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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

The Birth of a New Englander

I have always considered the car to be my friend. When I was growing up, many of my relatives lived anywhere from 2-4 hours away, one of our favorite summer vacation spots was an 8 hour drive, and even heading into Chicago was at around an hour from our North Shore suburb. The Big Giraffe apparently also spent many a day riding in the car. It never seemed like a big deal. I find many of my New England friends have a different perspective as to what makes something a long distance. No doubt the pervasive construction and the inability to "get theah from heah" stretch the miles. However, I know many people who consider a drive of two towns to be a roadtrip and others who consider family members far away if it takes more than a half hour to get to them.

Fortunately, our boys seem to have either inherited the roadtrip gene or gotten used to being strapped into a carseat. For the most part always been good in the car. Hmm...on second thought...Well, we did have a stint where I drove like a crazy lady by pulling over several times while driving on Route 9 because I had to repeatedly administer timeouts to stop OS from performing something called "Mommycise." Since that stage ended, things have been pretty peaceful. We have never really heard "Are we there yet?" In fact we prided ourselves on the fact that we could drive several hours in a row without DVDs or special kid CDs.

Recently though we've noticed a difference. To be specific, OS has started complaining about how long a trip is taking...after only twenty or thirty minutes. I couldn't figure out what the big deal is. Then I realized what the Big Giraffe and I were witnessing: the birth of a New Englander!

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: The length of the drive is based on the perception of the passenger.

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 8:04 PM   2 comments
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  • At 11/13/2009 10:06 AM, Blogger Whirlwind said…

    My girls complain about time spent in a car as well. In fact the other day, Meenie was telling me her trip from our home to the corn maze was like 2 hours long (it was, in reality 15 minutes). Einey piped in with, yeah well my trip to the ecotarium took alllll day (which you know, 30 minutes, all day, same thing, right?). I guess maybe that's our problem? They are born and bred nth generation New Englanders. It's in their blood.

     

  • At 11/16/2009 7:40 AM, Blogger Goofball said…

    maybe he's a Belgian....1h drive is far away here as well. You can maximum drive 3 hours without leaving the country :p

     
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