In Los Angeles, if you are behind a minivan, you can be sure it will go slow. Cautiously, but safely slow. They won't run a yellow, but they won't sleep through a green. I wish they would go about 5 miles an hour faster, but I always enjoy looking at the stick figure stickers of the 8 people in their family unit on the tinted back window, and I admire their commitment to saftey.
If you are behind a Buick or an Oldsmobile, it will go slow. So very slow. Dangerously slow. Slow enough that you realize that the driver is being extra cautious because their vision, hearing and/or reflexes are compromised. Someone who loves them has INSISTED that they drive a tank, for their own protection, and since they hail from Tom Brokaw's "Greatest Generation," they buy American. It is always those two brands. Not Cadillac, Lincoln, Chrysler. I know these brands all sort of overlap in the Ford, Chevy and GM families, but the slowpokes specifically choose Buick and Oldsmobile.
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If I had to guess, I would say that you've had some time recently to study traffic a bit.
Although I've never seen the stick figure stickers on the minivans before. Might not be a "Colorado thing". If you run them off the road can you claim their stickers as trophies?
Collin-
As a matter of fact, my point was proven once again this morning on the way to work, as a pokey late model Oldmobile driven by a Member of the Greatest Generation took an extremely long time to make the turn at a left arrow. When you are the front car, it is your job, your DUTY, to help at least three cars make it through, especially at 8:45am. By all means, be cautious. Who knows who is running the red coming the other way. But maybe give it a little more juice so that you are not the ONLY FUCKING CAR making it through 20 seconds of blessed left turn green arrow.
The stick figure stickers are something you must be able to order from a secret married people with kids catalog/website. They have everyone represented from Dad, Mom, and boy and girl children of various sizes down to the baby and the pets. Sometimes it is just the heads, and sometimes it has actual names underneath. They line 'em up along the bottom edge of the back window. I wonder if they get changed as the kids grow, a new baby comes along or if the dog dies.
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