Hummer Owner Gets Angry Message

Washington Post ^ | July 18, 2007 | Allison Klein

[Xenalyte]

First, no one on this site has ever had trouble making fun of me. You’ll need to get in line.

Second, not that it matters to you, but I do get paid to perform. I’m the only FReeper I can name whose actual real-life side job makes other FReepers think ill of me without even knowing me.

[Revolting cat!]

It seems to me you oughta be a “person of interest” in this vandalism case...

[RandallFlagg]

Oh, if I’d still lived in Texas, it’d be a Subaru Outback.
I know all about the (lack of) snow in Texas.

[Xenalyte]

Depends whether I’m in my car when I see the poser, or behind him in line at the convenience store.

[Ouderkirk]

Having owned a classic corvette (1955) there was a certain pleasure in driving it. Much the same that one gets driving a Ford Model T. It’s not fast, doesn’t handle particularly well, but there is this non-definable pleasure in driving around in an old car. The inverse of that is the pain in the ass factor of owning and operating a nostalgic vehicle as parts are hard to come by, and you damned sure don’t want to get into a wreck with it.

For the late model corvette and viper owners, I can see your point. Sort of like the midlife convertible that many men, and now women buy shortly after disposing of the former spouse.

[Xenalyte]

Those are glue-on tips, very light and unobtrusive, and I would be happy to tell you where you can acquire your own. (I do recommend a makeup job on them, since the manufacturer’s skin is apparently a color found nowhere else on the planet.)

[JoeSixPack1]

When I get an SUV, I’ll off-road that bad boy every chance I get, and to my husband’s chagrin I will likely never wash it.

Who cares? Enviroidiots? Goreworshippers? You? And why do you care how or where anyone else drives theirs?

Did you down a can of liberal-juice cocktail or something?

[colorado tanker]

Last winter we got two feet of snow just before Christmas, which kicked off two months of nearly weekly snows. The SUV came in pretty handy.

Of course, when our mayor was getting heat for not clearing the streets as fast as folks wanted, he blamed the SUV's for driving on the streets and "packing them down." I guess we were supposed to sit in our houses a few days and not go anywhere until the city got the streets plowed.

[Xenalyte]

The only drawback was the automatic (I prefer manuals).

When I was buying my current car, I tested an automatic because it was the first one I saw in that body style and I wanted to know how big it felt to drive.

When it came time to buy, I insisted on a manual, and you'd have thought the Amazing Two-Headed Woman had wanted to buy a car. The salesman had never met a female who likes to shift, I guess.

I just don't feel like I'm driving when I'm behind the wheel of an automatic.

[BigCinBigD]

I spotted the problem at once. He’s a Chargers fan.

[Xenalyte]

What is that? It is darling. It looks like the Austin Powers car.

I like the old ‘Vettes too, btw. There’s something classy about them that the new ones lack.

[Xenalyte]

‘Cause you took me seriously. You’ve been around here long enough to know better. ;)

[Xenalyte]

Nah, vandalism’s not my style.

Sitting in my front yard and laughing at soccer moms, though . . .

[Xenalyte]

Oh, my. Another touchy one.

[Teacher317]

Interesting that the article uses “a message” in the title. I wonder if that would be the term if it had the “n-word” engraved in the paint, and the owners were black?

[LetsRok]

I love it. My property value and quality of life is not diminished by my neigbors neglect or “bad taste”.

[CORedneck]

Just like my manager at my old job, I own an old '91 Toyota P/U truck, looks rednecky such as double pipe bumper, roll bar, big @$$ lights on the front. I was told in no uncertain terms that it is an eyesore and to park it far from the building. That manager was also a liberal democrat. What set him off is one of the executives didn't like looking at it, it got stickered and my mgr was notified.

I refused to park it far away especially since I got in early. Luckily for me (and them), I don't work there anymore.

[Publius6961]

I’m not sure why I’m on the list next to all the people who took umbrage.

Dang it!
I had to look that word up.

Just how old are you, anyway?

[sappy]

How tolerant, diverse and inclusive of what is most certainly Lib/dem/Socialist pig vandals.

[wideawake]

Just how old are you, anyway?

33.