I am that guy
The family truckster has been a station wagon for a few years now. We've been a one car family for eight years, which is pretty amazing considering that we've both been working for the past four or five of those years. So we finally got a second car for the family.
I now can choose between driving a station wagon or a minivan.
I am that guy.
posted by Kevlar Pinata @ 6:05 PM
13 comments
13 Comments:
say it ain't so!
no minivans! don't do it!
no wagons! unless it's a used saturn sw1 or sw2.
other than the mid-to-late-1990s saturns, no wagons can be driven.
and no suv's either.
don't do it!
i'm not sure what to tell you about your little pinitos. i guess...if you have to...i'd chose the wagon over the minivan.
i've driven all cars i've mentioned in this post. minivans, wagons, suv's and saturns.
don't do it kev.
i drive a saturn. i'm THAT guy.
Oh, you're waaaaaaaay too late on the wagon, my friend. I've been driving that bad boy for five years now. And, I must say, I really have liked it a lot. Subaru Legacy Outback Wagon. I'd buy another one in a heartbeat. Can you believe what a dweeb I am? A wagon! And I think I was actually cool for like ten minutes once.
I'm not much for the SUV sort of thing, although an Outback and a minivan aren't far off from SUVs, actually. They just get better mileage.
Am I cool if I play Lenny Kravitz really loud in my wagon and/or minivan?
I realize that my original post was unclear:
I have owned a wagon for five years and am keeping it.
I just bought a minivan.
I am that guy. You know, the guy who communicates in an unclear manner.
Wait a minute. I just re-read the initial post. (Skimming, unfortunately, has become my modus operandi, as I attempt to learn about SEVENTYHUNDRED kinds of validity for tomorrow's final. Fuck.)
So what you are saying is that you ALREADY OWN the minivan.
sigh
I support the Subaru Outback. As I was holding back an urge to tell you to buy a 1997 Saturn wagon (I know this is a disturbed argument) I was thinking, You know, those subarus aren't too bad.
So, fine. You've got a subaru. I approve.
But what you are saying is that the wagon is now yours, and it's filled with soccer balls and pinatitos. I approve of the pinatitos. Even the soccer balls, since your kids are, you know, eight, and they've got to do something.
Just tell me it's not gold.
(please not gold, please not gold, please not gold, please not gold)
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Nope. White. Toyota Siena.
It's really kind of fun - the kids were high-fiving each other when they got in, and that's nice. But the car handles nicely and seems to really, um, er, uh. zzzzzzzz zzzzzzzz zzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzz
Sorry. Fell asleep while posting about how exciting my minivan is. My white Toyota Siena.
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*grin*
Matt Lauer drives a minivan. Aggressively.
Hey now listen kids, can't we all just get along?
First of all, I am the proud driver of a ten-year-old Camry wagon, my second wagon (the first was an embarrassment of the highest proportions, a handmedown K-car, but still, it was handy, when it didn't stall out at intersections), and I will drive it into the ground, which, yes, may be soon, but still, wagons are so uncool that they're cool, Ted, do you see, you can throw anything into them and there is nothing cooler than being able to say you have a "way back", minivans, not so much, but the reason I don't want one is less that it's uncool than that they're just so damn big. Indeed, the word "minivan" has arisen in our home as a possible next car, a possible one-car replacement for our elderly F-150 and Camry wagon. In other words, my Ben would not be averse to driving a minivan. Is he cool? Yes. SUVs, now that's another story. BTW, Kev, both my dad and my bro (who has two kids who play soccer) have the Toyota Siena and have been very happy with them.
Second of all, nothing.
I regret that I may have suggested that my otherwise bulletproof aura of cool was singly pierced by the purchase of a minivan. To clarify: I am uncool for many, many reasons. In fact, because we're in an era in which hipster cool is largely defined through irony, I may be incredible cool simply because I own a wagon and a minivan.
Come to think of it, I am coolness personified. There are people cooler than I (William Shatner, for instance), but not many.
Matt Lauer is cooler than I am.
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OK.
I drove a red 1986 Dodge Caravan for 10 years. Drove that sucker DOWN. Believe you me, when you are 22 and living in New York and trying to pick up chicks, they want to see a red Caravan with tinted windows and a malfunctioning car alarm. And a moldy smell on the inside. That was a nice touch. Couldn't get that out. Years.
That minivan was named "Les", and Les served me very well as I moved from Chicago to Miami to New York to Chicago over an 8 year period. And then, alas, Les was no more.
Then I got the Saturn wagon, which to this day was the greatest car I ever drove. I mean I LOVED that car. Love. True love.
Then I got my egomobile in the form of a Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo. When I moved back to Chicago the second time, I drove it to my parents house. The next day, I drove the jeep to saturn and paid them $5,000 to take it off my hands and give me another saturn (sadly, not a wagon). That was the single greatest 5 grand I ever spent. To get rid of that moronic fuck choice for a car.
And then. Another saturn, that I still drive. Not a wagon, and I lament that. Getting rid of my 1997 saturn wagon was one of the more poignent days I've had.
Are we still awake?
Validity test in 46 minutes. I'd rather type about my boring cars.
I <3 Saturn Wagons
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