My Irrational Dislike of Discovery and Range Rover Drivers?
I know nothing about cars. I’ve never really been interested in them. To me, they are just tools to get around. Of course, I appreciate when a car is comfortable, reliable, or has heated seats, but at the end of the day, they are still just tools to me.
So I genuinely don’t understand why the Discovery Range Rover type of cars make me irrationally upset. I think it is because they raise my anxiety levels. They look militaristic to me, and I can’t understand how people can enjoy driving something that, in my mind, evokes war or aggression every day. I know that’s probably not how most people see them, but I can’t help reacting that way.
I also catch myself judging the drivers, which I know is unfair and unlike me. My brain automatically jumps to thoughts like: “You have ego issues and need something to reassure yourself, but don’t want to admit it.” I imagine they think people admire or envy them, while I actually feel pity for them and sometimes even for their wives when the driver is a man. Irrationally, my mind associates that type of masculinity with aggression or even domestic violence, even though I know that is a completely unfair and baseless assumption.
Am I the only one who feels this way?
The only rational reason I can think of for disliking these cars is that, because they are so huge, people often park them terribly and take up too much space.