Maybe A Minivan Isn't Such A Bad Idea

Ha! Shoot me if I ever mumble those words again because my next MOMobile will be an SUV of some sorts.  I have some kind of status to uphold you know?  But after the nightmare I have had with a baby in a carseat, a 60 lb. diaper bag, manuvering in and out of a truck with a third door in the pouring rain, the van's looking pretty good right about now.


Scenario 1:  Wal-Mart parking lot.  I have 2 options:  Park 2 miles away to make opening the third door easier and avoid hitting the adjacent car with the carseat and "run" (if that's actually possible to do while carrying all that crap) in the rain to the door or park closer to the door, stand in the rain with the driver's door open and rain pouring all over the inside of the truck and myself while I get the carseat out and move both doors back and forth 5 times to ease out between them and the car next to me and hope no one is sitting in it when I bang the carseat and/or diaper bag into it during the fury.

Scenario 2:  Raining, again.  Eye doctor appointment.  Only option:  Park next to the Mustang with the driver still sitting in it watching me and laughing while I repeat what has happened above.  I don't have the option of parking far away.  So, sorry Mustang driver for accidentally banging my child's carseat into the side of your door (that's what you get for laughing, jackhole).  And sorry Elise that you have to get soaking wet.  If you could babysit yourself you could stay at home and be dry.  Everyone loses.