ASHLEY'S NEW JOB : THE CAR SEAT
Chapter One, Part One
Maria led Ashley down the hallway toward a double set of door at the end. Ashley could smell the chlorine in the air and feel the humidity of the pool even before they passed through those doors.
The pool room consisted of a smallish pool, perhaps 15 feet square but deep, and a large deck area with a number of racks and even some desks. There was also a number of more interesting objects in the space, including a 5foot by 5foot tall glass tank rises above the deck with a platform and a small set of stairs leading up to it. On top of this was a metal frame with a sliding overhead assembly that ran between the tank and the platform, a number of metal cable hung from this. An identical assembly was set up over the in ground pool. No one else was using the pool area currently so Maria went over to one of the racks and retrieved the special needs vest they were there to assess.
"So there's a couple things we'll need to go over. Firstly we will need to access the jackets performance in the water as well as in rough water for which I'll turn the waves on and then, as this is a special needs vest, well also need to access whether a distressed wearer could remove the vest, so well just get you to try and slip out of it on your own."
Maria finished explaining the plan and walked back over to Ashley holding the vest in question.
"Here it is. It's actually more of a concept/prototype vest than a practical sales product, real products will be down scaled versions that will use some of the features here." Maria seemed to have some pride in the product.
It was not like any lifejacket Ashley had worn before. In place of the normal vest style jackets she was used to the one before her had a huge foam disk that appeared to go around the wearer's neck, below which hung a mess of straps and fabric. It's was intimidating to say the least. Maria put the jacket down on a small table and began the process of opening up all the straps. When she had finished this process she carted the jacket to the metal frame and connected the hanging hooks to clips on the top of the top of the collar so that the jack was hanging suspended at what was approximately the height of Ashley's neck.
"Ok want to step up here for me?" Maria gestured towards the waiting jacket. Ashley complied moving to stand in front of thing, looking up at it.
"Turn around for me please" Ashley did so as Maria guided her backwards into the jacket so that the collar was around her neck, once she has the younger girl in position. She pulled the collar closed around her neck, securing it with several straps that Ashley could see on the top in the foam disk. Those were the only straps Ashley could see tho, as Maria ducked under the collar to secure the remaining straps she was left to stare at the wall allowing Maria to simple move her arms around where she needed them. The first strap Ashley felt Maria fasten went around her chest, just below her armpits, it was secured in the back. That was followed by what felt like life jacket material without foam in it being wrapped around her upper body and a second strap pulling around her waist. This part of the vest was designed much like an ez on harness with a web of vertical and horizontal straps passing around the wearer's body and a pair of straps connecting the tops of the shoulders to the collar. Ashley felt Maria pressing on the inside of her thighs "would you spread your legs for me please?" Ashley complied shifting her feet apart what felt like a lot until Maria stopped pressing on the inside of her leg. Shortly after that the was the sensation of pressure between her legs as Maria passed some sort of large diaper type thing between her legs and secured it at the back somehow. Maria then went about tightening all the straps, including two between her legs on either side of the diaper thing. These straps, in combination with the fabric, acted almost like upside-down suspenders, instead of keeping one's pants up they seemed to pull her up, lifting her slightly and taking some of her weight. Ashley shifted trying to get more comfortable in the rig but there was not much she could really do, she raised up on tiptoes to take some of weight off the bit between her legs but Maria, still busy fiddling with the jacket, seemed not to realize why the straps connecting Ashley's shoulder straps to the collar went a bit loose and responded by adjusting them further, snugging them up and causing the jacket to take some of the teen girls weight again, now however Ashley couldn't even really touch the floor without going on her tiptoes, the vest was taking even more of her weight now. Maria was now connecting several long straps between the waist belt of the vest part of the jacket and the outer edge of the collar, these would serve a double purpose keeping the lower vest up on the wearer so the collar couldn't ride up and prevent the wearer from moving their body too far in any direction other than straight down. Ashley's feet were getting tired from their upright position and she was becoming uncomfortable. She let out a small grunt as she shifted her weight from one foot to the other.
"Maria could you let me down a bit or loosen that bit between my legs?" Ashley shifted her weight again more sloppily this time and grimaced a bit. " I can't really reach the ground.
Maria looked up from her work "is it uncomfortable?" She set about checking the tightness of all the straps by sliding two fingers between them and Ashley's body. " nothing seems too tight " what's hurting exactly?"
Ashley shifted uncomfortably "it's not hurting, the strap between my legs is just a bit high tho" she shifted her legs together unconsciously.
Maria checked the tightness on the straps passed between the girl's legs with a frown. "No pain tho? Or tingling?"
"No it's just a bit high, my feet can't reach the ground"
"Ow well your going to be in the water in a minute anyway and I'll have to boom you over, but let me know if it gets any worse we'll have to make a note of that"
Ashley considered pressing the issue and asking Maria again if she could lower her down a bit when she felt Maria take her left wrist and secure a strap around it, she had not been expecting this but it was not really that off putting, it did through her a bit tho. Maria connected her wrist to the outer edge of the collar by a short strap, it was enough slack to hang comfortable and theoretically paddle a bit in the water but just shy of enough to reach the straps secured around her chest and over her shoulders. Maria moved around to the other side of her and repeated the process with her right wrist. Ashley moved her wrists around exploring the limits of their movement (still dancing from one tip toe foot to the other) and, after being prompted by Maria, tried her best to reach or undo the straps around her body or on top of the collar, she was unsuccessful in both attempts. Finally Ashley's feet became too tired to support her and she allowed herself to fall down into the crotch straps, letting them take her full weight. A jolt passed through her and she was suddenly thankful for the straps holding her up as her legs went weak and jellowy. For a moment she really embraced the jacket and only after a moment did she notice that she was stringing against her wrist restraints, actually she was pressing against the straps all over her body and flexing her legs back away from her, slowly she forced herself to relax, tho she did not attempt to take her wait of the crotch straps, rather allowed herself to relax and hang in the air like a hammock, letting her legs hang loosely below her.
