Yesterday I was getting my oil changed and when the mechanic came back to the waiting room to give me my keys I had a question for her:
Me: Quick question. I always put my right foot in that footrest thingy on the bottom of the passenger side door of my husband’s car but now I’ve worn a hole in it and he’s furious so I wondered if there was some sort of protective covering I could buy for it?
Mechanic: That little pocket on the bottom of the door? Oh, I put my foot on there too and my husband hates it. I don’t think they make a cover for it but if they did I’d buy one.
random man in the waiting room: Oh my god, my wife does that too. Y’ALL ARE RUINING THE DOOR.
Lady next to him: Wait, are there people who don’t prop their foot on the footrest?
me: Apparently it’s not even a footrest.
Mechanic: Girl, it’s totally a footrest. What else would you do with it?
me: In my car it’s for straw wrappers and feet.
guy: *head in hands, sighing loudly*
Mechanic: I don’t know why they don’t just make a cover for it the same way they do for floorboard covers?
Guy: Because you’re not supposed to put your feet on it.
Lady: Then what is it even made for?
Guy: Nothing. It should just be empty and clean.
me: Oh, every car maker makes a perfect footrest to just never be used? Now who sounds crazy?
So now I’m wondering if this is a universal problem and if it’s just women who prop their foot in the door pocket or if we were just a weird accidental focus group?
PS. I’m not sure why other people do it but having my foot propped up relieves the pressure on my arthritic joints so Victor said I should just get one of those small “squatty potty” stools for the car, and that seems like a good idea until I get into an accident and then the paramedics wonder forever why I was using a stool to help you shit better in the car. I guess I could just write “NOT FOR POOPING” on it in sharpie but I think that might look even more questionable.
UPDATED: As requested, a photo of the footrest. Please excuse my unmanicured feet. I am very lazy.
UPDATED!
Just got back from the hardware store where Victor picked up some pipe insulation and used it to wrap the edge of the footrest and now it’s even better because it’s padded. WHOOP.
I have never used that as a footrest, but now I’m going to try it.
Oh. Em. Gee. I don’t rest my foot on it, but I DO store clean extra napkins in it, the way the good Lord intended. My spousal unit used to go through my car and REMOVE my napkin supply. Then he disposed of my sanitary products. Like, dude, do you have a thing against napkins in general? Funny thing, though, he threw out ALL the clean napkins, but he left the baggie of camel food. FOR TWO YEARS. Because I’m more likely to find a camel in need of food than I am to need to wipe ketchup off my face?
Don’t get me started.
And suddenly, I’m filled with the urge to sharpie “not for pooping” on so many things. But, it’s your car and your door: Put your feet anywhere you want (that’s still safe, of course).
My husband’s is full of crap, I have to put my foot on top of the crap. If we ever crash, we’ll probably be killed by all the junk hitting us in the head. On a side note, PSA, NEVER NEVER EVER, put your feet on the dashboard or it the window. Why you may ask, you don’t want to know. 10 years as ED RN and 4 years as trauma OR RN. Knees and teeth don’t mix
Oh geez, that’s where we put some of the 10,000 cans of seltzer that never seem to leave the car when they are empty. (If I had a squatty potty in the car, we’d be pulling over every 5 minutes so I could poop)
I divorced my husbands, so I never put my feet there. Problem solved! Now my right foot is in full control of the vehicle, as is the left, for the clutch. Zooooooom! 🙂
I don’t know what it is on the vehicle you’re talking about. Do you have a photo of it?
Lisa the ADHD question asker
The cost of cars these days… put whatever you want wherever you want 😌
I need a visual please to know if I’m doing something for the women and against the men.
I never put my foot in that before. I would think it’s uncomfortable. But my friends car is a 2008 so maybe it’s not the same thing.
That’s where I put the little ice scraper which I keep in there year round because it’s New England and YOU NEVER KNOW.
Definitely used for napkins and straw wrappers, but it’s at a weird angle for me to put my foot on. My knee turns out and hits the steering wheel. You could make a cover for it!
I think this is the thing in the door where I keep my water bottles? I have long legs and so don’t prop my foot on anything other than all the crap my husband leaves in the car because he forgets that it’s OUR car and not HIS car. Either way, I side with all of you at the dealership, it’s for stuff – feet or whatever.
