crap

Aug 31

Posted by: Rachel in: blog, carseats, current events, ramblings, rants, who wants to read this?

I want a new carseat. Yes I know we’re getting one sometime in the next month, if there are no more delays. But I don’t like ours. I don’t feel safe using it. Scott is not feeling nearly as uneasy. But I am. I just keep hearing more and more negative things about Dorel. I wanted a backup seat anyway, so this could be it, when we get the new one. Freedom to install it in other cars without the pain of having to reinstall before we can go anywhere in our car again. I know. I worry too much. I acknowledge it. But that isn’t changing the way I feel right now. Dorel is the same company who kept a carseat on the market after a little girl received a life long injury due to an indention in the side of her seat. The continued to manufacture this seat for five years after the fact, even though this little girl will never walk, talk, or even be able to eat by herself! The trauma nurse finally determined that the injury on the x-rays matched the indention under the seat cover of the little girl’s Touriva. Evenflo neglected to recall an infant seat, even after a crash test showed the seat shattering on impact and flying from the seat. A little boy died in an accident when his seat did just that. Evenflo still admits no guilt, yet the family is being awarded $10.4 million dollars. Yeah.

Britax made a cheaper version of their Marathon for Fisher Price. It was discontinued, because it didn’t have enough sales. Not many people recognized that it was made by the highly coveted Britax, and I don’t think it was sold at many of the mainstreet stores like Walmart, Target and Babies R’Us. I know where I can go get one right now for $99. I’m seriously considering it. I might even just do it and tell Scott I can’t return the clearance item. I guess I’m in trouble if he decides to read this. I love you honey. Please bear with me. I will sell that software I’ve been meaning to sell for two months. That would pay for it! Did I mention I love you?

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