Lately, I've been having issues with other people driving large veihicles, who apparently, are incapable of handling such... I am not going to get up on a soap box, and start in on banning SUV's, because I don't see them as the problem... Yes, SUV's are getting big, and they're wussifying the trucks, but all that does is annoy me a little... The main problem here is the people driving the veihicles...
Let me explain... Today, I pulled in to my usual bagel place I stop at every morning... I noticed a new H2 taking up 2 of the few parking spaces for the second day in a row... The parking places at this shop were repainted in the fall to be wider, and they fit anything... So that's strike one in my thinking that the person responsible for the parking travesty is incompatent... I still will give someone the benifit of the doubt though, because perhaps they didn't know the spaces were wider there... So I headed in, and who do I find in there?... 5 little old ladys, the youngest of which had to be late 60's, the rest solidly in their later years... So I'm thinking who the hell does this thing belong to?... I know the people behind the counter aren't buying an H2 on what they make... So on the way out, I didn't have much to do today, so I thought I'd wait... Sure enough, 10 minutes later, the women came out, and they filed off to their cars, except one that I swear was moving so slowly, she was going backwards... She headed directly (if slowly) to the H2... It took her 5 minutes just to get up, in to the veihicle... Now I ask you, what does a little old lady need an H2 for?... Do her kids think she would be safer in that thing?... When she backed out, she went all the way across the lot untill she hit the opposing curb, and then managed to get it going foward...
So, What's my solution?... Well funny you should ask... Apart from my thought that people should have to re-take their driving test periodically, and especially an eye test, I'm thinking that we need to start getting a special endoresment for large veihicles... Currently my drivers licence is good up to 24,000 pounds, but it doesn't cover size of veihicle... (24,000 lbs will get you a 24' truck from Ryder, I don't even want to think about most people driving them) SUV's and trucks get a bad rap for safety and roll-overs, but the problem isn't the veihicle, the problem is the people that should be driving volvos and the ones that still think they're driving sports cars...
I keep hoping that the high gas prices will scare people from their SUV's that they can't handle... but somehow it isn't working... Untill then, I just give them lots of space on the road, and park at the far side of parking lots where they don't want to walk...