Maria seemed oblivious to the change in her manner. She was now fiddling with the rig from which Ashley was hanging. A moment later Ashley was jolted slightly as the rig began to slide slowly into position over the pool. Her feet skimmed lightly over the ground as she the rig maneuvered her out toward the water. She felt her toes bump on the raised edge of the pool and then there was nothing below her. Reaching down with her toe foot Ashley’s toe made contact with the warm water below her, suddenly she found herself extremely nervous, she couldn't see what was below her, or ever turn her head to look around, with a bit of a jolt she felt herself being lowered, starting to drop into the water.
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Wednesday, 19 February 2020
In the Dark
ASHLEY'S NEW JOB : THE CAR SEAT
Chapter One, Part Four
The door swung shut behind Maria and slowly latched. The machine the seat was mounted to jostled and shook, like the back of a pickup truck, now the only sound in the room. Distracted by Maria’s departure ,and without really thinking, Ashley tried with full confidence to move, she wasn't really sure what she had been about to try and do, maybe just shift her position or maybe get up. But either way she was immediately brought back to full awareness of her situation. She couldn't so much as turn her head or open her mouth, let alone move an arm or leg. The combination of being alone and having forgotten, even for the briefest of moments, about her situation Ashley was suddenly struck by what felt like a real need to move, something, anything. For some reason Ashley felt as tho she must be able to move now that she really wanted to, surely she had just been playing along this whole time, she had never REALLY tried to get out, to move. She wasn't even thinking about what would happen if she did get out, or damaged the seat, it never entered her mind, although it wasn't something she would have to worry about. Ashley pulled and yanked and squirmed, she shifted her hips one way then the other, pulled on her arms then pushed them down, shrugged and then dropped her shoulders: kept thinking there must be a way to move that she hadn't thought of yet, haven't tried yet. Despite her straining muscles Ashley never moved any part of her mody more than half an inch, and then because the seat was designed to allow for that amount of movement in that particular way, every strap remained at exactly the same tightness. Ashley was grunting and breathing heavily through her nose, unable to open her mouth wide enough to gasp air though it.
Exhausted she collapsed into the seat, in reality not moving at all, she simply allowed every muscle in her body to go completely limp all at once. Her jumpsuit was damp with sweat but the fabric helped to lick the sweat away from her skin and would dry quickly. The machine continued to jostle and shake slightly. Ashley shifted around again but slowly this time, almost unaware that she was doing it, almost like shifting around in a comfy bed under a thick blanket. She had lost track of exactly what straps went where and without the ability to tilt her head down to look she couldn’t look and see. She could feel the straps over her shoulders and the one on her forehead and chin, the straps between her legs was also more than easy to identify with the shoulder straps holding her firmly against it. But her arms and legs just felt immobilized, she couldn't move them at all but also couldn’t really feel the straps well enough to count them or identify exactly where they held her down. Her toso also felt more like she had been submerged in some kind of gel or frozen into a solid than it did like she was strapped down. The only thing that broke that illusion was shifting her hips left and right, which was the most she was able to move anywhere, Ashley guessed she could move her hips about a half inch to the left or right giving her nearly a full inch of movement there, tho it took some effort to maintain that position as she had to push her hip bone into the foam of the seat to move in that way. There was a click and suddenly the lights went out plunging her into darkness, for a second Ashley thought the power had gone out, but then the seat simulated a particularly big bump, jostling the seat and making Ashley realise that machine was still running, the computer across the room was inside of her range of vision and the screen saver was running. Motion sensors Ashley realised, lots of offices used them now, she wasn't moving enough to trip the sensor. She made a half hearted attempt to shift enough to trip the light but only tried for a second or two, she was way too exhausted from her little freak out to bother trying. Ashley let out a loud(ish) groan though her closed mouth and collapsed back into the seat for the second time in what felt like an hour but was in reality less than 15 minutes. Giving in completely she closed her eyes and took a number of deep calming breaths through her nose. As much as she tried to relax completely she kept tensing at every bump and jostle. And when she tensed she would try to shift. Over the course of the next fifteen or twenty minutes Ashley seriously lost track of time. Eventually the computer monitor went to sleep and without any windows the room became truly dark. Ashley couldn’t discern any difference between having her eyes open or closed. She hadn't realised how much her eyes had adjusted to the light from the computer until it was too gone.
Ashley had no idea how long she had been in the seat at this point, in the dark she glanced at where she remembered the TV being, wishing that Maria had put it on for her again. Even just so she had some measure of time passing. Ashley closed her eyes and relaxed again, trying to imagine the slight jostling was actually a truck on the road, trying to let her mind drift. A moment later she jolted awake jostling against the straps as she did so. Not remembering where she was; she panicked for a moment before settling down, thrashing against the straps trying to move. She steadied herself but it was all a bit much and she tried to squirm around again, not trying to get out this time, she was well past that. But rather trying to find that place she had been before falling asleep. It was like she had to let the seat win again in order to relax. She realized she was grumbling and mumbling as she did so, like a kid, and made a conscious effort to stop and regain her composure, but in the pitch dark with no ability to move it was only a moment before she started to shift again. Shifting around against the straps was better than doing nothing. Even if it did feel like she was acting like a kid.
Again she lost track of time, the seat jostled away, she would relax for a bit with her eyes closed, then open them and shift around until she was tired and relaxed again. Suddenly the room was filled with blinding light and Maria was walking in with Warrick. Ashley realised she had been squirming around and froze, quickly trying to regain her composure, which made her try to move again feeling like she should sit up. Maria greeted her.
“Hey Ashley, sorry I took so long did Sara come by?”
It took Ashley a moment to figure out a response, for the second time she tried to shake her head.
“Ah no” after a moment “How long has it been”
“Ow i’m so sorry hun, she said she would, how are you doing? It’s been almost two hours”
It had felt like far longer than two hours. Maria had walked over to her warrick was at the computer now.
It didn't seem to matter how many times she tried. Again Ashley tried with full confidence to sit up as Maria approached.
“Are you doing ok anything soar?”
As Ashley replied in the negative she began to feel very uncomfortable with the situation. “It’s just a bit weird, is all,.. I’m a bit freaked out” Ashley began to squirm again not able to help herself.
“It’s ok hun, just relax, just say the work and well get you out of there, but we do want to run this test for another hour or so. It’s ok if you feel a bit overwhelmed, the seat is designed to make you feel like your being swaddled and kept safe, just let it do its job” Her hand was on Ashley's shoulder. She was still squirming but slowly again now, taking deep breaths.
