What the Elite Will Drive Post-Oil

[dominiquer60]

I winter in what I believe is the most Hummer dense population on the east coast, Eastern Palm Beach county. I can’t even drive 2 miles to get gas and water without passing multiple Hummers. The people that can afford them are driving them on pavement, and the roughest terrain they deal with are speed bumps at the horse show or the mall. While those of us on dirt roads are driving mostly beaters or good work vehicles for the landscaping/construction/farming lower class jobs. Big Horse I am glad your H3 works for you, but you have to admit when the high profile, Parris Hilton sunglass types that cut you off and double park, drive around like the sun shines out of you know what, it really gives the Hummer a bad reputation. Personally I cringe every time I come across one, especially the yellow ones.

[Big Horses]

@dominiquer60 17103 wrote:

you have to admit when the high profile, Parris Hilton sunglass types that cut you off and double park, drive around like the sun shines out of you know what, it really gives the Hummer a bad reputation. Personally I cringe every time I come across one, especially the yellow ones.

I hear ya…but it’s the idiot behind the wheel, not the vehicle! Around here, it’s all the “cowboys” that have to buy a 4 door, diesel pickup, pull a gooseneck stock trailer (aluminum, of course!), and have a blue heeler dog in the back….. or even worse, the mini-vans! haha
JH

[dominiquer60]

We have a lot of those big trucks parked in driveways all over suburban upstate NY, and the soccer mom SUV’s. The biggest problem is even if the 4 wheel drive aids them in getting off their suburban street and onto a high way, there is most likely an accident that slows them down because another 4 wheel drive vehicle owner mistakens the added traction of their vehicle as added high speed braking power on winter roads and ends up in a horrific wreck. Of course it is the driver that does the bad things and down here for every bad Hummer driver there are 20+ other bad drivers that drive anything. I think the best drivers down here are the illegals, they have the most to loose if they get caught, where as the Hummer/expensive vehicle drivers can afford a lawyer to get out of anything.

Example, the owner of the elite Equestrian Restaurant/Bar was driving home early one morning, supposedly sober, and failed to stop at a stop sign, unfortunately there was a 23 year old man crossing the road and the bar owner struck him and sent him flying into a canal to his death. There was not a handcuff or night in jail involved because he probably called his lawyer before he called 911.

[Joshua Kingsley]

@dominiquer60 17105 wrote:

Example, the owner of the elite Equestrian Restaurant/Bar was driving home early one morning, supposedly sober, and failed to stop at a stop sign, unfortunately there was a 23 year old man crossing the road and the bar owner struck him and sent him flying into a canal to his death. There was not a handcuff or night in jail involved because he probably called his lawyer before he called 911.

What a sad commentary on our times and the state of this country.
Joshua

[Robernson]

@Tim Harrigan 17088 wrote:

I really have a hard time using elite and Hummer in the same sentence. Can we just use ‘out-of-touch’ or ‘self-absorbed’ rather than elite?

I believe I have to agree with you!
~~R

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