This weekend I noticed a few things that people do, and can't understand on earth why they would, so I'm posting my observations here in the hopes someone can shed some light on them:
1) Why do people key stranger's cars? My cousin is a sweet girl who moved out to LA and started working at UCLA a few months ago. She leased a new Accord sedan for the new life in LA. A few weeks after starting at UCLA, and not really knowing anyone (or having any enemies), someone keyed her car in the UCLA parking lot. I just can't understand why some stranger would key other people's vehicles. It's not logical to me. Maybe someone can explain it to me. My cousin is taking it well, she tells me she's trying not to focus on it or she'll get depressed. I feel so bad for her, and I want to beat the snot out of the idiot who did it.
2) Why do people rice up crappy cars? I drove past some really modded vehicles, including a Chevy Malibu that was lowered to the ground with expensive rims sticking out of it. It drove like crap over the LA freeway (which has that terrible bouncy tendency). I just can't fathom why someone would dump money on a crappy car. Prior to my NSX, the only modification I ever did to my cars was to tint them. I would never waste a dime modding sub-par vehicles. I'd rather save the money used to mod a crappy car and buy a better vehicle to begin with.
3) Why do people buy more expensive gas when cheaper gas is across the street? This really puzzled me. I was driving this morning 10:30am, and I stop at an intersection and see 3 gas stations. 2 gas stations (Texaco and a generic brand) has unleaded at $2.23, one gas station (Shell) has unleaded at $2.29. All 3 gas stations have people gassing up their trucks, cars, etc. Traffic was none existant, so convenience in terms of which side the gas stations are on shouldn't really affect which gas station gets the most traffic. I just couldn't understand why people would buy the more expensive gas at Shell when cheaper gas was right across the street...
4) Why do idiots put themselves and others in danger intentionally?? I was driving home on the freeway, and I was on the #3 lane of the 4 lane freeway. The #1 lane is clear. There was a big rig on the #4 lane next to me, and a Chevy SUV slightly to the left and back of me on the #2 lane. As I'm carefully driving the speed limit (with wife and baby on board), I look in the rear-view mirror and I see two headlights coming fast at my SUV.
This driver is coming so fast that it makes my 70 MPH speed (the limit) look like I'm sitting still. I felt like a deer looking at headlights, as the two headlights came at me so fast from the rear. The car (240SX) somehow manages to avoid hitting me and the Chevh SUV to the left of me by squeezing through by the narrowest of margins between us. I was shocked and outraged. This schmuck was racing a Dodge Neon and had put my wife and my baby at risk.
I was so pissed off that I honked my horn multiple times and flashed my lights. I immediately called 911 and reported these dangerous drivers. I was wishing that I had stepped on the brakes and let the 240 SX slam into my SUV (just wishing and venting), and put some pain into the driver. Why do these immature jerks like to intentionally cut into other vehicles when there is plenty of space available elsewhere?
1) Why do people key stranger's cars? My cousin is a sweet girl who moved out to LA and started working at UCLA a few months ago. She leased a new Accord sedan for the new life in LA. A few weeks after starting at UCLA, and not really knowing anyone (or having any enemies), someone keyed her car in the UCLA parking lot. I just can't understand why some stranger would key other people's vehicles. It's not logical to me. Maybe someone can explain it to me. My cousin is taking it well, she tells me she's trying not to focus on it or she'll get depressed. I feel so bad for her, and I want to beat the snot out of the idiot who did it.
2) Why do people rice up crappy cars? I drove past some really modded vehicles, including a Chevy Malibu that was lowered to the ground with expensive rims sticking out of it. It drove like crap over the LA freeway (which has that terrible bouncy tendency). I just can't fathom why someone would dump money on a crappy car. Prior to my NSX, the only modification I ever did to my cars was to tint them. I would never waste a dime modding sub-par vehicles. I'd rather save the money used to mod a crappy car and buy a better vehicle to begin with.
3) Why do people buy more expensive gas when cheaper gas is across the street? This really puzzled me. I was driving this morning 10:30am, and I stop at an intersection and see 3 gas stations. 2 gas stations (Texaco and a generic brand) has unleaded at $2.23, one gas station (Shell) has unleaded at $2.29. All 3 gas stations have people gassing up their trucks, cars, etc. Traffic was none existant, so convenience in terms of which side the gas stations are on shouldn't really affect which gas station gets the most traffic. I just couldn't understand why people would buy the more expensive gas at Shell when cheaper gas was right across the street...
4) Why do idiots put themselves and others in danger intentionally?? I was driving home on the freeway, and I was on the #3 lane of the 4 lane freeway. The #1 lane is clear. There was a big rig on the #4 lane next to me, and a Chevy SUV slightly to the left and back of me on the #2 lane. As I'm carefully driving the speed limit (with wife and baby on board), I look in the rear-view mirror and I see two headlights coming fast at my SUV.
This driver is coming so fast that it makes my 70 MPH speed (the limit) look like I'm sitting still. I felt like a deer looking at headlights, as the two headlights came at me so fast from the rear. The car (240SX) somehow manages to avoid hitting me and the Chevh SUV to the left of me by squeezing through by the narrowest of margins between us. I was shocked and outraged. This schmuck was racing a Dodge Neon and had put my wife and my baby at risk.
I was so pissed off that I honked my horn multiple times and flashed my lights. I immediately called 911 and reported these dangerous drivers. I was wishing that I had stepped on the brakes and let the 240 SX slam into my SUV (just wishing and venting), and put some pain into the driver. Why do these immature jerks like to intentionally cut into other vehicles when there is plenty of space available elsewhere?
