Seattle Website Enough Get Your Knickers in a Knot

There's a little Seattle website called the Seattlest. Normally we don't get to dithered by what others write, but sometimes--well, it's like gettin' a bad batch of beans. Witness the opening paragraph from a recent Seattlest entry:

"For the past few years, we've gotten to thinking about safety and the road just around every Memorial Day weekend. In simpler times, it used to be that we celebrated the sacrifices of our veterans through a paid holiday, lowering the flag to half-staff until Noon, barbeques [sic], and drunken boating. These days, however, things are more complex for we live in troubling, uncertain, and dangerous times. In addition to its patriotic duties, Memorial Day serves as the "official" beginning of the summer driving and vacation season. Not coincidentally, it is also the time that the two greatest dangers to the American road traveler break their winter dormancy: the slide-in, pick-up bed camper and the fifth-wheel trailer on tiny wheels. Like parasites, they attach and attack "[hu]mans' best friend", the automobile. "

Truck campers somehow compared to parasites? Must be some kind of a joke, we sez. But no, my slide-in friends. Apparently this isn't low comedy as we quote a couple more lines:

"The slide-in camper is a horrible structural tumor that slides into the bed and most frequently secures itself by a number of chains that reach down to hooks and beams under the truck's frame." We could go on with quotations; suffice to say the repellent commentary is a stomach churner. The "safety concerns" portrayed about truck campers run them up to the level of Public Enemy Number One.

I did notice with some delight that the publishers of this website did allow for reader commentary. Should you choose to educate the writer and his colleagues, then follow the link here to the appropriate page view and write on.