Driving Habits of The North American Soccer Mom

11/16/01

[IowaHawk]

What do you get when you mix Soccer Moms, SUVs and cell phones? Here's a brief photo essay illustrating the driving skills of Bill Clinton's most loyal voters.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for sharing your experience! And thank you for the heads up to this hilarious thread!!!

[codebreaker]

With the war the soccer moms may be turning Republican..

[StoneColdGOP]

BUMP! This thread is great!

I'd be interested if anyone else has a "flooring-it-in-reverse-gone-awry" story like mine

No, but I do have a "Going the wrong way down a one-way street in Downtown Los Angeles in the middle of the afternoon" story.

[Orual]

I have a "going-the-wrong-way-on-a four-lane-divided-highway- at-night-in-a-dense-fog-on-Long-Island" story, but I wasn't in the wrong lane, the car coming straight for me was.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Actually I think we are all looking at this incorrectly! Does anyone have any idea how "hard" it must have been to get her SUV on top of that little guard rail? I mean, geez, she should be rewarded for this, rather than ridiculed..... of course you may have also noticed this woman is a b-l-o-n-d-e.....!

(The driver is stupid, not the cell phone! lol)

[maxwell]

cork sez: "thats my wife!!!!"

LMAO!!!

Good stuff, Hawk...

[American Preservative]

Thought you (and Mel) would get a (soccer) kick out of this thread. : )

[Chemist_Geek]

The Vladinator goes to about one home game in two or three. Very heartening to hear the JLA cheers when Bud Lynch points him out in a luxury box. He's doing quite well for what his condition was. Sergei Mnatsakanov (sp) was also gravely injured in the wreck. I haven't heard anything lately about him.

[Chemist_Geek]

The story that using cellular phones near gas pumps can trigger explosions is an urban myth.

I do not know of any fires or explosions caused by cellular phones in gas stations. However, the cellular phone is a two-way radio which can and does have electric current flowing through it. Gasoline vapors are flammable and a spark will ignite them. Sparks can be generated by loose contacts within the phone or by a voltage maximum along the antenna.

As an aside, my ex-girlfriend and I once had an argument about her (practiced!) belief that her smoking in a gas station was OK.

[untenured]

It's hard to conclusively reconstruct the incident on the basis of the available evidence, but I suggest it involved some combination of a Tall Latte, a radio station with the "smooth jazz" format, and a nine-year-old child named Justin, Meredith or Caitlin.

[The KG9 Kid]

As an hobbyist 4x4'er, I must say that's pretty decent articulation from a stock Toyota 4-Runner.

Why didn't she just put that thing in 4WD and drive down off that barrier? It's not as if she needs a winch.

Other than the dent on the right rear fender, there's no damage.

[ChemistCat]

I could tell one on my Dad but then I'd have to kill myself. :-)

[Constitution Day]

Oh, boy. Thanks for letting me start my morning with a laugh!