It’s not like we haven’t been driving this van for the 9 years she’s been alive, but the Reigning Queen of Pink just discovered a new gizmo next to her seat.\u00a0 It opens and closes, and there’s a little hole with a metal tray in it.\u00a0 The following conversation took place at 45 miles an hour:<\/p>\n
Reigning Queen of Pink:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong> What’s this?<\/span> Because the only ashes she can imagine are the cremated remains of the car’s previous owners.\u00a0<\/p>\n The more I thought about it, the more sense it made.\u00a0 Some people get really attached to their cars – it becomes\u00a0part of the family.\u00a0 What’s wrong with using it as a rolling mausoleum?\u00a0 Maybe the car loves the old man<\/a> THAT much, and isn’t ready to let go…\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n I can just see the sale, though:\u00a0 “Grandpa conveys with the car.”<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grandpa conveys with the car!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,47,40,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2981,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions\/2981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBUMD, craning my neck around:<\/strong>\u00a0 What’s what?
\nReigning Queen of Pink:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong> This flippy thing that opens like this.<\/span>
\nBUMD:<\/strong>\u00a0 That’s the ashtray – where ashes go.
\nReigning Queen of Pink:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong> For dead people?<\/span>
\nBUMD:\u00a0<\/strong> What???<\/p>\n