I took my lunch hour to take the opportunity to get my son out of school early. As I arrive at the school and pull into the grounds, immediately the job becomes difficult. Why? It has gotten to the point that everyone around my area has decided to get increasingly bigger and bigger SUVs and trucks in an apparent attempt to be able to push their way though traffic and parking lots. As I deal with the Chaos, I decided to take a basic head count of who was driving what. In the line of cars 
to pick up kids, 41 of 54 vehicles was either a Truck, SUV or Van. 
Is everyone running over the cliff to buy a fuel thirsty large SUVs and truck? It's getting nuts....... and these aren't just normal pickups either. Many of these folks are getting full size turbo diesels that are jacked up with wide open exhausts and boost kits, exhaust pipes the size of coffee cans that make enormous clouds of black smoke as they stomp on the gas. They typically are driving 20 mph+ over the speed limit, cutting people off, riding their bumpers and in general push their way around in traffic much to the terror of drivers of smaller vehicles. I guess the "mine is bigger and louder" attitude is in full swing. Granted I was in a serious accident a short time ago, but the fear created by these idiots in their wannabe bigfoot trucks is genuine and a definite hazzard to regular traffic. This one driver in the school parking lot decided to pull up to my car and edge closer and closer in an attempt to get me to move so he could get past me. When I mean close, I mean within 6 inches. I had nowhere to go, couldn't move, I was pinned in by traffic. He was about to make contact when I got out of the car, pointed at him and said " go ahead, I have insurance and witnesses." It wasn't until that statement that he backed up and drove around a few other cars to get where he was going. This kind of BS has been occuring more frequently, something has got to give......... if something isn't done, highway death rates are going to soar.
What's the deal? Is this pattern happening everywhere or just in rural dumb @#% Florida? Seriously though, what is the deal with 41 of 54 vehicles being big SUVs and Trucks? Is this happening everywhere else too? It's no wonder the oil industry is making record profits. These people must be hating life at the gas pumps.
to pick up kids, 41 of 54 vehicles was either a Truck, SUV or Van. Is everyone running over the cliff to buy a fuel thirsty large SUVs and truck? It's getting nuts....... and these aren't just normal pickups either. Many of these folks are getting full size turbo diesels that are jacked up with wide open exhausts and boost kits, exhaust pipes the size of coffee cans that make enormous clouds of black smoke as they stomp on the gas. They typically are driving 20 mph+ over the speed limit, cutting people off, riding their bumpers and in general push their way around in traffic much to the terror of drivers of smaller vehicles. I guess the "mine is bigger and louder" attitude is in full swing. Granted I was in a serious accident a short time ago, but the fear created by these idiots in their wannabe bigfoot trucks is genuine and a definite hazzard to regular traffic. This one driver in the school parking lot decided to pull up to my car and edge closer and closer in an attempt to get me to move so he could get past me. When I mean close, I mean within 6 inches. I had nowhere to go, couldn't move, I was pinned in by traffic. He was about to make contact when I got out of the car, pointed at him and said " go ahead, I have insurance and witnesses." It wasn't until that statement that he backed up and drove around a few other cars to get where he was going. This kind of BS has been occuring more frequently, something has got to give......... if something isn't done, highway death rates are going to soar. What's the deal? Is this pattern happening everywhere or just in rural dumb @#% Florida? Seriously though, what is the deal with 41 of 54 vehicles being big SUVs and Trucks? Is this happening everywhere else too? It's no wonder the oil industry is making record profits. These people must be hating life at the gas pumps.
then i noticed since the buss strike has gone on here in new milford, the line of cars hasnt grown much since most parents who are half asleep and will do anthing to get where they are going(i.e. i nearly got t-boned cuz some ladying didnt want to wait till i got past a road to get out 
). Luckily she was really young for any lasting long-term memories.Today's demographic profiles of neighborhoods have really changed for the worse. Now you have all kinds of undesirables living in kid filled neiborhoods. My sis who lives in camarillo, Ca has at least 5 sexual predators/offenders on the CA list between them and their school 1/2 mile away (yes you read that right - they were their before stronger laws were enacted). After what my niece went through I don't blame my sis for driving her daughter to school (to avoid the nutso's) The SUV has replaced the station wagon and and partially the minivan as an all around confortable car for the ENTIRE family. Some of you can recollect the station wagons were gas gos way back when also. As for my sis driving an SUV... they regret buying it as it is a gas hog, but with they way things are, they are stuck with it. I give her S**t about their SUV, every time I call 
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