Anonymous
Post 03/28/2008 17:34     Subject: Annoying moms
Moms who say they "need" their SUV, while at the same time buying anything organic, pretending they give a crap about the environment at all, and actually thinking that by saying "I support the troops" out loud and buying some organic peppers at Whole Foods it somehow makes up for their 8 MPG guzzling car.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2008 16:58     Subject: Re:Annoying moms
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Minivans normally sit just a little higher than a regular car, and are not much bigger than a station wagon.


A station wagon my foot. You have obviously never seen a Nissan Quest. It looks like a submarine!


Not PP, but I just took a look at one, and it may be long, but the front end looks like a car's, and the whole thing looks like it's built a on a car base. As I understand it, the problem with SUVs in crashes with cars is that the weight of the SUV is so high up. So it hits a car at a more vulnerable point than another car would.[/quote

They are built on the chasie of a station wagon. They are a bit higher, but the wheel base is the same as a station wagon, and so is the length.

I think a Quest is now considered a CUV, but I would be wrong.

I get annoyed with the mom who has wild kids in her car, unbuckled, going 70mph on the beltway, then won't let anyone in her lane, as the other lane ends.


I don't know what a CUV is and i am sure you are right about them being built on the chasie (whatever that is) of a station wagon but those quests amd similar size cars look like mini houses to me - far vaster than station wagons - both inside and out. i can never see around them and they drive me nuts.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2008 16:22     Subject: Re:Annoying moms
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Minivans normally sit just a little higher than a regular car, and are not much bigger than a station wagon.


A station wagon my foot. You have obviously never seen a Nissan Quest. It looks like a submarine!


Not PP, but I just took a look at one, and it may be long, but the front end looks like a car's, and the whole thing looks like it's built a on a car base. As I understand it, the problem with SUVs in crashes with cars is that the weight of the SUV is so high up. So it hits a car at a more vulnerable point than another car would.[/quote

They are built on the chasie of a station wagon. They are a bit higher, but the wheel base is the same as a station wagon, and so is the length.

I think a Quest is now considered a CUV, but I would be wrong.

I get annoyed with the mom who has wild kids in her car, unbuckled, going 70mph on the beltway, then won't let anyone in her lane, as the other lane ends.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2008 16:09     Subject: Re:Annoying moms
All of the mom who have posted on this thread, including myself. And all the moms who won't let this thread die (including myself...oops).
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2008 15:35     Subject: Re:Annoying moms
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The mom who resurrected this thread!!


The moms who are still reading this thread and still complaining about it!


We can't help it - its like a drug!
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2008 15:34     Subject: Re:Annoying moms
Anonymous wrote:Moms who forgot what it is like to be single and unattached, and turn into "smug marrieds."


Hear Hear.

I am married now but I sooo remember that. One girlfirend even told me she could not mix with her single friends anymore because we no longer had anything in common. I had known her for 10 years nothing in common!
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2008 15:30     Subject: Re:Annoying moms
Moms who forgot what it is like to be single and unattached, and turn into "smug marrieds."
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2008 15:29     Subject: Re:Annoying moms
Anonymous wrote:The mom who resurrected this thread!!


The moms who are still reading this thread and still complaining about it!
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2008 15:28     Subject: Re:Annoying moms
Minivan moms who are in the left lane when I'm in my little sedan in the right lane turning right. I'll creep up a little so I can see around them and they'll creep up too blocking my visibility...so annoying!
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2008 15:03     Subject: Re:Annoying moms
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Minivans normally sit just a little higher than a regular car, and are not much bigger than a station wagon.


A station wagon my foot. You have obviously never seen a Nissan Quest. It looks like a submarine!


Not PP, but I just took a look at one, and it may be long, but the front end looks like a car's, and the whole thing looks like it's built a on a car base. As I understand it, the problem with SUVs in crashes with cars is that the weight of the SUV is so high up. So it hits a car at a more vulnerable point than another car would.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2008 14:56     Subject: Annoying moms
Darnitall, I thought this thread had died.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2008 14:44     Subject: Re:Annoying moms
The mom who resurrected this thread!!
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2008 14:36     Subject: Re:Annoying moms
Moms who don't buckle their kids in the car and let them run around like wild animals. Also, moms (and dads) that smoke while they have kids in the car. Yuck!
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2008 13:56     Subject: Re:Annoying moms
Anonymous wrote:I don't think the forum and listserv audiences overlap that much. Anyway, aren't you complaining about the failure to trim, not the fact that someone people respond to the whole list? Nothing wrong with the latter (when used appropriately), IMHO.


No, I'm talking about when someone replies to a message and the entire compilation is attached to it - thereby embedding a past list into the new list
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2008 13:55     Subject: Annoying moms
This is funny. I have to pipe in and say that I LOVE LOVE LOVE my SUV!