Do you personally know anyone around DC who drives a Cadillac Escalade?

[Anonymous]

I don't know them, but I see plenty of little teeny blondes driving something like this all over the suburbs. I don't keep track of the brand and model of the ginormous parking hogs.

[Anonymous]

I think these are rather cool looking vehicles & I wouldn’t judge anyone who drove one of these.

Or a Lincoln Navigator.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. She is a realtor. Does not seem too out of character since she's a realtor, but DH and I laugh about behind her back.

You sound nice. I would think something like this would make a lot of sense for a realtor, actually. Doesn't she spend a lot of time showing people houses? If she is driving multiple people around, wouldn't a big, comfortable car make sense for this job?

Yup. Tacky, unlettered and sleazy profession.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. She is a realtor. Does not seem too out of character since she's a realtor, but DH and I laugh about behind her back.

You sound nice. I would think something like this would make a lot of sense for a realtor, actually. Doesn't she spend a lot of time showing people houses? If she is driving multiple people around, wouldn't a big, comfortable car make sense for this job?

Yes it makes sense, which is what I said. But there are lots of big SUVs out there and the big white Escalade seems funny given that she is a blonde suburban white lady. This was during the period DH and I were watching a lot of The Wire and associated the Escalade with that.

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Anonymous wrote:The look the same as all the other obnoxious huge SUV's with VA and MD plates that speed through my DC neighborhood as a cut through.

Maybe you should live on a farm out in the middle of nowhere if you dislike being in a city that much.

I love being in my city. What I don't like is people who don't live in my city treating my neighborhood like it's Indy 500.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. She is a realtor. Does not seem too out of character since she's a realtor, but DH and I laugh about behind her back.

You seem pleasant.

[Anonymous]

Yes I wonder why they drive these ridiculous vehicles that they can't park. I also think that paying that much money for a pos "luxury" American car is insane.

[Anonymous]

A friend of ours had one for a long time. They are a big family (tall and large) and needed a comfortable car. I don’t think of Escalades as gaudy, are they that different than any very large SUV?

[Anonymous]

We used to live in Baltimore and all the big time dealers drove Escalades. There were dozens of not hundreds of them.

[Anonymous]

CEO of my company drives a 2005 Escalade. He won't get a new one because he believes it would be way too flashy, and even though we all know he's worth $50M+, he would be uncomfortable driving a new one to work.

He has said he'll go with a GMC Yukon for his next car. He spends a lot of time in the mountains and has a boatload of grandkids, bicycles for sport and likes to be able to throw his bike in there, etc.

[Anonymous]

My husband drives one. He's had it for 7 years. It is the biggest piece of garbage on wheels-- talk about overpriced! The door handles fall off routinely; he had to have the engine replaced at 150,000 miles; etc. He originally purchased it because he is in real estate and it's a comfortable vehicle to drive clients around in. He's looking at Honda Pilots for his next vehicle.

(I have no idea why you'd judge someone for the car they drive, unless you're just a judgmental person.)

[Anonymous]

My FIL who lives in Oregon who is in real estate. A polar bear cries every time he fires that thing up.

[Anonymous]

I rode in one with a commercial realtor--does that count? There were four of us as passengers.

[Anonymous]

Screams real estate agent or guy in sales with a degree from a diploma mill.

[Anonymous]

Uber driver
Embassy driver (w/t diplo plates)
Cabinet member with or without escort
Private school mom on her way to Chevy to play tennis
Thug with low profile rims and thumping bass amp