Today my daughter and I each had hair appointments. this was Caroline's first official hair salon appointment and she was excited. On the way home, we had a very interesting conversation about holiday travel. It was about 3:00 pm and as I traveled along Interstate 75, I was reminded of all the Thanksgivings my family piled into the car and headed north to Chickasha, Oklahoma to visit the grandparents.
I told Caroline that, and mentioned that on a normal day it would take us about 2 1/2 hours to go from our house to my grandparents house (that's 5 Backyardigans episodes I told her). She was amazed at that, and was equally if not more amazed at the fact that on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving if we didn't get out of town at lunch time, it would often take us 4 -5 hours to drive the same distance.
What was really hard for her to understand was the fact that "back then" we didn't have the entertainment system in the car that she and her brother enjoy today. She wanted to know what we did during that time, and I couldn't really tell her. I honestly couldn't remember. but I do know we probably drove my parents nuts or came really, really dangerously close.
My grandparents have since passed so we stay in town for Thanksgiving now, and after driving home in the traffic I did today (a trip that normally should have taken 20 minutes took 45) I gained a new respect for my parents. I couldn't imagine taking that trip with my kids without the movie playing in the back.
I think the person who invented the in car movie system must have had to drive in a similar situation with their kids. After all, isn't invention the mother of necessity?
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I can tell you what you did if you were in my family car....you kept your mouth shut!! All of our family lived here growing up but I remember car trips.....lay low! Occassionally we still got into it over the arm rest. MOOOMMMMM Dana is hogging the arm rest.
Car trips did not happen for the most part until we were a bit older and could entertain ourselves with music or early edition video hand held games. Other than that there was the licence plate game.
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