Due to an incident a few weeks back involving a parking lot and some ice, my little Sentra is in the body shop. My insurance company does provide a rental car, and I somehow got this sweet ride of a Mini Van. I have been driving this monster around all week, struggling to park and loving every minute of it for this simple and sad reason. It has a CD player and a TAPE DECK!
There were three tapes I remember from the 5th to 6th grade time range in my life that I just could not get enough of:
Tears for Fear (the Infamous tale of this tape still lives in Baldwin folklore, and would need its own entry!)
Culture Club
The Jets
Well, at this time, only the The Jets is available to me, I somehow uncovered it when I moved last June. I cannot even believe how strange it is that every single cheesy lyric has come right back to me. It is like no time has passed at all. Driving around in that Mini Van, singing my heart out to this tape just takes me right back to 6th grade. Like it was yesterday my parents took Teri and I to the State Fair to hear them play live, and I was bitter for a few hours because she caught one of their guitar picks and I didn’t! Those were simpler times and life was really, really good. Dark times were ahead, but I didn’t even know it at the time!
At any rate, my week of cruising around in a Soccer Moms dream is over, and the Van is going back tonight. I won’t miss parking it one bit, but I will miss the revisit to 6th grade!
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I'll never forget my first ride in that sweet mini van!
Oh man. It would have been so cool to cruise to lunch in. Did it have wood paneling?
little pissed off at not being invited to you and Amanda's "if the van's a rockin, don't come a knockin" party. Bitches.
Secondly, the mini van, in all it's glory (and your excitement about driving it), was a high point in an otherwise lackluster week. Three cheers for silver, soccer-mom spaceships and the women who drive them.
Hip, hip?
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