Comments | mdodge1982: Why I feel like a loser driving around in a 20-year-old Accord

mdodge1982

Why I feel like a loser driving around in a 20-year-old Accord

Jan 18, 2007 23:35

There are parallels to be drawn between Seattle culture and Silicon Valley culture - outdoorsiness, environmental friendliness, and geeky-hip-computer-business (that only works if you say it "bizzy-ness ( Read more... )

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crispy47 January 19 2007, 11:51:22 UTC

There's something especially repellent about a hybrid SUV.

crispy47 January 19 2007, 11:57:08 UTC

And by "something especially repellent," I mean to say something so apparently and tautologically ghastly that it's hard to believe people take these cars seriously enough to avoid trying to drive through them as if they didn't occupy physical space, let alone buy them.

mdodge1982 January 20 2007, 20:57:26 UTC

I agree, but I also feel kinda bad criticizing people to whom environmentalism is just a status symbol. I myself am too lazy/stingy to even buy a bike and ride it the 1.5 miles to work every day.

I really should do that though.

kiwitang January 20 2007, 02:37:25 UTC

So you are workin gin San Jose? You should come to visit me if you do. I live in Monterey.

mdodge1982 January 20 2007, 20:51:17 UTC

Helen is coming to visit, and I'd love to show her Monterey! Let me know what works best for you in the next several weeks.

meredith.dodge@gmail.com

kht_matto January 21 2007, 07:18:58 UTC

cars are a statement all over Cali Meredith dear. And while my Accord is only 9 years old, yea, I know the feeling.