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Professional proof that you've made it, hired so you never have to parallel park again.
means Someone paid to drive you around, so you can sit in the back and pretend the traffic is someone else's problem.
from Straight from French chauffeur, literally 'stoker' or 'one who heats,' from chauffer, 'to heat.' Early motorcars (and before them, steam-powered vehicles) needed someone to stoke the boiler or fire the engine before it would move an inch, so the person tending that job carried the name into the driver's seat. As cars lost their fireboxes, the word kept its warmth — a little linguistic ember left over from the age of steam.
- word origin
- french for stoker, since early cars needed firing up
- the irony
- drives you two miles, still charges for an hour
- status symbol
- the point isn't the ride, it's the not-driving