I am Five Times Your Size and You Can't SEE ME?

[Gaki]

I drive a 1996 Chevy Tahoe. In other words, I drive a giant metallic (yes, my truck is not made of that cheapo plastic) BEAST. Technically it is regarded as an SUV but being that it is quite larger than an SUV, I call it "the Truck."

Now I have had SEVERAL instances where some serious Entitled VIPs just HAD to force me to slam the the brakes.

Now I have to point out as well that I am known for my aggressive driving. I have only ever driven one thing that was smaller than that Tahoe and for a while I was driving my Dad's Chevy Avalanche. I miss that truck...

Number 1: Still on my permit.

I'm on my way to pick up my dogs at the kennel with my mom in the truck with me. This truck should have been in cash for clunkers so it's not a big deal if I bang it up a little bit as long as it's never my fault if I do it...and I'm not supposed to kill anyone. Haha. So, I'm in the right lane and everything starts coming to a very slow crawl because there is construction in the left lane. Great, fine, wonderful.

I'm one of those people who gets into the correct lane right away so I don't have to merge in at the last second. Well. I'm also one of those people who lets in one person (and just one) who has decided to try to pass everyone and merge at the last second. I figure that by the time they've gotten to me, they've been punished enough. Well, I do this. I do it very well, I'm perfect and wonderful and I let out this cute little Saturn that has this teary-eyed teenage girl in it who's probably older than I am at this point and I go to follow her. Now, keep in mind I'm so close to her bumper that there is no room for another car.

Some BITCH in a Honda comes to pull out behind the Saturn. And there's me inching forward smiling and saying, "Oh really? You want a paint job? Really? On that nice little silver Honda? You want it? You look like you want some really nice BLACK on the side of that, how about a few dents too?" And I'm inching, inching, inching, she's not even looking but her husband is yelling at her, watching my grill come up to his face.

At this point I'm not too worried because I don't know about other places but here in my state if you are turning into an active lane and you get hit, it's your fault. This lady would have been toast had my mother not patted my shoulder and said, "Dear, you're on your permit, if you had your license I'd let you but you don't, why don't you let her go?"

I pouted and let the bitch run over a couple cones to squeeze into that spot.

Number 2: On my way to Work

Some girl merged onto the highway, I'm in the passing lane, the left, and suddenly wants to move into my lane for NO REASON. That's great, that's wonderful, or at least it would have been if she had ever looked over her shoulder before recklessly switching lanes.

Let me put this into perspective. I'm in the lefthand lane in my monster Death Machine that sounds like a giant beast is growling and barking when I'm driving. It's rather deafening, but I suppose if you're Miss Prissy Princess in your Daddy's convertible, you'd have been used to those horrible sounds right next to your face. She's in the righthand lane in a convertible and would have NO PROBLEM looking over her shoulder, in fact if she had looked over my grill would have been RIGHT THERE. No. She decides to move over into my lane. Now, if I had not slammed on the brakes the back end of her car would have hit the massive front end of my truck and would have spun her car so that she would have been the top of a rather messy-looking 'T' and her face would have been embedded in my grill. Would I have died? No. In fact, that wouldn't have even totaled my vehicle, IN FACT that tiny little convertible would have probably ended up UNDER me.

The guy behind me panicked and laid on the horn, slamming on the brakes and actually almost stopping. I didn't honk, I just hit the brakes so hard my truck made that angry sound, you know, the one where she goes, "WRREEEEEEEAAA." Didn't swerve though, my truck is a babe, just kept right on........truckin'. XD

[LillFilly]

Hee. I like your mom!

I love my car, which it had more power under the hood though; it's a 4-cylinder and isn't large but counts as a 'crossover utility vehicle.' I COULD cram a 6-cylinder under there though, add a hydrolics kit, some surface-to-air missles...

[AriRashkae]

I'd settle for an EMP gun to kill the electronics.

[Mamadrae]

See I fear driving those tanks. I am a paranoid driver for sure but I always worry I'm gonna crush someone under those things (learned to drive in hubby's truck, that was enough).

[jedimaster91]

One of the boys I dated as a teenager bought a Ford F150 and let me drive it once. I felt like I was driving a tank and he was trying not to laugh at me when I couldn't park the behemoth. I think I'll stick with my compact cars and mid-size sedans, TYVM.

