Cracker Jack Driving School
Maybe it's just me, but has Farragut and West Knox become "snob-town"? Everywhere I look, I see people driving around in new cars, trucks, etc., and they all think that they OWN the entire road! If you read your motor vehicle manual (you know, the one you get to read and learn from before you can get a driver's license), then you know that you are supposed to share the road with bicycles, motorcycles, ambulances, fire trucks, police cars, pedestrians and of course "big rigs" and other vehicles large and small. Apparently, however, that rule doesn't get used by a lot of people around here. I swear, did some of these folks get their license to drive from a "cracker jack" box as the surprize inside? If so, that would go a long way to explaining why some folks weave across multiple lanes of traffic, speed at up to 2x the limit or more, chat on the cell-phone, read the newspaper, etc., etc., etc., while they drive! While I've done what I can to stop this (including driving the speed limit, being curteous to other drivers, no longer driving through red-lights, etc.), it's time everyone else get involved and be better examples to everyone else.
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posted by Mike at 8:49 PM
10 Comments:
Survival of the biggest. My Hummer is bigger than your Suburban so get out of MY WAY. What gets me is after they push you off the road they turn into a church or a school.
And they have W stickers all over.
LOL! I guess I'm going out to buy one of those "Big Rigs" that's been converted to be a truck and costs more than my condo! Won't be plastering a "W" sticker on it though, although maybe a Jesus Fish....
Ah come on...you have to have the "W" sticker. What better way to show that you support a President who mislead us into war, been responsible for more innocent deaths than Bin Laden and has accumulated up more debt than all previous Presidents combined...but at least he's against gays...there no more important worry than what body parts a couple like to rub together.
Used to be it was just the kids that drove like idiots. Now it is a family affair. The worst are the mothers yaking on their cell phones speeding and crossing the yellow line on the back roads. I saw some idiot woman doing 60 mph on Virtue Road in a big SUV talking on the cell phone. The only thing you can do is get a bigger SUV. The only people that drive with care are the ones in samll cars.
The only people that drive with care are the ones in samll cars.
Hey, I've got a pretty large Sports Wagon/SUV, but I drive with care! The problem is, for all the "southern hospitality", there sure seems to be a lack of common courtesy and decency here in ET. Or am I just seeing things?
I drive a Porsche Boxster--sensibly and courteously. When an SUV is next to me on the road, my eyes are usually level with the top of their tires. The drivers can't see me, even with their Greyhound-bus-sized mirrors. For you SUV drivers, please be mindful of smaller vehicles. [Flame on] And please don't think you can squash us. A good German car will do more damage to your fiberglass piece of American-made junk than you'll do to us.[/Flame off]
Did you really just ask if Farragut has become "snob town"? Let's be honest with ourselves; from a macro level, our community is about segregating socio-economically. Collectively, we are the snobs. Should you care to disagree, simply peruse FHS's parking lot and you'll see cars that the average, hard-working Knoxvillian cannot afford yet we purchase these for our kids? Farragut has many nice qualities but snobbery is not a question, it is our standard.
Income is not directly related to snobbery. It is a personal decision. We have much more than our share of snobs but those people choose that behavior. There are a lot of wealthy people here that are not snobs.
A lot of these snobs you refer to live from week to week and have a debt load that would make most people ill. Not everyone in Farragut lives up to the sterotype.
Farragut has many nice qualities but snobbery is not a question, it is our standard.
Thing is, I don't think it's everyone, I just think its the "few rotten apples" that are spoiling the barrel here. It might be that we have more than our fair share of bad apples, but I really hope that it's not everyone.
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