I've been looking at and in a lot of strangers' cars recently. The image to the right there is the backseat of this average-size, four-door sedan that I often find myself parked next to when I get to work.

It pretty much freaks me out every time I look in the back seat. Two baby-sized carseats and one of these newfangled, what-the?-all-I-ever-got-was-a-reminder-to-wear-my-seatbelt-if-that toddler carseats. Three seating apparatuses squeezed into the back seat of a four-door sedan. Oh man.

The thing is, Jeanine and I are certainly fine in the car department. We've each got a fully functional four person car (my backseat is more of a very-short-person-friendly deal, but I guess that'll work out for a while at least). The doctors have me fairly convinced that we're only having one baby this August. But just having one baby in the hopper gets you thinking: eventually we'll need a new car, right? Something to haul kids and their friends and dogs and coolers full of oranges around. So you start seeing what's going on in the car/van/monster-truck/RV world just so you know where you're headed.

Well, here's where I hope to be headed: the not-yet-released, revival Microbus. Check this thing OUT. Removable rubber flooring! Double-sided sliding doors! Internet access! Actually, scratch that last one: I really think that they've gone a bit overboard with the DVD screens in the headrest business. In fact, would you please help me in reminding them that families in the market for this thing would probably rather let the kids play the alphabet game or quiet game ("1, 2, 3, go! Josh lost. 1, 2, 3, go! Tiff lost.") if it meant keeping the price a little more reasonable? I've already told them this, but they're more likely to listen if you also send them a note. After all, this thing is still being thought up! We can make it the perfect car! We can avoid the insanity of that car I park next to every day! It'll be great! 2005 and we can all load up in the new Teague Partybus.