Well I'm glad you're raising your daughter to be respectful to other people...
That's it. Now I'm done judging.

Also, your punctuation could use some work. stones, glass houses, etc.

 

MyFastMINI. I'm not asking for any sympathy...and you can laugh at me if you want, because I don't care.

I have to leave to go to school now, so I'll make this short. I'm 17years old, I've been wanting a MINI since I was 13, and I've worked since I was 14 to get it...and it cost me $17 THOUSAND DOLLARS.

-Cody

 

Nope. Not in this or your previous post.

 

My piece of advice to you.... if this or anything like it ever happens again.... walk outside and see if it really is your car before you burst into tears. A little proof goes a long way on saving the emotions.

 

I agree. I have no idea what kind of relationship you have with your boss. If you were close friend, buds who hanged out together, it might be different.

But, this sounds both rude and mean

 

[quote=polizei]Funny story I feel I must tell. So....here it goes!



Man, you DID keep your cool. When my Cooper was wrecked, let's just say even tho I was not at fault I was the one who almost got arrested.

 

I was driving through the middle of no where Arkansas this summer, and got stuck in a BAD storm on a little two lane highway. There was debris blowing everywhere, and zero visibility. I pulled off into the gravel parking lot of an abandoned store. Until it started HAILING!!!! I started freaking out. Tears started to well up, but I didn't cry. I managed to move Hobbes, and wedge him partially under the awning for the old store. I joked that I was going to get out and throw myself on the bonnet to keep from getting hail damage! I wouldn't have gone quite that far, but it's a huge joke to my friends now, lol.

A friend of mine fails to realize that a MINI is not "just a car". He picks on me all the time about how obsessive I am about it. I've gone into tyrades trying to explain it to him. He just laughs, and enjoys continually picking on me for it. He knows I LOVE Hobbes.

 

I agree. This is hurtful, not a "good joke", and not how someone in authority should treat their employees. I wouldn't suggest doing anything to get back at him, because I wouldn't want this type of behavior to escalate.

I would cry too. It doesn't mean you're weak or have your priorities out of whack - it's a gut reaction to something you care about. Your feelings aren't wrong.

 

Got any police buddies? We can go from there...Chinese are known for their creative torture techniques...

 

Lol! Not yet...but hopefully soon.

Thanks guys! I still find it funny....but he said he thought I was going to jump over the counter and start punchinig him.

I like reading other peoples stories, so keep them coming please!

-Cody

 

I once let my boyfriend take my MINI because he was going to be late for work and it was raining too hard for him to take his bike (Tucson has no drainage system.. so flash floods seem to render motorcycles, and sometimes even cars, completely useless).

Needless to say, as the first time I had let it out of my sight with someone else in it (and probably the last!), I was out of my mind all day. He got off work at 5:30.. so I started staring at my phone by 5. 6:30 finally rolls around (oh no, it's late, what's happened? No.. probably just got off late.. He better not have been giving people rides! etc..) he finally calls:

Him: "Hi.. Umm.. so, I don't know how to tell you this about your car.."
Me: !?!? nononono.. this isn't happening.. [pause]
Him: "But it's so f***** fun to drive!"
Me:

It's a wonder I didn't kill him..

 

The last time I cried was back in 1985 when Lawrence Taylor of the New York Giants tackled and broke Washington Redskin's Joe Theismann's leg, forcing him into early retirement. It was a very sad day.

If anyone hurts my car, it will be like watching Theismann getting both legs broken, tear an ACL, and dislocate a shoulder.

 

I got punked mercilously at work the other day. I had lunch with an old boss who I've become friendly with and was telling him about my new ride.

Later that night as I walked over to drive home I saw a piece of paper stuffed under my windshield wiper. It was a note that read:

"Dear colleague, terribly sorry for the dent, please give me a ring at extension 6011 tomorrow to exchange insurance cards."

