Rich and Stupid
Now that I'm working in Washington again, I'm seeing more than my fair share of road related crap. Friday was no exception.
In the morning, I was multitasking and doing a conference call during the commute. The time that I go into work puts me on the road after rush hour, but can require that I work while I drive. It works pretty well since my commute is only 50 minutes vs close to 2 hours if I had to go in like regular jerks. Anyway...
I was driving along and I saw an odd looking convertible on the road ahead of me. It was not a standard body shape of an normal car and it was goofy baby blue color. I got a little closer and noticed the Alpha Romeo logo. I am constantly, but no longer surprised by people who purchase insanely expensive cars in horrible colors. A baby blue sports cars is just silly. The baby blue book value on this thing was $100-$200k depending on the year. I'm going to guess, though, that all of the "Obama 4 Prez!" bumperstickers lowered the value somewhat.
Nothing says "brilliant" better than $10 worth of bumperstickers dropping $50k off of the value or your over-priced, ugly car.
On the way home, I saw another bit of highway madness.
It looked to be a 1988 Dodge Caravan that someone had invested about $700 in "tricking it out".
It was also blue... baby blue. But at some point it was full grown, adult blue... but 20 years of sun fading had changed the color. Gross.
So, dudeman the driver... had his caravan lowered, had some of those little mini-tires like from a go-cart, and put on some spinners. Well... spinners on a couple of the wheels. There was also the preverbial spoiler on the back... mounted to the tailgate... no where near the airflow.
I usually see this sort of low-rent crap car customization on old Honda CRXs or Datsun 210s. Now I know what these wonderful people do when they get married and have kids and need to get their future little gangsters to school.