The exclusive rear facing club

In my younger pre-children days I bought a new Corvette.  It was a fantastic experience in every way. I had no idea I also joined an invisible club of proud Corvette owners who cared about each other. Reminds me a lot about all the parents doing extended rear facing today.

Every other Corvette owner was always greeted with a  wave, a handshake or a conversation.  In the grocery store, party, tennis club, restaurant, golf course, gym, or any other  place. We weren’t that many but we stuck together, like parents today who keep kids rear facing to age 3, 4, or 5 years of age.

Parents who do extended rear facing are amazingly helpful to others. Yesterday I had someone in New Zealand who planned on buying  some Britax Multi Tech seats but wanted to see one “live” first. I contacted a previous customer in the area and asked if she could possibly help out.  “Of course, I love my seat. Send  her over and I’ll give  a demonstration!”, was the answer.  I felt like sending over an extra seat as a thank you:-)

“You want me to remove my Multi Tech, take some detailed photos of the tethers, take photos of a forward facing installation and then drive over to my friend who has the same VW Golf as you do and install the Multi Tech rear facing and take more photos?  No problem, just give me 30 minutes and I’ll get back to you.”

Being this helpful to complete strangers is standard stuff among Corvette owners ERF parents.  It’s really fantastic to see such involvement. And we’re just getting started in most places, just wait until we really get parents involved.

That Corvette was very special to me at one point but now seem embarrassingly unimportant.  Today I would much rather hang out with any of the many ERF parents around the world;-)