My New Pet Peeve: A Device Created In Satan's Workshop.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

This would be the new kind of headlight appearing on some cars recently. They have a bluish-greenish cast, and are bright enough to boil your vitreous humor and vaporize your retinas from 100 yards, just before the silver melts off your rear-view mirror. Dammit, I hate having to wear welder's goggles just to use my rear-view mirror at night, only because some asshat has decided it would be cool to get headlights for the family's W-sticker-encrusted Hummer that have more candlepower than your average supernova, and then follows up close behind me trying to perform car proctology on my Saturn, while at the same time probably breast-feeding a baby while smoking unfiltered Camels and talking on a cell phone, sitting on baby seal fur seat covers, on the way to The Olive Garden for a dinner of veal scallopini which they will chew with their mouth open while ignoring their bratty, screaming children.

I thought there was only one thing, a Bush-Cheney bumper sticker, that would tempt me to take out a car's headlights with a tire iron. I was wrong. Now it's also those damn alien technology eyeball-searing fucking blue headlights. I think someday, if I don't go berserk with a tire iron, I will obtain an airplane landing light, sneak up behind some W-sticker-bearing, Satanic-headlight-installed Hummer and fling blazing photons at its occupants.

I just hate those fucking things.

[KitchenWitch]

1. I started noticing them about a year ago

HATE them.

The glare is terrible in the snow!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. But you've moved to California, so at least you don't need to worry about

Satanic blue headlights in the snow any more.

[KitchenWitch]

3. Yeah, but there seem to be more of the hyper expensive vehicles

that have them here. So I lose the glare but make up for it in sheer quantity.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. All cars should be equipped with a special panel on their rear window

made of security glass, so you can reflect their damned laser beams right back in their faces.

Outer rear-view mirrors should also have the properties of the inside mirror...to dim the lights reflected.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Ooh, I like that a lot!