"Dunnik" (dunnik)
04/19/2014 at 17:28 • Filed to: None
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"Dunnik" (dunnik)
04/19/2014 at 17:28 • Filed to: None | 0
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Driving home from work on the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! I spotted a baby-blue - sorry, "Oxygen Blue" - Mini Cooper in the right lane 200 meters ahead. Approaching it in the middle, I thought to myself, "This is surely not a Cooper S." I get closer and see that it wasn't. "That's actually a nice colour on that car," I thought, "but that must be a woman driving it". As I pass, I spare a glance over at the driver: a man in his late 30s/early 40s with glasses. He reappears in my rear view, and I see that the car has, naturally, a white racing stripe on the bonnet.
I'm hardly a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! driving a Super Duty towing a power boat, but one almost wants to ask the driver to turn in his Man Card. His only defense would be "No no no! It's the wife's car!!" Is this...sexist? Homophobic? But a man driving a car like this? !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , I guess, but a friend and fellow car enthusiast who is of that persuasion drives a 2008 Acrua TL Type S 6MT, black on black. I don't therefore assume that if you're gay you drive a "gay" (read: feminine) car.
Does Oppo often find the exception to the rule driving a particular vehicle, and is surprised, and comes up with plausible explanations? "It's her boyfriend's. It's his wife's". And does one's choice in vehicle have really anything to do with it? Some might argue maybe that dude is so butch he don't need no man-yacht to confirm him in his masculinity. Or maybe he's just like the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
It's actually lucky that I was able to even have these thoughts and questions. Earlier, on Highway 427, I almost became involved in an uber serious accident. I merged from the Collectors into the Express (the 427 !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ) and found myself in one of those nice big gaps between herds of cars. I shift over, pausing for a moment in each lane with the signal on, aiming for the far left. But as I'm about to change lanes for the last time, I see a black car in the distance coming up very fast in the left lane, with a grey blur of an CUV behind it. I hold in the middle and let him pass. Couldn't even really tell what car it was, it was so bland and generic looking. As it passed me on the left doing probably 85-90 mph (140 km/h) I saw it was an Elantra hatch, a GT. Ah, so that's why I couldn't recognize it.
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Mr. Grand Touring Hyundai quickly approaches the tail end of the herd ahead, and I know he's going to jump into the middle lane to get ahead by, like, 10 feet. I give him plenty of room, and then suddenly thought, "Wait, where's that grey CUV that was behind him?" VRRRAAAAM goes the somewhat unpleasant sound of a Pentastar under full throttle to my right rear quarter. It's a grey Dodge Journey, passing me on the right.
Maybe you can see where this is going. Both Elantra and Journey dive into the middle lane, and since two cars cannot occupy the same space at the same time, the Elantra driver veered off. He over-corrected left, compensated by over-correcting right and almost lost it. The Journey backed off. Two more corrections straightened the car.
I'm watching this from a good 10 or more car lengths back, still in the middle lane, coasting along, hands at 9 and 3, ready for anything. The left lane was wide open, but I didn't know where physics would throw the Elantra if he - of course it was a he - lost control until the moment it happened.
But nothing did happen. Including a change in the Elantra driver's behaviour. The Journey resumed its, um, journey, but the Elantra continued to engage in asshatery, tailgating a car down a long, downward curving exchange ramp, and diving into a spot ahead by cutting somebody off.
Some days I seriously wish I was a traffic cop. Or maybe I should just get a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
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Photo Credits: mini2.com, Acura, TTAC, Evix Images.
AthomSfere
> Dunnik
04/19/2014 at 17:46 |
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I see it like this: Probably not an enthusiast.
I had a friend that knew a ton about cars, but as a burden thing. He could fix them, just about anything. But he avoided car talks entirely, he doesn't like cars.
What did he drive?
Yep, a yellow New Beetle. His choices haven't become much better.
Ferrero1911
> Dunnik
04/19/2014 at 18:05 |
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TLDR because I decided after the first couple paragraphs that you are homophobic, sexist and a dick. First rule of Oppo - don't be a dick.
f86sabre
> Dunnik
04/19/2014 at 18:26 |
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There are more colors than black, red and silver.
http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/my-10-the-open…
PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
> Dunnik
04/19/2014 at 18:31 |
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That does happen to me, yes. When I see a Merc ML for example, I immediately assume it's a trophy wife/soccer mom taking her kids to soccer/choir practice. It's surprising to see a guy driving one...
BrownMiataDieselWagon
> Dunnik
04/19/2014 at 18:33 |
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Is this...sexist? Homophobic?
Yes. Yes, it is sexist and homophobic.
But a man driving a car like this? Not that there's anything wrong with that
No, there is nothing wrong with that man driving that car, whether it is his or not. Now stop judging others. That's not what we do here on OPPO.
sellphones2493
> AthomSfere
04/19/2014 at 23:28 |
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I always assume women drive cars that are white over tan interior - I find that very feminine.