See the USA in your Chevrolet!
Writing by treason on Sunday, 24 of July , 2005 at 9:25 pm
My mother never drove a car. This is probably a very good thing. I never had to wrestle her to the ground and take her keys, explaining she was too damned old to be driving and that she would probably run over someone. Yet millions of people face this problem daily. Right here in the city I live in. There are fifty billion old people in our city and all of them drive. When do you take away that privilege?
I always thought that I’d be an agreeable old lady and see the wisdom of not driving when I’m blind, deaf, and too feeble to react to things like an oncoming 18-wheeler. But in the last few years I’ve come to realize that Americans equate driving with freedom. If they’re willing to kill someone who wants to blow up a city bus, I know they’d be willing to kill someone who wants to take their car keys.
See the USA in your Chevrolet! Hertz puts YOU in the driver’s seat!
Cars are made all over the world, but they’ll always be American. They symbolize wealth, power, sex, family, freedom - all that’s right in the world. Never mind the part about traffic, pollution, and your face going through a windshield at sixty-five miles an hour.
The whole car as freedom thing kicked in when I found myself with a car that I couldn’t trust. I’m trapped, I thought to myself. If my situation suddenly turned bad I couldn’t just pack a bag, toss it into the trunk, and drive away. I wouldn’t be able to escape. That meant I was powerless. It was then I decided I needed a new car.
Just this week a seventy-two year-old man left a restaurant with his wife and got into their car. He backed out of the parking space, then accelerated into a Jeep. Instead of stopping, he kept going, and ran over and killed a twenty year-old landscaper who’d been in this country only four weeks but had been working for the landscaping company for three.
The horror. So at what point do you insist it’s time to give up freedom?
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