Tiggerlane is in charge of this week’s Fun Monday, and here was her assignment:

I wanna see your CAR! It can
be your current car, the first car you ever had, maybe your first new
car with that new-car smell, a car you wrecked once, or even the dream
car you would drive – given all the money in the world! Oh – and if you
have a truck, SUV, lawnmower, whatever the local authorities allow you
to drive, let’s see it!

I told her I didn’t like this theme, but when all was said and done, I had fun with it in spite of my camera battery dying RIGHT when I tried to take the first photograph and the longer-than-I-would’ve- liked-it time frame it took me to locate an old photo!

This is my current car v a n.  Sexy isn’t it? 

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Here’s an inside shot…at least I’m past the stage of ground-in Cheerios….

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On the console between the seats, you will always find a "car" book, waterbottle…and usually receipts or trash.  Sometimes change.  On happy days, chocolate 🙂 (on the happiest of days, UNMELTED chocolate).  Underneath, is where I USED to "h i d e" my pocketbook before my car was broken into :/.  Now, I’m a stinkin’ slave to my purse and I have to carry it everywhere.  The thieves stole more than my purse….

B u t……..if I could have a car that was just my own without regard for kids or practicality, what would it be?  I wouldn’t want extravagant…or even brand new…

Okay, not able to TOTALLY divorce myself from practicality and my concern for all things green, I might get one of these.  This commercial was totally offbeat to me, but Kermit makes me smile and with the price of gas these days, seems like a good choice.   


Of course, then there’s the sportier side of me–the wildchild wannabe–and these fun little rides would do the trick…

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Okay, so they aren’t so wild, but I’ll NEVER be a biker chick…it’s just not how I’m wired (I saw a guy get hit on a motorcycle when I was a teen, he flew over a windshield :/…enough to seal the deal for me).

One of my best friend’s dad back in highschool had one of these…the nostalgia in me would love to have one to re-live those glory days….  "….that’s when a smoke was a smoke/and groovin was groovin/and dancin was everything/we were young and we were improving/laughin laughin with our friends/holdin hands meant somethin, baby…"  ** sigh **
 

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The more (ahem) adult version of me would want one of these…I guess it’s the "safety girl" in me…closest I’d ever get to driving an armored vehicle…

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Which reminds me, here’s a vehicle I will N.E.V.E.R. own (never) (nope, never, not even if I won one on a game show)….it just r e e k s of "overcompensation" for some kind of "inadequacies"…that’s all I’m sayin’…you’re welcome to infer whatever you’d like…:

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Last, after looking through a mile-high stack of old pictures that have yet to be sorted, I found this in a whole ‘nother stack (hehe).  It’s a picture of me washing my first car, a 1981 (?) Cutlass Supreme…I LOVED that car, she served me well through college, working in Atlanta, and shortly into marriage a few years later.  I’m not sure if I was doing this in the picture, but for a while I would wash it with a TOOTHBRUSH!  Not all over, but to get those places and spots that wouldn’t come off easily with a chamois.  This is a perfect example of "take a picture, it’ll last longer" because I promise you this, THAT was VERY short-lived!

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Be sure to visit
Tiggerlane to see everyone else’s rides du jour :).

 

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