R50/53 You know you're a MINI addict if......
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I'm making a flyer for KCME (Kansas City MINI Enthusiasts) and would like to put some of these on it and am looking for suggestions. I'll start the first one.
You know you're a MINI addict if......you cringe everytime your sig. other says..."I don't get it....it's just a car."
You know you're a MINI addict if......you cringe everytime your sig. other says..."I don't get it....it's just a car."
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This is the Classic list ... many still apply ...
1) You avoid taking too many mates to the pub as the extra weight slows the car down.
2) You find yourself saying 'It goes better with just me in it'.
3) You're the only guy on the garage forecourt holding the nozzle right out of the hole and peering in.
4) You say to your passengers 'when it touches the red, I have about another 5 miles left'.
5) You find it crazy that the sills rust despite all that oil.
6) You rehearse your lines before the police pull you over. "Exhaust? Loud?"
7) You are an expert at 'identifying cars from just the headlamps' and...
You keep saying 'is that a mini behind, looks like mini lights...oh it's a polo'.
9) The rear side bins are used to hold oil cans and bottles of water.
10) You plan which engine parts to take as spares on long trips.
11) Your metric sockets are gleaming, the imperial ones are broken.
12) Your toolbox in the boot contains mainly spare rotor arms and large hammers.
13) Your parking space on the drive has a piece of oily carpet lying on it.
14) You have to wash the screen before you wipe, or they jam.
15) You pull over in dark country lanes and then disappoint your girl by saying 'just gonna leanen it a bit'.
16) When you spend three hours a night reading e mails on minis and then take a "You know you have a mini addiction when?" mail seriously and grade yourself.
17) You don't buy anything that won't fit in your mini.
18) You leave the family behind, rather than getting a bigger car when going on holiday.
19) Half your shirts feature logos from various MINI clubs/events!
20) Every book in your personal library has illustrations on each page to accompany instructions.
21) You can not only sit through the Italian Job video, but can turn the sound down and still understand each line of dialogue.
22) You watch a home video or see photos of a Mini and know the cars specs, name and location of the owner, and still may not be able to pick the owner out of a group of 3 people.
23) You get used to the pain of whacking your head on the bonnet release / safety catch.
24) You have to throw stuff out you always used to take with you when you had the mini, (Normally the wife, so I have heard)
25) You wave at people in a mini, and they look at you gone out as if you are driving an alien space craft.?? umm hang on I am driving an alien space craft.
26) You go shopping alone so you can put you stuff on the passenger seat.
27) You analysis possible girl friends on their ability to fit in your car, and the amount of luggage they might perceivable wish to carry on holiday, "one pair of knickers do you for a week darling"
28) You live in fear of fat girls coming up and saying nice car and then asking you for a ride, cause you know they will beat you to a pulp when you tell them they won't fit.
29) There are only 23 other owners in the nearest three counties to you.
30) You live in fear of a frost and you don't even own a garden.
31) You can use fibre glass to repair the sills and the MOT man doesn't even mention it.
32) You have bottles of oil and water in the passenger foot well, because no one provided a pocket for you to put them in.
33) You have to make room for your bed in the spare parts covering your house.
34) You stop making room for your bed and sleep on some old mini seats.
35) You buy old minis just to get more parts you don't even need.
36) People sniff the air and say "what's that you're wearing" you reply "20W50"!
37) Your wife asks you if she can have a "non-mini day" as it's her Birthday!! (totally true, Sarah said this to me!)
38) You know all the local scrap-merchants (and their dogs!) by name!
39) Work deadlines slip because you just *have* to reply to that mail about paint codes for a '63 Cooper!
40) You have an oily phone, and all the Mini-shops programmed as speed-dial numbers!
41) When you jet-wash the car, people come and say "it won't grow, no matter how much you water it!
42) You can't park anywhere without some old duffer telling you that he had a Mini in the 60's!