I have never used it as a footrest. I suspect if I did my husband would be apoplectic. Totally cartoon like, his face would potentially turn the color of a ripe tomato and steam would shoot out of his ears. He’d be stomping around, gesticulating wildly, and sputtering out words faster than his brain can string them together, as if he’s in a one-man play titled “The Fury of the Raging Spouse.”
Or maybe I have an overactive imagination. Guess what I’m to do tonight though!
I’m thinking this either a “short girl” or “thin girl” thing, because there is just not enough room for a linebacker sized woman like me to do that, plus I’m bossy, I drive.
It’s where I put my foot most of the time too. We totally need footrests in our doors. Forget the cubby hole that is impossible to clean, give us footrests.
I thought it was for maps; that’s what I put in mine. The manual lives in the one on the driver’s side door. Yes, I am An Old. The sanitary products, extra masks, flashlight, and yes, my driving gloves, are in the glove box.
I put my foot on the vertical pedal on the right, as God intended. Nothing wrong with the freeway that a little more speed (and more astute drivers) wouldn’t fix. I’m so rarely the passenger, I can’t identify, but I do believe side pockets are for stuff, not feet, and I can’t even imagine how it would be comfortable to put your foot up on a side pocket. Sorry! Have to side with Victor on this one!
So…. at some point I left a large kitchen knife in the passenger side one of my car. It stayed there for years, every once in awhile my husband would notice it and comment. But it was never convenient to remove the knife.
We finally removed it when I sold the car to a friend’s teenage daughter. Although maybe I should have left it. You never know when you might need a big knife.
WAIT WHUT?!
I have no earthly idea what car part you are talking about. This post needs a photo
(UPDATED. NOW WITH PHOTO. ~ Jenny)
That’s where I keep my emergency spoon. You never know when the drive-thru is going to give you a spork. Also, a sharp knife for protection.
I’ve always referred to that as the map pocket. Yes, I am old.
I’m single so in my car the side pocket is where garbage lives until I remember to clean it out, which is usually about the time it starts spilling on the ground when I open the door. This might be why I’m single come to think of it. On long drives, I tend to put the door side foot up by the seat (there seems to be like a built in foot space in mine?) but I’ll have to give the side pocket a try next time!
It’s absolutely a foot rest. And it’s perfect.
Just came here to say thank goodness that I am not the only one who does this! I always “catch myself” then move my foot, then “catch myself” again in a seemingly endless cycle. 😆
Hmm….I am the only driver of my car and I’m a chunky woman. My car is older (2009) and I wouldn’t be able to get my foot in there. Besides that it is stuffed with fast food napkins..a lot of them. So many that my friends wanted me to disperse the napkins among them during the great toilet paper shortage. Oh and hand sanitizer.
I would never think to put my foot there, weirdos!
As the wife of a firefighter, I wholeheartedly second the above comment to never, ever, EVER put your feet up on the dashboard or anywhere close to it. You do not want to see the kinds of injuries that happen when your legs fly back at your face from an airbag deploying (you’re often looking at broken hips/broken pelvis/broken legs in addition to horrible facial injuries–just say no to dashboards as footrests!)
(This is excellent advice. ~ Jenny)
100% a footrest. Though, it’s also a napkin and sundry garbage holder. Happily we’ve never fought over it. In my car it’s plastic and a great footrest. In his Jeep it’s a net and worthless to me for resting my foot. THIS may have to be the argument. Gotta bolt now to find my sharpie and practice writing “not for pooping” on everything in the car!!
Our cars are all manual transmission so I know not what this is. HOWEVER, I have many a time faced surprised males when they find out stick shifts are all I drive. Like why is that even a thing to be surprised about?
Both my wife and my vehicles have stuff crammed in that lil’ door section, but if they didn’t I would TOTALLY try using it as a footrest and my wife would absolutely forbid it in her car 🤣
I guess it’s the person? Further proof opposites attract, no matter the gender! 😋
I have a feeling it’s only for SHORT people?? Am very tall, could never comfortably put my foot up that high in a car seat, especially one of the bucket variety lol
(I’m 5’7 but I think it’s more about how far down the side pockets are. In Victor’s car they’re super low and far away compared to mine. I do it in my car too but it’s not nearly as comfortable. ~ Jenny)
Oh, gosh. I am totally diminished. I have no idea of what y’all speak. My wife card has been suspended. Shhhh. Don’t tell hubs; he’d be all over figuring out how to mansplain this to me.
Too tall to make it a footrest.