“You ok to keep going?”
Ashley tried to nod and then said she was pulling her arms into herself as much as she could and letting the seat hold onto her.
The last hour went more or less uneventfully. Ashley asked Maria to put the TV back on and that helped pass the time. When she was finally released from the seat she felt “loose” and exposed. She wished she had a blanket or thick sweater to hide inside. Maria asked her a long list of questions ranging from whether anything was soar to whether the seat made her feel safe. Ashley tried to answer as honestly as she could and by the end of the list she was feeling much more comfortable about the experience realising that the feeling she had experienced was very much intentional.
Ashley left here first real day wondering what she would be asked to test next.
Chapter One, Part Four
The door swung shut behind Maria and slowly latched. The machine the seat was mounted to jostled and shook, like the back of a pickup truck, now the only sound in the room. Distracted by Maria’s departure ,and without really thinking, Ashley tried with full confidence to move, she wasn't really sure what she had been about to try and do, maybe just shift her position or maybe get up. But either way she was immediately brought back to full awareness of her situation. She couldn't so much as turn her head or open her mouth, let alone move an arm or leg. The combination of being alone and having forgotten, even for the briefest of moments, about her situation Ashley was suddenly struck by what felt like a real need to move, something, anything. For some reason Ashley felt as tho she must be able to move now that she really wanted to, surely she had just been playing along this whole time, she had never REALLY tried to get out, to move. She wasn't even thinking about what would happen if she did get out, or damaged the seat, it never entered her mind, although it wasn't something she would have to worry about. Ashley pulled and yanked and squirmed, she shifted her hips one way then the other, pulled on her arms then pushed them down, shrugged and then dropped her shoulders: kept thinking there must be a way to move that she hadn't thought of yet, haven't tried yet. Despite her straining muscles Ashley never moved any part of her mody more than half an inch, and then because the seat was designed to allow for that amount of movement in that particular way, every strap remained at exactly the same tightness. Ashley was grunting and breathing heavily through her nose, unable to open her mouth wide enough to gasp air though it.
Exhausted she collapsed into the seat, in reality not moving at all, she simply allowed every muscle in her body to go completely limp all at once. Her jumpsuit was damp with sweat but the fabric helped to lick the sweat away from her skin and would dry quickly. The machine continued to jostle and shake slightly. Ashley shifted around again but slowly this time, almost unaware that she was doing it, almost like shifting around in a comfy bed under a thick blanket. She had lost track of exactly what straps went where and without the ability to tilt her head down to look she couldn’t look and see. She could feel the straps over her shoulders and the one on her forehead and chin, the straps between her legs was also more than easy to identify with the shoulder straps holding her firmly against it. But her arms and legs just felt immobilized, she couldn't move them at all but also couldn’t really feel the straps well enough to count them or identify exactly where they held her down. Her toso also felt more like she had been submerged in some kind of gel or frozen into a solid than it did like she was strapped down. The only thing that broke that illusion was shifting her hips left and right, which was the most she was able to move anywhere, Ashley guessed she could move her hips about a half inch to the left or right giving her nearly a full inch of movement there, tho it took some effort to maintain that position as she had to push her hip bone into the foam of the seat to move in that way. There was a click and suddenly the lights went out plunging her into darkness, for a second Ashley thought the power had gone out, but then the seat simulated a particularly big bump, jostling the seat and making Ashley realise that machine was still running, the computer across the room was inside of her range of vision and the screen saver was running. Motion sensors Ashley realised, lots of offices used them now, she wasn't moving enough to trip the sensor. She made a half hearted attempt to shift enough to trip the light but only tried for a second or two, she was way too exhausted from her little freak out to bother trying. Ashley let out a loud(ish) groan though her closed mouth and collapsed back into the seat for the second time in what felt like an hour but was in reality less than 15 minutes. Giving in completely she closed her eyes and took a number of deep calming breaths through her nose. As much as she tried to relax completely she kept tensing at every bump and jostle. And when she tensed she would try to shift. Over the course of the next fifteen or twenty minutes Ashley seriously lost track of time. Eventually the computer monitor went to sleep and without any windows the room became truly dark. Ashley couldn’t discern any difference between having her eyes open or closed. She hadn't realised how much her eyes had adjusted to the light from the computer until it was too gone.
Ashley had no idea how long she had been in the seat at this point, in the dark she glanced at where she remembered the TV being, wishing that Maria had put it on for her again. Even just so she had some measure of time passing. Ashley closed her eyes and relaxed again, trying to imagine the slight jostling was actually a truck on the road, trying to let her mind drift. A moment later she jolted awake jostling against the straps as she did so. Not remembering where she was; she panicked for a moment before settling down, thrashing against the straps trying to move. She steadied herself but it was all a bit much and she tried to squirm around again, not trying to get out this time, she was well past that. But rather trying to find that place she had been before falling asleep. It was like she had to let the seat win again in order to relax. She realized she was grumbling and mumbling as she did so, like a kid, and made a conscious effort to stop and regain her composure, but in the pitch dark with no ability to move it was only a moment before she started to shift again. Shifting around against the straps was better than doing nothing. Even if it did feel like she was acting like a kid.
Again she lost track of time, the seat jostled away, she would relax for a bit with her eyes closed, then open them and shift around until she was tired and relaxed again. Suddenly the room was filled with blinding light and Maria was walking in with Warrick. Ashley realised she had been squirming around and froze, quickly trying to regain her composure, which made her try to move again feeling like she should sit up. Maria greeted her.
“Hey Ashley, sorry I took so long did Sara come by?”
It took Ashley a moment to figure out a response, for the second time she tried to shake her head.
“Ah no” after a moment “How long has it been”
“Ow i’m so sorry hun, she said she would, how are you doing? It’s been almost two hours”
It had felt like far longer than two hours. Maria had walked over to her warrick was at the computer now.
It didn't seem to matter how many times she tried. Again Ashley tried with full confidence to sit up as Maria approached.
“Are you doing ok anything soar?”
As Ashley replied in the negative she began to feel very uncomfortable with the situation. “It’s just a bit weird, is all,.. I’m a bit freaked out” Ashley began to squirm again not able to help herself.
