I saw (and felt) something really ridiculous when I was filling up my car over lunch today. I watched as a car pulled into the Quik Trip on Shawnee Mission Parkway blasting its hip-hop music, nearly shaking every car that was trying to peaceful line the pockets of the oil company executives…er…I mean fill up their car.

I turn around to see 4 teenagers (of course) exiting their car and going inside. The driver was of course some Shawnee Mission North attending kid who wants to be gangster, but what was really comedic was not just the other folks that got out of the car (a really tall skinny K-Fed lookalike, a Hawaiian looking dude in a wife beater tanktop complete with board shorts and flip flops, and his girlfriend, I think), it wasn’t the predictable hip-hop music blasting or the driver’s predictable clothes (Under Armor T-shirt, gold chain, jeans, expensive running shoes, sunglasses). No. It was the fact that this clown had put his kicking stereo and tacky chrome dubs on a 2003-ish BUICK REGAL.

I don’t get it.

Look, I like music as much as the next guy, so I guess I can understand the stereo. I don’t see why you have to have your windows down and try to shake down the Quik Trip with your bass, but whatever. I’ll give you the stereo.

But the dubs?

Really? Do you think that your dad’s throwback from a few years ago looks BETTER with chrome wheels? It is still a Buick Freaking Regal. No amount of chrome is going to make that car look any cooler. It will always be the chosen car of most grandmas and Tiger Woods in his commercials from 4 years ago. But that’s it.

Next time, save your money on the wheels and buy yourself a new haircut. Idiot.