Excuse me, but that is a footrest and the driver’s manuals need to reflect this fact, clearly, and boldly.
And then they need to sell us covers.
Um…I also use the driver side one as a foot rest for my left foot. Is that wrong?
(SAME. ~ Jenny)
It’s totally a foot rest.
My husband’s car doesn’t have that footrest. Clearly he’s in cahoots with the car manufacturer. 😑
Yep, it’s a foot rest.
We usually put napkins, tissues, etc in there in my wife’s car. I’ve never used it as A foot rest, but I might try it next time I ride with her. My car has a tiny little pocket that’s too small for a foot. It barely fits a 16 ounce water bottle.
Definitely a foot rest.
I keep an umbrella in mine but since I live in Arizona where it rarely ever rains, I can’t remember how to operate the umbrella when I need it. Yes, I am that inept.
I have never noticed this ever! In any car we ever had! Just went out to look at our current vehicle and there is none on the passenger side and a shallow unusable one on the driver side. So now I’m sad because I’ve totally missed out.
I’m the control freak who never sits in the passenger seat. I have been hit (while just minding my own business) by cars, moving and at stop lights, two deer, a kid on a bike, t-boned, rear ended…I don’t trust anyone to be as vigilant as me, so I always drive.
I cat even picture the “foot rest”.
If it makes you feel better, Victor is totally wrong about making you get a squatty potty for the car. Not only are you going to need more rest stops if you do that, unsecured items are dangerous in a car accident.
I mean, does Victor really want to get taken out by a flying poop stool in the event of a collision? We all know if that happens, you will tell all of us and that’s just not the legacy I think Victor wants to leave.
All four of my doors have those, but they have both a skinny part toward the back and are cup holders toward the front. I dont need the cup holder part as a cup holder since there are others, but I find my left foot up there occasionally when I drive. Right now, two of them contain small umbrellas, one has pens, and one has an old bag of disposable masks that I keep just in case. And occasionally they do get used as cup holders. I say….use whatever space you have for whatever feels practical at the time. Lol
My legs are long, so I can’t use the handy foot rest and instead use it for bottles of water.
I’m rarely a passenger, but in my driver’s door pocket I keep Purel, band aids, and spare charger cords. I shoudl probably keep spare napkins there but that’s what the passenger seat is for, right???
Haven’t used it as a foot rest but that’s where my spare sun block bottles go. I’m a ginger and need 2 bottles within reach at all times.
How? I looked at the picture and I’m still wondering how.
I’ve mostly been my own driver in life, but for some of the last five or six years my mother drove and I was the passenger. Never once in my life did it occur to me to put my foot there. Now I drive her everywhere because I’m the caregiver and her feet never go anywhere near the thing.
Those pockets are for putting your drink when you’ve just gotten another one at the drive-through and you need to stash your other one somewhere, putting napkins, little make up bags with things like tweezers and Chapstick in them, on my mother side it has a rosary and a prayer book because she used to pray the rosary while dad drove long distances.
Not for feet friends.
All that said, there has to be somebody on Etsy who has 3-D printed some kind of plastic bracket that is basically a shelf that stands in the pocket where you could rest your foot.
OMG, I’ve never thought of resting my foot there, but it would totally help with hip pain…..Wonder what the hubby will think….
You mean the map holder that stores the lint roller and a small bottle of window cleaner?
I’m a 61 yr. old female and I have never put my foot there. We take very long road trips and I use it for all the stuff I must have for a 16 hr. drive.
That pocket in my car is divided into a small space for random storage and a cup holder. I think if I moved my cup and put my foot there I’d just be hitting the steering wheel with my leg 🤔
I’m today year old to learn where the footrest is on the passenger side. Probably because I’m usually the one who is driving.
Uh no. It’s for cups, or the round tissue tubes for cars, or trash. In my car it’s for my folding sun shade on the passenger side and the tissues and emergency glass break hammer thingy with the seat belt cutter built in. Got that living in Dallas, because you never know when you might drive off the road into deep water, which is everywhere in Dallas. Now that I live in Florida, I’m quite happy I have it.
But not for FEET!
That’s where I have to put my water bottle because my boyfriend hogs all the beverage holders in the center console.
I don’t understand all of you people who store clean napkins or clean spoons in there. Those belong in the center console or glove box. The door cubby is for trash like God intended.
