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Southern California road rage, or, “Mommy,what’s a jackass?”

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Okay, so today, I had a mini road-rage episode.  Due to some super-human self-restraint, I didn’t side-swipe the other car or even give them a little love tap on the back bumper.  Or shoot them with an Uzi.  But I did flip them the bird. 
Which, depending on who you are, doesn’t sound all that bad—except that my 4-yr-old son was [...]

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Posted in cars, family life, kids on Mar 18th, 2008, 10:41 pm by houndrat  2 comments   

The Red Rocket

Friday, January 11, 2008

We have a car, sitting idly in front of our home, that my husband fondly refers to as ”The Red Rocket”. 
Me?  I fondly refer to it as “The Red-piece-of-shit-that-my-pragmatically-challenged-husband-paid-$1100-for-against-my-explicit-instructions-and-look-I-was-right-the-damn-crappy-thing-doesn’t-work Car”.
The Red Rocket.  A poetic and fitting name for, say, a corvette or maybe a classic 70’s muscle car. Heck, it would even be marginally appropriate if we had an Eclipse.  Or possibly a [...]

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Posted in cars, husbands on Jan 11th, 2008, 10:20 pm by houndrat  1 comment