smartblog

so ive seen it in action several times now. the first time i thought it was funny and the second time i thought it was a coincidence, but its been probably six different times now and these people are annoying.

i am referring to people who own smart cars filling up at the pump.

they think they are smart.

growing up we had the eagle. we thought it was awesome(because it was) and cool and unique but we did not think we could soar and swoop in on field mice from 300 feet above. when i bought the beetle i thought it was awesome and unique and nifty and i was proud of it, but i did not have the urge to go flying with reckless abandon into a streetlamp over and over. now i have a chevy g10. i think that i am neither a g nor do i feel 10.

having a smart car does not make you smart. paying 16000 dollars for a car that can hardly fit a bag of dogfood is not smart. paying 16000 dollars for a car that should be rolling down a boyscout derby track on a saturday morning in camp walawala is not smart. its a vespa with a roof. vespas are 4000. a good motorcycle brand new is 8000. essentially same car - tata nano- is 2500.


you can see it all over their smug pious smarmy little faces. they reek of thinking they are more clever than the rest of the human race. and they spend like fiften minutes to fill up their little 6 gallon tanks. they walk around their car. they squeegee down the windshield. they look around and around the gas station.... just waiting for someone to come ask them about their car. just waiting to tell someone how smart they are. how great mileage it gets. how green it is. how smart they are. how great the warranty is. who sells them. how smart they are.

the sad thing is that they are obviously very lonely isolated people with a sense of superiority over the rest of us dumb americans and then they buy a car that just ensures that they CANT have any friends. CANT have any kids. CANT have anything other than a pretentious face that needs to be squeegeed.