<p>Love it! You’re a wonderful husband. Let us know the reaction, ok? (As long as it’s G rated!)</p>
<p>My wife’s birthday is in a week-and-a-half.
Her little Subaru has 80,000 miles on it.
Within the next year, I will have two teenagers with driver’s licenses.</p>
<p>Plan ==> convert the Subaru into the family utility infielder and buy WashMom a new car.</p>
<p>Backstory: WM never asks for anything. She would rather spend an evening with friends than get diamonds. (I love this woman.) </p>
<p>Exception: She has always wanted a Miata. Her friend K has one, and WM loves it. It’s the only material object I’ve ever heard her mention in wi****l tones. (Edit: How amusing. The forum nanny software doesn’t like w-i-s-t-f-u-l.)</p>
<p>WashDad’s plan: Buy her a Miata for her birthday. (You saw that coming, didn’t you? Did I mention that this birthday ends in a zero?)</p>
<p>I was talking to the sales guy yesterday about an '06 with $6,500 in rebates and discounts on it. Sold.</p>
<p>But here’s the point, a story told by the sales guy:</p>
<p>“This happens all the time. Last May this 40-something couple comes in and says that they want to buy a Miata for graduation. I tell them that it’s really generous to buy a car like this for a graduate, and that their kid will love it. They say it’s not for one of their children. So, I congratulate the wife on going back to college as an adult. They say that I don’t understand. Their youngest son is graduating college and the car is a present for the mom.”</p>
<p>He said most of his Miata sales are to new empty-nesters.</p>
<p>Thought you might like the story…</p>
<p>Tell me WM doesn’t stand for Wife/Mother.</p>
<p>If you want to follow through on the whole idea of the Miata, you might want to change the acronym to SW; ie Sexy Wife.</p>
<p>Just a thought.</p>
<p>Good for you WashDad! I’m assuming he meant WashMom…</p>
<p>I would rather be an exciting women then a sexy wife but the acronym EW, doesn’t look very good.</p>
<p>zoosermom, you must be psychic! ;)</p>
<p>Do they still make those stickers for the back windshield that say, “Baby On Board”?</p>
<p>Love the idea…and the thought behind it.</p>
<p>Now all of us fillintheblankMOMS love the WashDad!</p>
<p><em>stadium crowd wave</em></p>
<p>WashDad,
Go for it if you can swing it! Sounds like WM and I would really get along. I once got a Volvo for a birthday which ended in “0.” I would have liked your choice, but there were these kids to drive around at that point…Do you have a color choice in mind?</p>
<p>It wasn’t my birthday, but when we traded in the minivan we really didn’t need anymore (and it was dying anyway) for a spiffy red Honda Fit, it was understood it’s MY car. Approaching that time of life, I <em>needed</em> a spiffy red car, you understand. ;)</p>
<p>"zoosermom, you must be psychic! "</p>
<p>How DID I do that?</p>
<p>Yeah, zooser - that’s what I want to know, too.</p>
<p>WashDad - you are almost as wonderful as my H, who bought me a red and white Mini last October on my birthday. And my birthday ended in an 8 - so my expectations are raised. 
But I sincerely hope your wife loves her Miata as much as I love my Mini-S.</p>
<p>Binx, I looked into a Mini convertible, but the closest dealer is more than an hour from our house. I didn’t want service to be an issue. There are two Mazda dealers near us – and one is next-door to where WashMom (WM) works.</p>
<p>Zooser, I think you must have posted as I was editing my original post. Your post had a slightly earlier time than my edit, so you got to go first. Or, your post accidentally triggered the flux capacitor in the CC server…</p>
<p>How cool of you to get her a Miata!!!</p>
<p>The edit problem has been happening on several threads today. Usually if you edit after posting, your edited post still gets the same # spot and ‘time’ as it had originally. Don’t know why it’s happening, but it’s pretty funny in this particular case; happened to me this morning.</p>
<p>I’m sorry to burst the romantic cloud here, Washdad:</p>
<p>The only miata owner I’ve known was a 60- year old newly divorced guy. When the couple split, the wife got to keep the jeep. He went out and bought this red miata into which he could hardly fit his suitcase. So, I 've associated miatas with middle-aged men trying to recapture their youth.</p>
<p>But maybe, I will reconsider now…</p>
<p>^^ The Miata is number 3 on the ‘Ultimate Chick Cars of All Time’ - </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/Guy-Chick-Cars/[/url]”>http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/Guy-Chick-Cars/</a></p>
<p>My brother bought a Miata for himself a few years ago, but his wife and I stole it from him whenever he wasn’t looking. In a fit of greenness he sold it and got a Prius, but he confessed to me recently he thinking of selling it and getting another midlife crisis car. I don’t know why he gets to have so many midlife crises - he got a really ugly tattoo last year. Meanwhile I’m still stuck with the Mommyvan.</p>
<p>I hope WashWife doesn’t read CC and have her surprise ruined!</p>
<p>And make sure your new drivers don’t get their hands on it!!</p>
<p>Great job WashDad!!! Miata is a very fun car. And here I thought for sure WashDad would buy Washmom a Maytag for her birthday!!! (Washday) :D</p>
<p>how did zoosermom manage to post her reply on a thread started by washdad?</p>
<p>I checked the above link to see a picture of a Miata. Very sporty! It’s described as a “girlie car” – so much better than a “Ma’am car”…!</p>