Posting from a yahoo prius group

BobA · 12-02-2005, 01:38 AM

This is the funniest thing I have read in forever... not sure how
many of you may have seen it.. but think it should be read by all..
thanks to kscharfenberg, who wrote it...

Time for a Rant - Hide the breakables

Went out to a fancy restaurant with my extended family Thanksgiving.
Wonderful meal and great company. Since we were a somewhat larger
group, we got a large table in the rear 'party' (?) room. There were
a couple other large tables with groups in there also.

As I was listening to one of my family members drone on about
something (Snooooore) I happened to 'pick up' bits of conversation
from the group next to us. I zeroed in on their conversation, as ours
was waaaayyyy out there. They were talking Prius and hybrids in
general. Interesting! Then it turned dark. Oh Oh.

They began to say how this "60 MPG advertising" was all a crock! One
of them actually read where these cars "Only REALLY get 35 MPG!" It
was nothing but advertising!" "Why, my Lincoln gets close to 30 MPG
and it's just a regular engine! Hybrids! Hurrrumph!"

I really wanted to turn my chair and set these sixty-something,
Glenn Miller listening, Black socks with sandals wearing, Hy-Ball
(???) drinking, Hi-Fi listening, Vinyl-roof sporting, white-walls
are 'spiffy, Viagra popping geezers a lesson but my wife wouldn't
let me. All I could get in was a "Honey, do you have the keys to the
PRIUS? (very loud ) as we passed their table on the way out. I doubt
any of those Geritol jet-setters had their hearing aids turned up
anyway.

As I drove home I began to ponder why these oldsters were so down on
us? What did we do to them? All we're trying to do is save the
danged planet and reduce our use of fossil fuels. Geee, what an
awful thing to want! I was bum-fuzzled by their attitude.

As I drove around for the next couple of days it began to sink in. I
saw a guy getting into his Prius in Wally's Parking lot so I tried
to engage him in friendly conversation. Really friendly like. Told
him I drove a Salsa Red Prius. Asked about his Mileage and so on. He
responded to me like I just got out of Prison and wanted to date his
daughter! I might as well have been covered in some weird flesh-
eating bacteria! Very COLD fellow. Odd.

I pulled up next to one at a stop light and rode side by side with
them for a couple of miles. I beeped and tried to get their
attention. No dice. I beeped again and still nothing. Huh. Maybe
their stereo is up? I pulled in behind them and followed for a mile
of so. Maybe he would see me. No response.
When I got to my last light before I turned, I beeped again. This
time they both looked. Was my flesh-eating bacteria showing again? I
gave them both a big smile and a thumbs up and all I got was a dead-
pan glance then they ignored me! Whhat the **&^^? I drove along side
another prius a day
later and got the exact same treatment! No smile, no wave, just a
blank glance then looked away.

Do any of you people really understand what driving a Prius
means???? We are the FUTURE! We are the pioneers! We are the Modern
day Conestoga wagons heading out into the Mountains in search of the
Pacific ocean! We are few in number but large in courage! We are here
to blaze the way for millions that will (MUST) follow if we are to
save this blue marble we call Earth! Yet, we continue to treat each
other as some weird nutcase waving at us at stoplights!

Any of you ever own a VW Beetle? Those had to be the friendliest,
most tight-knit group of car owners on this Earth! It was almost
EXPECTED that when you passed another beetle you either waved,
Beeped or flashed the lights! We are brothers and sisters in arms and
we supported each other till the end! If you saw one broken down on
the roadside you almost always saw another parked behind it trying
to help! Beetle people SUPPORTED each other! All for one and one for
all, as they say. What do we Prius people do? IGNORE each other!!!!!

Act like a bunch of danged snooty-patooties who are just too good to
associate with each other! And what do we get in return for this
snotty attitude? Idiot journalists (???) in some useless rag making
up LIES about our cars!!! Then we have the people who know nothing
at all about Prius' spouting this IDIOT'S garbage to each other as
divine truth because you current Prius owners won't take a moment to
smile at each other or speak nicely to someone who may approach you
in a parking lot!!!

