Mr. Walker, Mr. Wheeler
May. 24th, 2005 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kedamonoCar companies portray car owners as greedy, spoiled children, which may not be too far from the truth...
A guy is sitting in his car, waiting for it to move. Finally he honks his horn, revealing that he is sitting in side the car on the assembly line. As commercial fades out, we hear that security is being summoned.
A car moves so fast that when it enters a tunnel, it sucks all the air out and all the loose items on one side of the tunnel come blowing out the other end, including at least one road sign.
Cars are touted to be so safe that you can drive them while distracted, allowing you to steer around stopped cars, boulders, sheep.
A couple are watching a deer when an idiot in a SUV comes a thundering along and scares the deer.
A man is so enamored with his car, he spends his entire life inside of it, refusing to leave it. (I wonder what that car smells like with him living in it 24 by 7)
Two men, full of testosterone, get into a shoving match with their SUVs over a parking space.
In general car drivers are portrayed as oblivious to danger, impatient, rude, speed like maniacs, and care more for their car than they do anything else.
Thing is, that is closer to the truth than most people would like to admit. I should know, I deal with them all the time on roads. I ride a Honda Reflex, which means I don't have two tons of steel protecting me, so my attention is always on the road and driving.
You'd be surprised at how many people are busy on their phones, reading newspapers, eating, doing makeup or arguing with their passengers. And when it's wet, they drive like they're immortal. More than once I've had someone in a SUV/Pickup truck pull up behind when its pissing rain and flash their high beams at me. Normally in those conditions I'm driving 10 MPH below the rated speed limit 'cause I'm not going to lay my bike down because I was stupid.
The thing is, when I'm in a car, yes, I drive carefully, but... I find I become Mr. Wheeler a little bit. There is something about being in a car that makes you feel invulnerable...
A guy is sitting in his car, waiting for it to move. Finally he honks his horn, revealing that he is sitting in side the car on the assembly line. As commercial fades out, we hear that security is being summoned.
A car moves so fast that when it enters a tunnel, it sucks all the air out and all the loose items on one side of the tunnel come blowing out the other end, including at least one road sign.
Cars are touted to be so safe that you can drive them while distracted, allowing you to steer around stopped cars, boulders, sheep.
A couple are watching a deer when an idiot in a SUV comes a thundering along and scares the deer.
A man is so enamored with his car, he spends his entire life inside of it, refusing to leave it. (I wonder what that car smells like with him living in it 24 by 7)
Two men, full of testosterone, get into a shoving match with their SUVs over a parking space.
In general car drivers are portrayed as oblivious to danger, impatient, rude, speed like maniacs, and care more for their car than they do anything else.
Thing is, that is closer to the truth than most people would like to admit. I should know, I deal with them all the time on roads. I ride a Honda Reflex, which means I don't have two tons of steel protecting me, so my attention is always on the road and driving.
You'd be surprised at how many people are busy on their phones, reading newspapers, eating, doing makeup or arguing with their passengers. And when it's wet, they drive like they're immortal. More than once I've had someone in a SUV/Pickup truck pull up behind when its pissing rain and flash their high beams at me. Normally in those conditions I'm driving 10 MPH below the rated speed limit 'cause I'm not going to lay my bike down because I was stupid.
The thing is, when I'm in a car, yes, I drive carefully, but... I find I become Mr. Wheeler a little bit. There is something about being in a car that makes you feel invulnerable...
