Tara's Top Ten...

I finally had a great idea!

One that I could feature on my blog - weekly!

So, yeah, I stole it from David Letterman, but, it goes with my name (Awesome Alliteration - holla!)

This week - for the inaugural top ten list is (drum roll please):

Top 10 Reasons I Miss My Car:

Subtitled: Rental Cars Suck

1. Julie the Journey is green.  The replacement is silver - from a lot of silver rental cars. What?  Did someone decide that the only color for any car should be silver?  I mean, Anderson Cooper may be a silver fox to some women (sorry, Anderson, not me), but I need a little color in my life.  Plus, the green of my journey helps me to find it in a sea of silver and white cars parked in the same place.
2. 6 cylinder engine.  While the fuel economy may be better, it has little to no pickup and bores me.
3. My rental is obnoxiously loud.  What the crap?  It only has 24,000 miles on it!  Why so stinking loud, stupid 4 cylinder car.
4. Rear Video Entertainment System.  Now, I'm listening to the gobledy-gook that comes out of my three-year-old mouth as opposed to the Lion King for the 756th time.  On second thought, this may be a welcome break.  Sidenote - I got to listen to Olivia tell Mia that I would die someday, she would die someday, we are all going to die when Mia asked about a cemetary.  Is it wrong that I didn't jump in?  Nah, I figure I'll let Olivia handle all the big conversations - where do babies come from, death, etc.
5. Listening to my ipod.  There is no available way to listen to my ipod in this car.  Really?  Do they make a special lower than the lowest class, class for rental cars?
6. Knowing how to open the gas door.  On my car, there is a friendly little finger divet to open the fuel door.  On the rental, I spent a good 15 minutes trying to figure out how to open the fuel door.  There is no lever, no button, and no finger divet, and no owner's manual.  I figured it out by punching the fuel door, which subsequently popped open.
7. It smells like me and my family.  Yes, we've spilled drinks and coffee and french fries are most likely rotting somewhere in the back.  However, the rental smells bad, even worse than my car.
8. Rear backup camera.  I feel as if I held the golden chalice with being able to see what was going on behind my car.  Now, I've got a dirty beer mug with a hole in the bottom and have to attempt to make sure I don't run anyone down, or back up into another car.  How did I ever drive without the backup camera before?
9. Radio controls on my steering wheel.  'nuff said.  This should be standard on all cars.
10. It's just not my car. :-(