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From: brown@aero.ARPA (Leonard Brown)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: Most obnoxious driver awards
Message-ID: <273@aero.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 12:54:33 EST
Article-I.D.: aero.273
Posted: Wed Feb 19 12:54:33 1986
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Reply-To: brown@aero.UUCP (Leonard Brown)
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Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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Keywords: Pickups, Motorcycles

In article <182@copper.UUCP> toddv@copper.UUCP (Todd Vierheller) writes:
>
>When riding my motorcycle to and from work every day, I have noticed a
>common theme amongst the knotheads of life who:
>
List of extremely familiar infantily behavior here
>
>
>The single recurring similarity in the vast majority of incidents is that the
>idiot in the four wheeled vehicle just happens to be driving a pickup truck.
>From this I have concluded that if someone is slightly sub-human, a first
>class jerk, and heavily insecure, that person is more likely to buy a pickup
>truck than any other vehicle.   I guess it has something to do with being 
>unsure of his own manhood.

I also notice this behavior on the part of pickup drivers, especially the
small Japanese pickups that never seem to be carrying any type of load
that would justify their existence.  Men buy these things to look "cool"
even though they seem to have no real reason to have a pickup instead of
a car.  Trucks with obviously used toolboxes, or trucks carrying loads, or
trucks with the name of a building contractor on the side are less likely
to behave in this irrational way.

Two other classes of vehicles that annoy me:
Pseudo sports cars (300ZX, XR-7, Fiero) that pull into the right third
of the lane that I am in the center of, waiting for a signal light, who then
try to drag race me across the intersection (they always lose).

Automobiles with Jesus-type stickers.  Maybe these drivers aren't any more
obnoxious than the run of the mill cage driver, but having a sticker on the
back bumper claiming the driver's superiority because he believes in St. 
Paul's mythical Jesus makes it very noticeable when he/she acts in a 
most un-Christian manner.
-- 
Leonard Brown:  brown@aerospace.ARPA
                brown@aero.UUCP
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