Mine (SUV) is bigger than yours (car)
3 Comments »January 4th, 2007 by ripper
When I leave the house in the morning, my journey begins quite pleasant on most days. I live in a small town with little traffic which is the reason we don’t have any traffic lights. My first 6 miles or so are almost always uneventful. Today, about a mile from my house, I was behind an old Jeep Cherokee in a really ugly pale blue color. Coming to a turn, I guess the car in front of this person didn’t signal when making a right and the person in the jeep was flipping around their hand and gave the person turning the finger. 5th grade stuff we are talking.
I’m going to make a statement here, which some people will and won’t agree. I hate SUV’s (Sport Utility Vehicle). At some point in the late 80’s/early 90’s, the trendy types started to call them SUV’s. They were never SUV’s. They were ORV’s (Off Road Vehicle). Same machine.
(Good luck following my mind here)
This got me thinking of one of our forum members, craps, who has an avatar of Sloth from the movie “The Goonies”. You can’t help think of the opening scene of the movie of the Fratelli’s busting young Francis (prior to him helping capture Richard Kimble or before he lost his head in The Sopranos, of course) out of jail and then leading the cops on a wild goose chase through the streets of Astoria, Oregon. How do they get away? They end up on the beach and Mama Fratelli (may she RIP) pops the transmission in 4×4 and they pull away through a pack of other trucks in some beach race. A bit later in the movie, Chunk discovers their truck in a garage and what does he say? “ORV…bullet holes” He then goes and pleads to the rest of the Goonies that he saw an ORV with bullet holes the size of matzo balls!!

































