Alternate title: why vehicle preferences should be included in pre-marital counseling.
Whilst driving across the never ending plains of the midwest (oh, wait, did I tell you we're out of town?) our conversation, rare as it is with the young vortexes ("vortexi"?) of need in the back seat, turned to what to do with the aging fleet of Busy Vans and the Usurped Corolla.
Me: "I don't know quite how we'd do it, but, when the music stops, I'd like to end up with a large sedan, a mini-van and keep the Corolla for future drivers in the family."
Busy Dad: "Yeah, we could get a station wagon!"
Me: "Well...there's not too many station wagons made anymore."
Busy Dad: "We could get a nice..."
Me: (yes, I interrupted, bite me.) "I will not agree to any vehicle that begins with the words "nineteen' anything."
Busy Dad: "I'll bet we can find a '96 Corolla wagon."
Me: This is my punishement for singing 'Convoy', 'Rump Shaker', and, 'King of the Road' all through Illinois, isn't it? As I was saying, I would like to trade the vans for an Accord and an Odyssey or something.
Busy Dad: " I like the Taurus Wagon."
Me: "They don't make those anymore."
Busy Dad: "We could get a '98."
Me: "I don't want a '98 anything."
Busy Dad: "How about an old Army Jeep? I want an old Army Jeep..."
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Busy Dad's got ta, got ta, got ta come around!! You just keep singing, he'll fold eventually! SO sorry I missed you when I was in your 'hood. If only I'd known...well, I'd probably have stayed in my prone position on that hotel bed, the better not to puke, but you know, I'd totally have called.
You know I have such fond memories of our family station wagon (a-la Brady family) - but that was back before seatbelt laws. My fondest memories involved having the seat folded down and we (my friends and I around age 5) would slide all around as mom drove up and down the hills.
It's amazing any of us survived!
Our family always had the big family truckster type of station wagons. I remember this one we had was a HUGE, brown, Ford wagon and in the back, there was this thing you could pull and a seat would appear. I thought were were LIVIN when we got that thing. Course, when we traveled long distances, we never sat in it. It wasn't even pulled up so we could have a lay down place. Egads, the long, endless trips between Nashville and San Antonio....looks like we got ourselves a Convoy.
Tell Busy Dad I have a 98 Mercury Villager mini van I'll sell him.
You could get a maxi wagon. :)
Sheesh, even a 2000 vehicle is 6 years old now! Tell him to start living in this century. ;)
Maybe you could get a car that starts with a 2006 or 2005. I really like driving a car with a warranty. It comes in handy often.
Don doesn't agree with me, but goes along with it. Bless his little heart.
Subaru Outback? 'Tis a wagon, and one still being made.
convoy!!! isn't that the song your title is from? "it's gettin' in-tense back here..."
hahah
Doesn't he realize that it's not what he wants. It's what he should have. And yes, that just happens to be what you want but who's noticing.
actually some of the wagons out there are pretty "stylish". For instance the VW Passat Wagon: http://www.vw.com/passatwagon/index.html
But again, it doesn't matter how "stylish" it is, I will not subject myself for a wagon, even though my first car was a hand-down olds wagon...eek
Maybe you will have him trained to listen by the time you are through Kansas, or maybe Colorado.
I am all about the Forrester...a wagon still in the making. I am wanting one in a bad way. Either that or the Freestyle - like a wagon, but has more of the height of an SUV. LOVE IT!
Whaddya mean, "never ending plains?" They do, too, end, at like, Pittsburgh and, um, the Rockies (depending on your direction of travel!) :) We'll wave as you pass on by!
So is he still alive?
Ha ha! I am BEGGING Hubs for a used Volvo station wagon as our next car. But this is a man who drove an air conditionless '90 Tercel for a year until we could afford to buy our Expedition outright. I'm afraid I don't have much leverage.
Hope you're having a good time. Should've known you'd bring your laptop. :)
I LOVE the new Chrysler Magnums. Some people suggest they look like herses, but I disagree. I think they look like muscle MOM cars. LOVE THEM!
I love my Odyssey. :) My husband is now driving our '98 Ford Contour. He'd rather go with the Army Jeep (he has specifically requested a Unimog, and has pointed out that we could get one on eBay).
Wagons are much cooler than minivans. MUCH. And the VW wagons are especially nice, since you can get the turbodiesel with fantastic gas milage.
I love my Jetta wagon, can you tell?
We have an '03 Taurus Wagon, we love it, just got back from a trip to PA in it and it was great! When did they stop making them? Are you sure they don't make them anymore?
HA! I like the alternate title. Honestly. We're currently fighting over a truck. I don't want one. Husband wants one. And there it sits.
I love my VW Passet Wagon...it isn't my ultra cute girly flirty VW Beetle, but it is, in my opinion much better than a minivan or SUV. It drives like a car, but you still have some of the storage you get from the mini and SUV. Plus I will not have to transport the enitre soccer team, just because you have the room for all of them in the VAN.
They're not wagons - they're mini-SUV's now.
We love our Toyota Matrix (what they're making instead of the Tercel) Get's fabulous mileage and not too expensive new or slightly used.
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