“It’s ok hun, just relax, just say the work and well get you out of there, but we do want to run this test for another hour or so. It’s ok if you feel a bit overwhelmed, the seat is designed to make you feel like your being swaddled and kept safe, just let it do its job” Her hand was on Ashley's shoulder. She was still squirming but slowly again now, taking deep breaths.
“You ok to keep going?”
Ashley tried to nod and then said she was pulling her arms into herself as much as she could and letting the seat hold onto her.
The last hour went more or less uneventfully. Ashley asked Maria to put the TV back on and that helped pass the time. When she was finally released from the seat she felt “loose” and exposed. She wished she had a blanket or thick sweater to hide inside. Maria asked her a long list of questions ranging from whether anything was soar to whether the seat made her feel safe. Ashley tried to answer as honestly as she could and by the end of the list she was feeling much more comfortable about the experience realising that the feeling she had experienced was very much intentional.
Ashley left here first real day wondering what she would be asked to test next.
Round Two
ASHLEY'S NEW JOB : THE CAR SEAT
Chapter One, Part Three
Ashley was sitting in the cafeteria flicking aimlessly through memes on her iphone. She felt a bit awkward sitting there in her odd body suit with its little sensors and wires, but people seemed not to take any real notice. She glanced at the time, it had been five minutes. Standing up she took one last swig of her soda, draining the can, and headed back down the hall to the room where she had left Maria.
Ashley’s eyes flicked over to the car seat almost involuntarily as she walked into the room. The web of black straps hanging loose against the pale blue seat seemed to be somehow even thicker than it had before. Maria was bent over fastening the leg pieces to the seat, to Ashley it looked like the seat had grown a pair of legs. Two long pieces extended down from the seat. One on either side on the foam wedge that went between the passengers legs. The pieces were made out of the same material as the seat and ran down away from it at a sort of 45 deg angle. Each ended in a flat platform for the passenger's foot. There were three black straps on each section, the lowest of the three at the very base of the leg where it turned into a platform for the foot. To Ashley’s dismay the head and arm restraints appeared to still be in place.
Maria stood up and turned hearing Ashley walk in.
“Hey! Perfect timing!”
Ashley walked over to her, glancing at the seat still.
“You should use the washroom now, the next set of test will be a fair bit longer”
Ashley nodded “Ok, sure”
“Here let me help you with that first”
Maria turned Ashley by the shoulders and undid the horizontal straps on the back of Ashley’s suit.
Ashley headed to the bathroom she had changed in earlier. After she came out she turned to allow Maria to refastened the horizontal belts on the back of the suit. The older woman took a moment to redo the vertical velcro closer again as well, undoing it a bit too much for Ashley to be totally comfortable in the process.
A moment later she was standing once again before the imposing seat. She turned and put her hands on the seat to boost herself up and found Maria, once again, taking hold of her and helping to lift her into the seat unbidden.
Despite only having been out of the seat for a few minutes Ashley was surprised again by how soft it was, she was sitting too far forward and was half on the block that was meant to go between her thighs. Maria placed a hand on her stomach.
“Ok slide right back for me now”
Ashley was a bit unprepared for how far back she had to slide to clear the foam wedge, she actually had to press herself into the foam back of the seat, to the point where the foam started to push back, in order to get her bum to fit between the seat back and the foam wedge. But with a little twisting she managed to squirm back in. Also surprising was how little space there was between the wedge and the sides of the seat. Her thighs were resting on top of the wedge and didn't quite seem to want to fit between it and the sides of the seat, it was a slightly odd angle with her but lower than her thighs, and Maria had not removed her hand form her stomach yet. Ashley was about to squirm her legs and squeeze them into the space as she had during the “acceleration test” when Maria did it for her, removing her hand from Ashley’s stomach and placing it on her leg just above her knee and pressing down, helping push Ashley’s left leg between the wedge and the side of the seat. Maria repeated this process with Ashley's right leg as the younger girl sat unsure what to do. Unlike last time her legs did not hang straight down out of the chair. Instead they were resting on the new leg restraints at about 45 degs.
“Ok Arms up” Maria gestured with her own arms.
Ashley raised her arms up as Maria had indicated. With her legs resting on the new restraints, stretched out slightly in front of her, Maira wasn't able to stand in front of the seat this time. Instead she stood off to Ashley’s left. Ashley felt a bit out of control with Maria working so quickly and systematically. It was as tho Maria had taken over the situation to the point that Ashley was no longer able to really make decisions about what to do. Maria’s hair was falling down in Ashley’s face as the older woman leaned across her to reach the straps on her right side.
“Umph” Ashley grunted slightly as Maria pulled the waist belt tight, enough to make some air escape her lungs. Then the straps were coming down over her shoulders and around from under her armpits. Maria fastened each one in with a loud click and then yanked on each one, snuggling them down tightly around Ashley’s torso. Maria then pushed her hand down under Ashley’s left leg and fished out the crotch strap. Like the others she secured it into the buckle with a loud snap, and then yanked on it taking out the slack and causing it to snug up tightly into Ashley’s body.
“Ugh!”
Ashley had not been expecting Maria to yank on the crotch strap quite so quickly or firmly and tried to pull away from it, but the wide black straps running tightly over each of her shoulders prevented her from moving even a quarter inch.
Maria have out a quick laugh. “Haha, sorry kiddo, guess i’m a bit rushed to get you in here, I gotta run down to admin real quick and want to get you going first. Sorry about that”
“No worries,” A timid Ashley managed, still trying to squirm up away from the strap or move her legs toward or away from each other. The net of straps had been quickly wrapped around her and she found her ability to shift or move had been stripped away much more suddenly than she had been prepared for. Ashley tilted her head back against the headrest and closed her eyes slightly letting out a breath, trying to calm down. She tried to move her legs around again but couldn't at all. She wanted to badly enough that she was about to pull her knees up and bend her legs a bit when Maria pulled down slightly on her left leg. Ashley opened her eyes and looked down in time to see Maria buckle the first of the three straps just below her knee. The leg straps where much wider than the ones around her body, at least four or five inches across, they also had some sort of soft neoprene sleeve over them. As maria pulled the first strap tight the sensation was more like someone sitting on her leg than that of a tight strap over it. The second strap was pulled tight at about half way down her leg. Finally the third strap was thinner, about the same width as the ones wrapped around her body, but still with the neoprene sleeve. This last strap came from lower down and went over her ankle, pulling her foot down into the pad at the base as well as securing her lower leg onto the main pad. With the leg straps done up Ashley found she could no longer pull her left leg toward or away from her, it surprisingly removed a significant range of motion she hadn't realized she had before.
