Stick Shift In Your Mom Mobile = Not Cool

This is actually a pretty funny story. My sister-in-law has decided that her 7-year-old sporty little Acura is not a good car to be carting around a toddler, so after much research they have decide to get a Subaru Forester. That's cool, nice choice for a mom car. Now here's the funny part. She and my brother-in-law have decided to special order a new 2009 model so they can get a Manual Transmission and a bunch of other cool extras like a moon roof. HELLO...SUV + Toddler + Stick Shift = Big Pain In The Ass!

I tried unsuccessfully to explain that having a toddler requires you to have one hand for driving and the other hand free for retrieving lost toys, handing out juice, breaking up fights, etc. So I asked the obvious question: Why! Her answer is that you get better performance from a manual transmission and that it's more fun to drive...yeah maybe on the Autobahn in a Ferrari, but certainly not in a SUV. Oops..It's not an SUV, it's a "Crossover" vehicle or so I've been told.

Anyway, we got a good laugh at their naivety. Their child is an infant and they still have delusions of grandeur for a cool car. Little do they know that their pristine, high performance SUV...err Crossover vehicle is going to be transformed into a trash can on wheels complete with McDonald's wrappers, Blue Slurpy stains and nasty smells quicker they you can say "Farfegnugen"...because as all moms know, driving with a toddler does not = "Driving Pleasure"!