Plymouth Voyager

What's the first vehicle you ever got to drive?

The first vehicle I got to drive was the Sports Fan, which was a 1996 Plymouth Voyager.

We called it a sport van.

It had the full wood paneling on the side.

It actually surprised me, but it makes a lot of sense.

The 1984 Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager, the first minivans.

The minivans.

Should have known.

with

Plymouth.

All right.

What are we bringing back from

Plymouth?

The Voyager.

Just one of our options.

I mean,

Um, it was me and Jim and Scott Harris and James Fry.

It, it ... a group of us, and we, uh, rolled around in like this Plymouth Voyager van thing, and we didn't really have any set rules, but we knew like production was a big thing.

Had to go out and arrest people.

Mm-hmm.

Good.

It was also kind of fun 'cause it was like the space was in a back alley with a Plymouth Voyager from, like, 1986 with, like, the giant beige fuzzy seats kind of thing.

Mm.

So it was very, it was, it was very after school special-

Please do.

The Dodge Caravan, or Plymouth Voyager, et cetera, it was, went by many names, um, was the first vehicle to offer cup holders as standard.

Allow me to paste that in your direction.

I was having trouble-

But I'm now questioning that because I quite like the other two.

I got nothing to base this on.

The Dodge Caravan, Plymouth Voyager, Chrysler thing is absolutely the sort of vehicle that would have cup holders.

Uh, was it the first? Hmm.

One man brought along his small son.

who beamed at me from the back seat we met at a bp station out in the western suburbs the man said he was a doctor and that his wife was too he came from pakistan dark-skinned handsome late thirties he stared straight ahead as i put the van through its paces At a stoplight, I wondered what the people in the car next to us saw through the windows of the Plymouth Voyager.

Just your average American minivan family with an older wife whose husband preferred to let her drive.

I thought how interesting and multicultural we must look.

Such a, such a loser, right? I'm being honest.

In, like, our 1994 Plymouth Voyager, my mom drove me there.

I get out of the minivan with my Blockbuster polo in hand, ready to quit, and I walk in.

I'm like, I, I, I don't even remember what I said.

Who needs an education when your husband's making $17,000 a year? [laughs] Like [laughs] why is that important? [laughs] Y- we're in love, and, and Piggly Wiggly's gonna take love.

And, and, and who needs it? But she started watching kids in our home and, and cut coupons and drove a, a old green Plymouth Voyager van without, without complaining.

And here's my point.

Every time I think about the things maybe that get under my sk- I can gripe, I can complain, I can focus, I can dwell on the fact that she's not perfect, and I can allow those thoughts to, to push us apart, or I can, I can focus on the gifts and the qualities and the strengths, and it allows gratitude and appreciation and, and thankfulness to rise up my heart towards her, and it brings us together.