Ah yes, the dog days of summer… and a judgmental asshole SUV thread! I tell ya, it’s comfy like an old sweater. 
Huh? I’m a “fucking idiot” for suggesting reasons why a driver, regardless of vehicle type might need to ease a vehicle gingerly over a speedbump due to themselves or passengers being in pain?? 
Um, ever work at a hospice, Lissener? Guess not. 
Don’t mind lissener, he’s a little moron with a nasty attitude. He’ll never explain why you’re wrong (because he can’t), you just are and that’s that.
Dude, if the nearest you can get to excusing an idiot’s rude behavior is to assume that they’re probably dying of cancer and have broken ribs, well then see my post above.
See? Toldya.
A few people here have suggested pretty good reasons for slowing down over speed bumps, and hell, I slow down over them too. The Yukon I was talking about was doing less than 10 mph in the quarter mile or so between the bumps, and then turning so she hit them on a bias.
It’s a long way from there to assuming that there was someone critically ill or badly injured riding inside, lying down, on a seat or duct taped to the floor or whatever.
That’s more or less the equivalent of assuming the next car I see speeding on the highway is carrying a liver to be transplanted.
I don’t think that’s what he was suggesting, his perhaps poorly-chosen examples notwithstanding; rather, his point seemed to be that there are plenty of common, everyday injuries/conditions/whatever which might require one to drive delicately. Maybe the driver has 'roids. Maybe he’s gotta pee really, really bad. Maybe he’s this close to projectile vomiting. It’s just an example of the sort of reason someone might drive extra slowly over a speed bump. You don’t know; that’s the point.
SPURT!! Dude, you owe me a new navy blue dress.
I dunno, I still think any sort of medical/physical discomfort is a stretch to assume (except for having to pee, that’s just cruel to mention… ) even enough to just use as an example - but I’ll give it to you. I still think “I didn’t want to feel my car/truck fly over the bump” is a dandy reason to slow down.
Or the driver has Occam’s razor jammed in his eye.
Well, again, I don’t think he was suggesting one should assume that this is the case, but rather he seemed to be posing it as merely one possibility. Granted, there are plenty of other, more likely possibilities, such as the aforemention coffee-spilling but, again, the point is you don’t know. Assuming the driver in question is a panty-waisted delicate flower is just as sensible as assuming he’s cancer-ridden chemo patient on his way home from the hospital.
Well, yeah. 
On a slightly related note, we saw two cops pulling people over for speeding this weekend (on two roads near our house where people always speed, police often have speed traps, we always drive the limit, and people are always tailgating us because of it). That schadenfreude is one enjoyable emotion.
Yes, I do, thanks. He is indeed a moron,
Back to the subject at hand: I don’t think the average healthy, able bodied driver ever stops to think about how people who are hurt, sick, and/or terminally ill actually get around. Everyone seems to be aware that cancer is a big killer, but do they think that the second someone is diagnosed that they are whisked away to “somewhere else”? No, they are still part of the community and they still need to get around town and buy things.
How do they do things like buy presents for their grandkids, or get clothes or drugstore stuff if they are already too sick and in pain to drive themselves? I’ll tell you. The hospice, if they can afford it, has a multi-passenger vehicle, usually (gasp) an SUV (due to a lot of seating) to take people to the drugstore, mall or other places to buy things. It HURTS a lot when they get jostled. Drivers try to be gentle but it still hurts them if we hit a bump.
So the next time you get all stabby and road-ragey about a slow SUV or 18-passenger van going “too slow”, just think about who might be inside. And be glad you are healthy enough to go banging over that speedbump with nothing more than irritation at its existence.
Thanks.
And the next time someone cuts you off in traffic, pull over, get out of the car, get down on your knees, and praise Jesus that you don’t have ground glass and blood in your eyes from the seagull that just crashed through the windshield of the guy who just cut you off, because that’s the likeliest explanation.
I must have missed the part where he states that the possibility offered is the most likely explanation. Can you point that out for me?
Ain’t it grand?
There’s been no mention of gas-guzzling though. I’m disappointed.
Of course not. Have you ever tasted that stuff? Guzzling it would sure make me puke.
I’ll take a stab at this one. Since the OP is complaining about the slow speed of the driver in the interval in between bumps, perhaps they were “hypermiling” (my favored 2008 candidate for a stupid, odious word that ought to be banned) their SUV from 14.2 to 14.5 MPG.
Yet another possible explanation.
I’m happy to see anyone slow down for the speed bumps, even SUV drivers. The reason that they were installed is because of the many idiots who automatically stomp on the accelerator whenever they see a straight patch of pavement in front of their car.
Or maybe they just don’t feel like getting jostled to and fro so that they can drive faster than they should, given that the speed bumps were put there to slow you down.