Hummers (and H2s and H3s....)

So, first, I must explain that the strange conglomerate of things I post about seem to mostly come from whatever I was thinking about during the drive to work in the morning. The other day I was thinking about what to eat for lunch, hence the McD's post. Today, I found blog material in the parking garage.

I'm just a little unclear about why anyone really needs a Hummer. Granted, I suppose there are specialized uses and needs for them. There are people who need to buy farm tractors, there are people who need to buy Hummers. But, really, someone who parks in the Theatre Square parking garage in downtown Pittsburgh every day? Does that person (in fact, there are usually 2 Hummers parked there each day) really need a Hummer? Clearly not.

So, since that answer was "clearly not", I wonder what prompted him/her to buy it. I've been told it's a "status symbol" since it costs so much money. To me, it says that the owner's status is that of someone with a lot of money to burn who really doesn't care a whit about the environment, our fossil fuel supply, or whether his car door gets run into by the door of the car parked next to him, since his vehicle doesn't actually fit in his parking spot.

Interestingly, there was a time when I wanted a Hummer. But that was before it was a commercial, consumer product. I had a boyfriend (now ex) who played the lottery (PowerBall) a lot and always told me that the first thing "we'd" buy when "we" won would be a Hummer. I'm pretty sure he meant the military-issued ones. Not that they're any better environmentally, but it was much more unique to own one back then. Anyway, we never won the lottery, so we never got the Hummer. Ah well. I'll take my little Geo Prism over the hulking monster vehicles any day.