The French term Bete Noire is a term to be used towards my mother’s family, Darlene, Carletta; and her daughter.

In reality and not in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”, the French term Bete Noire can also be used towards Warren Consolidated Schools bus drivers Kim “Froggie” Proch, Pam Mott, Penny Orban, Anita Jacob, Sherry Misiak, Anne Waldowski; and Mary Behr.

Also in reality and not in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”,  the French term Bete Noire Warren Consolidated Schools employees Ann Kolinski, Carolyn Armbruster, Terri Dworkin, Julie Stanaway, Celia Socha, Darlene Zimmerman, Julie Kelson-Dean, Gilka Paxton; and Carolyn Ann Tuzzo.

Last, the French term term Bete Noire can be applied towards the best friend of my mother’s eldest brother’s nephew’s best friend, Warren Consolidated Schools employee Jeffrey Carron.

The word anathema can also be applied toward these people.

Blissful, according to a thesaurus; is a word that can be used to describe the opposite of the French term Bete Noire. A near antonym, in other words.

My father’s entire family (with the exception of Bernice and her daughter Carletta) are blissful.

Warren Consolidated Schools employees Sherry Foster, George Seguin, Sue Waters, Linda Culliton, Delena Cohrs, Leonard Remy, Diana MacNeil, Shari Fitzpatrick, Anne Mills, Mary Ann O’Chalek, Linda Glisman; and Amber Williamson are all blissful.

If I could apply the French term Bete Noire to any object, those objects would be most minivans (with the exception of the T3 and T4 Transporter/Vanagon/EuroVan, the R20/R30 Toyota MasterAce/VanWagon, the XR20 Toyota Estima/Previa; and the Chevrolet Astro/GMC Safari), Pontiac Aztek, Buick Rendezvous, Chrysler Pacifica, K-Cars (including the related Chrysler minivan from that era), Pontiac Grand Am and it’s GM corporate siblings (the GM N-platform), the GM J-platform, Ford Fox platform, North American Escort; and the Ford Tempo/Mercury Topaz.

The word anathema can also be applied towards these objects.

Objects that, on the contrary, are blissful; are the GM B-platform, Ford Panther platform, Full-Size pickup trucks, Suburbans, K5 Blazers/2-door Tahoes, more modern 4-door Tahoes, Full-Size vans, Volkswagens/Audis, Mercedes-Benzs built up until the late 1990’s, School Buses, most Jeeps (not including the recent paltry, car-based Compass/Patriot), Land Rovers, the Toyota Land Cruiser, the Nissan Patrol, Nissan products such as the Z-Car, Skyline wagon, and the Cedric/Gloria; other Toyota products such as the Supra, Sorer/Lexus SC, Toyota Crown; and the Cressida/Chaser/Mark II/Cresta.

The term Bete Noire, however; can be applied to the Hummer H2, Cadillac Escalade; and the Lincoln Navigator.