I totally would prop my foot on whatever spot is convenient, but in our cars, that pocket isn’t in a spot where I could conveniently get my foot into without causing pain. Maybe I just keep the seat slid too far forward.
my legs are too long, my knee would be in my ear, in my car. My BF’s truck has so much crap shoved in every nook and cranny, drives me mad! (my passenger door has poop bags, unused, because it seems that side of the car is closer when i’m making a dash to grab a poop bag and hurry back to where the dog left a deposit, unexpectedly) I have to say, if i caught him putting his foot on my passenger side poop bag holder, i’d be pretty steamed. But he also wears size giant work boot that is always packed with… “work”
Ok. A little off topic but since we’re talking about cars, why can they put TVs and cameras and, idk, cappuccino makers in cars but NEVER A PURSE HOOK?!?
I know you can buy them but I think my purse has just as much right to a bespoke, factory spot as the driving gloves that stopped being a thing forever ago.
Footrests and purse hooks should be standard.
Possibly squatty potties too.
Glad I got that off my chest.
Than you, Jenny.
So I don’t feel like any of my family’s cars have this feature? In other news, years ago my BFF used to put her feet on the passenger side dashboard of her husband’s pickup truck (pre air bags). Her husband had a CB radio in the truck and one time they were on a road trip. They started to hear trucker chatter about the “lady’s enormous feet” on the CB and realized that the truckers were talking about my BFF’s feet. Lesson learned.
My legs are too long for that to be comfortable. I keep my water bottle there sometimes.
It used to be a map holder.
Then many car designers added a wider portion at the front or back of it for water bottles and fast food beverage cups.
I like to store clean napkins from fast food or coffee shops, extra produce plastic bags that I steal from grocery stores for using as trash bags, hand sanitizer, wipes, paper straw covers, a pen, a scratchpad, sunglasses if they don’t fit in the sunglasses pocket near the sun visors. Parking lot/garage tickets, or anything else I might need and can’t find a good place to put it.
I’m too tall to use it as a foot rest.
Why don’t car designers put a cell phone car charger plug with a cellphone holder slot in the center of the console dashboard? Or a place we can put our pocketbooks where they won’t fall over between the two front seats? And a trash bag holder next to that too?
And maybe sell car seats for our pets with restraint seatbelts for their car seat?
If I was a car designer I would also create an airplane style back of the seat drop down tray for the passenger side and backseat, that dropped down with had an airbag attached to it to protect you in case of an accident
I totally put my foot in that spot in my boyfriend’s van any time we are in the car for more than a few minutes.
Grew up in a car dealership and now work at one so I just can’t. I’ve been trained not to for resale purposes!
I’m rarely in the passenger side, but will look next time. I’d use it. “Production for use” lol.
No, but, rather than a squatty potty, I have considered using a yoga block to prop up my foot on car trips. Fewer potential weird awkward paramedic questions?
(Hmmm. Sounds intriguing. ~ Jenny)
I am single, so I’m never in the passenger seat of my car. On the driver side, I have a tiny bottle of glass cleaner, a tiny bottle of mouthwash and an emergency tool (the one with the glass breaker and seat belt cutter). I forget what else. But it’s too far back on my car to be easily used as a foot rest. Apparently Nissan doesn’t want us putting our feet there!
That is NOT a footrest. However, I have long legs and large feet (size 9.5W) and that would be uncomfortable in our car. Those are called door pockets. Feel free to store whatever you would store in your own pockets there, assuming you had pockets. As previously mentioned, napkins, water bottles, sanitary supplies, ice scraper (we’re in Denver, same issue as NE)
I broke my tailbone when I was a teen. I re-injured it when I was about 30, and for the last 20+ years, having a foot up edge of the map pocket is how I get through long car rides.
It’s absolutely a footrest! Always has been. Always will be. No one can tell me otherwise!
I definitely use that as a footrest but I don’t think my husband notices cause I’ve usually got bags there too and he can’t see my foot 😂
I think your feet are perfect. I don’t understand when it became standard for everyone to have a pedicure at all times. I like the look of plain feet. Clean, simple. But everytime anyone posts a photo with no-frill feet, they say “please excuse.” I would like to normalize plain, clean feet please. 😀
I, too, use it as a footrest. I always have but it’s even more handy now since my hip was cancerous and then radiated and chemo’d, then fractured, now healed, but arthritic.
That’s an overshare.
I sure needed this today 😌
It’s a pocket ya loon
Team “not a footrest” here. In my car, it holds an umbrella, a water bottle, and a lint roller. It looks like if I wanted to use it for a footrest, there’s room for one of those pipe insulation/ thin pool noodle dealies to fit just so on the lip. Bonus: padding!
