I’m surprised it’s that old.
Yeah, but you’re so 
Not the LOMWaHDaV. There is not a special place in hell for them. They actually are Demons, driving the roads trying to spread hate and anger through the land.
LOMWaHDaV=Little Old Man Wearing a Hat Driving a Volvo
I’m a little old lady who doesn’t see too well. Do you think I should wear my father’s old hat just to warn people?
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.]
I’m surprised it’s that old.
[QUOTE]
Well, I doubt it goes back past 1900 but it wouldn’t take long after the first automibles for people to start joking about others’ driving.
And old, and young, men in hats operated farm machinery including steam engines. I can remember members of threshing rings commented unfavorably about how some men drove their teams when coming up to the business end of a grain separator.
I’m generally apprehensive about old men with wide brimmed hats, especially if they only have one eye, and there’s a pair of black birds flying around.
(Yes, that was my first thought when I saw the title of the thread. I’m that much of a nerd).
It’s not just old men. ANYONE wearing a hat is a dangerous driver.
There are two exceptions: People wearing toques (but only if it’s very cold outside) and train engineers.
This was something that my friends and I noticed when we first started driving around 1970. We refered to them as members of OMH - Old Men with Hats. We figured they drove around all day long just to tie up traffic and cause other people to crash into things. We thought they were probably radio-dispatched (before cellphones) like taxi drivers and would suddenly appear on a clear stretch of road in order to drive 15 mph below the speed limit along side each other.
Down here in Texas it is best to watch out for anyone driving with a cowboy hat on. When someone can drive a less-than-full-size car or truck while wearing a big 'ol cowboy hat where you can see daylight between the hat and the roof of the car - you know they are a short fella. They’re going to wear that hat everywhere because they think it makes them look taller. I think the hatbands are a little too tight around their head because they often drive crazy. It’s only a matter of time before they shrink down from age and change from a cowboy hat to a Tom Landry fedora.
1936?! Wasn’t hat-wearing pretty much universal at the time?
Was there a typical kind of hat you were supposed to watch out for? Bowler? Homburg? Collapsible topper? Hillbilly wide brim?
Beats me, I was only 14. As I recall we were walking down town (no car because of somewhat difficult economic times) and when we came to a street to cross a car was come. Dad said something like ‘Better wait for him, it’s an old man with a hat and dad always told me to watch out for them.’ Of course my grandfather was an old man who usually wore a hat. Maybe the idea was that you had to watch or for all old man drivers, or maybe all drivers.
Come to think of it the hat is unnecessary, they’re all out to get you…
I’m an old guy and I promise I won’t wear my hat while driving any more. Please don’t hurt me.
It’s a worldwide phenomenon, I think. Even down here in Australia, you’ve got “Bloody Volvo Drivers” and “Bloody Old Bastards Wearing Hats”. I was taught as a young’un to watch out for both of them, and get the hell out of the way when the two were combined.
Those of us who spend their leisure time as hobbyist haberdashers tend to think that you might present yourself best in this hat when driving the Nash down the Interstate.
Hey, around here you’d just blend.
I see a lot of Volvo Driver bashing. Locally we’ve noticed the ads for VW {where they are looking for drivers} is because most VW drivers can’t drive. *(Excepting the drivers of the Bugs) *
You see that guy on the highway that can’t keep a small car in his lane going around a curve, yep VW.
Change 2 lanes at once cutting off several people and now going slower than the lane he barged into: you got it VW. Etc.
Howwww-dee! All it needs is a tag reading “$1.98”.
Actually, today it’d be more like $198.-
I’ve felt that way. But then, I ride a motorcycle. 
(Actually, when I was riding in L.A. I noticed that Mercedes drivers in particular apparently have some sort of antipathy toward motorcyclists.)
Yeah, well I’m getting old and I’m definitely going to wear a hat! 