43) As soon as you enter the outside lane on the motorway, there's a stream of BMW 328i's tailgating you!
44) Arriving at your intended destination you instantly jump out and check the colour of your tailpipe. And sigh with contented relief if its dark/light grey.
45) Driving at breakneck speed to achieve the land speed record all you fix your eyes on is the oil pressure gauge and not the road ahead.
46) Your girlfriend begins to watch the oil pressure gauge as well!
47) After a long day cleaning 'your baby' you decide its too clean to drive down the road.
48) Or if you do decide to drive it, you spend the whole time 'trying' not to hit the brake pedal in case you get brake dust on the wheels.
49) Valvoline 20W50 becomes your fragrance of choice.
50) Removing spark plug leads with the engine running no longer holds any fear, in fact you generally quite like it.
51) Washing/polishing your car in the dark at 1.00am before a show seems O.K.
52) Watching a small glass window for pretty colours at night trying to get that elusive 'perfect' mixture doesn’t seem at all futile
53) When you consistently consult your other half as to your current diff choice and whether a 3.2 would be more suited than a 3.44 . Pleading ignorance for a while she then gets so fed up she picks a number!
54) Conversations between you and your mates sound more like talking telephone numbers than real words
55) When parking you just have to turn the wheels on slight lock to show off the A008's.
56) Positioning of spark plug leads is an art form and should not be confused with being just functional.
57) Polishing your exhaust tailpipe doesn’t just involve the outside but inside as well.
58) You consider the heater unit useless but a nice ornament none the less.
59) You realize the handbrake no longer has any use but can be useful for building upper body strength in traffic jams.
60) You think a 1.3 is a big engine.
61) The only way to get the whole family to town is taking both mini's.
62) You try to double pump the brakes in a friend’s car.
63) You think a ford escort is big.
64) You send Alec a birthday card but forget your wife's.
65) Your 4 yr old knows the difference between a mk1 and mk2.
66) You get p*ssed off if you can't roll down the passenger’s window while driving.
67) You have a tow bar on your roll away toolbox.
68) It's fun to drink beer in the middle of a field and watch people do donuts.
69) You have 6 cars and only one runs.
70) You borrow a golf cart tire when yours is flat.
71) You try to use the heel and toe movement on your mum's ford fiesta clutch, and stall the car at every junction.
72) You get used to that aching right foot on those motorway cruises.
73) You can't stand the pain any longer and end up using your left foot on the throttle.
74) You take out shares with the company who makes WD40.
75) You say to the police man "115 miles per hour? I've only got 90 on the clock!"
76) You have a permanent bald spot on the back of your head from that *bloody* bonnet catch.
77) You cry at the end of "The Italian Job" when they throw the minis off the cliff.
78) All your t-shirts have a big oily mark on the back of the neck, where the bonnet spring catches. (Known as The Mark of Issigonis!)
1) You avoid taking too many mates to the pub as the extra weight slows the car down.
2) You find yourself saying 'It goes better with just me in it'.
3) You're the only guy on the garage forecourt holding the nozzle right out of the hole and peering in.
4) You say to your passengers 'when it touches the red, I have about another 5 miles left'.
5) You find it crazy that the sills rust despite all that oil.
6) You rehearse your lines before the police pull you over. "Exhaust? Loud?"
7) You are an expert at 'identifying cars from just the headlamps' and...
You keep saying 'is that a mini behind, looks like mini lights...oh it's a polo'.9) The rear side bins are used to hold oil cans and bottles of water.
10) You plan which engine parts to take as spares on long trips.
11) Your metric sockets are gleaming, the imperial ones are broken.
12) Your toolbox in the boot contains mainly spare rotor arms and large hammers.
13) Your parking space on the drive has a piece of oily carpet lying on it.
14) You have to wash the screen before you wipe, or they jam.
15) You pull over in dark country lanes and then disappoint your girl by saying 'just gonna leanen it a bit'.
