I've had a bit of an auto theme going lately, so I'll continue my rant with people who have ginormous cars but are completely incapable of driving them.

If I had a dollar for every soccer mom that I've seen in a behemoth car, I'd be able to make a sizable donation to the BP cleanup. Typically, she's gabbing on her cell phone, veering here and there, totally oblivious to the cars around her or the ozone for that matter.

I really don't understand the need to super-size everything. Driving a mid-size car is costly enough nowadays, let alone something that is big enough to house a family of illegal immigrants. Unless the size of your family rivals the Brady Bunch, isn't an eight passenger vehicle overkill?

Being a one child family, maybe we're just naive to the times to come. But unless E takes up historical reenactments of the Civil War, I can't imagine that we could possibly need to schlep so much stuff that we could not fit it into a mid-size SUV.

Since my car fell victim to the recent flash floods and was totaled, I'm in the market again. I'm still leaning towards another sedan but may consider a small SUV. I won't need to decide until we get back from Japan so I have some time to mull it over. I do know one thing for sure though... this daddy will not be buying a Hummer, Suburban, Escalade or heaven forbid, a mini-van.