Don't worry. I will strap him in tight and then use the "alternative" route back from daycare.
maybe a detour
While car shopping, my little one loved playing with the steering wheel of the showroom car. Then he found the horn, YAY! When we had to get our eardrums back, he was crawling between the wheels ... checking them and then reassessing him. Then he got under the car (don't worry, we were supervising him and I might have crawled under there with him during the paperwork wait time). I am brainwashing him to be a carguy.
Thanks for the support. (Just don't jump into a lake, it could scare the fish. They can't close their eyes to the horror.) The great thing about vehicles is that there is a lot of choice and a lot of different preferences. There is no "one-size fits all". Some people plan their vehicle purchases for the 1% of the most extreme cases and other plan for the 99%. Others go 50/50 or 70/30. My wife is a 1% buyer and I am a 90-ish percent buyer. I thought this was a 60/40 choice. Buy what you want with what you can afford. If you want the family hauler, fine. If you want the Jeep for urban commuting, fine. Only 2 wheels and wearing leathers in a July. OK. A big, loud cruiser financed now by the Italians, built on 20ya a German platform, using Detroit marketing... HEMI! (Mopar for "fine"). Faux-wood sided PT cruiser with the 3-speed auto (ok, somethings are never ok). No one car or type of car works for all. I know that cars in some folk's sigs are cars that others will never consider (fine!). There are some cars I love but would never own. Example: Challenger. My neighbor owns two (orange and purple... epic) and even have a modern Shelby GT500 down the road. Plenty of commuter civics too.
Some folks view a car only as a tool, or an appliance, or something else. For me (and a lot of others), it is one of my two hobbies (if you don't count running). After a long day, my wife can tell which car I took to work. Driving a car I like to drive is my zen moment. I talk cars, breath cars, scour the internet for cars, even discuss cars in the background of movies/tv. Finally, I convinced four bearded Professors (awkward because one was female) that they would let me look at cars for my PhD and then write about it. It worked. I think being able to drive this and afford it is a reward. No tickets and nearly no accidents (got rear-ended once while stopped in front of a grocery store. Nice girl hit me and freaked out... only cracked a bumper... DON"T TEXT AND DRIVE!). So why not. It has four seats, seatbelts, and airbags. Heck it has one of those "trunk" thingie in the back for "stuff".