(Cut to size, of course)
I drive because my husband driving terrifies me, so I don’t use it. But I’m pretty sure I used to
Oh please don’t apologize for unmanicured feet. Please. Don’t. I already have to fight off feelings of inadequacy when I wear sandals because I never, ever want to spend my time putting paint on my toes. Don’t get me wrong, I admire well manicured feet, but I just ain’t gonna do that.
(Same. I get a manicure once every year or two and I can’t understand people who find it relaxing because I feel like I need to constantly apologize for the state of my feet. Of course, if I got a manicure regularly this would probably not be a problem but I’m still not doing it. ~ Jenny)
I’m looking at my car trying to even figure out how I would maneuver my foot in there to use it as a footrest…but I’ve seen them in cars with larger doors.
I have trash bags, and hand sanitizer in ours. But, I couldn’t use it as a foot rest if I tried. My legs are too long to get my foot up there. lol! So, never considered it. 🤣
I use a yoga block, it keeps my hips aligned.
(Ooh. This is a really good idea. ~ Jenny)
It’s totally a straw wrapper holder. Occasionally a hairbrush. But mostly straw wrappers.
I do the same thing. I assumed it was universal. It doesn’t matter what vehicle we’re in, if I’m passenger then my foot goes there.
I remember in Ye Olde Days before the internet, the door pockets in my parents’ car always held those big fold out city/state maps!
(Fold out maps in my parents car. Keymaps in ours. Then, blessedly, came mapquest. ~ Jenny)
I’ve been driving us everywhere for the past 49 years because my husband’s driving makes me car sick.
(Victor can’t handle my driving either. ~ Jenny)
I don’t prop my foot there, because I sit with one foot under me when I’m a passenger. My “bad” habit, according to hubs, is putting my foot against the door when opening it. I don’t know why I do it, but there it is, and the door has the footprints to prove it.
(Same. Also my sunblock comes off when I put my arm on the window rest. My side of the car is a mess, honestly. ~ Jenny)
Spoiler alert: i use this footrest on the DRIVER’S side it’s the best.
(I did that in my last car but my current one has the pocket set further back so it’s not as comfortable. I never thought to check it before I bought this car. WHO KNEW? ~ Jenny)
OMG I can’t believe I sort with the dudes! Maybe it’s because ours have embedded cup holders and I’m a retired microbiologist, so selective germaphobe? (Why would you put your filthy shoe where your drink goes?) Also, our seats adjust as much for the passenger as for the driver, so I can accommodate my short legs, etc.? I’d be mad if you scuffed up my door. Putting you in the back like an Uber.
I have NEVER put my foot there! It’s for maps and maybe drinks, if big enough!
That’s a door pocket for storing stuff, not a foot rest. I cannot imagine using that as a foot rest. I keep my feet on the floor. Sometimes I rest my weight on the side of my foot, but my legs would have to be a lot shorter than they are (which is not short at all) for it to have even occurred to me to use the pocket as a foot rest. Because that simply hasn’t ever occurred to me. Everyone woman I know keeps empty soda cans, water bottles, and napkins there.
I have never used that as a footrest. If someone put his/her foot on it, I’d give them grief. I use it for trash!
Next time I’m a passenger in the car, I’m going to try out that nifty footrest. I feel like I’ve been missing out because my feet are often uncomfortable in the car.
It is totally a footrest. Husbands should try it and see how comfy it is! 🤣
I came to say “check Etsy”. You can find all manner of things on there.
The door pocket? That’s where the car napkins go. Not a foot rest in our marriage.
Not a footrest, it’s a napkin holder. Except when it’s holding my ball of yarn while I knit in the car.
Yes. It is a footrest. I have fibromyalgia and hurt all the time, but when I drive, I have a yoga block for my left foot. Makes it easier to drive.
Speaking as a born and bred Texan I have to say that is absolutely what that space is for. I mean it’s the perfect size for a boot heel ain’t it?
I only use it while sleeping. When I “curl” towards the door, I’ll cross my left leg over my right and it helps keep me curled up better. It keeps my leg in a better position to hold my arms up, that holds the pillow right. Why did that end up feeling like The Whole in the Bottom of the Sea song? 🫣
I do this. I have little legs and I hate when they dangle and i can’t sit criss-crossed.
