Ode to Cadillac



Cadillac deserves much credit.  For over a hundred years they have made cars.  Cadillacs in our lifetime have gone from gigantic road liners to tricked out sports sedans.  I have always been a Lincoln fan but always thought Cadillac had a niche.  The twist is that one of the niches I have discovered here in Arizona is that people from away come to live here in the winter and drive their Cadillacs in ways that would boggle your mind and haunt your dreams.   I am now afraid and growing more afraid of Cadillacs and their immediate eco-system of support vehicles.  It is not the Cadillac SUV which is driven by the rabid multi honing Scottsdale soccer queens with a mobile phone genetically joined to their head.   It is all their sedans and big cruiser lines.  And to make things worse there is a self healing eco-system of support vehicles such as Buick and Oldsmobile.  The mere site of one of these land yachts will quicken my pulse and bring all of my senses to bear 150%, like a cat with a vacuum cleaner I get a puffy tail and start to hiss at these terrors of the desert.  For instance I am driving on a road that is two lanes in the same direction, I am traveling in the left lane when up in front what do I see??  A Cadillac stretched far and wide that decided to stop in the left lane and make a right hand turn, this was much a surprise to the traffic coming up on this car doing 40 MPH,  I slowed and as I did there in my rear view mirror was a Buick steadily approaching and showing no sign of stopping, and when I tried to make out the driver all I could see was big hat, sunglasses and knuckles bearing down on me.  I thought to my self damn, they cornered me but much to my surprise the forward offending machine was well into the right lane allowing me to squeak by.  As for the Cadillac and the Buick, they never missed a beat.  Bear in mind this is not their only tactic, they stop on freeways, park sideways in parking spaces, maneuvering their sled down the byways of Phoenix completely oblivious to all around.

 

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