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE LATTE YOU SELF RIGHTOUS
DINGLE BERRIES!!! THE FUTURE IS NOW AND YOU ARE IT!!!!
GET UP OFF YOUR SMUG, HOLIER THEN THOU, BATTERY POWERED BEE-HINDS AND
GET OUT THERE AND PRESS SOME FLESH! SHOW 'EM THOSE PEARLY WHITES!!!
KILL 'EM
WITH KINDNESS!!! MAKE IT CLEAR WHO WE REALLY ARE!! LET'S GO!!! THE
PLANET NEEDS US!!! WHO'S WITH ME????? LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

kscharfenberg

Bob Andersen

**Tideland Prius** · 12-02-2005, 01:43 AM

haha! nice read!

Yeah, some old fogey pulled up in his 80s LeSabre and pointed to our CAT sticker. He winded down his window and yelled "Who's gonna steal that?"

Too bad I couldn't come up with a witty response at that time

Sufferin' Prius Envy · 12-02-2005, 05:18 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tideland Prius@Dec 1 2005, 10:43 PM
"Who's gonna steal that?"
Too bad I couldn't come up with a witty response at that time

A few comebacks for your arsenal:

* It’s impossible to hot-wire this car . . . unlike your bucket of bolts which only requires a large screwdriver.

* A thrifty and considerate thief. One who would enjoy 60 miles to the gallon during their get-away - yet kind enough not to grossly pollute the earth in the process. I GUESS THAT PRECLUDES YOU!!!!

* Anyone smart enough to want to drive this car wouldn’t have to resort to steeling it. HEY! Wasn’t you car voted the best ghetto ride for under $300?

[I’m sure other PriusChatters could come up with others for you.

]

AzizaVFR · 12-02-2005, 06:16 AM

Most car drivers do not wave, period. They are in their "safe" little cocoons, transversing this planet's surfave oblivious from other outside influences. If you really want to get noticed, ride a motorcycle. It does not matter what kind of bike, just ride one.

Enjoy,
Randal

NuShrike · 12-02-2005, 06:21 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by AzizaVFR@Dec 2 2005, 04:16 AM
Most car drivers do not wave, period. They are in their "safe" little cocoons, transversing this planet's surfave oblivious from other outside influences.

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It's a habit of safety in cosmopolitan Los Angeles. If you look at somebody wrong, they could road-rage/shoot you.

Doesn't stop a few of us from still daring to wave.

2Hybrids · 12-02-2005, 06:25 AM

I've attempted a few waves and nods but just got sneers or the "deer in the headlights" look. One old lady in a Driftwood Prius like ours attempted to run away from me...and she was in MY parking space!!!

I've noticed more friendly folks who drive Scions and mostly from Insight owners...

heliotropehead · 12-02-2005, 07:55 AM

Very funny! I've had my Prius for over a year now and I have received ONE wave. I parked next to another Prius in a store parking lot and the gentleman was walking to his car as we were leaving. He smiled, waved and pointed to his own Prius... letting me know he wasn't some weird old man, but rather the Prius' owner.

Since I've moved to Houston I have seen a whole lot of young female Prius drivers.... they don't wave or smile! I'm so bothered by this. Why is everyone such a snob? I get more waves and smiles from people who are driving 'regular' cars. Oh! And the few times that I have initiated the smile or wave, I've been rejected!

I think I'll make a t-shirt that says "My Prius is Better Than Your Prius." I'm sure the snobs in this town would jump on it!

**efusco** · 12-02-2005, 09:18 AM

Couple comments:
1)I've noticed that there's a relatively high percentage of Prius drivers in my area that would fall into the 'geezer' category. I think these are the folks with enough money to buy what they want and like the idea of saving money on gas. I don't think they buy into or care too much about the technology, the environmental benefits, or joining the "cult".

