Tue 1 Jul 2008
A little more than two years ago, I bought a 2000 Toyota Corolla VE. My older son, used to naming the cars in his life; the last one was Silverbird (a Ford Taurus SHO); thought up the perfect (read ironic) name for the family sedan : Blue Thunder”.
It has overtones of Greased Lightning or The Batmobile, so we went with it. The car has served us very well over the last couple of years, flawlessly in fact but with two kids and a new law mandating carseats for older children (12 years is it) we had to get a bigger car.
Today, I sold the Corolla. It is a clean little car and I got $750.0 less than I paid for it almost three years ago. I am pretty pleased. It took one day to sell and was one of the higher priced listings on Craigslist for that year. Ode to Corolla. May your tires never flatten and your AC never discharge. May the roads before you open up and may iced cream never be pushed into your fabrics. BANZAI!
Booster seats until 9 years or 4′9″, whichever comes first.
With my sister… I’m willing to bet that 4′9″ will come first. She’s a tall one.
I think it is a racket! There are no differences to the fatality rates for this age group vs seatbelts and the injury rates are only a little more. It is just another excuse for the heartless to look warm and cuddly and to make us spend cash we should’t need to spend.
I am going to make my kids grow faster to skip this step. Strech ‘em maybe.
Feed ‘em chicken! All the hormones should make them 6′ by the time they’re 7, right?
Of course your own sister might fall under the 4′9″ category…. btw, isn’t your country metric??