So in my post "Who's comin' with me?!", I told this story:
I see all kinds of HUGE shiny trucks that have never been taken offroad driving around aggresively. Funny story: Chris and I were at a light turning left onto a large wide street near our house, when two large trucks came up next to us and behind us. It was a nice day and we all had our windows down. The truck next to us decided to serenade us with the most godawful music I've ever heard at a completely unreasonable volume, the truck behind us did the same thing (that was a LONG light). The light turned green and they both gunned it and raced down the street, big mulking metal machines that they were (they weren't going very fast), and the kicker was that one of the license plates read "ONLYUSA"...aren't you proud? It was really funny because of their egos, except for the fact they were racing on a busy road near a high school...People these days...
Did I mention the house next door was for sale or rent or something? There are literally 10 of those trucks out front moving someone in, and to top it off, there was a big a$ green SPEEDBOAT hitched to one of them. And there's a big a$ SUV out in front of my house with, shiver, rims (pronounced RHYMMS).
Fabulous.
We were used to never hearing or seeing the people next door. Now I imagine these folks are actually going to take advantage of the pool....
I hope it's not as bad as it seems at this moment.
EDIT: This calls for a Seven and Seven. Bottoms up.
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Sweet. Hopefully they hitch up that speedboat to one of their SUVs and take off for their vacation home every weekend. *rolls eyes*
Bad neighbors suck. I hope these folks turn out to not be, ah, the type of people you might think they'd be, based on all their flashy crap.
Good grief. How did these people evolve, one wonders. When is enough enough?
Thanks for your kind comments, Katie. It's been a bit of a tiresome week all aorund. I don't know what a Seven and Seven is, but have one for me--the antibiotics I'm on mean no alcohol--not even mouthwash--til they clear my system. Not a big problem, but there have been days this week when a nice glass of Shiraz would have been helpful.
Met them today, and the guy doesn't seem too bad. I told Katie she was overreacting. :)
As the owner of a big truck (no shiny rims cause i rarely wash it...lol), i agree with them being for a certain purpose. I use my truck for snowboarding (its a 4x4), camping (so i can haul the wife, two dogs and all of our gear into the mountains), and home improvement projects that require a truck, otherwise it sits in my driveway. Its 5 years old and only has 36K on it and i have had the same tank of gas in it for almost 4 weeks now and its still over half full. my biggest pet peeve with SUV's and trucks, is seeing all of these SUV's and trucks on the road as commuter vehicles with ONLY ONE PERSON IN THEM!!!! I don't know, maybe there are trees that now grow gas on them, because i don't know how people afford $100 a fill up every week. Ok, I'll get off my soap box now.
$4 gas, its coming and its coming quick. These flashy hunks of metal will soon become unaffordable to most people. My pet peeve is the Hummer, the ultimate "inadequacy"-mobile. I know exactly what you mean Katie, I don't get it.....
Sean
We'll be popping more brain cells out of frustration when they come out with a Hummer Nucleon...lol.
I can't believe car makers actually envisioned the world driving around in nuclear vehicles in the 50's. Scary...
Sadly, they might revisit the atomic car just so people can have they're huge McMobilizers.
LOL, I've even come acrossed the term 'uranium guzzler' on damninteresting.com when reading about the Ford Nucleon. That's sad.
On to the subject, Katie, hopefully...you can convert them! Invite them over or something if you can and talk to them about how better your life is and what they could do. Also, ask what they are doing to live a sustainable lifestyle, if anything...
Most importantly, the best thing you can do is smile and show them how happy you are living the way you do, and they might follow.
Oh honey! And you live in California! Come down here to the South. They are ALL like that. Talk to them about "Substainable Lifestyle" and you might as well have three heads. Most of my neighbors have them, and "mudding", or the destruction of these fragile Florida ecosystems with those massive trucks, is still a popular pasttime. They call themselves outdoors men!
Speaking of Environmentally friendly, my ipod is 100% Nickleback free.
chris - You didn't tell me I was overreacting. You drank Seven and Sevens WITH me - remember? Fibber.
Jeff - We kept thinking about you when he was moving in. "Maybe he's like Jeff and ACTUALLY uses his truck for truck things." We use my Saturn the same way - I'm usually not driving it alone, and if I am driving it, it's because we need to pick something up that won't fit in Chris' car. Truly a "utility" vehicle.
Sean - What gets me is that I've seen so many new Hummers in Folsom lately, as if people are thumbing their noses at the gas prices. Just wait until you lose your job Mr. "I'm in Real Estate". Sorry. Soap boxing here.
Garrett - I can always count on you for the interesting links. Nuclear power - yeah, now THERE'S an answer to all of our problems (HEAVY ON THE SARCASM). Perhaps offering him ripe organic apricots in a couple months, fresh homegrown potatoes, and kumquat preserves will persuade him...
Wicked - I've been to Florida many times (still have family there), and you're right - it is scary. Especially the "muddin' thing" - isn't there better things to do than drive your truck around in preservation areas? Good to find another anti-Nickelback fan. :0)
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