You really struck a nerve!
Not universal to wives. Perhaps universal to shorter people? I am 5’10”. Has never even occurred to me that would be used as a footrest. That is where I store my sunglasses in my husband’s car.
First, either the mechanic is a woman, or is a man married to a man (simplified gendered references for brevity), and either way I applaud it. Second, and it pains me to point it out, but near the end you do make reference to a “door pocket” which is decidely NOT a footrest by definition, no?
Now, from a personal perspective I have never thought to put my foot there. I generally sit criss-cross applesause in the passenger seat; which isn’t often to be fair. And actually, any drive more than 10 minutes has me changing arm and leg position as much as the space (and road rules) allows to manage pain in all the parts.
Perhaps stuffing something in the pocket that you could rest your foot on would solve the whole conundrum. 🤷🏻♀️
I usually agree with your side Jenny, but to be honest I’ve never even thought to use that area for a foot rest, but now ill have an argument with my husband because I’m trying it out!
I do this too. 🤣
Again, you and Victor need to do another Live together.
I wish this whole scene was filmed. Just to see the frustration of the man.
You all are short. I have my seat as far back as it goes and I’m still cramped in the car. lol.
Problem could be solved if HE rode in the passenger seat and YOU drove. Easy peasy.
hah. as if, right?
Jenny, I stg I just talked to my husband this morning about being too lazy to go get a pedicure. How is this a thing? Why am I too lazy to go get a pedicure? Alas, here I sit with unpainted toes and scratchy heels.
Ohhhhh!! My cubby comes up too high in my car. It would hurt my knee to prop up my foot on that. (I’m only on the driver’s side in my car)
So I only use it to stash stuff in.
I am not sure if you are referring to that deep pocket near the lower part of the car door? It kind of looks like mine but kind of doesn’t from your photo. Mine doesn’t really have enough room to be a foot rest but some room for napkins, wipes and the like. I am impressed by the whole footrest concept 🦶
Keep on doing you!
I drive a 2017 and there is no place like that.
But! My husbands car has ONE drink holder.
Why would it ever be empty enough to get your foot into it?
I was so confused so I’m glad you posted the photo! The side pockets in my car are too high and you’d have to pull them out to rest feet on, but yours totally looks like a footrest. Mine are just hand sanitizer/trash holders!
I have never done that, but I am usually the driver. If I tried that in hubby’s car, I think he would have a conniption fit!
I use mine to catch the nonsense that my too small pockets won’t hold and sometimes empty drink containers. If I remember they’re there. And to hold snow to bombard my husband in a drive by style attack in the winter.
They do sell liners for them if you search car door storage. Or you can get extenders to make the foot rest bigger. Then get some upholstery foam and fill it with that. And maybe some pretty upholstery fabric for on top. Bam, fancy cozy footrest. Then get a cup for the door handle area to hold phones, keys, and fidget toys in.
I just went out and checked: my car doesn’t one of those. Instead I have two “pockets” for maps (remember paper maps?) or something on both the left and right doors. Admittedly, my car is a 2008 Ford, so maybe this is some new-fangled thing.
I totally use it for ice scrapers and things of that I’ll. It’s the most accessible location for materials to clear the windshield. If you live in a state with winter, you get it!
Better than resting your feet on the dashboard and then getting in an accident and having the airbag deploy and shatter your legs and put them through your face
What are you all talking about? Am I the only person who, even after seeing the photo, has no idea what you’re talking about? A footrest big enough that you can put stuff in it?? None of my cars have ever had this I guess! I am baffled. Truly baffled!
Nice idea for a foot rest. But my legs are too long for that, my knee would be up to my chin.
In my car it is a footrest for sure but also a trashcan. 3 kids.
So what you’re saying is, instead of placing a tiny pillow in that pocket/footrest to satisfy both your needs, he hangs on to this issue as a pet peeve? How very very …. Marriage.
I put trash there, but I got one of these for air travel after I got economy class DVTs on a long flight. (I hope the link comes through. I couldn’t post the picture for some reason.)
If the link does NOT come through, this is a sling to keep your feet up. As a vertically challenged person my feet never seem to reach anything solid.
The sling has a strap that is held in place by the tray table (in a plane) or the glove compartment door (in a car).
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I never thought of resting my foot there. It is, as others have pointed out, for straw wrappers/random receipts/empty Sweet & Low packets.
