Am I Crazy or Did Everyone's Mom Have a Van That Looked Like This?

I was cruising down the highway a week or two ago and saw this van from aproximately a half-mile back.

I FLOORED it. I made sure to get myself into solid post position so that I could get a closer look at it in the upcoming traffic.

I’m not going to lie I freaking love these vans. I get jacked when I see one in the wild. My mom had one of these bad boys. I think that’s because she is a mother that had a drivers license in the 90s. I’m pretty sure those qualifications are all you needed in order for the guy at the dealership to hand you the keys to one of these green minivans. Am I wrong about that or did every mom on earth drive one of these?

Don’t believe me? Kendrick Lamar’s mom begs to differ. See the Good Kid, M.A.A.D City cover art below:

Ok so I’m not saying it has to be that specific shade of green. Or it has to be a ford, dodge, etc. I don’t give a shit about all that. I’m saying that every mother in the 90s drove some version of a FLICKER mini van.

I think the reason I get so excited when I see these vans is because it reminds me of my childhood. And my childhood was awesome. I’m not one of those people that goes “ew I can’t even think about myself back in 4th grade. I had no style. Cringe.” Oh really? You’re embarrassed by the concept of fucking TIME? Great mentality you have there.

During my childhood, my moms van featured the following things:

Quarters and nickels jammed into the seatbelt buckles making them inoperable (shoutout to my little brother, that’s what he did for fun I guess)
Vomit smells from my siblings constantly throwing up. It didn’t matter if we were driving to church or to Florida, someone would get sick. To this day I don’t understand why we were constantly throwing up.
Ruined storage compartments on the back of the seats from being yanked on and/or jamming large objects in there

A backseat overhead light that may as well have not been installed because my mom would threaten to murder us if we turned it on
Hubcaps (I’m not positive what a hubcap is, but i am positive that our wheels looked super ratty)
Dual sliding doors (but I feel like one of them was always broken)
A lifetime supply of crayons, toys and stale snacks
An illegal license plate. No, seriously it was illegal. I think my mom got it from the Flagship Niagara Museum up in Erie, PA and it was discontinued immediately after she bought it because you couldn’t read the letters against the background of the plate.