In the past few months, as I motor around Midland, MI. I've heard the following
said about my car-

"Cute" (have heard this multiple times)
"It's a radio control car"

Why the hell do people keep giving me a "peace" symbol with their
hands every time I drive around? And it's not in a nice way either???

My favorite (even more bizzare said at a stop-light,
by some rather attractive 40's ish lady carrying her toddlers in an Escalade ):

"Hey thats a car to get sex with"

 

(at a stop light...)

"Hey, nice car!"

<"Thanks.">

"Where do you put the batteries?"

 

 

The first time I brought my car to work,I showed it to one of the guys in QC and he said"So when do you get the other one for the other foot?"

 

If i was driving an Escalade with children in the back i'd be looking for strange too!!

I live in an area where there are quite a few elderly folks, i get comments from them ALL THE TIME, including those with reminices(sp?) about their younger days and original MINIs.

Got stopped once by a 40something couple once as i was getting out of my MINI. She commented on it and said how cute it was and that her husband won't let her have one cause he says they haven't been out long and aren't built by a reputable company. And then she asks "who builds those anyway" with this I know the answer but tell me anyway look. I tell her it's the same company that makes that 7 series that you just got out of! Her husband goes ballistic...BMW would never make a piece of crap like that, yadda yadda. I told him to ask his Beemer dealer or look it up online, but be prepared to get that checkbook out for the misses!!

 

"Does it run on regular gas?" - lady in a bar parking lot in Illinois.

"You really don't get in this car, you kind of just put it on." - my father after a spirited ride in the passenger seat.

"You wanna have sex?" - my wife when she pulled up along side me in her company car at a stop light without my knowledge.

"I want one of these crazy things." - my mom.

 

"Where is the other half?"

'What is it going to be when it grows up?"

 

While at the gas station filling up:
Is that electric?

 

A CO-WORKER "Why do you want a half of a car when you already have a whole one"

 

"Where is the rest of your car?"

"Is it electric?"

"What's the gas mileage?"

"I love your car!"

regards,
Red

 

From someone at work:

"Oh, you got a "My First BMW!"

Grr... ('course, he has a Civic... Nuff said! )

-Paul!

 

Oh yeah, in a parking lot as I was pulling away, a 20ish latino girl says in a very thick accent: "Oooh!!! I love your MINI!"



-Paul!

 

At a store between two customers:

Customer #1: *Looking out window* "What's that?"
Customer #2: "It's one of those PT Cruisers..."
Me *halfway across store*: "It's a MINI Cooper, -not- a PT Cruiser."
Customer #2: "A what...?"
Me: A MINI Cooper
Customer #2: "Oh... who makes it?"

 

My Favorite

My wife really Loves those little cars, how much do they cost? because my daughter is also thinking of getting one for graduation.

 

I've gotten a bunch of "cute" and "nice car" comments and the "how do you fit in it" (I'm 6'4"). The best one is a guy who works with my dad told him "I bet you are glad you have that little car now that gas prices are so high." Not a very funny comment by itself but we also drive a Honda Insight. My dad finally discovered he was talking about the MINI and then promptly told him "well we also drive..."

 

I was unaware there a nice way and bad way to give the peace sign...
How does one give a peace sign with their hands in not a nice way?

 

Oh meee... Should I chime in?

I had one of the first New Beetles in town in 1998. Sometimes I'd have to drive away from people at gas stations. "Is the engine in the back..." you name it. After about 1 year it calmed down. I still have the Beetle 92k (Tdi) but I don't have to talk to people so much anymore.

I have the first Cobra I built 3.5 years ago. Let me ask, Do You Really Want to Talk to People? Well, drive a Cobra around and every where you stop you'll get hammered. "Does it run on Gas"? And the Normal "Is it Real"? "Does it Really Have a 427"? I've seen days when I wouldn't drive it 'cause I didn't feel like answering 1001 questions while stopped at red lights.

Since I haven't driven my MCS yet I haven't experienced that set of questions yet. My MCS was a light total. After 1 week I've started ordering parts to put it back together. I'm hoping about 3 weeks before it's ready.

Mike

 

(correct me if I'm wrong) but during "the war" (I'm lost on specifics) the enemy would cut off one of the fingers of captured French archers and as a sign of defiance those still fighting would raise their two-bow pulling fingers....

And isn't it now the English equivilant of giving the finger?

 

So Does it?:smile:

 

"It's French right?"


Promptly followed by my thinking
"Your an idiot right?"

 

Waiting at a stop light. Big, old LTD pulls up and stops in the next lane. All the windows on the rusted out POS were down. Adult in the front seat (presumably the father) and three kids in the back seat (ages something like 7-10). Dad yells, LOUD "hey kids, lookit the faggitmobile!" Kids all lean over to the open window nearest me and yell "***, faggit," ETC (Dad now laughing his head off) until the light changes and I motor away. Now there's a fine upstanding American role model!

 

I wonder if he calls it a "faggitmobile" because his boyfriend drives one?

 

It's kind of like jazz; if you have to explain it, they aren't going to get it anyway................mgg

 

*Do ya have to carry it across the puddles?
*That's French right?
*What is that?
*Leave it out in the rain too long? it shrank.
*Where's the rest of it?

 

"Ya know, in Texas they wear those as shoes." - coworker


Same guy - "I'd take a ride in it with you but I don't want to get that intimate."