Comments on: Get your motor running

By: Lesley

Lesley — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:36:15 +0000

notice it’s the people who were kids in those good old days, driving their parents nuts from the back seat. I’m pretty sure we drove my mom crazy with our back seat snivelling, whining, fighting and endless repeats of “are we there yet?” Occasionally we’d break into some monotonous song. She was pretty good natured but if DVDs had existed in those days I’m thinking she would have gone for them.

By: Shawna

Shawna — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:46:05 +0000

Yeah, PD has some special people who comment. I can’t cast stones though, ’cause my workplace firewalls out this site but not PD so I have to spend a lot of time there if I want to read Sundry’s writing during my downtime during the workday. So yes, I’m finding myself commenting. I hope to hell I’m not one of those sanctimonious dicktowels though.

By: Bitter Betty

Bitter Betty — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:02:41 +0000

Dude. I wouldn’t want to drive 7 consecutive hours in a car even if George Clooney’s head was in my lap and Dr. McDreamy was feeding me Hershey kisses from his own mouth.

May God be with you all.

By: ELC

ELC — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:45:06 +0000

I am so glad I finally found you here! Your Parentdish posts are great, but I knew there were more somewhere…Anyway, as far as bringing the dog on the roadtrip, have you looked for any dog-sitters in your area? My dog hates kennels, especially now that she’s older (I actually sent her to one where you could go online and view the play-yard live to see what kind of a time your dog was having while you were away – and she was sulking forlornly in the corner – which DID NOT “allow me to rest assured” as the brochure promised.
Now I’ve got a woman who comes over twice a day for 1/2 hour a time and feeds & walks her. It’s more attention than WE give her these days (5 month old baby), and she can spend her days doing what she normally would – sleep on all the furniture she’s not allowed on. Typically, these sitters will do up to 3 pets for a flat rate of $15-20 a visit, which is less than the price of the doggie-cam kennel. Good luck whatever you do!

By: willikat

willikat — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:25:57 +0000

gave you a blog of excellence award over on my blog.

By: andi

andi — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:20:15 +0000

I’m having a panic attack just reading about that trip. And doing it without a DVD player would just be pure masochism.

I really must try this power-worrying. My question is, though, will it burn off a pint of ice-cream?

By: thejunebug

thejunebug — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:05:46 +0000

I know you’re not looking forward to the drive down, but I’m so jealous! My sister lives in Eugene and I just saw her for the first time in 7 years last week when she came to visit. I miss her terribly already.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:17:06 +0000

I wish we’d had a dvd player in the old suburban during road trips when we were little! Our sole form of entertainment was watching my dad give the finger to passers-by during his frequent stops to pee … on the side of the road.

I hope you’ll still post while you’re away!

By: clarabella

clarabella — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:48:50 +0000

sorry my links went all wonky on my comment. i should’ve embedded them. i feel bad.

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:12:24 +0000

Fuck the DVDs try Benadryl. We have traveled all over the world and when our kids were young we gave them Benadryl to get over the hump.