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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Minivan is totally practical.  I wish I'd gotten one years earlier.

If you're just opposed out of some vain sense that you're too cool for a minivan, then you should get over yourself and grow up.  If you've got some practical reason why it won't work, then you can try selling that to your DH (but know that the reasons in your OP don't really seem very persuasive).  If you truly will hate every minute of it, and won't ever drive the thing, out of some irrational aversion, then I guess you need to admit to your husband that you have an irrational aversion, and try to find some alternative.[/quote]

Just because you feel a minivan is practical doesn't mean the OP or anyone else has to drive one!  She's not vain, immature, or have an irrational aversion just because she doesn't want to drive a minivan.

I hate them as well for many reasons, one being the look of the car, so I don't drive one.  My SIL angrily said to me several years ago, "you'll be driving one soon enough as well.  Once that 2nd baby is born."  Guess what? NO MINIVAN in my driveway yet and #2 is 3 yo!!  It's a personal choice and if the OP doesn't like driving them, no matter what the reason, then she shouldn't have to drive one.

You sound bitter because you were told they are practical and you must have one as a mommy!  Just because you follow the herd doesn't mean OP has to.[/quote]

Grown-ass people who are scared of minivans for aesthetic reasons are pretty sad.  "Minivan uncool!  SUV?  Cool!"  It's like the bloated, wrinkly Baby Boomer who wears tight jeans and can decide whether the Grateful Dead or Janis Joplin is coolest.  Most successful, educated people under 40 think that cars are a tool--a necessary evil.  The idea that it's some sort of signaling device to tell the world how special and unconventional you are is a pathetic remnant of a by-gone age.[/quote]

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