The Return of the Minivan

I finally got another minivan. I kinda-sorta lost mine in the last kinda-sorta divorce. It’s a long story. You’d be bored.

I’m going to tell it anyway. I’ll try for the condensed version.

I divorced my ex-husband in 2001…I think. Well, I know I divorced him, I’m just not sure on the year. Anyway, we got back together a year after that.

 

Then we got a minivan…a Chevy Venture. I loved that van. It was great on trips to New York to visit my parents. One kid sat in one row, the other one sat in another row. We didn’t have to hear, “Stop touching me!” or “Get your stuff off my side!” or “Mo-o-om…he’s drooling on me!”. It was a lovely thing and everyone survived the trip and no one got left behind in Pennsylvania. Good times were had by all.

 

Anyway, the sequel to the relationship wasn’t much better than the original version, and we ended it…again.

 

I kept the van. I still loved that van.

 

Then he ended up remarrying. He married his first love and high school sweetheart. It’s a cool story, but I’m not going to tell it here. I promised the condensed version.

 

His second wife has two daughters. He has custody of our two sons (another story, but if you want some insight into it, you can find it here). With four kids, they needed the van more than I did.  So we traded…I gave them the van and I took his wife’s car.

 

The car ended up dying on me, so it was time to get a new one. My significant other bought us a Chevy Uplander. It looks just like the one on the picture. It took some convincing to talk him into a van. He’s old school…cars should be cool. They should make a statement and he thought a van stated, “I’m not cool”.

 

I finally won him over when I told him no guy in his right mind would hit on me in a minivan.

 

So I am now the proud driver of a Chevy Uplander. It’s even better than the Venture. It has a DVD player. My boys love it. It’s so cute to glance in the rearview mirror and see their faces glued to yet another television screen. It does keep them quiet, though.

 

Sigh…I love that van.

 

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