16) When you spend three hours a night reading e mails on minis and then take a "You know you have a mini addiction when?" mail seriously and grade yourself.
17) You don't buy anything that won't fit in your mini.
18) You leave the family behind, rather than getting a bigger car when going on holiday.
19) Half your shirts feature logos from various MINI clubs/events!
20) Every book in your personal library has illustrations on each page to accompany instructions.
21) You can not only sit through the Italian Job video, but can turn the sound down and still understand each line of dialogue.
22) You watch a home video or see photos of a Mini and know the cars specs, name and location of the owner, and still may not be able to pick the owner out of a group of 3 people.
23) You get used to the pain of whacking your head on the bonnet release / safety catch.
24) You have to throw stuff out you always used to take with you when you had the mini, (Normally the wife, so I have heard)
25) You wave at people in a mini, and they look at you gone out as if you are driving an alien space craft.?? umm hang on I am driving an alien space craft.
26) You go shopping alone so you can put you stuff on the passenger seat.
27) You analysis possible girl friends on their ability to fit in your car, and the amount of luggage they might perceivable wish to carry on holiday, "one pair of knickers do you for a week darling"
28) You live in fear of fat girls coming up and saying nice car and then asking you for a ride, cause you know they will beat you to a pulp when you tell them they won't fit.
29) There are only 23 other owners in the nearest three counties to you.
30) You live in fear of a frost and you don't even own a garden.
31) You can use fibre glass to repair the sills and the MOT man doesn't even mention it.
32) You have bottles of oil and water in the passenger foot well, because no one provided a pocket for you to put them in.
33) You have to make room for your bed in the spare parts covering your house.
34) You stop making room for your bed and sleep on some old mini seats.
35) You buy old minis just to get more parts you don't even need.
36) People sniff the air and say "what's that you're wearing" you reply "20W50"!
37) Your wife asks you if she can have a "non-mini day" as it's her Birthday!! (totally true, Sarah said this to me!)
38) You know all the local scrap-merchants (and their dogs!) by name!
39) Work deadlines slip because you just *have* to reply to that mail about paint codes for a '63 Cooper!
40) You have an oily phone, and all the Mini-shops programmed as speed-dial numbers!
41) When you jet-wash the car, people come and say "it won't grow, no matter how much you water it!
42) You can't park anywhere without some old duffer telling you that he had a Mini in the 60's!
43) As soon as you enter the outside lane on the motorway, there's a stream of BMW 328i's tailgating you!
44) Arriving at your intended destination you instantly jump out and check the colour of your tailpipe. And sigh with contented relief if its dark/light grey.
45) Driving at breakneck speed to achieve the land speed record all you fix your eyes on is the oil pressure gauge and not the road ahead.
46) Your girlfriend begins to watch the oil pressure gauge as well!
47) After a long day cleaning 'your baby' you decide its too clean to drive down the road.
48) Or if you do decide to drive it, you spend the whole time 'trying' not to hit the brake pedal in case you get brake dust on the wheels.
49) Valvoline 20W50 becomes your fragrance of choice.
50) Removing spark plug leads with the engine running no longer holds any fear, in fact you generally quite like it.
51) Washing/polishing your car in the dark at 1.00am before a show seems O.K.
52) Watching a small glass window for pretty colours at night trying to get that elusive 'perfect' mixture doesn’t seem at all futile
53) When you consistently consult your other half as to your current diff choice and whether a 3.2 would be more suited than a 3.44 . Pleading ignorance for a while she then gets so fed up she picks a number!
54) Conversations between you and your mates sound more like talking telephone numbers than real words
55) When parking you just have to turn the wheels on slight lock to show off the A008's.
56) Positioning of spark plug leads is an art form and should not be confused with being just functional.
57) Polishing your exhaust tailpipe doesn’t just involve the outside but inside as well.
58) You consider the heater unit useless but a nice ornament none the less.
