Put me behind a car on the Interstate, and I can tell you - with 90% accuracy - the sex, ethnicity and age of the driver. Not only that, but I'll tell you if they're using a cellphone, although deciphering their service provider is more difficult.
Now that I'm a professional road user, I can look down haughtily upon my fellow travellers. With a keen eye for detail, deducing basic facts about people from the model and age of car is infant's recreation. The manner in which people careen about the place is a dead give-away; combine the two and you have an unbeatable system.
Late model Camry in the fast lane steadfastly doing two mph under the speed limit?
White male over 55.
New Honda Civic changing lanes erratically at ten mph over?
Female on cellphone under age 27.
Tricked out eighties GM product, driver so far back he's practically in the rear seat?
Black male under 35.
This is too easy. I need a challenge.
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What about the Hybid? Or the Hummer?
Corrr... a proper city whitefella tracker! You want to watch out mate - skills like that will see you filling in for the next Croc Dundee run mate!
Remind me to look you up when I need someone to help me negotiate your 'country' when I visit the states Wombat... I'll swap ya when you drop in over here... never hurts to have someone wot knows the 'ground' so intimately!
;-)
what do you think i drive, sugar? ;-)
I also have this amazing skill.
White van, straddling two lanes, weaving around and driving slowly in and out of the the fast lane?
Male, 25-30, on phone with a tabloid paper folded on the dashboard. I guarantee it.
Good question, Girl. More information, please, such as how fast are they driving, in what lane.
Hummer drivers vary on the model. The smaller version has a very different drivership (and therefore ownership) than the hulking one.
Hybrid drivers fall into two broad categories.
Old people who want you to know they're superior. And young people who want you to know they're superior.
Stereotyping, much?
*laughing*
Belongum, you flatter me so by even comparing me to a real tracker. But I'll take it!
You had better use me as your guide to the ground when you visit. If not there'll be trouble! Tracks here can mean vvvveeerrryyy different things than Dunnunder. Wouldn't want you getting into any strife now!
Interesting, Savannah. That piece of reverse psychology is much more difficult than divining who you are from your car and driving habits.
So I shan't try. Too many choices from insufficient data. If you tell me how you drive, I might have a guess though.
Jo, by George, you DO have the magic!
Spot on, there, partic in UK land.
Green Mistubishi Montero (i.e. Pajero)
Chevy Chevette
Unicycle
i drive like an 18 year old leaving home for the first time - the open road is mine to own.
if only my car matched ... sigh.
Very good, Wombat. I do want to smack the crap out of drivers (of any age) on the cell phone.
depends on where i am, sugar...street driving - speed limit/traffic conditions...open road - whatever i can get away with!
Eileen, is that your stable of vehicles? In which case I would say you are a rough-road circus performer with a penchant for quirk.
Hmmm. That's remarkably accurate.
Princess, that 18 year-old could be in anything from her mother's hand-me-down minivan (!) to a brand new BMW.
Something tells me your ride is neither of them.
Nitebyrd, you and me both. I love the fast-lane hoggers who, over a distance of five miles, gradually reduce their speed from 70 to 45 whilst having phone sex with their beloved.
MOVE. OVER. MORON. BEEEEEEEEEEEP.
(Which I can't do, as Harry's phone number is on the rear plate. Dammit.)
Hmmmmm, Savannah. I need to observe your driving to make an informed guess...but I'll have a think.
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