Cranky Bee and the SUV
Nov. 20th, 2002 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beetigerWhen Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s website says that they have a compact car “available” at certain location, apparently what they mean is not that they actually have one available, but that they suppose they can probably get one there at some point given enough phone calls and waiting. Since I was already late before I started because the place didn’t open until 7:30, and because “that’s probably what they are bringing over from the other place anyway”, I ended up with an SUV.
It wasn't just the fact that I'm opposed to suburban tanks on moral and ethical grounds that made me unhappy about this. It wasn’t just that I’m a pretty small person, and not used to driving that size vehicle. It wasn’t really the extra gas cost. It wasn’t just that I’m a pretty nervous sort of a driver. It wasn’t even the fact that the last time I drove something like this, it was a company car that I inadvertently plowed into a coworker’s car in the parking lot.
It was the fact that the fog came up just over the hill to make the road nearly invisible, just a mile or two past the rental place, where it had been quite clear. It was that I wasn’t sure whether I’d been able to turn the lights on successfully or whether I was barreling invisibly through the fog. It wasn’t that they crammed two lanes of opposing traffic together into one lane for construction since the last time I was on this route last week, leaving very little room for error. I tried to avoid the scary-turn-around the flagpole near the end of this route by getting off the highway an exit early, but of course I got lost in the fog and ending up spending 15 minutes refinding the highway just to go back on the route I was trying to avoid.
I am so looking forward to Midwest FurFest. I get to dress funny, I get to run games, and no one expects me to drive.
It wasn't just the fact that I'm opposed to suburban tanks on moral and ethical grounds that made me unhappy about this. It wasn’t just that I’m a pretty small person, and not used to driving that size vehicle. It wasn’t really the extra gas cost. It wasn’t just that I’m a pretty nervous sort of a driver. It wasn’t even the fact that the last time I drove something like this, it was a company car that I inadvertently plowed into a coworker’s car in the parking lot.
It was the fact that the fog came up just over the hill to make the road nearly invisible, just a mile or two past the rental place, where it had been quite clear. It was that I wasn’t sure whether I’d been able to turn the lights on successfully or whether I was barreling invisibly through the fog. It wasn’t that they crammed two lanes of opposing traffic together into one lane for construction since the last time I was on this route last week, leaving very little room for error. I tried to avoid the scary-turn-around the flagpole near the end of this route by getting off the highway an exit early, but of course I got lost in the fog and ending up spending 15 minutes refinding the highway just to go back on the route I was trying to avoid.
I am so looking forward to Midwest FurFest. I get to dress funny, I get to run games, and no one expects me to drive.
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Re: I must be evil...
Date: 2002-11-24 01:44 pm (UTC)For what it's worth, I even agree with the general sentiments for about 98% of the SUVs (and more particularly, the drivers) out there. They never have any need for what the things are capable of, they never learn to drive them like anything other than a car (and they are *not* something you can sanely drive like a car, but then, most drivers don't even know how to drive a car, either, if we're talking about US drivers. Not properly, anyway).