-up something off the floor, I've got to spread my legs like I'm doing stretches. I've relegated myself to wearing suspenders to work, instead of a belt because that's the only way I can keep my pants up (imagine trying to keep a pair of pants up on a beachball with a belt).

So yeah, the struggle is real when it comes to getting in/out of this car for me!!

...Yet and still, you'll take this car from me over my dead fat body!

[MokSpeed]

This may sound a bit evil, but this is one of the reasons I actually decided to purchase a car like the FR-S/BRZ. The fact that it's a coupe and so difficult to crawl in and out of deters my friends and family from suggesting that I drive anywhere when carpooling!

[Mr.Impreza]

Well better than coming out of one of these.