Now, some back story. As you may know from reading my blog I have been having some car drama in my household. As a result of circumstances relating to that we were not able to drive TC (my 2000 Chrysler Town & Country) because he is still insisting on carrying on an affair with our mechanic. Now I was willing to swallow my pride and let TC have his little tete-a-tete with the mechanic so that we could drive TC to Ohio, but my husband said no. Not because he was protecting my virtue with TC but because he was adamant that we drive the Mountain,(2002 Lincoln Mercury Mountaineer), cross country and not TC, because the Mountain has AWD . My kids and I didn’t care about AWD (All Wheel drive). All we cared about was that the Mountain doesn’t have seats that recline, and there isn’t nearly enough storage space in the trunk area. We always feel jammed up and irritable traveling long distances in the Mountain. Which was again the case Wednesday evening.
The kids were tired and wanted to go to sleep but couldn’t find a way to do that comfortably, so instead they decided to chew on each other, and bicker like no one’s business. That is until the weather turned. The Sky turned menacingly dark, thunder started to rumble and lightning began to crack. Then… the rain. Not just drops, sheets of it, all around us. We couldn’t see 50 feet in front of us. It was terrifying. My husband positioned himself behind a truck at some point just so he could have the trucks lights as a point of reference, but it was hard to keep up with it as it was speeding down the highway. My husband was sitting as close to the windshield as he could, with a death grip on the steering wheel. He was eerily calm and focused. The rain just kept pouring, punctuated by the sizzle of the lightning which seemed to appear at every corner of the sky. we could feel the wind pushing against our SUV. My husband guided us through the nightmare with patience and determination. The kids and I were collectively holding our breaths, desperate for the end of this dark tunnel of weather.
Finally… there was light. The clouds moved beyond us and we were able to exhale our anxiety. Shortly thereafter we pulled into a gas station to fill up and stretch our knotted legs. Before my husband got out of the car he said to me, “That is why we are driving this car, because it has AWD (All Wheel Drive). There is a difference between feeling scared and feeling out of control. I was definitely scared, but with the AWD I never felt out of control.” Lesson learned. Cramped legs be darned, give me AWD from now on!
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