The people I talk to tell me thay are glad that I didn't get yellow because it would make a pretentious car more pretentious. Apparently a lot of people view yellow cars as "hey look at me" vehicles. The color tends to incite more reaction from people. I personally don't see why. yellow isn't my thing, but it is only a different paint color. Kind of weird. I have and orange and I am a part of the wine and cheese crowd, but I also am a beer lover too. Around here, it seems the guys in the Yellow Hummers are the ones that glare at me or completely pretend to ignore me instead of being friendly and waving. they also are the ones that I never see muddy, even though yellow looks nice under a layer of mud. So that leaves me to believe that around these parts yellow is the poser color for the pavement pounders. It seems like the dirtiest ones I see (besides mine) tend to be pewter. When I ask owners if they offroad, just about everybody says yes, but then I ask them where and most people say, um on this gravel road, or on the way to camping. Something stupid like that. But the Pewter guys tend to list off their favorite trails.
The other day I ran into a guy at a restaurant that had a Yellow lowered H2 with huge chrome rims and tiny tires. I parked next to him completely covered in mud since I had just been offroading the day before. I heard people in the resteraunt saying that my Hummer is how they all should look and the yellow one was just some arrogant prick. This little tiny asian guy around my age leaves the restaurant at the same time I do and heads for the yellow one. When he sees me going to mine, he says in a really derogatory tone, "wow, you take that thing offroad." I reply smugly, "that's what they are for, don't you?" He looks at me aghast and says "this thing is too expensive. Aren't you afraid of scratching it?" I say "No, that';s what it if for. If you can't afford it, you shouldn't buy it." Then he got all tough and said "I could buy a hundred of these, it's nothing to me." and started acting like he wanted to fight or something. I just laughed and drove off. What a douchebag. That is the type of people that are Hummer owners around here. It pisses me off, but it is invariably yellow that they drive. I'm not saying anything about you yellow owners, you are all cool in my book because nbone of you seem like arrogant pricks, but that is what the yellow guys tend to be like around here.
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