Just Desserts
Loyal reader Mapgirl submits us this tale of righteous and accidental vengeance. It's not that SUVs are evil, per se. No-ne-no-no-no! But they can be tools of evil when their drivers barrel through red lights while talking on a cell phone. As a pedestrian who daily takes his life in his hands, whose least favorite sound is the screeching rasp of lock-braked tires losing their grip on pavement and whose least-favorite sight is the stricken rictus on the face of the driver of the vehicle attached to the foregoing sound as they look up from reading the paper/gabbing on the phone/changing the radio/eating Chinese food, notice they are about to end the life of yrs truly, and stand on the brakes in an effort to stop two tons of SUV in twelve feet of space thereby hopefully sparing the aforementioned life, I relish this tale of accidental retribution.
(And as a writer, I summarily renounce the foregoing sentence as a hopeless run-on.)
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I can't believe no one has
I can't believe no one has commented on this. Are you SUV drivers out there not totally offended, or do you think this distracted driver got his just desserts?
Actually, both. The driver
Actually, both. The driver of that vehicle was a complete gomer regardless of the vehicle whose wheel he was behind. He would have been just as much an asshat driving a lexus sedan, ford aerostar, faggoty hybrid mobile, or beat-up white trash car.
The fact that it was an SUV had little bearing on the lesson of that little morality play, though the author tried to draw the connection. I don't notice that SUV drivers are, as a class, more dangerous, idiotic or completely oblivious to the laws of man or physics than the drivers of any other type of car. I have been nearly killed - in the last week alone - by a dodge ram pickup overloaded with wetback landscapers and their tools, a little old lady in a k-car or something like it, two luxury cars and a beat up late eighties corolla.