2)Those of us in the "cult", esp. those of us who've been in for a while now, think that everyone who owns a Prius has gone through the same mental exercises we have to arrive at a purchase decision. They haven't. Some of them just drive it. And the number of "just drive it" owners is increasing all the time.

3)I think a lot of Prius drivers are completely oblivious. I now see a Prius almost daily, I wave, flash headlights, position the car to be seen, etc. I rarely get even the slightest acknowledgement. It befuddles me, but I've grown to accept it.

4)The attitudes of the folks at the nearby table probably has less to do with being 'Prius haters' than the fact that the latest press has been so negatively based. Clearly the guy's Lincoln doesn't come close to 30mpg, and the percentage Prius people getting in the 30s for mileage is pretty small. But they didn't want facts or to be corrected. Babbling on about how smart they are for not buying a Prius makes them happy.

5)At the physician's Christmas party the other night I had at least 3 different people ask me about my Prius....including one of my wife's partners who drives an H2 and he actually tolerated some ribbing about his car choice from me. His wife was thrilled to hear about the upcoming Lexus 450h. Another partner of mine was unaware of the existance of the 3 hybrid SUVs. And, yes, I still get questions about having to plug it in!! sigh....

onerpm · 12-02-2005, 01:31 PM

I was down in naples fl a couple of years ago visiting my dad, who had just picked up a 2004 driftwood prius (12/03, my dad was 75 then). one day, we're driving in it through some neighborhood and we see a guy, who has to be 80+, out in his driveway next to a seaside pearl. so we stop and yell out "nice car!" he says "thanks...it's a pie-rus!"

not only did he not recognize that we had one as well, he didn't know how to prounounce the name of his own car! oh well, I'm just happy he had one!

and, no Lincoln is getting close to 30mpg as an average, I would guess.

rpm

Rabid1 · 12-06-2005, 06:03 PM

I strongly suspect the "waving" thing is totally misunderstood by most new Prius folks. It's like "WTF is this idiot waving at ME for?"

The other day I drove past a lady in a Prius, and gave her a big smile and friendly wave as I drove by. At first she looked very puzzled, then she saw what I was driving, her face lit up, and yep, she returned both the wave and the smile.

Let's all keep waving. I think it's infectious.

