Okay, I admit it, I can be swayed, I am a convert.  There are a few things that are fairly common in personal vehicles today that I was just dead set against the first hundred times I heard about them.  I’ve changed my mind.

The DVD Player

Please.  When I was a kid, we drove for several hours to get to every vacation spot, we drove for an hour to go to Grandma’s house or to go to my Dad’s office on the weekend and we did nothing but look out the window.  No Ipod, no food in the car, no bag of toys to bring along.  Sounds pitiful, doesn’t it?  But seriously, we enjoyed car trips, and didn’t need to be entertained.  Therefore, I was horrified at the idea of installing a DVD player in the back seat with wireless headphones for the kids, so they can watch movies on long trips without interrupting the adults in the front seat.  These kids nowadays are just spoiled rotten !  But, okay, it works.  Keeps me from watching the back seat more than the road.  Keeps the kids safe from my wrath, as they love to argue back there unless occupied.  Maybe I just have rotten kids, I don’t know.  Either way, the DVD player is making my life much less stressful.  Score one for the amazing husband-man with the credit card.

The GPS

Another gadget of my husband’s that I thought was completely ridiculous, really only because he is Rand McNally, with a remarkable memory and sense of direction and can tell you the color of the ATM machine at the corner store of every intersection he has ever gone through, is the car Global Positioning System.  Did I mention my husband is a techno-junkie ?  When he asked for a GPS for his birthday just because he thinks it’s cool, I figured he had completely lost it.  Completely unnecessary in his world.  But guess what – I drive too !  The GPS is the coolest thing ever made !  I love that it talks to me, warns me of upcoming turns before I get there so I have time to change lanes, and keeps my eyes on the road instead of on my Mapquest printout.  I have a very good sense of direction, but when your next turn isn’t for 43.8 miles, it’s easy to tune out and miss it.  Especially with the two little monsters in the back seat.  But we already covered that.

Okay, score two for the amazing husband-man.  But don’t tell him I said that.