No good vibes from PriusOwners in SOCAL

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(IsrAmeriPrius @ Feb 5 2007, 12:38 AM) [snapback]385364[/snapback]</div>

Wow. Way to represent your people

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sanguis @ Feb 4 2007, 07:52 PM) [snapback]385368[/snapback]</div>

Did I miss something? Why did you single out his post? :huh:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(thpeaky @ Feb 4 2007, 03:37 PM) [snapback]385279[/snapback]</div>

Sorry to hear you left California feeling like this. We certainly aren't all like that. And I do believe that you can find self centered people in any state and in any country if you look hard enough for them.

 

I left CA in 1970. I hated it there. It's not that people are better or worse one place as another. It's the effect of over-crowding. Put too many rats in one cage and they'll eat each other. People are a lot like rats. That's why psychologists study rats. CA is over-crowded, has too much traffic (due to the over-crowding), and you can't breathe the air (due to same, though I've been told this has improved since I left). Northern CA is like a different country. But it's still over-crowded.

As for Prius-waving, when the Prius was rare, owners felt special, and felt a bond. Now that it's just another car in many places, owners have no special feeling about their car. It's a car. It gets great gas mileage. But you don't wave at every driver when you pass 50 of them in a day. Also, in 2004 we were early-adopters. We had a sense of adventure in trying out something new. Most of us waited months for our car. It was exciting. Now the current model has been on the streets for over 3 years, and has proven itself. It's one of the most reliable cars out there, and the most efficient and clean for its size. There's no more excitement in buying a Prius today than in buying any other new car. This is good. The Prius has gone mainstream. But it also means an end to the feeling that we are a club, and an end to waiving, except for those of us who still remember the good old days of being special and adventuresome.

As for the OP's experience: That's how people behave when there are too many of them. Southern Californians are not bad people. There's just too many people packed into that one small space, and they're reacting to it as anybody would. Me, I got out, and I'm sure glad I did.