Guaranteed to Offend Someone

A couple of nights ago I was on my way to meet a friend when I heard this awful dance music coming from a car. Now, don’t get me wrong, there’s some dance/techno music that I like and can be appropriate in the right place. This was neither.

Not only was it the most generic of dance music, but looking over at the offending vehicle I saw, much to my dismay, the side profile of a Jeep Compass. Not a great Jeep mind you, but a Jeep still and mortified I was. Anyone that knows me, and even many that don’t know me, know of my love affair with Jeeps. So to hear the thumpa-thumpa pounding out of a Jeep just added to the moment.

There I stood at the crosswalk, fixated at this Jeep and the waves of thumpa-thumpa emanating from after-market sub-woofers. Inside the dark windows I could only imagine the bopping of ball-capped heads and vibrating of loose change left over from the last Tim Hortons run in time with the bass.

And then, as the light changed and they pulled away I breathed a sigh of relief — it was actually a Dodge Caliber that I saw. Whew. That was a close one.