@davknight

Hilarious! Thank you.

They are insecure redneck morons trying to look macho.

Reminds me of an old 1955 Chevy step-side pickup truck we had for a while. Ha, ha.
It still had the original engine and the outside body was in excellent shape.
-- as long as you didn't look at the undercarriage.

We found it parked in a barn where a farmer had been using it as a tractor for years. It was a truly ugly green color and the paint job was covered with sort of streaks where the owner had used a broom to paint it with flat green enamel house paint.

It made a good conversation piece but you had to be careful where you drove it. Reliability wasn't its strong point. We bought it more as a gesture to the farmer as a friend than anything else.

You could have taken a hammer to that finish and I doubt you'd be able to see what you did when you were done. But we did finally sell it to a sort of collector mostly for the perfect original body. He intended to sand blast it clean and see if he could give it a new paint job.
Our high school had an auto body paint room but I never found out if he got around to trying it or how it turned out.

In the UK grey has for a long time been the most popular car colour, which has to be the worst possible choice, since it is effectively camouflage against tarmac roads, and about the lowest possible visibility. I have long thought that the govenment would stop a lot of crashes if they just made bright yellow or orange the only legal colours, and what would be the cost, since who cares except the truly vain, what colour their car is.

@Fernapple

My father was an owner of an insurance company. He told me the color of vehicles that had the most accidents.

#1. Grey. The same color of the road. People can't see them especially in failing light.

#2. Red. Incites drivers like bulls. Red cars get the most tickets.

@LiterateHiker I once had a brown Datsun B210 hatchback. I loved that car!!! But I swear to Christ when I got in it me and the car became invisible! People were always pulling out in front of me. Finally it was totalled by a woman who just plowed into the front side panel.
I had a silver grey Toyota Tercell next and never had any problems. Now I have a white Subaru. But that brown Datsun was invisability cloaked.

@silverotter11

I know what you mean. I live in Wenatchee and drive a small Honda car.

Men in huge trucks rudely blast across roundabouts, not letting me turn right or left. They constantly cut me off and aggressively tailgate. Assholes.

@LiterateHiker WOW! Sorry to hear it's up there in Wenatchee too. Don't even get me started with my bike episodes with large truck drivers AND loose dogs!

@silverotter11

While hiking I was attacked by eight dogs. The dog owners never apologized.

"They're friendly!" a woman yelled far below. I had hollered to them to call their dogs. Two women had released six dogs at the trailhead. Dogs were required to be leashed. I was snowshoeing.

The six dogs rushed me as a pack, barking and growling. Two jumped up on me, knocking me sideways in the snow trench. My face was at the level of two growling German Shepard bared teeth. It was terrifying.

I had given my poles to the man (my date) behind me. He did nothing to help me. I would have slashed at the dogs with the poles.

Somehow I pushed myself up and got away. My knee ligment took six months to heal. I refused to see that man again.

@LiterateHiker There are reasons we don't carry a gun, not that I could actually hit what I'm aiming for. Owners and their dogs off leash. Mace! Mace would have been helpful.

@silverotter11

Mace is illegal in WA State. Now I have pepper spray. Sometimes I'm tempted to spray the dog owner, too.

@LiterateHiker Oh! Thanks for that info, I was not aware Mace was prohibited here.