Dr J and I had to drive over to my bro's place for the mandatory Australia Day Barbecue yesterday, and a guy in a white Toyota Camry decided to make the left onto the freeway from the right lane across 3 lanes of traffic. I mumbled something about white cars and their drivers and Dr J was incensed.
"You can't stereotype people like that", she said. "I just don't believe the colour of someone's car is a reflection of the way they drive", she argued.
So I decided to show her...
We didn't have to wait long... until we found ourselves behind a guy who got to the toll booths in the E-Tag lane and slowed to about 5km/h ( just to make sure his tag beeped, I suppose)... White Ford Falcon.
In the Tunnel... woman, 50km/h (the limit's 80)... White Mitsubishi Magna.
In the ED Tunnel, man, 40km/h... White Jap ute (they all look the same, the ute's, not the Japanese).
Southern Cross Drive, man, cuts across 3 lanes, missing us by about 10cm... White Subaru.
Airport tunnel (which is 5 lanes wide and hardly scary at all), woman, 40 in a 70 zone... White Toyota Camry (different one, though I have noticed these feature routinely).
Cooks River Tunnel, man, 50km/h (80 limit again), reading a book (really... he was, propped on the steering wheel in front of him and it wasn't a street directory)... White Mazda 6.
Somewhere in the back streets of Earlwood, man with whole family in car, stopped in middle of road trying to figure out where he was (pulling over never ocurred to him)... White Commodore.
And finally, on the way home, on the Waringah Expressway, the worst of all worlds, young female P-Plate driver (in the first year of driving here, you have to stick these "P" plates on your car), driving too fast, sending or reading a text message... White BMW 5 series.
By the time we got home, Dr J understood. People who drive white cars really suck.
4 comments:
Happy Australia day! I'll be sure to sell my white Jag if we are ever on the same continent. What is the most popular colour of car?
Memy Fandi
No need to sell.
It's not that ALL white car drivers are bad, it's that bad drivers are most likely to drive white cars.
Most popular... would have to be silver, though that's just observation.
Right. I thought it was a numbers thing but some research has indicated:
White cars - represent status-seeking extrovert drivers.
and that there is a white car "gang" mentality.
Maybe there's somehting in the paint. Didn't they used to make white paint with titanium and lead?
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