Jay Zeno
03-23-2005, 06:23 AM
Seriously though, most people really don't need SUV's.
I agree.
They are status symbols for vain people because they are the trendy new thing and Americans like things "big".
We have no status and the lady is not vain.
I hate seeing a 110 pound woman in a three-ton vehicle for "safety" reasons.
Two tons. She feels safer. I hate to argue that she'd feel just as safe in something else, especially because it gives her the seat height and snow traction that gives her comfort.
Or the "but I have kids..." excuse irks me too. People have raised their kids fine without SUV's.
Yup, and without video games and pagers, too, but those are all part of the world now. The kids in my house sat in station wagons (with a bigger engine and probably greater weight than SUV now) and minivans. But she didn't want a minivan for her own car, and heaven forbid a station wagon. The kids she hauls around are not ours.
I'm sorry if your child has cello and soccer practice back-to-back, but that doesn't mean that the polar ice caps have to melt because your child is over-scheduled (again probably more for the parent's ego than for the child's own enrichment).
Um, no, she hauls the kids around because she likes being with them and takes them to the park and kids museums, drops them off at school, and stuff like that.
The auto industry published an internal study about SUV drivers and found them to be selfish and insecure and plays to all of that in the advertising. Their words, not mine. It's in the book "Fifty Things You're Not Supposed To Know".
She's certainly not selfish. She's insecure, but only because she doesn't realize what a truly wonderful person she is. We skip all the advertising, not being great TV watchers.
I agree.
They are status symbols for vain people because they are the trendy new thing and Americans like things "big".
We have no status and the lady is not vain.
I hate seeing a 110 pound woman in a three-ton vehicle for "safety" reasons.
Two tons. She feels safer. I hate to argue that she'd feel just as safe in something else, especially because it gives her the seat height and snow traction that gives her comfort.
Or the "but I have kids..." excuse irks me too. People have raised their kids fine without SUV's.
Yup, and without video games and pagers, too, but those are all part of the world now. The kids in my house sat in station wagons (with a bigger engine and probably greater weight than SUV now) and minivans. But she didn't want a minivan for her own car, and heaven forbid a station wagon. The kids she hauls around are not ours.
I'm sorry if your child has cello and soccer practice back-to-back, but that doesn't mean that the polar ice caps have to melt because your child is over-scheduled (again probably more for the parent's ego than for the child's own enrichment).
Um, no, she hauls the kids around because she likes being with them and takes them to the park and kids museums, drops them off at school, and stuff like that.
The auto industry published an internal study about SUV drivers and found them to be selfish and insecure and plays to all of that in the advertising. Their words, not mine. It's in the book "Fifty Things You're Not Supposed To Know".
She's certainly not selfish. She's insecure, but only because she doesn't realize what a truly wonderful person she is. We skip all the advertising, not being great TV watchers.