Then Maria was leaning across and securing her right leg into place in the same way, pulling down slightly on her leg as she did so. This was all going a bit too fast and and Ashley without really meaning to resisted a bit, pulling up slightly against her.
“Need you to relax a bit hun” Maria pulled slightly more firmly on her leg and pulled the ankle strap tight securing her other leg tightly in place. Straightening up Maria leaned in over Ashley’s torso, checking the straps wrapped around her again. After a moment she gave each shoulder strap a couple quick tugs, snugging them down a bit more.
Ashley was so caught up in the intensity of the moment she didn't even notice Maria guide her upper arms into place and secure them tightly. She felt like she might explode it was so intense. She was yanking hard on one leg then the other trying with all her strength to move them. She was so unsuccessful in this that Maria didn't even take notice. Ashley was about to say something when Maria put and hand on her forehead.
“Ok head back for me now” Then sensing Ashley's discomfort she moved her hand to her shoulder. “It’s ok just relax into it, take a deep breath, there ya go.” Ashley took several deep breaths in quick succession and felt as though the seat was swallowing her up. “Alright you OK?” Ashley managed a couple quick nods” “Ok head back for me then, K?” Slowly, breathing out through her nose, Ashley brought her head back against the headrest and Maria secured the strap across her forehead and pulled it tight. Once again Ashley felt her head pulled into the seat pillow with its moulded shape and neck support. This time Maira pulled out a second strap and secured it under Ashley’s chin like a bike helmet, but pulled more tightly. Ashley immediately discovered that with this strap in place it was difficult to open her mouth and her head was pulled back even more. Tho still not in any way uncomfortable.
Ashley sat perfect still for several seconds with her eyes closed, trying to relax, and then started to try and squirm everything all at once. Everything was significantly tighter than it had been last time. She felt like her body wasn’t hers anymore, almost like an out of body experience. After a moment she stopped squirming altogether and just let herself sink into it, again taking several deep breaths, her heart beating rapidly.
She opened her eyes again. Maria was back in the box again and came out now with two black fabric loops, like the legs straps they had neoprene padding. Without a word Maria fastened one around each of Ashley’s wrists, Ashley couldn’t see what was going on, unable to move her head again, she would have asked but the chin strap made talking a bit hard and at this point she didn’t really care anymore anyway. She felt the straps tighten around her wrists and then felt them anchored down somehow. Maria was talking again.
“Ok you all good? I have to run out now, I should be back in a flash, otherwise i'll have someone else run up to check on you. Just going to get the machine running”
That got Ashley’s attention. Which a bit of effort she opened her mouth “What?”
“Ow don’t worry not the crash simulation, wouldn’t leave you alone with that on, or for an extended period, just a simulated driving effects”
Again with some difficulty, “Ah, Uw, ok”
Maira was at the computer for a moment clicking away. Again Ashley tried shifting around. Her legs where fastened down such that she couldn't pull up on them at all. The straps around her body where pulling in much more tightly than they had before, it was as tho she was being pulled into each and every strap at once. Especially the one between her legs. She relaxed and stopped squirming again as Maria walked over and started the machine. With a low rumble it lifted up and began to lightly shake and jostle around as tho in a pickup truck on a bumpy road.
“Ok i should back in just a few minutes” And Maria was out the door and gone.
Chapter One, Part Three
Ashley was sitting in the cafeteria flicking aimlessly through memes on her iphone. She felt a bit awkward sitting there in her odd body suit with its little sensors and wires, but people seemed not to take any real notice. She glanced at the time, it had been five minutes. Standing up she took one last swig of her soda, draining the can, and headed back down the hall to the room where she had left Maria.
Ashley’s eyes flicked over to the car seat almost involuntarily as she walked into the room. The web of black straps hanging loose against the pale blue seat seemed to be somehow even thicker than it had before. Maria was bent over fastening the leg pieces to the seat, to Ashley it looked like the seat had grown a pair of legs. Two long pieces extended down from the seat. One on either side on the foam wedge that went between the passengers legs. The pieces were made out of the same material as the seat and ran down away from it at a sort of 45 deg angle. Each ended in a flat platform for the passenger's foot. There were three black straps on each section, the lowest of the three at the very base of the leg where it turned into a platform for the foot. To Ashley’s dismay the head and arm restraints appeared to still be in place.
Maria stood up and turned hearing Ashley walk in.
“Hey! Perfect timing!”
Ashley walked over to her, glancing at the seat still.
“You should use the washroom now, the next set of test will be a fair bit longer”
Ashley nodded “Ok, sure”
“Here let me help you with that first”
Maria turned Ashley by the shoulders and undid the horizontal straps on the back of Ashley’s suit.
Ashley headed to the bathroom she had changed in earlier. After she came out she turned to allow Maria to refastened the horizontal belts on the back of the suit. The older woman took a moment to redo the vertical velcro closer again as well, undoing it a bit too much for Ashley to be totally comfortable in the process.
A moment later she was standing once again before the imposing seat. She turned and put her hands on the seat to boost herself up and found Maria, once again, taking hold of her and helping to lift her into the seat unbidden.
Despite only having been out of the seat for a few minutes Ashley was surprised again by how soft it was, she was sitting too far forward and was half on the block that was meant to go between her thighs. Maria placed a hand on her stomach.
“Ok slide right back for me now”
Ashley was a bit unprepared for how far back she had to slide to clear the foam wedge, she actually had to press herself into the foam back of the seat, to the point where the foam started to push back, in order to get her bum to fit between the seat back and the foam wedge. But with a little twisting she managed to squirm back in. Also surprising was how little space there was between the wedge and the sides of the seat. Her thighs were resting on top of the wedge and didn't quite seem to want to fit between it and the sides of the seat, it was a slightly odd angle with her but lower than her thighs, and Maria had not removed her hand form her stomach yet. Ashley was about to squirm her legs and squeeze them into the space as she had during the “acceleration test” when Maria did it for her, removing her hand from Ashley’s stomach and placing it on her leg just above her knee and pressing down, helping push Ashley’s left leg between the wedge and the side of the seat. Maria repeated this process with Ashley's right leg as the younger girl sat unsure what to do. Unlike last time her legs did not hang straight down out of the chair. Instead they were resting on the new leg restraints at about 45 degs.
