My H is MacGyver

[monkeybabe]

Yesterday Zoe's car seat strap got twisted somehow. Not the clip, or the crotch latch part, but the strap itself. I was having trouble getting Zoe tightened in and realized it. The Nextfit is a no rethreading car seat, so I was trying to get it untwisted and the strap ended up coming free of the metal hook inside and pulling all the way out. The strap goes way up into the car seat, passed some rollers and then back down to those hooks. I tried for over an hour to get the strap fed back up into it, but you can't see shit and my hands could barely fit up there anyways, and not that far. Plus, it hurt like a bitch getting them into the car seat.

We ended up saying fuck it, I'd run to walmart and get a cheap car seat, so I could go to work today, and we'd call Chicco this morning. I get home and the car seat was sitting on the dining room table and looks fine, so I tug on the straps and it's back together. I yelled at Patsy, asking him if he fixed it, and he comes out and tells me, yeah, he fixed it with a piece of duct tape, a piece of string and some needle nose pliers. Also, if you pull the head rest all the way up and then pull the cover away at the top of the back, you can see the second roller, even if you can't see the first. He ended up using the duct tape to feed it through the first roller, pulled it up part way with the string and then grabbed it with the pliers when he could see the strap from the top. Then it just pushed it back down from the top.

After being so frustrated and spending 30 minutes in line to buy a car seat at Walmart, I was exhausted, but so happy I didn't have to call chicco to get it sorted out. And then our power went out for a couple hours and I couldn't brag about my H on the internet, lol.

[dixeedeluxe]

[raynes]

Wooooo!! Go Patsy. I would never let the carseat win.