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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 10:51 am
OG, I grew up in the era when my little sister would sit on my father's lap when he drove! Ack!! She also nearly fell out of the car one time because the door on her side of the back seat (when she was about 4) opened. It was my turn to be in the middle and I barely snatched her in time. When we would drive down to southern CA to visit my grandmother and go to Disneyland with friends, either my sister or I would sleep in a sleeping bag on a platform my father built for the floor of the back seat (had to account for the hump in the middle) and the other one of us would sleep on the seat. Still no seat belts in cars. By the time seat belts were starting to be more common, I was in 8th grade (I think) and my mother's car had them but my father's didn't. Every time I rode in my father's car, I would feel like I was going to fall and I hated it.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 10:57 am
I used to use the hump for a pillow!!!
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 1:36 pm
That makes you EXTRA special! 
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 1:39 pm

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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 1:43 pm
You humped a pillow?
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 2:10 pm
Jon & Kate's new puppies will hump a pillow at some point, they all do. I can hear Kate screaming now, lol! That will make for a great episode!
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 2:48 pm
LOL - I might even tune in for that one.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 5:11 pm
Imagine the screams if a puppy does that dragging its but across the carpet thing!!
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 5:23 pm
Ha ha, that would be great! I love it when Kate screams!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 11:15 pm
Scooter, we also used the hump.. well actually when we'd take a quick trip to Indiana on a weekend we'd start out after my dad got home from work on Friday and drive straight through so one of us would sleep on the back seat and the other.. mom would build up both wells on the floor over the hump and that was the favored spot.. makes me claustrophobic to think of it now.. We did have and use seatbelts earlier than most since dad worked for Ford and they got such a good discount that it paid to buy a new car each year and then sell the old one for more. And we'd seen the articles and a presentation about the lower death stats using seat belts. But still, if it was time to sleep, you didn't stay in the belt. Kids also liked to get up on the back shelf above the back seat.
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, February 21, 2009 - 8:38 am
The hump!! LOL... I loved sleeping on the hump on those long drives to visit grandma, etc. I remember the warmth coming from that area of the car's backseat floor area and it would lull me to sleep. Okay, don't laugh to loud... I also remember sitting in a little seat which hung over the front seat. It had a plastic steering wheel with a big blue button in the middle that honked when I pushed it! Gawd, I musta been 3-4y/o!! LOL...
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Saturday, February 21, 2009 - 8:51 am
Oh my goodness. The in-law's dog (a full grown doberman) did the bottom dragging on our carpet as soon as they arrived from Virginia. DH was so ticked off. But his mom was REALLY ticked off with me because DH's oldest brother was helping me sew the finally parts of the lace on my wedding gown and we'd dropped pins in the process and I was so afraid that said manner-less doberman would get hurt stepping on one. Well, since I warned them about the pins before showering them with kisses and hugs, my MIL decided and pout and be absolutely ugly all through the wedding and afterward, too. Second oldest brother finally advised me to apologize to MIL even though he knew I didn't do anything wrong and neither did DH. Sooooo, I reluctantly wrote a letter begging forgiveness (Yeah, I'm still ticked 16 years later!) and she received it the day I had my first miscarriage. So she phones and says that we have no idea how much it meant to HER to receive our letter on the day we lost our first baby. Now they have a pit bull and a bull mastiff who will never, ever see the inside of our home. EVER! even though we no longer have any carpet due to my asthma. grrrrrrr.
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Saturday, February 21, 2009 - 8:53 am
Sea, my father never once went on vacation with us so it was always my mother, the lady across the street who was like a second mom to us and my little sister and I and that was back in the day with bench seats front and back. The only time we had 6 in a car was when I was 10 and Oregon State was playing in the Rose Bowl. Then we had my mother, grandmother and mom's young step-brother David in front and we 3 kids in back (my yuckie brother came this trip). No sleeping that trip but a lot of "He's touching me!" and "If you kids don't stop that I'm going to just leave you on the side of the road!!" Fun times. We got to see snow in the Mojave Desert. All the grown-ups and my brother (pfffffft!) got to go to the parade and game but sister and I had to stay home because we were too young. pffffffft again!! We always fought over who had to sit in the middle and have their feet on the hump. The best part of that trip was flying back home to San Francisco. My first time on a plane. Uncle David had been taken off in a helicopter first to whichever hospital was going to do his open heart surgery.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 9:03 am
I just watched the painting session with the little kids. Too cute how each one went at it in a different way. The one little boy was so methodical and very careful. In fact, I thought for 4 year olds they all did a remarkable job.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 9:40 am
When my dad would take us to the drive-in movie, he'd put the backseat of the station wagon down and we would just ride back there and if we fell asleep, we'd be sleeping in the back on the way home. I also remember my dad letting me sit on his lap and help "drive" into the driveway.
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 9:52 am
OG? Did you have this episode videotaped or TiVo'd? I missed it last Monday night because our power was out and I've searched the web but I can't find it...yet. If you have a link to watch this episode, I'd be so thankful!
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Sherbabe
Member
07-28-2002
| Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 10:39 am
it is usually repeated. it was on saturday night, as well. jon and keight made the "soup" show on E.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 11:02 am
Egbok, I had it on the DVR and have already dumped it.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 5:55 am
Tess, almost all of our vacations involved 6 in the car because we took our grandmothers.. and they always sat in back with one of us in between and the other sat up front with parents. We went through 48 states that way and for at least a couple of the trips, including some really hot areas, we didn't have A/C but had a dry ice cooler thing hung on a window. Mom didn't drive then, so Dad did all the driving.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 6:00 am
Tonight's show.. they got the puppies.. beautiful german shepherds. They came from a breeder they met at a church function and the neat thing was that the proceeds from that litter were going to help a cancer patient. And since they had the pups in the basement (which opens to the outside), I happened to notice that indeed the big white refrigerator that Kate spent so much time cleaning, is indeed down there.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 8:17 am
Anyone willing to bet that sometime in the future there is J&K episode titled "Cesar Millan Comes for a Visit!"...LOL
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 10:01 am
No way... competing networks. HA
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 10:01 am
LOLOL
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 1:28 pm
I do feel a little bad that Kate didn't let the kids name the puppies. Some of the most funny names come from letting kids name them. I remember my friend Larry asked his twin 4 yr old girls what they wanted to name their new bull dog puppy, and one said "Egg". So they they called him "Eggy" all his life. And years later when they look back, long after he was gone, they say there was no other name that would have fit him better Who names their dog "Egg"?...Yep, silly 4 year olds...LOL
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 1:34 pm
Oh, and I don't want to harp on it, but Mady was a big pain the whole ep. Who cries all freakin day about the injustice of it all when your parents say you are getting 2 puppies? Yep, just Mady.
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