On days that I don’t leave my house before 7am, I am kindly greeted by an abiogenesis of metallic lemmings eagerly racing towards their various destinations. My natural tendency is of course to run along with them ; some days this journey is the very epitome sheepliness. The scurry becomes a bustle –the bustle becomes a flow as the rising sun reflects off their dewy rooftops. My destination is merrily reached in roughly 15-20 minutes. On less cheery days, this journey is more like a stampede out of a burning stadium, with the exception that you aren’t actually allowed to trample anyone. (sigh)
But, oh what a tragedy it is to not be able to trample people who are in your way.
When you are running out of a burning stadium your first objective is to escape. Intuitively you would think that since everyone is in a life-or-death hurry to escape, that movement would be brisk. However, priorities abound and in varying degrees.
One lady is off running in the opposite direction of the flow hoping to find her misplaced child who is actually already outside (stupid lady); another old guy has fallen and he can’t get up (prepare to be trampled);and yes if you are moving too slowly you get battered and shoved and promptly die from your concussions.
Besides, the needs of the many (escaping) outweigh the needs of the few (looking for babies). Don’t they?
This is the scenario I equate with the morning traffic and the breed of individual who are Prius drivers. No they are not sheeple with the same priorities as the herd, they are mothers looking for babies.
Why, Oh Why does somebody who thinks they are saving the planet by driving their optimal speed for Miles-per-gallonage in their hippy Prius also think it is OK to cost everyone else their weight in gas and time?
Why, Oh Why do Prius owners, privileged for their “air quality saving” attributes, think it is perfectly acceptable to drive in the fast lane at 55mph with a line of 30+ cars who want nothing more than to escape the burning building at a brisk 75mph?
Does having a faux-HOV and a fancy yellow sticker on all sides of your bumper make you some kind of princess that we all should wave to and wait for?
Prius drivers may be saving on their gas consumption, but ironically they are costing everyone else. How exactly are you saving the environment when you are individually contributing to the traffic mess that is smudging our air to begin with?
If you’re driving style is clogging up any of the four lanes of the CA-101 Northbound OR CA-101 Southbound, you are as vile as the guy driving his Hummer 2 through suburbia.
It’s not because you get to drive in the carpool lane that we loathe you, it is because you drive like old ladies when you’re in it!
I am one Pink Prius away from an episode of road rage. (Breathe, count to 10)
Do us all, and the earth a favor. Drive in the slow lane.
O’ grey-eyed athena where art thou? How homeric.
We don’t have “carpool” lanes in the midwest.
That’s because in the midwest people don’t actually drive cars as much as they ride cows.
I think I’m better at prose anyway lol.
Wutever Pa’. You know my car is faster than yours. I get invited to the “secret” street races held in the summer, while you hang out at Echo Park with girls named Sad Girl and Mousey.
*confused*
I could lap your Mini any day.
Driving slower saves gas, no matter whether you are driving a
Prius or Hummer. Yeah, slower drivers should drive in the right
lane, but arrogant NASCAR wannabes like 1mil are more of a
danger to everybody than any old lady driver, and
waste more gas, too.
lmao. Oh come now I’m mostly teasing. I can’t help it that I cringe at the site of a Prius. To be honest I usually drive like an old lady. Me and my 2 year license having self! God forbid I drive anything more than 80mph! THOUGH TO BE QUITE FRANK I’D STILL LAP OLD’ FJ IN HIS MINI COOOOOOPPP!!! lol
LMAO!!!
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