12-02-2005, 01:38 AM	#1
BobA Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Denver CO Posts: 728 My Car: 2004 Prius Package: #9 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	This is the funniest thing I have read in forever... not sure how many of you may have seen it.. but think it should be read by all.. thanks to kscharfenberg, who wrote it... Time for a Rant - Hide the breakables Went out to a fancy restaurant with my extended family Thanksgiving. Wonderful meal and great company. Since we were a somewhat larger group, we got a large table in the rear 'party' (?) room. There were a couple other large tables with groups in there also. As I was listening to one of my family members drone on about something (Snooooore) I happened to 'pick up' bits of conversation from the group next to us. I zeroed in on their conversation, as ours was waaaayyyy out there. They were talking Prius and hybrids in general. Interesting! Then it turned dark. Oh Oh. They began to say how this "60 MPG advertising" was all a crock! One of them actually read where these cars "Only REALLY get 35 MPG!" It was nothing but advertising!" "Why, my Lincoln gets close to 30 MPG and it's just a regular engine! Hybrids! Hurrrumph!" I really wanted to turn my chair and set these sixty-something, Glenn Miller listening, Black socks with sandals wearing, Hy-Ball (???) drinking, Hi-Fi listening, Vinyl-roof sporting, white-walls are 'spiffy, Viagra popping geezers a lesson but my wife wouldn't let me. All I could get in was a "Honey, do you have the keys to the PRIUS? (very loud ) as we passed their table on the way out. I doubt any of those Geritol jet-setters had their hearing aids turned up anyway. As I drove home I began to ponder why these oldsters were so down on us? What did we do to them? All we're trying to do is save the danged planet and reduce our use of fossil fuels. Geee, what an awful thing to want! I was bum-fuzzled by their attitude. As I drove around for the next couple of days it began to sink in. I saw a guy getting into his Prius in Wally's Parking lot so I tried to engage him in friendly conversation. Really friendly like. Told him I drove a Salsa Red Prius. Asked about his Mileage and so on. He responded to me like I just got out of Prison and wanted to date his daughter! I might as well have been covered in some weird flesh- eating bacteria! Very COLD fellow. Odd. I pulled up next to one at a stop light and rode side by side with them for a couple of miles. I beeped and tried to get their attention. No dice. I beeped again and still nothing. Huh. Maybe their stereo is up? I pulled in behind them and followed for a mile of so. Maybe he would see me. No response. When I got to my last light before I turned, I beeped again. This time they both looked. Was my flesh-eating bacteria showing again? I gave them both a big smile and a thumbs up and all I got was a dead- pan glance then they ignored me! Whhat the **&^^? I drove along side another prius a day later and got the exact same treatment! No smile, no wave, just a blank glance then looked away. Do any of you people really understand what driving a Prius means???? We are the FUTURE! We are the pioneers! We are the Modern day Conestoga wagons heading out into the Mountains in search of the Pacific ocean! We are few in number but large in courage! We are here to blaze the way for millions that will (MUST) follow if we are to save this blue marble we call Earth! Yet, we continue to treat each other as some weird nutcase waving at us at stoplights! Any of you ever own a VW Beetle? Those had to be the friendliest, most tight-knit group of car owners on this Earth! It was almost EXPECTED that when you passed another beetle you either waved, Beeped or flashed the lights! We are brothers and sisters in arms and we supported each other till the end! If you saw one broken down on the roadside you almost always saw another parked behind it trying to help! Beetle people SUPPORTED each other! All for one and one for all, as they say. What do we Prius people do? IGNORE each other!!!!! Act like a bunch of danged snooty-patooties who are just too good to associate with each other! And what do we get in return for this snotty attitude? Idiot journalists (???) in some useless rag making up LIES about our cars!!! Then we have the people who know nothing at all about Prius' spouting this IDIOT'S garbage to each other as divine truth because you current Prius owners won't take a moment to smile at each other or speak nicely to someone who may approach you in a parking lot!!! WAKE UP AND SMELL THE LATTE YOU SELF RIGHTOUS DINGLE BERRIES!!! THE FUTURE IS NOW AND YOU ARE IT!!!! GET UP OFF YOUR SMUG, HOLIER THEN THOU, BATTERY POWERED BEE-HINDS AND GET OUT THERE AND PRESS SOME FLESH! SHOW 'EM THOSE PEARLY WHITES!!! KILL 'EM WITH KINDNESS!!! MAKE IT CLEAR WHO WE REALLY ARE!! LET'S GO!!! THE PLANET NEEDS US!!! WHO'S WITH ME????? LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! kscharfenberg Bob Andersen __________________ 04BC9... Driftwood Pearl...(Aztec Bronze)... Denver Remember "IT'S WORTH THE WAIT" ... there was a wait in '04!

12-02-2005, 07:55 AM	#7
heliotropehead Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Posts: 701 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	Very funny! I've had my Prius for over a year now and I have received ONE wave. I parked next to another Prius in a store parking lot and the gentleman was walking to his car as we were leaving. He smiled, waved and pointed to his own Prius... letting me know he wasn't some weird old man, but rather the Prius' owner. Since I've moved to Houston I have seen a whole lot of young female Prius drivers.... they don't wave or smile! I'm so bothered by this. Why is everyone such a snob? I get more waves and smiles from people who are driving 'regular' cars. Oh! And the few times that I have initiated the smile or wave, I've been rejected! I think I'll make a t-shirt that says "My Prius is Better Than Your Prius." I'm sure the snobs in this town would jump on it! __________________ I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. -Marcel Duchamp

