Item #1. Upon immediate return home, write terse complaint letter to Ford Motor Company regarding the torture chamber known as the front seat of the 2007 Ford Focus. My first thought regarding my discomfort was that maybe it was ME, and not the fault of the car over the last 1,200 miles. I would be the first to admit that I am old and creaky and my posterior is not as firm and booty-licious as it once was (if ever), but the 18-year-old college-bound daughter who was a high school cheerleader and is thus in excellent physical shape also found the seat to be miserable as well.
I decided to try to alleviate the advancing pain in my behind with a brand new memory foam pillow. While that helped only marginally, by the end of Day One, the memory foam pillow, like my rear end, was flat as a pancake. And we are only halfway there!
Remind FoMoCo that the seats of the 2002 Escort are only marginally better (previously experienced with the other child). Ask Ford’s opinion as to which of their models is best for road tripping.
Item #1a. Purchase new pillows once we get to LA.Item #2. Billboards. What’s the use? Missouri is the land of billboards, and every other one begs for a sponsor, saying “Ad Here!” When you think about it, billboards are a throwback to the previous century, when services on the road were few and far between and travelers were held hostage in automobiles, guessing about adequate food and decent lodging in the next town or state. Back then, there was also a minimum of diversions.Item #1b. Regarding Item #1, in my spare time (yee-ah, right… I’ll find some time when donkeys fly), invent a new front seat for the Ford Focus. Something that cups and caresses and absorbs the jolts of the road.
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