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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ttocs" data-source="post: 1146026" data-attributes="member: 11896">after months of DD a prius while working on mine I have been looking for/making excuses to drive now the last 2 days.  I have had to laugh a little while enjoying the attention it has got but I have had to laugh at the way people react so differently.  Nobody notices you in a prius.  I mean only half of them ever hear you and when they do, its a prius so unless there was a topless babe in the seat, they don't care.  now the last two days, I have done two short races, turned down 3 as it was just too busy at around us at that time but now this afternoon was the best reaction.  I was driving out of my neighborhood which is a heavily suburbanized area so there are kids playing in the streets and because of that I don't go over 20 on the way out.  Doesn't matter if I am in the prius or the stang, its just not worth saving the 1 min it would save me.  Today though as I am in the mustang just tooling out of the neighborhood I see a kid with training wheels on the sidewalk, with his mother about 5-10 ft away.  There was no oncoming traffic so I just went 2-3 ft over into the other lane just to be nice although its not like there was not enough room already.  She looked down right about the time I started to make room, looks back at her kid, does a double take back to me and then literally runs over to her child, grabs him by the arm and yanked him off the bike into the yard.  I thought it was almost child abuse, maybe he mouthed off to her until I saw that she looked back at me as if I were running 8k rpms in 4th gear....  Still not sure what to make of it.  I mean I know there is a jogger here that likes to go out for a long afternoon run, at 4:30(rush hour starting) running against traffic, on the most narrow of narrow streets that will get off the road into the grass when she sees the mustang coming.  If I am in the prius though I have to make room.....Anyone else notice stuff like this?  I mean beside the fact that everytime I am in the prius I pull up next to a car I would love to race where when I am in the mustang, I always end up next to another prius.....</blockquote>