OK, so I’m out riding along the side of the road as usual and I damn near get clipped by a huge Caddy Escalade. Short time later, another. Then another. Three damn times on one ride. Three different Escalades! I now know the noise they make as they approach and am woken up by it at night. Idiots. Let’s be straight…I know how and where to ride, there didn’t seem to be any problems with EVERY other type of car on the road, it’s just the idiots in the Escalades. I live just north of Charlotte, NC, and we are used to big cars around here (NASCAR territory for those who don’t know) so I can’t really say it’s an SUV thing (but that’s a different topic entirely).
If the next Escalade that whips by has a Kerry sticker on it, I’ll definitely freak! If all the damn windows weren’t tinted, I’d pass along a full report/description of the drivers…my guess is that there would be a cell phone sucked to one ear or the other…
I always have problems with pick ups, construction vehicles or large commercial trucks here in Northern IL. I was considering starting a website for company’s that werent biker friendly because of all the incidents with commercial vehicles.
An oldie, but still appropriate:
A mouse is driving his escalade through the forest and hears some cries for help. On investigation, he finds an elephant stuck in a pit. He says: “hang on, Mr. Elephant!” and ties a rope to the bumper of his Escalade, throws the other end down to the elephant, pulls the elephant out of the pit. The Elephant is obviously grateful.
A week or so later, the mouse pulls over, hops out of his escalade totake a leak, and wouldn’t you know falls into the same pit. After sqeaking for help for almost an hour, who should happen along but his friend Mr. Elephant. The mouse yells up “Hey, Mr. Elephant, if you tie a rope to the bumper of my Escalade and throw me the other end, I can get free just like you did. The keys are in it.”
Mr. Elephant says “Heh, don’t need to.” and lowers his elephant sized wiener down into the pit, which the mouse grabs on to and is pulled to safety.
The moral: You don’t need an Escalade if you have a big enough wiener.
I live in Boston, and I am amazed at the number of people who drive giant SUV’s that sport Kerry/Edwards, No war in Iraq, bring our troops home, and other seemingly paradoxical bumper stickers given the nature of the vehicle.
I think that it is an ideology, not a way of life.