Packing Your Trunk

Over the weekend a Maryland woman was pulled over and arrested after a police officer watched her put three children in the trunk of her car. Lanora Adele Lucas has been charged with reckless endangerment in the incident.

Needless to say, some people are making a mountain out of a molehill on this case. First of all, the kids were never in any actual serious danger, except for possible oxygen starvation, heat exhaustion, dehydration, and dying a horrible, fiery death if the vehicle had been rear ended. Secondly, the car was a freakin' Volvo 850! If it had been something cheaper, like a Honda Accord, then I could see where there might be a problem. But a Volvo?!?! My brothers and I should have had so easy when WE were growing up!

My mother used to make us ride in the trunk of a 1969 Ford Falcon, but you never heard us whining about it. No sirree! And as we got older, and the three of us would no longer fit in there at the same time, we had to start taking turns riding while strapped to the luggage rack on the roof.

But we never complained, because we knew how lucky we were to have a car trunk to be stuffed into in the first place! Not like these snotnosed spoiled brats today, who expect the world to serve up opportunity on a silver platter, garnished with little bite sized vegetables.

I remember this one time when we loosened little Bobby's straps as a gag, and he ended up under a Mack truck that had been tailgating us. We laughed about that one for days once he came out of the coma!!!