I let out a scream of agony (no tears) and ran around the car running my hand over every piece of surface searching for a dent. A couple of other people from work came by and started looking it over and they couldn't find a dent. We were all concluding what a nice guy this person must have been to leave a note when they didn't really make a dent...when I realized that I recognized the extension, it was my old boss' number and he'd punked me in the worst way.

I love my car.

 

I love my little green Gertrude and I haven't even seen her yet, she is still on a ship on the ocean!

 

well today i nearly freaked. at school i park at IMO the best spot, its a corner, and on the side thats not a corner, the spots bumpstop has been pulled up so no one parks there, but for some reason today as i was cutting to the right (the side with the extended bumpstop) i forgot it was there, and ran my front tire over it, to a massive thud when it hit the ground.

this is where i say i haev a "bond" with my car, and am content that if your treat your car right itll treat you right. on its own this bump stop could barely fit under the car if it were pushed under without scraping, but having run over it with the compression of the spring, i was sure itd wreck my cars underbelly, and side skirt, yet after i did it (and nearly had a heart attack and moved it out form under my car) i went to inspect the car, and not a singly dent, scratch, or yellow mark from the bumpstop (ireally dont know what its called, its kind of a small section of curb at the end of parking spots). i then compressed the spring to make sure the shock hadnt taken a hard hit, and looked at my motor mount to make sure the thump hadnt caused some leakage, everythign somehow was fine.

how harley managed to have that bump stop underneath her with compression from the springs putting it even closer with the cars underbelly ill never know, and as i said im not going to say soemthing crazy like my car is alive, but my car treated me well by somehow avoiding damage from that bump stop

 

I have a little game I like to play...sort of an informal research thing. If an acquaintance says to me that they know someone who owns a MINI I ask a few probing questions to find out how neurotic they are about their car. Invariably (and I mean that) they (the MINI owners) are certifiably nuts!! I love it!!! Regardless of our reactions to MINI-injury (cry, stomp, collapse...whatever) it's absolutely okay because it's not just a car, is it?

I've had several "incidents" and, while I can't recall shedding actual tears, I was pretty darn gutted and would blame no MINI owner if they did. Perfectly appropriate, imo.

 

Yeah, I love my MINI. If some offending butt head assaulted it, I'd take a .50 Cal M2 mount it on my MINI and blast them all to bits...just kidding, but I do love my MINI. By the way, does someone know how to fabricate a fifty mount on a MINI?

pw/b jcw

 

I have one of the smallest most unnoticeable dings under the rear window on the passenger side and when i found i sat with the door open crying in a costco parking lot, my dad had to come with his car to calm me down so I could drive home

 

It's okay to love your MINI. It's also okay to hate your boss. He's an a-hole.

As you can probably guess, I'm not a fan of workplace humor, _especially_ the practical joke type.

 

Yeah!, these kind of things are just not funny, and i bet that anybodys boss wouldnt like it if it happened to them

 

Well...he's told several other people that he said he won't ever play a joke on another person as a result.

And BTW: Just to make it clear, it wasn't like I was balling out crying, but I did shed a couple of tears.

Well, I guess he learned his lesson!

-Cody

 

Pull this WONDERFUL PRANK (BY the way MINIclo, evil thinking. HEH. HEH. ) on the boss's birthday. He'll be another year older and feeling vunerable and fragile...especially after all the OLDER than DIRT comments you heap on him first!!! THEN let him have the drive by shooting story!!

 

One time I was at work, and I work with hawks, falcons and eagles. It started to hail, and I realized I had parked my MINI under some dense trees, so it would prob be fine if the hail didnt pick up. So It was teeny hail, no Biggie. But we had to take all the raptors in on the glove to save them, and it started to hail harder, and harder, and I was so distraught with worry about my MINI, I was walking around with quarter size hail knocking me in the head, and I was completely apathetic to the hail. I was emotionally exhausted. 2 weeks after my MINI was purchased it got hailed on, luckily no damage.