“Ok Arms up” Maria gestured with her own arms.
Ashley raised her arms up as Maria had indicated. With her legs resting on the new restraints, stretched out slightly in front of her, Maira wasn't able to stand in front of the seat this time. Instead she stood off to Ashley’s left. Ashley felt a bit out of control with Maria working so quickly and systematically. It was as tho Maria had taken over the situation to the point that Ashley was no longer able to really make decisions about what to do. Maria’s hair was falling down in Ashley’s face as the older woman leaned across her to reach the straps on her right side.
“Umph” Ashley grunted slightly as Maria pulled the waist belt tight, enough to make some air escape her lungs. Then the straps were coming down over her shoulders and around from under her armpits. Maria fastened each one in with a loud click and then yanked on each one, snuggling them down tightly around Ashley’s torso. Maria then pushed her hand down under Ashley’s left leg and fished out the crotch strap. Like the others she secured it into the buckle with a loud snap, and then yanked on it taking out the slack and causing it to snug up tightly into Ashley’s body.
“Ugh!”
Ashley had not been expecting Maria to yank on the crotch strap quite so quickly or firmly and tried to pull away from it, but the wide black straps running tightly over each of her shoulders prevented her from moving even a quarter inch.
Maria have out a quick laugh. “Haha, sorry kiddo, guess i’m a bit rushed to get you in here, I gotta run down to admin real quick and want to get you going first. Sorry about that”
“No worries,” A timid Ashley managed, still trying to squirm up away from the strap or move her legs toward or away from each other. The net of straps had been quickly wrapped around her and she found her ability to shift or move had been stripped away much more suddenly than she had been prepared for. Ashley tilted her head back against the headrest and closed her eyes slightly letting out a breath, trying to calm down. She tried to move her legs around again but couldn't at all. She wanted to badly enough that she was about to pull her knees up and bend her legs a bit when Maria pulled down slightly on her left leg. Ashley opened her eyes and looked down in time to see Maria buckle the first of the three straps just below her knee. The leg straps where much wider than the ones around her body, at least four or five inches across, they also had some sort of soft neoprene sleeve over them. As maria pulled the first strap tight the sensation was more like someone sitting on her leg than that of a tight strap over it. The second strap was pulled tight at about half way down her leg. Finally the third strap was thinner, about the same width as the ones wrapped around her body, but still with the neoprene sleeve. This last strap came from lower down and went over her ankle, pulling her foot down into the pad at the base as well as securing her lower leg onto the main pad. With the leg straps done up Ashley found she could no longer pull her left leg toward or away from her, it surprisingly removed a significant range of motion she hadn't realized she had before.
Then Maria was leaning across and securing her right leg into place in the same way, pulling down slightly on her leg as she did so. This was all going a bit too fast and and Ashley without really meaning to resisted a bit, pulling up slightly against her.
“Need you to relax a bit hun” Maria pulled slightly more firmly on her leg and pulled the ankle strap tight securing her other leg tightly in place. Straightening up Maria leaned in over Ashley’s torso, checking the straps wrapped around her again. After a moment she gave each shoulder strap a couple quick tugs, snugging them down a bit more.
Ashley was so caught up in the intensity of the moment she didn't even notice Maria guide her upper arms into place and secure them tightly. She felt like she might explode it was so intense. She was yanking hard on one leg then the other trying with all her strength to move them. She was so unsuccessful in this that Maria didn't even take notice. Ashley was about to say something when Maria put and hand on her forehead.
“Ok head back for me now” Then sensing Ashley's discomfort she moved her hand to her shoulder. “It’s ok just relax into it, take a deep breath, there ya go.” Ashley took several deep breaths in quick succession and felt as though the seat was swallowing her up. “Alright you OK?” Ashley managed a couple quick nods” “Ok head back for me then, K?” Slowly, breathing out through her nose, Ashley brought her head back against the headrest and Maria secured the strap across her forehead and pulled it tight. Once again Ashley felt her head pulled into the seat pillow with its moulded shape and neck support. This time Maira pulled out a second strap and secured it under Ashley’s chin like a bike helmet, but pulled more tightly. Ashley immediately discovered that with this strap in place it was difficult to open her mouth and her head was pulled back even more. Tho still not in any way uncomfortable.
Ashley sat perfect still for several seconds with her eyes closed, trying to relax, and then started to try and squirm everything all at once. Everything was significantly tighter than it had been last time. She felt like her body wasn’t hers anymore, almost like an out of body experience. After a moment she stopped squirming altogether and just let herself sink into it, again taking several deep breaths, her heart beating rapidly.
She opened her eyes again. Maria was back in the box again and came out now with two black fabric loops, like the legs straps they had neoprene padding. Without a word Maria fastened one around each of Ashley’s wrists, Ashley couldn’t see what was going on, unable to move her head again, she would have asked but the chin strap made talking a bit hard and at this point she didn’t really care anymore anyway. She felt the straps tighten around her wrists and then felt them anchored down somehow. Maria was talking again.
“Ok you all good? I have to run out now, I should be back in a flash, otherwise i'll have someone else run up to check on you. Just going to get the machine running”
That got Ashley’s attention. Which a bit of effort she opened her mouth “What?”
“Ow don’t worry not the crash simulation, wouldn’t leave you alone with that on, or for an extended period, just a simulated driving effects”
Again with some difficulty, “Ah, Uw, ok”
Maira was at the computer for a moment clicking away. Again Ashley tried shifting around. Her legs where fastened down such that she couldn't pull up on them at all. The straps around her body where pulling in much more tightly than they had before, it was as tho she was being pulled into each and every strap at once. Especially the one between her legs. She relaxed and stopped squirming again as Maria walked over and started the machine. With a low rumble it lifted up and began to lightly shake and jostle around as tho in a pickup truck on a bumpy road.
“Ok i should back in just a few minutes” And Maria was out the door and gone.
