07-22-2012, 08:26 AM
I have to say that the most agro crazy drivers I've dealt with in Hawaii are not tourists, but locals (by which I mean people who live and grew up here of no specific race or combination of races), usually males in the 16-25 age group, driving some enormous jacked up truck, or a souped up little civic plastered with 808 stickers. These are ones who blow past me on the Maku'u blind hills when I'm driving the speed limit, these are the people who pull up right behind my little Scion when I'm in the center lane trying to merge onto the highway and then honk at me when I don't pull out because I can't see past them in their monster SUV. These are the drivers who dangerously weave in and out on the morning commute to Hilo, changing lanes 10 times in two miles, and we all still end up at the same stoplight at Puinako. The tourists in rent-a-jeeps are not driving into Hilo at 6:30 in the morning, tourists don't drive Ainaloa either, unless they got lost.
There is a real tendency to blame bad driving here on "mainland a**holes" but in my experience, our worst drivers are homegrown. I can't count how many times I've been illegally passed by vehicles with "slow down it ain't the mainland" or "Drive with Aloha" bumper stickers. According to our car insurance guy, Hawaii has pretty much the same demographics on risk factors for reckless driving as the mainland: age, gender, and family status are the primary indicators for how likely someone is to cause an accident. Over thirty, employed people with kids statistically tend to drive safely, and single males under 25 statistically tend to cause accidents, not very many people in that demographic group came here from the mainland.
Carol
There is a real tendency to blame bad driving here on "mainland a**holes" but in my experience, our worst drivers are homegrown. I can't count how many times I've been illegally passed by vehicles with "slow down it ain't the mainland" or "Drive with Aloha" bumper stickers. According to our car insurance guy, Hawaii has pretty much the same demographics on risk factors for reckless driving as the mainland: age, gender, and family status are the primary indicators for how likely someone is to cause an accident. Over thirty, employed people with kids statistically tend to drive safely, and single males under 25 statistically tend to cause accidents, not very many people in that demographic group came here from the mainland.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb