Remember When's-day - safety first!

I remember riding in my parents' station wagon one time with my mom, standing on the front seat, of course. Pretty sure we were on our way to Buster Brown's or McCrory's or something like that. We went around a curve and the door flew open. My mom reached over and yanked the door shut, effectively keeping the air conditioning inside. I think she asked me to sit down after that, but I'm not sure.

My brother and I also used to ride in the "way back" of that same car, jumping up when we went over hills and rolling into the tailgate when mom hit the brakes. To this day my mom will throw her arm across the passenger seat when she hits the brakes, obviously saving the life of anyone sitting there. She has a super strong right arm.

WTH Mom!?!! Did you already have something strapped to the roof and we couldn't ride up there? You didn't want to mess with roller skates and a rope? I know these were different times but wasn't there some type of seat we could sit in?

  Now, ours was brown with the fake brown wood panel stuff, but this is close enough.  My parents loved it so much, they bought the same one twice!  I think the second one had seatbelts in the back.  Good memories...not really.