Yuppies gave me a dirty look last night, made harsh judgements too.

OK.... It is getting a little THICK in here....

 

brings to mind a scene from fear and loathing in las vegas, when flea from the red hot chili peppers is licking spilled LSD off of hunter s. thompson's sleeve. a "square" in a suit comes in and sees it, and in so many words, thompson says that he could only hope that his square life was forever ruined for having seen something so odd that he'd forever be afraid of ever walking into a mens' restroom again. the more time goes on, the more i think our subculture needs to turn counterculture.

 

Personally, I don't think I could have handled both a dirty look AND harsh judgements.

 

When I was in High School, I built this 67 Mustang. I was SO proud of it, so purdy in red with chrome wheels---yeah alright. I went to the local car hop every Friday night with it. One night this upper crust woman came screaming across the parking lot, towards me! I couldn't figure out why until she got about 3 inches from my face and proceeded to tell me that I was driving a flaming fireball. That anyone who rode in my car was subject to dying a horrible death at my hands! It was so uncalled for. I have installed in my back seats, seat belts. I hide them when I don't have a kid with me, but I make sure to use them when needed. No body has ever stopped me, questioned me or said anything I would fly into a fit of rage about. Of course, then again, you wouldn't want to bad mouth me or my car in front of my wrench fetcher........he might just give you the middle finger.
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Brandy

 

This area's full of them. Someday I'm going to leave and never come back. I hate Fresno.

 

I'm a security guard. I have company employees coming to me all the time with safety issues. Mostly scientists, engineers, geeks and administrators.

"There's coffee spilled on the stairway."
So you spent how long hunting me down to tell me that instead of wiping it up?

"There's a guy working on the building roof without a hard hat."
Uh, he's on the roof, with nothing but sky to fall on him. You're down here below the work area. Where's YOUR hardhat!

"The guy cutting the gr*** doesn't have a hard hat, safety gl***es or safety shoes."
So you walked up next to the riding lawnmower in your nikes and shorts to check out what the guy sitting on it was wearing.

 

maybe you should have driven back and rammed them just to prove how safe your kiddie was, compared to them...they probably would have seen him have fun too!!

 

sheesh...and you're in FRESNO, can you imagine fellow rat rodders in SF or Seattle?!? or worse...in....*bites fingernails* LA?!?!?!?!?!?

 

lol

just goes to show even the lack of brains the cops have about "safety" laws

i was riding with a friend of mine in his '40 last summer, and got pulled over for "improper lighting" (blue dots) which are legal in MN...anyhow after being shown the statute mumber and he struts off to his cruiser to check it out, comes back in a huff after getting the word from his handlers that yes indeedy, thems legal on that there automobile, he proceeds to issue two crisp citations for violation of the SEATBELT LAW!!!!

"officer, these things didnt HAVE seatbelts in them"

"Cars have ALWAYS had seatbelts sir. tell it to the judge"


???????

 

Yeah, but that would be offset by the fact that there is actually something to do in L.A. BTW I'm from Orange county so I know what it's like down there. Move away and you'll see that you have it made. I'll trade you anytime.

 

That logic would make sense if the front end of all cars and back end of all cars were both the same length and reinforced the same. If I drove a mini or similar car where the back seat was literally inches off the bumper, I think the kid would have a much better chance in the front seat. At least the person hitting you would have to smash through your whole engine to get to you. I know a mini isn't the best example of a safe car mind you, but it's a good example if what I'm trying to say.

Anyway... Yuppies are ***holes. period.

 

My fiancee always waits until AFTER she hears **** like that to tell me too, because she knows I'll just make a big *** of myself, in a successful attempt to become the lowest common denominator in any confrontation

It's always annoying that she doesn't let me get into trouble, but yet comforting thinking about it later when the steam has quit rolling off of my head.

 

nah man, i just moved back last June from being in UT for 2 yrs...that's like PRISON time...and unless some unforseen, unavoidable reason moved you to Fresno from OC, then you don't deserve a trade...i am still trying to find a way to make it to OC, even if it means the most eastern boundaries in Corona...

trade you...HA! i grew up in LA and was FRIENDs with a yuppie...i can tune them out now.

 

Heh, I'll second that. And this:

 

It's so funny, this neighborhood's now called Thornton Park, when I first moved to Orlando it was one of the worst, drugs, bums, crime. Now it's all spiffed up and clean. There's a bar down there called Burton's Frosted Mug and it's a stanky dive. The lady that owns the bar's sitting on at least $2,000,000 of property but she won't sell. She's my hero.

The point I was trying to make with this post was that sometimes the wealthy can be incredibly judgemental.

The fact is is that the '60 is all I've got to take the kid to daycare in, and I've equipped it so that he's safe.

I get pissed when people don't strap their kids in even though the car was designed to accomodate children safely.

I should be given some credit for retrofitting a car from an era when we all drove around on our mom's laps.....and lived.

 

AMEN NADS... I used to sit in the back seat, well, STAND in the middle with the drive shaft hump between my feet, arms propped up on the back of the bench seat so I could watch my mom and dad drive and see the road ahead of me... that's all I wanted to do was drive! My mom used to let me steer up the driveway that was awesome.

 

Yes you do. I'm clapping, you just can't hear it.

 

you're the one that's right on this one...even if you DID have something else to take the kid to day care in, as you put it, you did everything you had to do in order to make sure he was safe...it's what all good parents do any way, for everything...

 

fellow rat rodders... cl***ic

 

yea well...ahhh...who cares...

 

Hell my other half wants me to take the kids in the 49 if we ever have any. She figures anything new would just bounce off it.

There are more and more uptights everyday.

Sorry to hear it Nads.

 

The worst thing that I have to deal with is kids singing the Ghostbuster's theme when I drive the wagon. I turn red, it's hard for me to do that seeing as how I'm the color of a burnt Gardenburger.

Where's Fresno?

 

It's over by Hoboken or Wallawalla or somewhere.

Just think of all of the unsafe lane changes, blown stop lights and last second stops they all made on their way home in their BMWs.

Wallowing in their "holier than thou" ignorance the whole way.

 

Fresno is (to me) in the Middle-North of CA. there is pretty much nothing around there except, last i remember, strawberry fields...hence, the derrogatory term in Spanish... FRESAno...oh, and apparently, there's also yuppies around...go figure, all there used to be was field workers

 

Im surprized they got off thier cell phone long enough to notice.

 

holy **** nads .. i was gonna do a similar post last summer.. i take my 4 yr old daughter EVERYWHERE with me in the merc and the seat belts would withstand a nuclear blast. anyways ive encountered the same ********. but my little girl over heard my reply to one of these ***hole broads and her uppity puke husband and ratted me out to momma.. man can these youngsters here good!!! im glad you take good care of your kids and have fun in the car

 

Hellfish is right. You don't have airbags-you also don't have safety gl*** in a 60, either. It was also a wagon, so I'd be wonderin' why you weren't using the backseat either.
Just my two cents...

 

With all due respect to all you out there who contributed to this post, A couple of months ago I made a flippant remark about seat belts, I was deservidly dressed down by more than a couple HAMBers. Lesson learned, and I would hope that some of you were as well were shooting off a bit...

Regretably, I need to point out a devils advocate thing here. IF the unthinkable did happen, and a child in your car was hurt, in reference to the front seat/car seat thing, all it will take is a DA with political aspirations, or a State Attorney who wants to ban ALL non air bag cars (everything older than 1985???), and YOU WILL NOT WIN..

 

Too bad most self-labeled "liberals" are anything but open-minded or nonjudgemental.

just my 2 centavos.