We bought it.
2005 Honda Odyssey, 86K miles, leather, 1,839 cup holders and a kickin’ Audiovox DVD player. Got a great deal…they threw in a big bag of soccer balls to help sweeten the pot. I wish I was joking.
Some of you are sitting there, nodding vigorously, saying that we should have done it long ago. Some of you have lost whatever faith in us you were still clinging to.
I gotta say, though, we dig it. Nothing against other vans, but driving an Odyssey makes me feel like I did in 7th grade when I came to school after Christmas break wearing my new Atlanta Falcons Starter jacket. Cool. OK, cool-ish (look, Eastbay was out of the Raiders, Michigan and the Bulls). Granted, people had been wearing those jackets since 5th grade, and I was only catching the tail end of the fad, but you get my drift (same thing happened with me with the Larry Johnson Cons with the yellow gel in the back — thanks, Mom, there’s a reason that stuff was on sale).
There are half a million buttons on the dash, the DVD screen is bigger than what I had in my college dorm and the leather…oooooh, the leather. On top of all of this, you could fit the entire UNC basketball team in this thing, or, roughly 3.7 Fehlings.
Wish us luck. Oh, and for Christmas, if you could send us one of those back windshield sticker sets with the caricatures of the dad, mom and 45 kids (just to be on the safe side), that would be great.
