Driver stereotypes

[pbkid]

ya i get really jealous of everyone else here saying how much attention and looks they get in the VX...

[Ldub]

My least favorite stereotype is the "old geezer in a Buick" (I mean older than ME)
There's a surplus population of these old dudes around here, I'm guessing mostly retired farmers that are more familiar with driving machinery that tops out around 25 mph, so they corner like their car is gonna roll if they exceed 7-8 mph. And the strange thing is, it's 90-95% Buicks...

Must be some correlation between the rising waistband of their pants, coinsiding with the perception of speed, that makes them feel that they're going faster than they really are...

Oh, and don't get me started on the morons that stop at the end of the on ramp,(there are no signal lights here) to take a little "look see" to check for oncoming traffic...

YOU MERGE WITH THE ACCELERATOR , NOT THE BRAKE PEDAL, AUNT BEE !!!

There, I feel a little better now...

[Scott Harness]

Yea if I see a Buick,I get around it as fast as possible.Nearly always old people. "wouldn't you really rather have a Buick" "It's not your fathers Oldsmobile"

[Ldub]

Yea if I see a Buick,I get around it as fast as possible.Nearly always old people. "wouldn't you really rather have a Buick" "It's not your fathers Oldsmobile"

"You get that special feel, in grampa's Oldsmobile"...

[Scott Harness]

"You get that special feel, in grampa's Oldsmobile"...

creepy man creepy LOL

[mdwyer]

ya i get really jealous of everyone else here saying how much attention and looks they get in the VX...

Well, I think a problem is that you're somewhere where the traffic actually moves. Surely you've been gawked at while stuck in traffic on your way through Denver? That's where I get looks. When people are actually moving, they don't look around much.

It doesn't help, either, that we're not all that rare in Colorado...

Still, people jockying for a better view of me scares me... I'm always afraid they're going to run me off the road, just trying to figure out the make. Maybe debadging wasn't such a good idea.

Driving through places with lots of pedestrian traffic (Larimer Square on a weekend, college campuses, etc) is kind of fun, too.

Aaaaanyway, back on topic. I probably drive like a dick in my Subaru. Whenever I'm on the road everyone else is in the wrong lane, in my way, and being way to &%$#ing timid. DRIVE! MERGE! ARGH!!

I'm totally passive-aggressive about merging, too. I leave HUGE spaces in front of me when you SHOULD be merging, then close them up tight once there's no more merge lane. Sorry, dude. You had your chance. But, hey, I love getting 'the wave'. "You're welcome! Pass it on!"

I can not figure out why people can't figure out how to merge!


On the other hand, I'm pretty careful when driving in the VX... mostly because I can't see around it all that well, and I'm not keen on running someone off the road. That would suck.