Thursday, April 29, 2010

Ajar

Our van is quirky. A nice way of saying run down, I guess. So many things wrong with it, so little time. While driving Josh to school this morning the door ajar light kept flashing and the locks kept locking and there was a constant dinging sound. Josh reshut his door. I did the same. More flashing, locking and dinging. We couldn't stop laughing. I am so glad Joshua had a good time. He said it was like riding a pinball machine to school.

11 comments:

Keithslady said...

Ours has 230+ miles on it and we're willing it to make it until Troy is out of the house. I'm pushing him to early graduation...

Keithslady said...

Oh man! (as Gabe would say) I forgot the zeros. Make that 230,000+ miles!

Henrietta G. Tavish said...

If your door was a jar no wonder it made funny sounds. You're lucky it didn't shatter.

Carla said...

That is a whole lotta mileage going on, keithslady!!

Henrietta,
I am very lucky. Indeed.

Janet said...

Ford Windstar?

Carla said...

Dodge Grand Caravan

Karla with a K said...

omg, Grand Caravan? Do you have any hubcaps left? I have 2 friends in town with a hunter green Caravan (not the Grand, though), and they both have missing hubcaps.

That's how we ride em too - till they're dead. One of our funniest vacations was in our old white Astrovan when we decided to drive south a few states - in July or August - with broken air conditioning. Mark went out and spent $20 on battery operated fans for each passenger. We never willingly spent more time in highway rest stops than that vacation. (I mean even the ones in NJ! (sorry to any NJ readers.))

Carla, I think Peter would have enjoyed that ride same as Josh did. "pinball machine" - love it.

Lauren said...

I had a car once that the switch in the door that triggered the dinging and the dome light to come on was jiggly.
I just turned the radio up...

I feel your pain. :)

Carla said...

We get AM radio all the time, FM occasionally and the tape player is full of dimes.

Oh the joys.

Carla said...

We do have all of the hubcaps. No little door over the gas cap though. I think that was my fault. Oh, and Sarah grabbed one of those wire flags out of the grass and scratched the van all up good.

M Hastings said...

You know what, though? That's the sort of vehicle you miss later on simply for the memories it provided.

Of course, it's always nice to have a van that works consistently without yelling at you for one thing or another ;)