Sunday, October 29, 2006

If you can't learn how to drive it, don't buy it

People never cease to amaze me. The SUV's are the worst, but I see pickups and big cars do it too. The folks that are either too scared of driving something so big, or don't know where the limits of the car are. Constantly, you see them taking up two parking spots because they can't line up in a single one, or drifting over the line on the curves in traffic, or taking part of the other lane on narrower roads like Nebraska. A couple of other examples are the big R/V's too. The damn thing is as big as a truck but they'll let any old fart go buy and drive one. I know what you're going to say, Grumpy is an old fart too, but damn, I'm not out driving something the size of a semi down the road at 10 miles under the speed limit. Back to the other bunch though, they oughta make you take some sort of class if youre going to buy something bigger than a normal sized car. Hell they make you pass a special test to ride a motorcycle, and pretty much the only ones youre gonna take out on that is yourself. These little gals in the big SUV's don't even seem to be able to see out of the thing much less know where the corners of the vehicle are. It's like the title says, if you can't drive the thing down the road and stay in your lane, or park in a normal parking lot, buy something smaller, hell you might even save a little gas.

2 Comments:

Blogger luckytop said...

The truck rental companies let many inexperienced drivers take some huge vans out onto the road. No wonder there are so many rutted corners and flattened signposts.
By the way, are you giving out tricks or treats for Halloween? I think I will just turn the light off...

31 October, 2006 10:02  
Blogger Grumpy said...

I'll be passing it out until 9 or so, or the candy runs out. It's a hoot and good for the neighborhood. Though, who knows, it might be crazy since the Tampa Tribune listed Old Seminole Heights in yesterdays paper as one of the places to load up the minivan and haul your youngins to.

31 October, 2006 10:37  

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