Thursday, February 19, 2009

Commuter of the Day 2/19/2009: Target-Rich Environment

I was wondering if I was going to have a hard time determining who the Commuter of the Day would be today. At first I thought it was the guy who looked like Shaggy (the cartoon character) at the age of 40, clean-shaven except with a soul patch (and a long one at that) driving a Mazda MPV with a Grateful Dead sticker on the back (cue Don Henley breaking out into song).

Or was it the woman in the giant SUV violating road etiquette? I car made a left turn onto the road I was on, heading the same direction (in bumper to bumper traffic), and I let that person in. The SUV also made the same turn, and crept ahead of me, thinking I was going to let her in too. Proper etiquette says you should let in one car. I'm not about to let in a fleet of them. Needless to say, I refused to budge and crawled past her, forcing her to merge behind me.

But then I saw it. A shiny red Volvo C70 (which I would love to have) with the license plate: LDYBUGZ

Shiny red, tinted windows, LDYBUGZ license plate. Chick car, right? Well, I thought so too, until I passed it and saw the woman in the passenger seat, and in the driver's seat was a dude. You have no idea how much I wanted to roll down the window, throw up the Heavy Metal Devil Horns, and yell, "WHAT'S UP LADYBUUUUUGZ!" in my best Ozzie Osbourne "Hello Cleveland" voice. But no sense emasculating him more than he's doing himself.

14 comments:

  1. He probably has a deeply troubled past.

    If not that, a deeply troubled future.

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  2. Or he was driving his wife and her car to the shop so the mechanic didn't take for $3K of crap she didn't need in the first place.

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  3. Dude, you almost fucked up. That tag stands for, Lots of Dead Yellers---Bugsey (as in Seigel)

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  4. Simon I think it is a troubled future, afterall his house is burning down and his kids are gone.

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  5. Wasn't the ladybug on A Bug's Life a guy? C'mon you're a dad of young kids, you should know this.

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  6. Not into personalised plates you become to much of a target to everybody!

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  7. You did see it on a Volvo, maybe it means something else in Swedish?

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  8. There were no umlauts or those vowels with the little circle over the top. Or the o with the slash through it.

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  9. What a tool - I hope he gets car-jacked!

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  10. Since when did The Saint have a half-arsed personalised numberplate?

    God that was an awful film. May Val Kilmer never again get an acting job. And the chick as well.

    Man, that wish worked fast.

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  11. Hehehe Val Kilmer may well get the best acting job ever...he's thinking about running for governor of my lovely state ;)

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  12. The wife was punishing him, making him drop her off someone and drive her car that day.

    Otherwise, he's just not out of the closet yet.

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  13. "there's nothing masculine about a bug" is what I think every time I see a man driving one

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