Here are some leading indicators.... in no particular order:

1) After you park, you’ll walk backwards until you can’t see your Mini anymore.
2) You still try to collect toy cars.... Mini models in your color combination.
3) The inside of your Mini one of the cleanest, most organized things in your life. Your home and office are a mess, however.
4) You despise valet parking. If you must use it, you’ll stay and watch, and listen, until the car is parked. You might even note the mileage.
5) In restaurants, you always pick the table with the best view...... of the parking lot.
6) When you drive past glass windows and buildings, you look at your reflection as you go by.
7) You have more pictures of your Mini, than of your significant other, or family.
8) You are proud to tell people what great gas mileage the Mini gets. In reality, your Mini probably has worst effective gas mileage of any car you’ve ever owned after accounting for the all the aimless driving you now do.
9) You find yourself checking the weather report more often..... because you just have, or want to, wash the Mini.
10) You consciously think about what shoes to wear...... for clutch work.

What are some of those embarrassing little details of your Mini obsession?

 

I'm a little worst than that, I drive the MINI and don't stop till it's back in my garage, if I need to stop somewhere, I drive home, park it inside and take my old beater to go to where I had to stop. I don't drive it in the rain or snow, never take it to work because it's too dusty, I drove it home from where I bought it and it was 1250 miles that was last August I now have 1600 miles on it, so all I did is 350 miles in 8 months but it's the same with most of my cars not only the MINI, but the only one I want to drive and is always on my mind is the MINI, the others don't excite me anymore.

 

I never park on the street, only the garage if Im at home, even if its to stop in for 5 min.

I have Mini desktops, on my laptop, pc, wifes mac, work pc...

When I drive past some place cool looking, I think about how great a picture it would be....with my Mini parked in front of it.

My Mini has more cleaning products than my bathroom, and kitchen combined.

I constantly let off the gas early to hear the burble prior to coming to a stop.

 

I keep a journal in the mini's glove compartment for recording cool drives or when she gets detailed. I have all the gas station receipts too.

 

Not only do I keep all my gas receipts, and every receipt, but I use a program called Automotive Wolf and actually scan in every receipt (even gas receipts) and input them into the program. I invoice every time I wash the car too, which happens on average every 3 days.

 

It never ceases to amaze me the obsessions MINI owners come up with. Your list is quite good!

I was eating dinner last night at my favorite dive and parked myself in a chair at which I could sit and admire my MINI in all it's Indi Blue goodness out in the parking lot. The waitress saw I was at it again and told me that "I really needed a girlfriend." Imagine that???

The other day (this has happened twice already) a lady-friend of mine mentioned that one of their friends wanted a MINI. I asked her if he talked about MINIs all the time. "YES!", she said. Does he visit a web site all the time to build his car. Her eyes got wider. "YES!!!" she said again. Anyway, this went on for awhile. The symptoms of a MINIac are as clear as they are completely normal.

 

for the moment I have 2 MINIs and I can see them from here, My co-workes think I'm insane because all of the above appy to me. I have never loved a car so much it made me feel quilt for wanting it. I have no SO because IF he didn't love the MINI as much as me he'd be gone.

 

How bout if you can go on a two week vacation and be able to wear a differnt "mini" shirt every day.

 

I can do that for a week right now. But I have the MINI hat for the days without a MINI shirt.

 

I tend to arrive at parties early to get the best/"safest" space for my MINI. Not too close to the front door (too many people walking by) and not on the street either. Also only park in garages when possible.

 

You poor thing - you're so obsessed that you don't even know when women are flirting with you!

My obsession is sweet (but cruel), too.

Since I want to drive my MINI everywhere, when my husband wants to come along - we take two cars (he drive a 'Vette and neither of us likes to be passenger);

Out to the movies
To our kid's baseball games
To Amviv III (we live in Southern California)
To Texas to visit one of our daughters
To the updoming MINIs in the Mountains

I also park my baby in the farthest parking spot away, as long as I can park close to a landscape island, and park really, really close to the island so there's pleeeeeeeeeeenty of room next to it "just in case" someone else parks that far away. I've turned around and gone home if there's no special spot like that in the lot.

Anyone else drive almost 500 miles one day, so you can attend a 50 mile drive the next day, then drive back home that night?

 

That's Nothing, I'm So Odsessed About Mini That I Don't Even Got The Car Yet That I Have Picture At My Work, My House, My 5 Year Old Kid Now What Is A Different A Regular Mini And The Mini-s. So I Can Wait To Get My Mini-s.

 

Close-we drove 6hrs round trip (300+ miles) to attend a St Louis MINI Club Happy Hour last Wednesday. As my wife says, we drove 6hrs so she could have two glasses of wine.

And yes, we would/will do it again.

 

Obessed doesn't begin to describe it.

 

Phew!! It's always a relief to know that you are not alone. The MINI was my wife's idea (I was seriously considering a M3). But ever since we got the MINI, my wife says she has lost me totally!!!

Whenever we go out, I drop her off in front of the store, mall, movie theater....etc etc (you get the pic!) and then cruise around the parking lot looking for that perfect spot!!! Then I walk around backwards just looking dazed (and believe me, PH/Silver roof always makes u dazed!!!). And then I spend the weekends detailing the car. And then I spend after-office hours browsing NAM. Whenver we go out to eat, she complains that I am always trying to get a peek of our MINI, rather than listening to her or enjoying the food....And then I act like an "extremly excited 6 year-old" (her words!!) whenever I see another MINI on the road and scream and wave and look "so heart-broken" (her words again!!) if the other driver does not wave!!! She says that this is not the way she expects her 33 year old hubby to behave!!!!!!

Once again, I am happy to know that I am not alone!!!!! Yes, I am obssessed over my MINI and I love that feeling!!!!!!!!!!

 

I keep a framed picture of my Mini by my bedside.

 

Yes. I am. Completely obsessed.

 

OMG! #1,5,6,9,10, that's all me!...and more!...terrible terrible terrible

 

I keep my framed JCW certificate in the rec room wall, right next to the signed print by Paddy Hopkins!

 

My girlfriend had one of her friends paint a watercolor of my MINI from a photograph and gave it to me for my birthday. I hung it in the bedroom so its the last thing we see at night and first thing we see in the morning. As for the actual car, its in the garage, all covered up until: all salt is washed off the roads; no rain in forecast; not too sunny or hot; you get the idea...

 

i don't like leaving my MCS out in mall parking lots and grocery lots, so
i drive another car for daily tasks... so yah, i am obessed with my car
hobby.

 

I know I am... I got in an accident and drove across the country to get her worked on and painted by MINI owners

 

I love all of you! You are so dear and I so completely relate to your stories and concerns!

 

That's ok as long as my woman is able to wear a "mini" skirt every day.

 

I always forget to mention my car is parked under my bed as I said in a previous post a few months ago, if I was to drill a hole in the floor under my bed I would be able to look at my car but since the mattress is directly on the floor, I would have to drill beside the bed, the car has it's own blanket and heated floor underneath it like a nice electric blanket to keep it warm just like me.