Lindsey's How-To Guide, Part 2: How To Figure Out How the Seats Go Down in Your Chevy Malibu

1. Try for a couple years doing it on your own. This will be unsuccessful.
2. Receive a call from your friend and fellow 'Bu-owner, Brooke. She is wondering if you know how to fold down the seats in the back. You do not.
3. Tell her if she figures it out, to let you know.
4. Go do baptisms at the Provo Temple on a Wednesday evening.
5. Drive home with wet, non-brushed, non-flattering hair pulled back in some sort of bun.
6. Notice your fuel light is on, but you know from previous experience that you have 30 miles to go on a fuel light before you have to fill up. You are at 26.
7. Return a call to your sister and chat for a minute.
8. Run out of gas.
9. Pull over on University Avenue, with the other cars going 60mph by you.
10. Two cops pass you. Settle your nerves. You won't get a ticket for running out of gas.
11. Call back your sister. Have her come help you. The next part is very important.
12. You will sit for at least 30 minutes, in 45 degree weather, with no coat. Semis will pass and their wind will basically put your car on two wheels for a second. At least they don't hit you like you thought they would when you saw them in your side-view mirror.
13. Remember how your hair is wet? Brr.
14. Take this 30-minute chill time to listen to Les Miserables on your iPod.
15. Eureka! This is a prime time to pull out the owner's manual for your 'Bu!
16. Read about fuel light indicators and how to put the seats down in the back. You have to open the trunk first, then pull a cord, then push down the seat. Could it be any more complicated? "Dance in a circle for seven minutes. Do your best bird call. Invite a stranger to dinner. Pull the cord. Push down the seat." The cord you pull is related to the seat that goes down. Crazy.
17. Your sister will show up with a handy can of fuel. Reluctantly get out of your car onto the busy street, with wind gusts blowing up your skirt.
18. Have your sister stand behind you while you pour the fuel into your car so the University Avenue traffic does not a little show while they're trying to concentrate on the road.
19. Hope and pray that someone you know (especially of the male gender) does not drive by and see your nasty hair, rubbed-off non-waterproof makeup, and Marilyn Monroe moves.
20. Drive to the gas station.