In No Particular Order
20 things more fun than dealing with a child in the throes of a screaming fit in the backseat of a car:
1. driving through Chicago during rush hour
2. screeching nails on a chalkboard
3. trying to find pants that fit
4. explaining why girls have girl parts and boys have boy parts to a 5 year old
5. the swine flu
6. waking up at 6 a.m.
7. running out of Skittles
8. peeing in front of a crowd of 3 little people
9. period piece dramas starring Keira Knightley
10. being kicked in the head
11. a rousing game of football
12. weird PHP errors in Wordpress
13. migraines
14. paper cuts
15. picking up a room full of Hot Wheels cars
16. drinking expired milk
17. eating brussel sprouts
18. jamming a fork in my eye
19. an endless conversation about tomatoes with the neighborhood loon
20. writing this list
It’s safe to say tantrums of any kind are bad, but those in the backseat of a moving vehicle are an especially horrendous form of misery. Especially when one really dislikes and panics when driving in the first place. I may have even found myself ineptly threatening, “don’t make me pull this car over young man.”
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Love this list. So true!
I’ve been known to crank the music to drown it out. I’m awesome like that.
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Ugh…I once had to drive 3 hours with two toddlers having a tantrum in the back of the car…NOT fun:(
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