Ironically as a guy I have actually done that before. Why not use it as a foot rest also while setting still. I did it while growing up so we need a cover made for it
Okay I’ve never done this …but I. That car I so would. My car actually has a built in foot rest on the driver’s side though that I always use. My car has super tall, tiny, sharp pockets, and so does my husband’s. I’m so sad about this.
Need to add “Not for pooping” to the notes I leave for family in various places – like on my phone. Some of my notes for after I’m gone: “Throw out the dildos and porn.” “Delete search history.” “Hide money around house.”
I have never used it as a footrest, but I store napkins, wipes, and condiments in separate baggies in there. Sometimes an extra bottle of water.
I think my legs are too long to use it as a footrest? I’ll have to check! 🤣
Huh I’ve never put my foot there but now I’m curious. Would it be more comfortable? I use it for fast food napkins.
I use it for my foot to relieve joint pressure, too! I put things in there like umbrellas, sunscreen, tire gauges, etc. but my foot goes on it. The left one goes up when I’m driving, too!
I put my foot on that pocket when I am a passenger. But that is not the point of my reply.
You apologized for unmanicured toenails. To be clear, just because our patriarchal culture designates women as ornaments does not mean we need to buy into that !@#$. If you enjoy painting your nails by all means, paint your nails. But if you don’t want to, know that it is not a requirement. The fact that women feel society pressure to follow certain “beauty” rules is messed up. You be you – trust me when I tell you we adore you whether you have painted nails or not. Because you are awesome.
I accidentally broke the footrest in my husband’s truck. He also said it was not a footrest. I said, obviously it is. He said no one uses it as a footrest. I cannot wait to show him this post! Once again, I am right about everything. When will he stop trying to challenge me? 🙂
Totally a foot rest. I totally use it. I still put things in it (we have one of those mountable window hammer/seatbelt cutter life savers in every car… and they are all unmounted and resting in a door pocket/foot rest.) My husband also has a hunting knife in the drivers side footrest along with several hand tools. We will be counted among the other commenters on here who will be committing accidental homicide on themselves due to flying heave metal flotsam and jetsam in a car accident… is that man-slaughter or suicide? Does it depend on who owned / what killed who ever died?… whoa… I can’t even talk this one out. Good talk everyone. Thanks!
I spent years, and years ! Working out of my car – it literally was my office – so I put between 1000 and 2500 miles a week driving my office ! all over !
Of course, it was also our family car, and had to chauffeur my manager with me, some days . . .
So I too carried my lunch, and water, and drinks, and Everything with me in the car … including a brush and some makeup … I Never ever put trash in those door pockets 😱 – or thr floor . . .
there are terrific hang-on-the-back-of-the-headrest nylon/Cloth trash containers – – that open with Velcro at the bottom – – so not one bit of trash ever need to be crawling free, in the car! Mine is on the back of the passenger seat – easy to reach for the driver – – (and others) . . . Easy to empty .
And I’m only 5’3” – traveling so, I needed those door pockets for Maps! Never tried ‘em for foot rests …
Not opposed … but neatness does count, especially when the boss is going to travel with you for a day or two … napkins and hand sanitizer Definitely in the glove compartment! Trash, hidden and contained, always . .
All these comments and not one “CUTE SHOES!”?
It has never occurred to me to rest my foot there. Now I need to try it out!
Now I have to go out and look at my car…
More importantly – what brand are those cute shoes?!
(Thanks! They’re crocs. -Jenny)
My hubs has a truck and I always put my foot on that. Why wouldn’t you? But a footrest cover option seems like a perfect idea for where the extra fast food napkins go…
You could slit a section of pool noodle down the side and fit it down over the edge, giving you a wider, cushiony platform for your foot. Then you get fashionable colors you can swap out with the seasons. And it would look better than a Squatty Potty.
Is this the map pocket we’re discussing? Because, as my family’s official car fixer and broken automotive plastic bit obsessor, I know my kids/passengers are going to break this and have picked up replacements from the pick-a-part yard to keep on hand for when someone nice will be in the car or when it’s time to sell.
I don’t usually do this, because I store all sorts of things in there (drinks, snacks, sundry items I might want on the trip), but I switch positions about every five minutes because I can’t get comfortable in the passenger seat. I may try it!
I didn’t know what you were talking about so literally just walked out to my car. Either my Mazda CX-30 is too small (probably) or I’m too tall (also probably), but now I’m kinda sad it’s not an option for me.
