The Triumphant Return of My Man Card: 5 Years in the Making! Written by Donovan

Disclaimer: For those of you who are easily confused with the terms K&N intakes, glocks, or ice-ing the kicker, this post may require the assistance of someone who carries a y-chrome.

When we moved to Arizona from Hawaii after I had graduated from college, KT (who had spent some time in sales as a telemarketer and was actually pretty successful at selling windshields to complete strangers over the phone ) sold me on the idea of buying a Minivan. We had saved a little money during college and decided to pay cash for a used minivan once we arrived in AZ.

After a year, we realized that we needed another car so that KT could get around during the day and didn't have to be confined to our apartment. At this point KT had really fallen in love with the Honda Odyssey and suggested that we should buy a newer one for her to drive and we could trade in our old minivan for a car for me. Well, as it turned out we found another Honda Odyssey that was newer and had the features we were looking for in a family car however, we decided to just hang on to my van (probably because it was paid for and still running and thought why don't we just be content with what we have).

So yes! We did drive two minivans, both Honda Odysseys for a time... there is a season in everyone's life for certain things... and this happened to be that time for us. Let's just say I am glad we have moved on from that and have found a better place.

Fast forward to January 6, 2009. My minivan, now 15 years old, had been in and out of the shop a handful of times within the last 9 months; each time requiring a pretty significant drop of cash; something we didn't want to do for an aging minivan. As I was driving home from work, it cuts out and I end up rolling it into the BevMo parking lot by my house. After numerous attempts, the van would not start. It was at this point that I literally threw in the towel - there was actually a towel in the van that I had used to wipe up the leaking oil and coolant. I called KT to come pick me up and she tells me, "Can you just walk home?" I know what you all are thinking... total shocker coming from KT, right??! Anyways, I leave the van behind and with it whatever amount of pride I had left after 5 years of driving the soccer moms' dream car! The next day I take off from work and, after running some errands, went looking for my man card!

The good news is my man card comes with a Hemi, is off-road ready (4x4) and is fully piped and chipped (you'll have to ask your hubby what all these terms mean e.g. Hemi, piped, glock, etc. ). The bad news is that my minivan is still sitting at BevMo until it gets towed. But hey, I have a truck-truck now so I can tow that anytime I want.

So it's been has been fun going from one end of the spectrum to the other (minivan to truck)! I will say that I never had to worry about locking the doors to my minivan - I mean no one would steal it; even if they were desperate.


So here's to the last 5 years of having my man card checked and getting it back! Here's to V8s and sawzalls. Here's to Zyobi cordlesses and ---Oh wait --- KT's calling me to come do the dishes. "I'll be right there, Honey!" I better go before she realizes that I posted this on her blog! C-ya!