Pennies from Heaven
Tue, 14 Aug 2007.
I heard that some particularly angry Californians will drive with pennies in their ashtray.
For those that don’t know; pennies are worth one cent. They are pretty much a very useless coin and even more useless with the weakening US dollar.
So is this some sort of vehicular swear jar? Mais non, it is a gift for the tailgaters. If someone is riding up your ass, you just open your sunroof and toss some pennies. You directly provide a monetary reward for their courteous driving by seriously fucking their car up and endangering lives.
I lol’d. Tailgaters annoy me anyway.
Why can’t they be like most normal people and just carry a gun?
I heard some Texans drive around with a gun on their dashboard.
I thought angry Californian was an oxy-moron.
Like a vegetarian Texan who doesn’t grill.
Or liberal anti-war Tennessean.
What if you don’t have a sunroof?…or convertible?
AkaiChou - buy one. ;)
Is this only a Californian trait? It must be since I have never heard of anyone else doing it. Perhaps it is only American since - as you mentioned - they have those stupid pennies that are completely pointless except for throwing. Throwing out, throwing at people, throwing at cars.
I drive the 405 Freeway in Southern California (one of the most congested in the world), and I’ve never heard of or seen this one. But then again, compared to everything else that people throw out of their cars or fall out of their pickups onto the road, pennies are a minor inconvenience.
Keep in mind that Californians are obsessed with their cars, and many might not take the chance of throwing a penny out and having it scratch their own car’s perfect paintjob. We love cars more than we hate people.