My boyfriend and I have four kids between us. I affectionately refer to them as our “two sets of twins.” The reason – we have two girls who are both 11 and two boys who are 7. I know weird, huh?! Anyway, the girls get along great…but they are LOUD. And I mean really loud. The boys get along a lot of the time, but also fight, too, because well…they’re 7-year-old boys. Now imagine all of them and us in my Honda Pilot traveling four hours for a short camping trip. Ten minutes in I wanted to cry.
Don’t touch me. Stop touching me. Leave me alone. You are so gross. Do not touch me. Dad! Mom!
That’s when we decided that something is missing in the design of all vehicles that seat more than 5 people – a sliding glass panel between the front seat of the car and the rest of it. You know similar to the glass panel that closes in a limo. What parent wouldn’t love that??? Go ahead kids, scream all you want, we can’t hear you. I’ll turn the volume up on the CD we made so you can scream the lyrics to "Somebody Call 911" (yeah, I'm about to call 911). Sure no problem because I can’t hear you anyway.
WHY I ask is that not an option when you’re buying the car? I mean, Honda, really, a sunroof is great, but I’d much rather have a sound-proof divider! I'd go with clear, though, so I could look back from time to time and make sure no one was choking or killing each other in the car, but I wouldn’t have to HEAR it.
Who's with me here?
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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