FLEX TIME: TO THE HAMPTONS IN MY FIRST-EVER FAVORITE MINIVAN

摘要

MOST MEN LEAD LIVES of quiet desperation. So posited Henry David Thoreau. But America's original gangsta/philosopher/bard wrote in the faraway days before mankind was battered by incessant Timbaland beats and Bill O'Reilly Twitter feeds, so we will forgive him for not anticipating those of us leading lives of noisy desperation. One thing that makes me noisy and desperate these days is when I need more than five seats in a car. Nothing in my overstocked motorhouse, the Bad News Garage, fills the bill anymore, even though most of the 1960s station wagons I own easily carried six, seven, or nine in their heyday, before the act of allowing a child to ride unbelted behind the rear seats qualified you for summary execution (or so I seem to recall hearing on Fox News) by Obama death squads under the direction of junior staffers at the Harvard Law Review.