I don't think I can be friends with moms who drive huge SUVs

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Anonymous wrote:What do you consider a huge SUV? A Toyota Highlander or Honda Pilot or are we talking Suburbans and Escalades?

Pilots drive like cars. If you have 3 teen boys 6 feet and above (I do and lets not forget the husband), and a large breed dog (90 pounds) that comes on family vacations something of this size is a must.

Are you opposed to Minivans too? We have the necessary third row given the size or our kids (size of men) and the dog and we often drive up to Maine so need the leg room.

I have to admit the Suburbans and Navigators that are inevitably in the wrong place at pick up blocking everyone else can be annoying as F, but if someone can actually drive it properly and obeys the same rules as everyone else that I could care less what they drive.

I tend to drive the small beater car in the city and we live in a walkable neighborhood so unless we are going to one of the many sports' events, we WAH and don't really drive.

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Anonymous wrote:Enjoy your Prius

I no longer have a Prius. That was in high school and I pointed that out because that's how I grew up. It was very important to my parents that I don't contribute to global warming so hence the Prius. Big SUVs are so wasteful. That's a fact Americans love to ignore.

You and your family sound insufferable. We have a Prius AND a big big SUV. A Prius can’t tow my horses around a yes the horses fart and probably contribute to glow or warming too. You are ridiculous. Live your life and let other people live theirs. You have no idea why people do what they do or whether they tells you anything about their values. You just don’t.

No one cares about your horses.

I mean I do. But I am not frothing at the mouth about the cars others drive. Unhinged!!

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The giant Ram trucks are the worst of them all...and the drivers and way that get up on your *ss too.

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lots of ppl judge ppl based on the car they drive without knowing the circs. I think people who drive lexus suvs are cringe, I think rolls royce is beyond weird. Those boxy pilot cars are so weird to me - like a child drew them. why? Red sports cars - euw so thirsy. subaru wagon - chip on shoulder.
I could go on.
is fine to dislike ppl based on their car. I have an SUV and i'm fine if op does not want to be my friend. she's probably right that we would not like each other. I too wish to select friends based on their car choice!

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Are you in VA? Just curious.

I also would probably not befriend these people. Not because of their cars, but they cars say it all.

Excess, caring primarily about themselves and keeping up with the Joneses. Not my people.

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Anonymous wrote:Enjoy your Prius

I no longer have a Prius. That was in high school and I pointed that out because that's how I grew up. It was very important to my parents that I don't contribute to global warming so hence the Prius. Big SUVs are so wasteful. That's a fact Americans love to ignore.

You and your family sound insufferable. We have a Prius AND a big big SUV. A Prius can’t tow my horses around a yes the horses fart and probably contribute to glow or warming too. You are ridiculous. Live your life and let other people live theirs. You have no idea why people do what they do or whether they tells you anything about their values. You just don’t.

Hit a nerve? Driving a huge suv does tell you something about people's values. "Live your life and let others waste, pollute, consume, blah blah. It's the American way. Go America!

And you know what. Yeah. Go America. It’s the best and most free country in the world and we are sending so much help and care to turkey right now so why don’t you just shut up for half a beat and be incredibly grateful that you are here and not there. If you don’t like the American way, leave.

This comment is ironic because last night when a man was shooting people at Michigan State for no freaking reason and college kids were cowering in their dorm rooms and parents where frantically trying to find out if they were okay, I thought to myself: this isn't freedom.

You think freedom is driving your giant SUV. I think freedom is not worrying about being hit by a giant SUV, or my kid being run over by one.

I'd freaking love to leave this stupid country.

You, I would be friends with !

[Anonymous]

The funniest thing about this thread is all the people patting themselves on the back for their perceived virtue, and castigating others for their lack of virtue, really and truly believe that individual changes matter one iota with respect to climate change. They don't. If it makes you feel better, fine, but if you really believe that driving an Accord as opposed to a Suburban changes anything at all, you don't have two brain cells to rub together.

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Anonymous wrote:I drive an SUV because it's safer and I couldn't care less about what some neighborhood busybody thought about it.

It's safer FOR YOU. It's actually more dangerous for everyone else.

https://slate.com/business/2022/11/suv-size-truck-bloat-pedestrian-deaths.html

It's cute how you think I meant anything other than "IT'S SAFER FOR ME"

Yeah until your kid gets hit walking to school....

Oh wait that's only for the poors right?

I drive my kid 35+ minutes to private school. Yeah, I need a car. And yeah, I'm going to be safe doing it.

- NP

+1 Yep, it's only for the poors. I drive mine to private school in my SUV. One of 3 we own. Not sorry one bit.

hate that you are raising children...

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Anonymous wrote:The funniest thing about this thread is all the people patting themselves on the back for their perceived virtue, and castigating others for their lack of virtue, really and truly believe that individual changes matter one iota with respect to climate change. They don't. If it makes you feel better, fine, but if you really believe that driving an Accord as opposed to a Suburban changes anything at all, you don't have two brain cells to rub together.

Regardless, they are excessive and wasteful and showy.

Like a McMansion.

Sought after only by the insecure and materialistic.

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Regardless, they are excessive and showy.

Like a McMansion.

Sought after only by the insecure and materialistic.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The funniest thing about this thread is all the people patting themselves on the back for their perceived virtue, and castigating others for their lack of virtue, really and truly believe that individual changes matter one iota with respect to climate change. They don't. If it makes you feel better, fine, but if you really believe that driving an Accord as opposed to a Suburban changes anything at all, you don't have two brain cells to rub together.

Regardless, they are excessive and wasteful and showy.

Like a McMansion.

Sought after only by the insecure and materialistic.

To quote the Dude. "that's just, like, your opinion, man."

[Anonymous]

All of these posts have merely reinforced what I already thought.

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Anonymous wrote:All of these posts have merely reinforced what I already thought.

You must be new to the internet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The funniest thing about this thread is all the people patting themselves on the back for their perceived virtue, and castigating others for their lack of virtue, really and truly believe that individual changes matter one iota with respect to climate change. They don't. If it makes you feel better, fine, but if you really believe that driving an Accord as opposed to a Suburban changes anything at all, you don't have two brain cells to rub together.

Regardless, they are excessive and wasteful and showy.

Like a McMansion.

Sought after only by the insecure and materialistic.

So your objections are purely aesthetic? OK, I guess. For the record, I drive one of the aforementioned Civics, so I have no dog in this fight. But most of the discussion has centered on the "environmental impact" of SUVs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you in VA? Just curious.

I also would probably not befriend these people. Not because of their cars, but they cars say it all.

Excess, caring primarily about themselves and keeping up with the Joneses. Not my people.

WTF? A toyota or honda says this to you?

But not the BMWs, and Porsches and Maseratis I see around my neighborhood?

Good lord.