Comments on: Minor Annoyances and XM Comedy

By: Sally

Sally — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:15:30 +0000

I can beat your 45mph uphill in a toyota with a semi. Try downhill in a Voyager 4 cyl with 6 girl scouts inside and a semi behind you, I mean filling your whole rear view mirror! I was terrified!

By: EJ

EJ — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:17:25 +0000

Yeah, that thing topped out right around 45 miles per hour when packed with the stuff from my dorm room. 45 is great when you’re going uphill with a semi behind you.

By: Ana

Ana — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:04:27 +0000

I just have to say that I am glad there are others out there who share my frustrations. Thanks for the support!

Kate, try to convince Cameron to get a Toyota. They get great gas mileage and are pretty safe (and slow – just ask Eric). Oh yeah, tell him Eric had one and he’ll change is mind. I got to drive it for a little while too if that helps.

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:37:50 +0000

I retract my XM comment for Eric, I thought Eric wrote this blog.

Kate- I think it is the italian in us??

By: Jan (aka...Aunt Jan)

Jan (aka...Aunt Jan) — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:41:23 +0000

Let me blow some steam off too!!
Seems to me if Daddy and Mommy would spend more (quality) time with taking an interest in the kids education as much as they do in getting the expensive status symbol for their kid to drive to school, we wouldn’t have to need this x###XX#X# NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND crap invented by our dearest commander and chief! (just had another run in with that blasted law this morning!)
We had a student last year at the high school-his Daddy bought him a Hummer….a fricken Hummer!…he parked the thing out on the edge of the parking lot so the thing would get hit by another student! I see it daily….you just have to shake your head in bewilderment!
Thanks Ana….I needed to vent at something!!

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:08:40 +0000

okay, the smiley is supposed to be the number eight!

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:08:15 +0000

Do you Restrepo girls have anger issues? Cameron (who is is already saving for a “small, slow, blue SUV”.

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:02:13 +0000

As far as XM, you have it in the house too!! No excuses Mr. Johnson.

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:01:23 +0000

So this is a good day to rant about things!! I am going to add to this!!

As far as the double doors!! AMEN BROTHER!! I am surely the best and most laughed at when it comes to those doors that don’t open on the other side. TRULY GET RID OF THOSE DOORS!! People can’t read or don’t want to stop outside of a door to read a note. Please!!

The car thing and kids- Give them a POS!! I guarntee they won’t want to go out because they don’t want to be seen in it, they just want to get where they have to go and get back.
Classic Example- Dad buying us a car that was just as old as us 1978 Pontiac Pheonix, sky blue!! (it did get us where we needed to go and it least it was a gas hog.) (so in the end, GO DAD!!)

The other thing, is why are these parents buying these way too nice car for kids when (70%?) wreck in the first year of driving and insurance can not be cheaper on that new of a car.
The last thing is, living in Southern Indiana, they give their kids, gas hogging, trucks!! Who is paying for this gas?? Not the kids I am sure, How do the parents afford this?? I have seen 3/4 to 1 ton diesel trucks sitting in school lots. IT IS $4.30 a gallon!! They get 5-6 mpg. CRAZY!!

Thanks for reading!!

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:27:40 +0000

Ok…cut back on the coffee…