Getting Situated
ASHLEY'S NEW JOB : THE CAR SEAT
Chapter One, Part One
It was a cool morning in early spring when the sun broke through the frosted window of Ashley’s room. Ashley was 18 and halfway through her final year of high school. She had just finished applying to universities for a variety of programs in the medical field, and was starting to look for jobs for the summer. She had worked the last two summers at the food court in the mall and already knew she didn’t want to do that again, but it was a small town and jobs weren’t plentiful. Still, she was confident enough to not hand in her resume to the place she normally worked at, at least not yet.
Ashley shifted under the covers and stretched as she became fully awake. It was nearly noon and her aunt and uncle were coming over for dinner. It was about time to get up.
Her Uncle Mike and Aunt Sarah arrived at around 4:00 and the family sat around talking about this and that, they asked Ashley about her university prep and expectations. It was after this that her Aunt asked what she was doing for the summer, Ashley explained her desire to find something other than the food court, preferably related to the medical field or nursing. It was this that prompted her Aunt to recall that a friend of hers who worked for a company that designed special needs products. They were looking for help for the summer. The idea sounded great to Ashley. A few days later Aunt Sara approached her friend. Ashley got a phone call and went in for an interview.
Ashley nailed the interview and the referral from her aunt helped as well. The job was primarily an internship position where she would do paperwork, help fill out forms and make calls; but it would also be one part model for new products and two parts testing them. It was explained to her that before a special needs product, especially those dealing with restraint or mobility training, could go to trial market it had to be tested by someone who isn’t special needs. This reason for this is so that it can be assessed by the user in an effective way, and the company can get real feedback. They explained that she would get to learn a lot about the industry and that there might even be a better job for her after her undergrad if she stuck around that long.
Ashley shifted under the covers and stretched as she became fully awake. It was nearly noon and her aunt and uncle were coming over for dinner. It was about time to get up.
Her Uncle Mike and Aunt Sarah arrived at around 4:00 and the family sat around talking about this and that, they asked Ashley about her university prep and expectations. It was after this that her Aunt asked what she was doing for the summer, Ashley explained her desire to find something other than the food court, preferably related to the medical field or nursing. It was this that prompted her Aunt to recall that a friend of hers who worked for a company that designed special needs products. They were looking for help for the summer. The idea sounded great to Ashley. A few days later Aunt Sara approached her friend. Ashley got a phone call and went in for an interview.
Ashley nailed the interview and the referral from her aunt helped as well. The job was primarily an internship position where she would do paperwork, help fill out forms and make calls; but it would also be one part model for new products and two parts testing them. It was explained to her that before a special needs product, especially those dealing with restraint or mobility training, could go to trial market it had to be tested by someone who isn’t special needs. This reason for this is so that it can be assessed by the user in an effective way, and the company can get real feedback. They explained that she would get to learn a lot about the industry and that there might even be a better job for her after her undergrad if she stuck around that long.
Needless to say it all sounded great to Ashley and she accepted on the spot.
It was on Ashley’s third day when she was asked to demo her first product. The day started with what felt like a medical exam, she came into a different building and met her boss for this part of her job, a woman named Maria. She was in her early 30’s with an athletic build and blond hair. She took Ashley’s height and weight finding her to be 5’4 and 118 lbs as well as her blood pressure, reflexes and measurements of her body; she also did some tests to measure her flexibility. Additionally, she had Ashley perform various stretches and measuring the distance between the parts of her body when she had moved as far as she could.
When they were finally finished with her physical, Maria explained the plan for the rest of the day. They would be assessing a new car seat for the market. It was a special needs seat designed for adolescents up to 140 lb and 5’6”. She gave Ashley a break for lunch and told her to be back in an hour.
Upon Ashley’s return she found Maria and the headed to the testing area. The test area was located in an adjacent building; Ashley followed Maria through the front into a large lounge/reception area. And then waited as Maria went to the desk to sign them in. This test facility was shared between several companies. Beyond the lobby Ashley found herself following Maria down what felt more or less like an office hallway to a door which Maria unlocked holding the door open for Ashley. The room consisted of fairly stark walls, a small desk with a computer and a chair and what looked like a medical exam table where set against the far wall; there were no windows in the room. To the right of this was the bench seat out of a car mounted to what looked like a large industrial porch swing of some kind. Next to this was an unopened cardboard box with a picture of a special needs car seat on it. Beyond this against the wall was another door, perhaps for a closet or bathroom.
“Ok so we'll get started in just a minute or two, in the meantime-” Maria opened a drawer below the exam table and retrieved what looked like vacuumed sealed uniform of some sort. “If you want to head into the changing room and switch out of your street clothes, for these, we can get on track”
Ashley took the package and held it up to get a better look at it. She had been told she would have to wear a suit of some kind during the interview.
“It's basically to help monitor the tests”
Ashley nodded and took her package to the door behind the car seat, closing it behind her. The changing room actually was more of a bathroom than anything else, but it did have a sort of bench seat to sit on, she ripped shrink-wrap and pulled out the contents. The biggest piece of clothing was a full body footed jumpsuit made of what felt like Lycia. It was soft and forgiving but stretchy. It was also covered with a number of small plastic dots, presumably for some form of sensors. Also in the bag was underwear made of a similar material. Ashley had not been expecting this and was a bit put off but changed into the new clothes leaving hers neatly folded on the bench. Ashley slipped into the body suit and was surprised: first by the lack of holes in the end of the sleeves, Instead they ended in a mitten shape where her thumb had its own slot but the rest of the fingers had to share one; and then by the lack of a zipper. Instead, the back fastened with a Velcro closure. It also came up her neck further than she anticipated, like a turtle neck. Ashley used the mirror to get the main Velcro closure done up as best she could but there were a series of Velcro straps that ran horizontally across it and two of these were outside her reach in the small of her back. Ashley exited the room, figuring Maria could help her with them.
“Make out ok?” Maria asked
“I can’t quite get the back properly”
“Maria left her chair and Ashley turned her back to allow her access to the straps on the back. Maria took a moment to correct the vertical closure and refasten the horizontal straps the Ashley had been able to reach.
