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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Axxel who wrote (14878)	11/20/1998 12:53:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Thanks for replying. But I didn't really see an answer to my question. Just this bit >that cannot organize their lives to such an extent that they seem to REQUIRE massive cars< which imho contains an unfair dismissal: an implication that big cars are a badge of sloppy living. We just completed a family vacation to a secluded mountain destination - four days, three nights. Spouse and I packed light - our stuff went into three grocery bag sized duffels. Our Honda Accord was creaking full however - it was the baby's stuff. Food. Diapers. Stroller and backpack. Blankets and a portable crib. Not a "Barney" or Playskool" indulgence in the lot. Baby survival gear for four days. And I would vigorously argue any claim of sloppiness or laziness in our selection and/or arrangement of items. The car just barely held stuff for three - for half a week. As for taking TWO cars - two problems, one aesthetic, one practical. Aesthetic: we'd pay gas and ownership twice over. Match or be worse than that "Montero going downhill". Practical: driving long stretches is bad enough. I consider driving in shifts essential to sanity and matrimony. Being full-time in one of two crates - minfding the road and my distance from the partner car - is more than I'll willingly take on. In the words of a very wise man, Harry Callahan: "A man's GOT to know his limitations!" So - if gas became $4 a gallon - I'd get the Suburban and take my licks at the pump. The extra space is not a luxury or an affectation. It is a genuine requirement. (Mind you - as soon as my family outgrew those godawful plastic tortoiseshells and the diaper bags - I'd flip the 'Burb for say a Taurus or a minivan in a heartbeat!)