Bad Hippie!

I've always despised people who drive SUVs and trucks without a good reason. I see people all the time driving around in a big truck to haul around their one child, and it just bugs me. I swore I would never get one.

Only, I'm realizing that I'm a terrible hypocrite because I'm thinking of getting one.

I have two young kids, and we're about to have a 3rd one in a couple of months, and I just can't figure out how to make 3 car seats fit properly in the back seat of my Elantra. (Driving around with one of the doors open just doesn't seem like a viable option.)

I really don't want a big gas-guzzling monster of a vehicle, but I'm not sure that I have any other choice. Any ideas?

 

I don't know what to tell you booshie, we had to end up getting a minivan (something we swore we'd never do!) with our three kids, there was no way three car seats would fit across the back of a standard sized car. We tried, it wasn't happening.

 

I like when you call me booshie. That, all by itself, made this thread worth it.

 

I know you like it, that's why I say it.

 

All I'm saying is I sure hope nobody asks me to stand up for the next few minutes.

 

Wooohoo! Yeah baby! :H

 

Since we're on this topic, why are there still no pictures on your profile?

 

I don't know really...

Why, are you jonesing for some?

 

Is that HCM teasing you again?

We talked about a third kid and we would have to get a minivan if we did. It's just the way it is.

 

maybe...

 

Well we can't have that, now can we?

 

This isn't one of those things where you get my hopes up with the idea of seeing your pictures again, only to have the smashed when it never actually happens leaving me as nothing but a broken crying shell of a man curled up in the fetal position and sucking my thumb in the corner, right?

 

Do they not have a hybrid SUV out these days? I thought I'd heard of one. At the least they do have an SUV somewheres that can run off of ethanol - more environmentally friendly than gas to use at least.

 

Your transformation to Yuppie is now complete, boosh.

 

They have hybrid SUVs, but they are a teansy weansy bit out of my current price range. I'm in more of a market for an old broken down SUV with transmission problems.

 

WAIT! I figured it out.

I can go get a VW Microbus with flowers and rainbows painted on it.

 

In 1972, my mom made my dad trade in his 66 Corvette Stingray for a VW Campertop Microbus.

Trade in value: $700
Microbus: $1700

He never forgave her.

 

I don't even know them and I'll never forgive her either.

 

Here's a picture of us a few years after the incident. You can see my dad's still steaming about it.




You like my pants?

 

I know you hate us but I can't stress enough how important it is during the winter months to have a vehicle with some weight and muscle behind it, especially during a Nor' easter when conditions are treacherous.


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