12-02-2005, 09:18 AM	#8
efusco Troll Slayer Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Nixa, MO Posts: 14,008 My Car: 2004 Prius Package: #9 Nominated 1 Time in 1 Post TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 23	Couple comments: 1)I've noticed that there's a relatively high percentage of Prius drivers in my area that would fall into the 'geezer' category. I think these are the folks with enough money to buy what they want and like the idea of saving money on gas. I don't think they buy into or care too much about the technology, the environmental benefits, or joining the "cult". 2)Those of us in the "cult", esp. those of us who've been in for a while now, think that everyone who owns a Prius has gone through the same mental exercises we have to arrive at a purchase decision. They haven't. Some of them just drive it. And the number of "just drive it" owners is increasing all the time. 3)I think a lot of Prius drivers are completely oblivious. I now see a Prius almost daily, I wave, flash headlights, position the car to be seen, etc. I rarely get even the slightest acknowledgement. It befuddles me, but I've grown to accept it. 4)The attitudes of the folks at the nearby table probably has less to do with being 'Prius haters' than the fact that the latest press has been so negatively based. Clearly the guy's Lincoln doesn't come close to 30mpg, and the percentage Prius people getting in the 30s for mileage is pretty small. But they didn't want facts or to be corrected. Babbling on about how smart they are for not buying a Prius makes them happy. 5)At the physician's Christmas party the other night I had at least 3 different people ask me about my Prius....including one of my wife's partners who drives an H2 and he actually tolerated some ribbing about his car choice from me. His wife was thrilled to hear about the upcoming Lexus 450h. Another partner of mine was unaware of the existance of the 3 hybrid SUVs. And, yes, I still get questions about having to plug it in!! sigh.... __________________ Evan E. Fusco, MD Seaside 04BC9/OEM EVb/NAV & auto-BT/XM Radio, CAN-View, Shark Fin, BT Stiff. Plate, Skid Plate & Strut Support

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12-02-2005, 01:43 AM	#2
Tideland Prius Super Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 13,755 My Car: 2005 Prius Package: B Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 11	haha! nice read! Yeah, some old fogey pulled up in his 80s LeSabre and pointed to our CAT sticker. He winded down his window and yelled "Who's gonna steal that?" Too bad I couldn't come up with a witty response at that time

12-02-2005, 06:16 AM	#4
AzizaVFR Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Oceanside, CA Posts: 48 My Car: 2005 Prius Package: #7 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	Most car drivers do not wave, period. They are in their "safe" little cocoons, transversing this planet's surfave oblivious from other outside influences. If you really want to get noticed, ride a motorcycle. It does not matter what kind of bike, just ride one. Enjoy, Randal

12-02-2005, 06:25 AM	#6
2Hybrids 100% Committed Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Eustis, Florida Posts: 567 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	I've attempted a few waves and nods but just got sneers or the "deer in the headlights" look. One old lady in a Driftwood Prius like ours attempted to run away from me...and she was in MY parking space!!! I've noticed more friendly folks who drive Scions and mostly from Insight owners...

12-02-2005, 01:31 PM	#9
onerpm Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: MN Posts: 476 My Car: Other Hybrid Package: N/A Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	I was down in naples fl a couple of years ago visiting my dad, who had just picked up a 2004 driftwood prius (12/03, my dad was 75 then). one day, we're driving in it through some neighborhood and we see a guy, who has to be 80+, out in his driveway next to a seaside pearl. so we stop and yell out "nice car!" he says "thanks...it's a pie-rus!" not only did he not recognize that we had one as well, he didn't know how to prounounce the name of his own car! oh well, I'm just happy he had one! and, no Lincoln is getting close to 30mpg as an average, I would guess. rpm

12-06-2005, 06:03 PM	#10
Rabid1 Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Bend, OR Posts: 49 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	I strongly suspect the "waving" thing is totally misunderstood by most new Prius folks. It's like "WTF is this idiot waving at ME for?" The other day I drove past a lady in a Prius, and gave her a big smile and friendly wave as I drove by. At first she looked very puzzled, then she saw what I was driving, her face lit up, and yep, she returned both the wave and the smile. Let's all keep waving. I think it's infectious.