I’m pretty much the driver in our family except now when I’m having to endure my husband’s driving because I had my knee replaced three weeks ago. I have that same pocket on my driver’s door and it’s where I keep my handicap placard and clean napkins.
Pool noodles also work as padding. 🙂
He lurvs you SO much!
This whole debate would make an excellent sitcom!
The kinds of debates over nothing important that we would die on that hill over, and many a romantic partnership can’t survive.
You could call it “little things that drive us crazy”… or “what happens after happily ever after…”
I never ride passenger so I don’t know what this is. I always had control issues, and trust issues, I can’t let other people drive me unless there’s a good reason worth the anxiety. My dad was the only driver I could trust enough to relax, and I always sat backseat in that scenario. Married, I drove and my husband sat passenger. In the few instances I let him drive, I had to take something like a Xanax, a muscle relaxer, a cup of cheap wine from a gas station, Dramamine, anything. My mom I let drive because she’s the same way and I respect her, but I do get anxiety to a point where I have no idea if there’s a foot rest on her passenger seat. I grab the “oh shit” handle and clutch it for dear life. AND we do this we don’t care if you are the safer driving option. My mom can’t see the road at night or in the rain, she got eye problems, but she drives. I have narcolepsy, but I have to drive unless the blind lady is with us, then I will assert she gets to drive. Because we don’t like giving up our control. We are both good drivers because we are control freaks. However, if I’m struggling with the narcolepsy, I’ll let someone else drive but I’m delirious in that case like if I’m not delirious, I’d rather drive. If I am delirious, I understand the safety concern, will let someone more capable drive, which then I have no idea what’s going on to notice the foot rest.
Meanwhile I keep my napkins, plastic utensils nobody needed, and an emergency bottle of Tabasco in my middle console. I have seen my kids use the bottom thingy to hold a drink, which I advise against because when you shut the door, inertia happens. Mine, driver side, must always hold the bottle (with pump) of hand sanitizer and a Bath and Body Works Body Spray (for those I should have showered days). The spray deodorant is always in the glove compartment, and one in my purse. Spray handles the extreme temps.
And for my arthritis, I like to prop my foot up on the seat, but I don’t want my shoes on the seat, so I usually wear flip flops or I keep my boots untied so that I can slip my left foot out and prop it on the seat, sometimes putting my foot over the AC vent if I need to stretch the knee different. I will sit criss cross applesauce with cruise control on, but I make sure I can brake quickly.
The reason we prop our foot is it makes our thighs look slimmer and no matter what when sitting in the car, I always notice thigh spread!
At least that is why I prop. Lol
I don’t think my husband’s Jeep has one. If it does, I know I’ve never put my foot on it. I do put my foot on the part of the floorboard that rises up next to the door. My husband ran a wire to an aftermarket backup camera under it and it drove him crazy that the backup camera went out every time I rode with him. I finally moved my foot while he was ranting about it and it came back on! There was a loose connection. I got a pedicure a couple of days ago. I recommend it! Massage chair, low alcohol wine, and now my feet look pretty!
You totally need to patent that! The foot rest protector!
I thought it was just me! Foot rest and placket for straw wrappers. Drives my husband crazy every time he notices it.
It’s definitely a footrest…and a place for napkins, straws, antibacterial wipes, dog poo bags, gloves… And p.s. you have a very nice foot (and sandal)… and I love the cushion your husband added!
In the olden times (pre-cars with built in GPS or cellphones), that pocket was designed for road maps, ice scrapers and maybe travel brochures. I put my foot there on my moms car but I haven’t worn down the plastic. I use that pocket to store: a spare toque (I’m Canadian, some people would know it as a beanie), two cooling towels (small), a seatbelt neck guard thingy, two bird books, folding mesh sun shades, a glove that lost it’s mate that I cut the thumb and fingers off of and sewed the bottom shut so I could use it like a coozie for cold drinks and not have my hand get cold and a big square of waterproof fabric to put over the seat so the fabric doesn’t get wet when I’m wearing a wet bathing suit after going to the lake.
Sorry babe, if you were my wife I .would freak out too.
This is hilarious! I can totally relate to the footrest dilemma. I’ve also been guilty of using it as a footrest. It’s interesting to hear different perspectives on its intended purpose.
The pipe insulation idea is genius! It’s a simple and effective solution. I’m glad you and Victor found a way to protect your car and your feet.
Thanks for sharing this funny and relatable story.
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