It's a Jeep thing

We have a Jeep. 

If you live in our area and you see a black Jeep with a Ford emblem on the back of it, yes, that would be ours. Please don't flip me off or look at me funny. My husband's humor. My husband's humor also has a vinyl on the passenger side dashboard that says, Get in, sit down, shut up and hang on.  But that's another story, and one that has to be told person to person because there shall be no written evidence about it. That's a rule. 

Anyay, so we have this Jeep. The same Jeep that left me vehicle-less for months a couple years ago because getting a new engine put in it took more time and more money than it should have. 

This same Jeep currently has no heat. Or defrost. And it's been COLD lately.  

Since I don't go out much anyway, or I walk to work (and we have Allan's car in the driveway now too, if needed) - my husband has been taking the heated vehicle to work on the really cold days. 

And to church. Like yesterday. Because between church and Sunday school, he and the kids sit in the van - and because if he's not teaching, he sits in the van then too and reads the Sunday paper. So it makes sense. 

So, by default, I took the Jeep to church yesterday. It was 2 degrees outside.

Church is not very far now (which I LOVE) and yesterday - I laughed the whole way there. My thoughts were along the lines of - some people have NO idea how the other half lives. 

To begin with, I had to scrape off the entire inside of the windshield with my Speedy Rewards card, because it was frozen, and visibility is necessary when driving even short distances.

Then I had to run back into the house and find a pair of mittens, because the steering wheel was too cold to touch. 

THEN - as I was sipping coffee out of my travel mug, to help keep me warm - I found that if I let more than 10 seconds go between sips - the remains of my last sip was frozen onto the rim. I'm not even kidding. 

I was shaking my head and laughing the whole way to service. 

Should we get rid of the Jeep? In my opinion - yes. 
But we won't. Because it's a Jeep thing, and I don't understand.

But I laugh.

It makes my husband happy, so it's worth keeping.  

(and he's calling today about bringing it in and getting it flushed. While flushing himself has worked temporarily for years, it no longer does the trick) 

Comments

[JP]

Sometimes I wonder if I was actually born in the Motorcity. Sat for quite a while with your first few sentences wondering why someone would flip you off in your black, Ford Jeep! What's the biggie...quite a while I tell ya. And even now, while tempted, I refuse to google, "Does Ford make Jeeps?" . . .O.K., fine I couldn't resist, guess what . . . "Willys-Overland and Ford built "jeeps" for WWII. So unless your father is stuck in the early 1940s Ford no longer makes a jeep. Jeep has been owned by Willys (1941), Kaiser (1953), AMC (1970) and now Chrysler (since 1987)." AND, glad you were able to laugh about your drive! (-:

[Barb]

Impressed here, too, that you could laugh.

[Mindijo]

This made me giggle. Love your thoughts on the way to church. Love that you can appreciate the humor in it. Kind of how Zane and I laugh and laugh about his ugly green truck he paid cash for, TEN YEARS AGO. It's gotten us miles of smiles. Especially when some of our neighbors here drive BMW's and such. HA! Sorry, guys. We just lowered your coolness factor. You are welcome.

[Ann Bimberg]

Just a handy tip....those pan scrapers from pampered chef? work excellent on car ice on windows.

[Selma]

Glad to hear that I'm not the only one using a "rewards" card to scrape my windows....only the outside though. I live in the Pacific NorthWET so don't get much freezing weather. In fact, if someone sees more than one snowflake, it's a blizzard!