since you brought it up, someone forwarded this to me last week:
>SUVs are awful, there's no excuse for them and this is common knowledge.
None of them are great but the worst are the gargantuan ones like the
Sloburban. You are no doubt aware of the reasons that make this so, such as
- they are no bigger on the inside but huge enough on the outside no one can
park near them, see around them or survive a crash with one - they pollute
and consume with abandon not only killing us all slowly but supporting al
qaeda at the same time (hey alanis a Lincoln Navigator with a "remember
september 11" sticker now THAT's ironic) - they are not safer (accords have
lower injury rates per crash and yes I'm talking about the people inside the
accord not what they hit). A woman in a Cadillac Humunga was giving me the
evil eye the other day for not granting her the right of way at Dunkin Donuts
- what she didn't know was that it was intended to be a two way aisle and
would have been if her car wasn't super-sized. Have you ever noticed SUV
drivers are either miniscule (need to feel powerful) or enormous (need
something to make their scale seem appropriate)? It's ironic that white folk
work so hard to get out of the trailer parks and into the suburbs then put
all their hard borrowed money into a double wide with taillights and wheels -
where's the progress?
Well anyway you know all of this already. What I have to offer is a
solution. You know how, in traffic, you have those uncertain times like when
you're not sure whether to grant or take the position? Like changing lanes
and someone's in that lane a little way back - how far is far enough? Or
when you've both reached a 4 way stop at the same time - who goes? I have a
simple rule. If the other car is an SUV I go, if it's not I acquiesce the
space or path to them. Mind you I'm not advocating anything dangerous here,
if someone's clearly got the right of way give it to them no matter what
they're driving. Despite the SUV's popularity car drivers still outnumber
those piloting fume-belching mortician staff-cars with DVD players for the
kiddies and six temperature zones by a lot. If everyone in a car starts
following this rule SUVs will be gone in a year or two. How can I be so
sure? One thing we know for sure about SUV drivers is that they care only
about themselves. If we make something inconvenient they won't abide it for
two shakes of a lamb's tail. Imagine a conversation like this: "Let's move
the seats from the Extravaganza to the Focus, we're late and we just don't
have time to wait at every intersection" Do you really think these spare-rib
sucking tanker captains will live like that for long?
Hey it may be a long shot but it's a better bet than assuming Americans will
start to behave responsibly and reduce their consumption on their own. Give
it a try, spread the word, forward this email!
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