Daves Blog : ‘The Heat is On’

Tis the season for heated car seats and if you’ve never experienced one before let me issue the following warning.

A heated car seat can change your marriage.

It’s certainly a technology that separates the sexes.

  First of all, German researchers say that the experience of sitting on what is essentially a leather-bound hotplate may affect the fertility of men. They made these findings after affixing temperature probes to a willing, and presumably potent, group of male drivers.

After stewing atop heated seats out there on the autobahn, researchers discovered noticeably lower sperm counts.

Seems like a great option to the vasectomy. If you’re all done having kids just crank the seat up to ‘pot roast’.

  Women experience a much different dynamic on a heated car seat.

My wife encountered her first automotive glow-from-below on a trip to Calgary a few years ago.

When we landed at the airport the pilot announced that the outside temperature was minus 26 degrees!

I thought he was joking until I looked out the aircraft window and saw baggage handlers dressed like they were part of Admiral Peary’s expedition.

My wife and I had never experienced minus 26 degrees before and, fortunately, the friends who picked us up at the airport had a car with heated seats.

Somewhere between the airport and our friend’s home my wife underwent some kind of thermal epiphany.

We were both sitting on our first heated seats but the technology clearly spoke to her on a much deeper level.

By the time we got to our destination I could not get her out of the car.

“I can’t leave this seat !”

When we returned to Vancouver my wife was so sold on the heated seat option that it became a deal breaker in buying our next car.

Forget good gas mileage, stellar automotive styling or roomy trunk space…if it didn’t have heated seats she would walk out of the dealership.

And so the latest car has toasty buckets and my wife is happy.

Sometimes I find her out in the garage in July where she has been overheard referring to the seat as ‘Antonio‘.

I suspect that she’d run away with that thing, given half the chance.

Just Angie and her seat snuggling somewhere on a beach in Rio.

Dave Gerry

Angies digit

 

* Dave Gerry is a Canadian writer/broadcaster/producer. He has worked for every major broadcast entity in the country and has produced 13 one hour documentaries, 26 half hour specials as well as countless feature stories for various newscasts over the course of his 33 year career.

Dave is currently busy working on several upcoming segments for CBCs television program, ’Living Vancouver’, that airs Monday to Fridays at 3pm. The first segment is slated to air on December 9th.