Attack of the killer SUVs!

Two SUVs tried to kill me recently.
Ok, maybe it was the people driving them.
Either way.

I was headed out on Truxtun extension. It's two lanes either direction. I was in the inside lane. A lady in a GINORMOUS white Suburban was going along next to me. We were pretty much door to door when I noticed her getting closer, RAPIDLY.

She was changing lanes into my lane! And it wasn't one of those "move over a little, notice you're about to smear someone into the pavement and quickly move back" kind of moves.

She was moving over! It was like I wasn't there!

I had to scoot into the middle of the road and slam on my brakes and there she went rumbling down the road in what had previously been my lane while I had to rev up to get out of the way of traffic behind me.

I got alongside her again and looked over, she was talking on the cell phone, totally oblivious.

Then a gold Yukon pulled into my lane as I was turning left onto Brimhall. It's two lanes and I was, foolishly, in one of the two.

But the dude in the Yukon wasn't buying it. Again, I had to hit the brakes to keep from getting whacked.

Our last good slogan

I hadn't seen a license plate holder like this before. Wonder where he got it?

"Bakersfield: Sun Fun Stay Play" was an actual sign city folk put up along I-5 years ago to encourage relocation to our lovely berg.

Now we have, "Bakersfield: Life as it should be."

Both are incredibly lame.

But at least the Stay. Play. one came with one of the greatest all time "Jetson" type signs ever.

(I got this photo off The Bakersfield Californian's "Lost Treasures" site, by the way. You should visit it, it's way cool. http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/losttreasures)

A few people have coined variations of the slogan.

There's:

"Bakersfield: Come on vacation, stay on probation" which, sadly, happens more often than one might think!

And my friend Amy mentions one on her blog http://www.amylangfield.com/2002_09_15_archive.html

"Bakersfield: Sun, Work, Fog, Dirt" which also pretty much sums it up!

Compensate much?

Ok, so this dude has a HUMMER...it's wake-the-dead bright yellow...AND notice the "danglers"?