Clown Car

Here in AmSam life is a little different. For example no one really pays any attention to either seat belt laws or having the legal number of passengers in your vehicle. This works out awesomely for us because as you may well know none of us volunteers have cars, but our friends Taylor and Scott do have one.

Their baby is a little Suzuki sx4 which is a four door hatchback that is most frequently compared with the mini cooper because of its small size.

Our usually group of friends has nine people, but we usually don't all make it to hang out, or we will meet up near someones house so most people can get a ride home with T&S. However we have gotten progressively more confident at fitting people into the car and have recently created a new record with all nine of us fitting in the car to go somewhere.

I will remind you that this is a car that is comparable in size with the mini cooper - this isn't a Ford Escape I'm talking about.

This is what we look like...

So how do we do it? Here is one configuration: Scott drives. John sits in the passenger seat with his lovely bride Cynthia on his lap. Five people fit in the back row of seats (Taylor, Jessie, Julia, Rosemary, and Thanh) and then the last person goes in the trunk (me!). It is actually surprisingly comfortable.