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Old 02-14-2012, 10:22 PM
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Do you guys ever find yourself creepily gazing at your car?

You know that moment where you pick a window seat in a restaurant to have a view of your car, or when you walk into your house and glance back to admire her once last time before you close the door. Or stare our your window wanting to drive her........ how many people do this?
 
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Old 02-15-2012, 12:52 AM
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Just all the time!!!
I especially love driving the long way round to get out of our town so I can drive down our high street so I can see my clubbies profile reflected in the shop windows....
 
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Old 02-15-2012, 02:48 AM
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I really like the way my car looks, I do find myself looking at my Mini.
 
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Old 02-15-2012, 04:32 AM
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I just to sit by a window at a resturant to look at my car not for the "I am going to find you" creepy stare because i want to make sure nobody screws with my car.
 
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Old 02-15-2012, 04:37 AM
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I make a point to be able to see my car from my table in a restaurant just so I can. lol
 
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Old 02-15-2012, 05:15 AM
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All of the above!!!! Lol
 
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Old 02-15-2012, 05:53 AM
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I once offered mine candy, told it to get in the back of the van and put the lotion on its skin.

...it did not oblige, and in the end I had to wax it myself.
 
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I find myself looking at my car in the garage, in the office or restaurant parking lots. My desktop on my personal PC, laptop and office computer is a picture of Comet. Really I hardly think about it.
 
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Thought I was the only weirdo out there, guess not.
Gotta love it.
 
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Old 02-15-2012, 06:23 AM
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Old 02-15-2012, 06:45 AM
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Originally Posted by cristo
I'm glad he didn't find the exhaust pipe opening.
 
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Old 02-15-2012, 07:03 AM
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Originally Posted by cristo
Well,,,almost.
 
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Old 02-15-2012, 07:26 AM
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that car is uggggly lol ... but when im at work and do peer our and look at my baby and go into a long stare
 
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Haha, yes I do look longingly at my car.

This thread reminds me of that SNL commercial from years gone by:

"Introducing...the first car you can actually have sex with..."
 
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Originally Posted by cristo

Wow.......... is that a Monte Carlo from the 90s??? hmm...... oh the whole part about the love affair with the car is messed up too.
 
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or when you walk into your house and glance back to admire her once last time before you close the door.
All. The. Time.
The first week I owned it I thought "ok, it's new, it'll wear off"
The second week I still gazed at it with a smile as I walked away after every drive.
Third week in, I still stare.

My neighbors must think I am crazy.
 
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Originally Posted by miffy
I especially love driving the long way round to get out of our town so I can drive down our high street so I can see my clubbies profile reflected in the shop windows....
HAHA. Same here. :-)
 
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Guilty - Or as I mentioned in another thread today... went out and spent some time in the trailer with him.
 
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I always feel some level of separation anxiety when walking away from mine
 
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How could anyone one have that kind of a feeling for a Chevy!!!???


I don't even have my CMS4 yet and I still constantly log on to my FB page to look at the picture I found online that looks just like the one I ordered!!
I think I need help!!!
 
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Me too....thank goodness for all of you who share the obsession.....
 
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I park in the parking lot outside of my gym.. and run on a outward facing treadmill... and just stare at it while I run...................is that bad?
 
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Nothing unusual here. I take one last longing glance back at my baby before walking into my office building each day, and take most of my smoke breaks in that parking lot just to admire my MINI.

I added my stripes when I first got my R53 in Sept. '09 so she hasn't changed much in 18 months, but every time I see her I think "damn that's a sharp looking car!"
 
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