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Re: What age does buying lego become embarrassing?
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Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:28:04 GMT
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I came to much the same conclusion. Normally I avoid driving in New York, but,
my SO brought a little subcompact, and there we were, outgunned on the mean
streets. So we got a Jeep Cherokee.
It's the smallest SUV that is still able to carry 4 tall people (and we can do
these $350 grocery, er, Lego runs.) Now, from a high platform I can better gauge
the space next to me, the cement barriers, and we both feel much more in control
when navigating turns on our highways, which can be narrow, two lanes, with
sometimes 10 foot cement walls and no-ramp right entries. Acceleration power is
very important to staying in control, but you get that with most any new car.
And of course, in the Jeep we are not looking up at the other vehicles anymore.
The other day I was tricked by the new presence of 2 nearly identical Jeeps on
our block. It's definitely an arms race.
-Erik
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeff Thompson writes:
> Well, I find the idea that people are buying them, in part, because
> they are safer in collisions due to their mammoth size, to be
> a *little* disturbing. It's like an arms race, safety via
> momentum. Of course the more massive, better-armored vehicle
> will win in a collision. But the more and more massive the
> vehicles get, the more risky it gets for the econo-boxes.
>
> So, I want an armored SUB (Suburban Uhssaut Vehicle) too, just
> to keep up in the arms race, heh heh.
>
> Jeff <jthompson@esker.com> "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"
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