Leaving work yesterday, I had a "Barney Fife" moment. He would have a bullet in his pocket on the Andy Griffth Show - my digital camera was in the glove compartment - locked. Missed out on taking a picture, but should be able to improvise.
A cobalt blue Prius II passed right by me, driver with the "I'm God's Gift" pose...i.e.
Actually, I don't think it was that.
It was a woman that looked 60-something with completely silver hair. She probably forgot her bifocals. So it probably was not an ego thing (it seems like it's always a guy does the cocked head....).
Maybe it's for the best - the picture could have started a feud over whether or not Prius drivers are smug.
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P.S. Lately, a couple of members are linking this old thread because they resent pictures like the one at the start of this thread. If I was not driving, the camera could be still, there was no window tint, etc....there could be easily more. I see it in a variety of vehicles, but it happens more in the huge vehicles - the ones that have ads that appeal to power, pride, virility.
The picture is just illustrating a common daily sight. Do people get defensive over thinks they truly feel are right?
I agree -- she probably needed sunglasses or her bifocals if she looked anything like your 'improv' photo in this thread. That's how I look in my Corolla when I forget my sunglasses on my commute into the setting sun, although I have a baseball cap I throw on to help a little bit.
I don't make eye contact with every single driver I pass... only those I have a reason to -- eg. stop signs, merging, signalling that I promise not to gun it and run over them after stopping to let someone in, etc. I tried smiling and nodding at a HCH driver I encountered, but I guess they were a little smug -- I got the once-over (tip to tire) look as if to say, "Hybrid SUV...how very sad." Ah well...
I try to be as smug as I can in my HCH. When I see a Hummer filling up at a gas station, I slow down, roll down my window, and yell "WASTERAL!""!
Ha Ha Ha!
I try to be as smug as I can in my HCH. When I see a Hummer filling up at a gas station, I slow down, roll down my window, and yell "WASTERAL!""!
Ha Ha Ha!
My husband says it's quite tempting to get a little plastic gas can and carry it in my Ford Escape Hybrid to hold up whenever we see a Hummer or Escalade. "Need gas?" Obviously, we don't do it, but it sure is tempting.
I try to be as smug as I can in my HCH. When I see a Hummer filling up at a gas station, I slow down, roll down my window, and yell "WASTERAL!""!
Ha Ha Ha!
Gotta get the pictures of a meeting with one recently...
Smug Prius Driver?
Missed out on taking a picture, but should be able to improvise.
Re: Smug Prius Driver?
Uh, that changes my idea of you completely.
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