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Lulu KC

(2,565 posts)
9. Thank you! I feel so validated!
Fri Aug 16, 2019, 10:08 AM
Aug 2019

--and I hope others respond. I started noticing this big-angry-pickup phenomenon in 2017 and it persists. Never any obnoxious bumper stickers or other clues that they're going to lose it--always driven by a white man with an angry look on his face.
I've witnessed two separate occasions where the trucks have forced cars off the road. They were both unremarkable ICE sedans. Both times it was during rush hour traffic on an interstate, and I did not see the sedans doing anything to provoke the response. Both times I was moving too quickly (in my Prius--which has never been targeted) to stop and call police and I couldn't see license plate number or any other identifying features.
I mentioned this to a friend who commutes on an interstate daily and she said, "Yes! The pickup trucks! What is it?"
Someone moved into a house on our street who drives one. I find myself wary--I am now a big-pickup-truck bigot. Need to work on that.

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