[blas]

I work with a few women who drive large trucks and SUVs who can't park them or even maneuver them to save their own lives, I'd really like to save myself the frustration and humiliation and keep my compact and small sedan cars.

That and less room = less room for people to mooch rides. I think I might even get a two seater next time.....laundry can ride shotgun.

[Nashida]

I'll never be able to drive something that big. I own a sedan but I learned to drive in my mom's Grand Caravan. I felt like I was driving this huge boat the whole time.

[AriRashkae]

One of my "learning vehicles" (as in, I started when I was 12 and could barely see) was my father's Ford SuperDuty. After maneuvering that thing with 20+' trailer attached, I'm not too nervous about driving big things. Don't want to, but I do know how to handle it when I have to.

[Fryk]

The first car I owned was an 1978 Oldsmobile Delta 98. I swear this thing was made from die-cast adamantium. Nothing dented this thing, nothing. That kind of power should not be in the hands of anyone younger than 50. I used to ram things in the parking lot of my work for fun, like shopping carts at 35 mph. Not even a scratch. Then once, me and my roommate were on our way back to college when I had to brake suddenly on the interstate. He rear ended me with his decommisioned police car and dented up his front bumper pretty good. My tank got a tiny dent in the rear bumper, about the size of a quarter.

Gotta love indestructible cars.

[Andara Bledin]

I learned to drive in a huge Ford work van, with no power steering, so pretty much anything else is easy peasy for me to drive and maneuver.

However, I much prefer my mid-size/small sedans that don't take a gallon per mile traveled and can park in pretty much any spot available.

But I have been known to out-intimidate people trying to squeeze in where they have no right to be, both in huge ugly vans, as well as in tiny compacts. Sometimes, it helps if they can actually see your face and see the expression that tells them that you have absolutely no problem being involved in an accident that day... I've never actually been in an accident that was even remotely my fault, but for my first in a workplace parking lot.

^-.-^

[wolfie]

I drive a 1996 Chevy Tahoe.

Number 2: On my way to Work

Some girl merged onto the highway, I'm in the passing lane, the left, and suddenly wants to move into my lane for NO REASON. That's great, that's wonderful, or at least it would have been if she had ever looked over her shoulder before recklessly switching lanes.

I had something similar to that happen to me this spring, but instead of a subcompact like you were driving, I was behind the wheel of a large vehicle. I was in the 2nd from the right (of 4) lanes, the person was barely going half my speed, and immediately changed into my lane. Braking alone wouldn't have avoided a collision, but fortunately the lane to my left was empty, so I also pulled into it. Guess what the idiot did? Immediately pulled into that lane. This time, the brakes were enough to avoid scratching the chrome on my bumper, but it took quite a while to get back up to speed.

Why would I call a '96 Tahoe a subcompact? At the time of the incident, I was driving an 18 wheeler with around 30,000 pounds of cargo.

[casey13]

No offense, but if I was the mother in the first post, I'd refuse to let the op drive till she was paying her own insurance on her own plan. I'm not going to allow my kid to raise my insurance rates just because he or she decided that she would get into an accident instead of allowing another person pull in front of them. In most states I know of, the more accidents you are involved in, the more you are charged. Some states may have laws against that practice.

[tropicsgoddess]

One of my co-workers drives a super-duty, hell he learned how to drive in his father's truck, another ford truck but with dualies. I honestly don't know how anybody could drive such big vehicles to be honest. Those things are like tanks! I love my little sedan and I'm sticking with it....nice amount of room, gas mileage and it kicks ass!

[Dreamstalker]

I'd settle for an EMP gun to kill the electronics.

I'd settle for just knocking them onto the shoulder/out of the way. Things might get messy if you wound up frying an onboard computer...

Someone in my LARP group (Ghostbusters) built a prop roof-mounted proton cannon to put on his truck. Didn't do squat, but looked the part of heavy, menacing and controllable from the cab (somehow, not many others cars wanted to cut us off when it was riding along). One of the guys wanted to give it the full LED treatment, but that probably would have brought the cops down on us... This was a few years ago, no way would we be able to get away with it now.