It's basically a game of "chicken." Particularly if you're in a small, newer, car. They're counting on you not actually pushing the point home - and heck, it must've worked.
They do it to motorcyclists, too. Not my idea of fun at all. First person to knock me off a bike will get something very painful done to them.
I had never actually heard that about SUVs/4WDs. I had heard that about sports cars (particularly when they are driven by middle aged men) and vehicles that have been suped-up though.
Perhaps in Oz this is not the case -- I've never been, so I suppose I have no business assuming that SUVs in Australia are extensions of one's manhood, or that anyone in Australia is in need of such an extension, for that matter, but here in the Good Ol' U.S. of A., that's exactly what they are -- the bigger the better, and to hell with the cost of the gas and the damage to the environment.
"I would never drive a minivan, that's so unclassy... but wait till you see my new Ford Subdivision!"
My parents managed to have two children while driving Toyota hatchbacks, so I'm not quite sure how the SUV thing fits into the mix -- perhaps because no-one can be bothered to teach their children proper behaviour in public, preferring rather to bribe them with toys and games and food and DVDs, all of which must be hauled around wherever they go?
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They do it to motorcyclists, too. Not my idea of fun at all. First person to knock me off a bike will get something very painful done to them.
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"I would never drive a minivan, that's so unclassy... but wait till you see my new Ford Subdivision!"
My parents managed to have two children while driving Toyota hatchbacks, so I'm not quite sure how the SUV thing fits into the mix -- perhaps because no-one can be bothered to teach their children proper behaviour in public, preferring rather to bribe them with toys and games and food and DVDs, all of which must be hauled around wherever they go?
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