59) You realize the handbrake no longer has any use but can be useful for building upper body strength in traffic jams.
60) You think a 1.3 is a big engine.
61) The only way to get the whole family to town is taking both mini's.
62) You try to double pump the brakes in a friend’s car.
63) You think a ford escort is big.
64) You send Alec a birthday card but forget your wife's.
65) Your 4 yr old knows the difference between a mk1 and mk2.
66) You get p*ssed off if you can't roll down the passenger’s window while driving.
67) You have a tow bar on your roll away toolbox.
68) It's fun to drink beer in the middle of a field and watch people do donuts.
69) You have 6 cars and only one runs.
70) You borrow a golf cart tire when yours is flat.
71) You try to use the heel and toe movement on your mum's ford fiesta clutch, and stall the car at every junction.
72) You get used to that aching right foot on those motorway cruises.
73) You can't stand the pain any longer and end up using your left foot on the throttle.
74) You take out shares with the company who makes WD40.
75) You say to the police man "115 miles per hour? I've only got 90 on the clock!"
76) You have a permanent bald spot on the back of your head from that *bloody* bonnet catch.
77) You cry at the end of "The Italian Job" when they throw the minis off the cliff.
78) All your t-shirts have a big oily mark on the back of the neck, where the bonnet spring catches. (Known as The Mark of Issigonis!)
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You remember one day that there was once a time when you actually used to slow down for corners.
or
The sight of an oncoming traffic cone chicane solicits a devilish grin.
or
you use the term "motoring" way too often in casual conversation.
or
The sight of an oncoming traffic cone chicane solicits a devilish grin.
or
you use the term "motoring" way too often in casual conversation.
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You know you're a MINI addict if you are always looking for the long way to get somewhere just so you can spend more time in your MINI.
You know you're a MINI addict when you leave your car in the garage during snowstorms, not because you are afraid of getting in an accident, but you don't want your MINI to get dirty.
You know you're a MINI addict when you leave your car in the garage during snowstorms, not because you are afraid of getting in an accident, but you don't want your MINI to get dirty.
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>>You know you're a MINI addict if....you own over 12 MINI models, have the MINIAC license plate, belong to a Can't Wait For the Feb. Club, stay up every morning 'til 3 a.m. on MCO, and giving a car a "name" and I don't even own a MINI...YET!!!
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>>>>You know you're a MINI addict if....you own over 12 MINI models, have the
Yup. Including Classic Minis
>>>>MINIAC license plate,
Yup.
>>>>belong to a Can't Wait For the Feb. Club,
No, I already have Alice.
>>>>stay up every morning 'til 3 a.m. on MCO,
Not any more. Used to though.
>>>>and giving a car a "name" and
Yup.
>>>>I don't even own a MINI...YET!!!
I have mine.
Do I qualify? :?
Yup. Including Classic Minis
>>>>MINIAC license plate,
Yup.
>>>>belong to a Can't Wait For the Feb. Club,
No, I already have Alice.
>>>>stay up every morning 'til 3 a.m. on MCO,
Not any more. Used to though.
>>>>and giving a car a "name" and
Yup.
>>>>I don't even own a MINI...YET!!!
I have mine.
Do I qualify? :?
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From: MINIlani,HI
>>>>>>You know you're a MINI addict if....you own over 12 MINI models, have the
>>Yup. Including Classic Minis
>>
>>>>>>MINIAC license plate,
>>Yup.
>>
>>>>>>I don't even own a MINI...YET!!!
>>I have mine.
>>
>>Do I qualify? :?
>>
>>
Uh,that's a roger,10-4, and an emphatic YES!
>>Yup. Including Classic Minis
>>
>>>>>>MINIAC license plate,
>>Yup.
>>
>>>>>>I don't even own a MINI...YET!!!
>>I have mine.
>>
>>Do I qualify? :?
>>
>>
Uh,that's a roger,10-4, and an emphatic YES!
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