Inadvertant influence?

I've been at a Family Gathering this past weekend. I drove my cousin and her husband in it, now he wants to get one. I also let my brother drive it, and he really liked it (and he's a REALLY aggressive driver).

I thought seeing my other cousin's Hummer parked next to me would look really funny, and it did (especially, as my brother pointed out, I parked off-road and she didn't); but what looked MUCH funnier was seeing her Hummer next to my mom's Geo Metro. Fortunately, we only had one political discussion ("How can you think Bush isn't doing a wonderful job?").

 

We have experienced the same thing.

Tom

 

I think the funniest has to be the oldest generation of my family. Both my grandfather and my wife's, die-hard Republicans and "Buy American" fanatics, are seriously condidering the Prius as their next vehicle - but only after I explained that you could buy it without the navigation system. While they both dislike how "techy" the MFD interface is, the fuel economy, reliability, and low price more than offsets this. They are both depression survivors - value is an obsession for them.