While Maria was correcting the back of her suit Ashley had time to see that the car seat had now been installed on the hanging bench seat. It was much larger than a normal car seat, which she had expected, and a pale blue color. It looked more complicated than she had expected though. There were a couple of extra straps hanging off of the thing, she wasn’t sure what they were there for. Also, there were more pads for head support than a regular car seat.
When Maria had finished fixing the back of the jumpsuit she had Ashley take a seat on the exam table.
“Just lie down for me there and we'll get you wired up”
Ashley complied, swinging her feet up onto the table and lying back with her arms at her sides. The paper of the table crinkled as she shifted her position and she found herself feeling nervous and exposed in the strange room and bizarre circumstances. The suit she was wearing was relatively thick but hugged her body in such a way as to contribute to this unease. She wanted to avoid showing this to Maria though and felt she needed to be engaged in conversation.
“I had no idea this was so high tech” Her voice must have betrayed her as Maia gave her a smile and a squeeze on the shoulder.
“You're doing very well, and yes this is all relatively modern advancement. In the past, it was all guesswork, but with many special needs cases details that are otherwise unimportant are highlighted, that’s the sort of specialization we do here.”
Maria started by attaching sensors to each of her ankles and wrists, they consisted of a small plastic box connected to a strap that went around her limb and a small device that fit into the plastic slot on her suit. Maria explained that they were for measuring circulation and tracking body movements that could be signs of discomfort in the limbs. There was another that went over her chest to measure respiration and again shifting and body movement, and finally on each upper arm to measure shifting motions. Maria took a couple moments to check that all the sensors were working and connected to the computer properly. She then had Ashley hop down and follow her over to the car seat. As Ashley approached the seat it seemed to loom before her, the web of black straps stood out against the pale blue of the seat. A strange wrenching motion took place in her stomach and she felt her knees go week
Ashley turned around and raised herself up into the seat; she had to use her arms to lift herself up as the seat was unusually high rigged onto the testing apparatus. Maria kept a hand on her shoulder as she did so to guard her against falling. When Ashley had trouble lifting herself up Maria put a hand under her shoulder and helped lift her into place on the seat.
“You ok?” Maria again sensing Ashley’s unease
Ashley swallowed and nodded, brushing a stray hair out of her face.
“Ok want to shift right back for me? Tight against the back of the seat, perfect”
Having slid back into the seat Ashley could now feel the seat against the small of her back. It was softer than she had expected, closer to a pillow than a regular seat in a car. Maria was fiddling with the straps and Ashley had to lean forward to allow her to extract the straps from behind her back.
Maria started by laying two long shoulder straps over Ashley’s chest. She then connected two halves of a waist belt with a large circular buckle and snugged it down, holding the younger girl's waist securely in the seat. Ashley was very conscious of the rising and falling of her chest as she inhaled and exhaled. She was watching the rise and fall of the shoulder straps as Maria connected them to the waist belt. Ashley felt her body pressed down into the seat cushions as these straps were pulled tight over her shoulders. Maria then connected them by a small strap just above her chest and then pulled out two additional straps protruding from under Ashley’s armpits and connected these to the strap across her chest. When Maria pulled this strap tight it pressed into her, pushing her back into the back padding of the seat, and seemed to squeeze her chest. Maria then bent down and retrieved the strap emerging from underneath her butt and connected it to the same circular buckle the first four straps had plugged into. The strap had a large pad on it to provide some cushioning but Maria pulled it quite tight and Ashley felt herself pulled slightly back up by it. The sensation Ashley was experiencing now was something completely new to her. Never in her life had she been so unable to move her torso, at least not that she could remember. Her arms and legs and head were free to move but her body was cemented into the seat. Maria wasn’t finished yet, Ashley had her legs partly spread due to the strap between them. Maria gently but firmly pulled them apart further in order to fit a large foam wedge between them. Once this was in place she positioned two smaller pads on the outside of Ashley’s thighs. These wedges were all held in place by what amounted to heavy duty Velcro. The soft side of the Velcro was on the seat to prevent scratching. In addition to being unable to move her upper body Ashley could now no longer shift her thighs left or right and her ability to move them up and down was surprisingly little due to the hold the straps had on the rest of her body.
Maria was now at her head she pulled it forward slightly in order to adjust the headrest, pulling it down to better line up with the girl’s head. Once she had it in place she adjusted the side panels, sliding them in until they were snug against the sides of her head.
“Ok I’m going to do up the head and upper arm restraints for a little while but we'll leave them off for the majority of the evaluation.”
Ashley not knowing quite what the head and upper arm restraint were went along with it, nodding and shifting a bit, not much due to her situation. Maria fetched a short well padded strap from the box and set about fastening it to some hidden buckle in the pad to the left of Ashley’s head, a moment later she pulled it across her forehead and buckled it into the other side snugging it down so that it pressed her head into the built in pillow and prevented her from pulling her head forward. The seat pillow was well padded though and there was even support in place for her neck, much like the travel pillows people flew with, so it was not an uncomfortable position at all. Although she was starting to think a bit more slack wouldn’t hurt, particularly in the strap between her legs. Maria was busy with her arms now; The seat was slightly reclined so Ashley’s view was obscured by her inability to tilt her head, but she could feel straps being fastened around her biceps and a moment later Maria guided her arms into position beside her and she heard a click, a quick tug confirmed that her upper arms were now secured to the seat.
Finally Maria stepped back
“Ok there we go, would you try and touch your face for me please”
Ashley complied raising her hand to try and touch her mouth and lower cheeks; she came up short only able to lightly brush the bottom of her chin.
“Hard as you can please, really try”
Ashley did her best straining against both the arm restraints and her head strap; she was unable to do much better and found she quickly tired of holding her lower arms up.
“Perfect, the arm restraints are supposed to keep your hands away from your mouth and nose.”
Maria moved up to her again putting hand behind her neck.
“Any tension here? Soreness?”
Ashley went to shake her head and then realizing it was impossible replied audibly “no”
“Perfect, ok well let's give it 20 or 30 minutes or so. Want me to put something on a TV screen for you?”
“Uh, sure” TV was hardly the thing on Ashley’s mind at the moment.
Maria went to get a TV on wheels from next to the computer and set it up for her but Ashley was more focused on her situation than the TV even when it started playing some wildlife special without the audio. Maria went back to the desk to work and Ashley was left to her devices such as they were.
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