disappointed rant..

[Irulan]

Potholes as justification for owning an SUV? LOL.

[Sardine]

Potholes as justification for owning an SUV? LOL.

Precisely. There is no justification for driving a suv in London as far as I can see.

ETA: Sorry, I should have indicated in my previous post that I was being ironic

[smilingcat]

I see. Driving a 4x4, a big hunkin' SUV to avoid the pot holes. How shweet. LOL... Must be tough to make a go in the urban jungle. Never know whats around the corner...

And I thought gas (petrol) was EXPENSIVE... how much for a litre? That'll be a quart for us in US.

I'm living in the civilized exoburb of Portlandia and doing quite fine with my very small flock of chicken, and reasonable size yard to produce more than enough food for us. And oh since we don't live in a jungle, tad more civilized here, so we drive a Prius.

[Irulan]

Precisely. There is no justification for driving a suv in London as far as I can see.

ETA: Sorry, I should have indicated in my previous post that I was being ironic

Well, so am I. :-)

[marni]

here in texas, in the greater Houston Metro area, the suburban mom SUV has been replaced by an equal mix of civilian humvees and the high jacked up white Ford f 150 pickups with the trailer hitch, mud crawler tires and come along in front. Needless to say, we are at least 40 miles from anything even vaguely resembling an open field or farm.

Our local elementary school is on a divided 2 lane road which is really only one lane from about 11:00AM to 4:00 PM as the cars all "stack " in the no parking zone for a block on either side of the school while the moms leave the humvees and trucks running while they dart into school to pick up the little preciouses.

sigh.......

[Selkie]

The most popular justification I've heard is that the SUV driver is "safer" than those in smaller cars. Plus, they need all that room to cart their one overprivileged child's stuff around. (snark alert!) How did my parents ever manage hauling four kids around in a 4-door sedan back in the olden days?

[Irulan]

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To stay relative to the OP's story I have this to share.

I've been doing grocery shopping with a retired two kid trailer. On my way home one day, the hitch clamp came undone in the middle of a somewhat busy intersection. I had a full load in the trailer, and everything went flying. There were potatoes rolling, loaves of bread.... Meanwhile, there were drivers in the intersection that were totally freaked: "OMG, do you have a baby in there?". No, just potatoes. I'm scrambling all over the pavement gathering my groceries....

[tulip]

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To stay relative to the OP's story I have this to share.

I've been doing grocery shopping with a retired two kid trailer. On my way home one day, the hitch clamp came undone in the middle of a somewhat busy intersection. I had a full load in the trailer, and everything went flying. There were potatoes rolling, loaves of bread.... Meanwhile, there were drivers in the intersection that were totally freaked: "OMG, do you have a baby in there?". No, just potatoes. I'm scrambling all over the pavement gathering my groceries....

Oh my, that's quite a story! That happened to me with panniers full of groceries. They were the cheap-o grocery bag panniers that fold flat when not in use. Eggs are not pretty when they fall onto the street. It was the first time I used those panniers, too, and they were advertised as grocery panniers.