Funny story I feel I must tell. So....here it goes!

So I work at Kroger (a grocery store) and am a Customer Service Manager...anyway, my boss threatened me earlier about how he was going to smash my windshield out. He sounded very serious, so I took it as such...and he knows how much I love my car...he even thought NAM was a joke until I showed him! So I tell him, I hope you're kidding about my car, because I don't care how much you mess with me, just DON'T mess with my car. Then he went on to joke about it and tell me he was kidding, etc. So, everything is now cool.

So I'm doing my job, and I asked one of the employee's if she could please move her car one spot closer to mine so no car's would be able to park by me. I know she wouldn't hit my car, and if she did, she would tell me. Anyway, something I didn't know is that my boss found this out somehow...and he thought it was funny. This was after the windshield incedent.

Time passes and I'm doing my job, and as usual a customer came up to the office and I ask how I can help her. She says "I think we need to call the police, I just hit a car." So I'm thinking, great....and I ask her what kind of car, she responds "A blue MINI Cooper" and I go "OH **** (in my head)" and I extend on that and ask her if it had tinted windows or not, where she then stated she didn't know. Mind you, I don't know the lady, and she was elderly.

So I proceed to think in my mind "******, this is NOT happening...there is NO WAY someone hit my car..." (Also note that I ALWAYS park next to corner's, walls, other cars that I know, etc. so as to not get dings). So I see my boss standing in the Pharmacy, so I say "Mam, I'll be right back." So I walk over to him and I said, "I think I'm going to cry, someone just hit my car." Lo and behold, I started to cry...in public, for about 5mins. He told me then that is was a joke and my car was fine. I was so shook up I was emotionally stressed for at least 45min after that happended, but everyone else thought it was a great joke. After I calmed down later I commended him on his efforts and it WAS a good joke...and he told me over and over again that he really felt bad because he didn't think I would take it so seriously.

So, I end on this point...how much do you love your MINI? If someone hit it, would you literally cry in public for 5mins? I did, and I'm not ashamed to say so, because I truly do love my MINI that much. Everyone says "It's just a car" well...to me, my MINI is not just a car, it's my life....and I love it.

Laugh if you want. It was a good joke.
-Cody

 

your the kinda guy that makes MINI owners look soft . Just playing man. I dont know if i'd break down and cry, but I think who ever hit it, would get hit

 

Awww thats soo mean! If I were
you, I would probably quit. I
know that you need to work, but
I would hate that person for the
rest of my life. I mean, he was
almost making fun of you. Well,
IMHO, he was.

 

I DO love my MINI and YES - I HAVE cried in public at least 3 times that I know of because of it...

The first was when our 02' was rear ended on Christmas Eve of that same year.

The second was when that same 02' (Scooter) burned to the ground a little over a year ago....still shedding tears to this day....

The third was when my Cabrio (only a month old at the time) was keyed all the way down the drivers side..

I feel ya my friend....and it WAS a pretty good joke . I'm sure your heart sank right to your feet in a millisecond....

Donna

 

dang, your boss has a serious grip on you.

 

I love my MINI so much I plan to put a picture of her in my new cubicle... A lot of people have pictures of their loved ones at work, well, Mia is my loved one

Im gonna feel sad when I trade her in for the 06 I have on order. I feel bad already, like Im abandoning her

MINIs are a big part of my life also, I can definately relate to how you feel.

 

Your boss should be fired for such abusive crap. If I were you, I'd find another job. That is a very hostile workplace. And I would absolutely cry over damage to my beloved MINI!

 

you should actually hit his car with, oh i dunno, a 32-29 aluminum bat . Or, find those decals that look like dents and stuff, and stick them to his car, and then be like OMG!!!

 

Yea....I need to find out a way to get him back...suggestions would be awesome. The fact that he made me cry not only in public, but also in front of all of the other employee's...

Oh well, pay back's a B***h.

And I'm not leaving my job lol. He is a great guy, and really nice...but also likes to have fun. He just didn't think I would be that serious....but I guess unless you're a MINI owner you'll never know how it feels...

-Cody

 

It's good you can forgive and see the humor in it. Although it was distressing for you I imagine it taught your manager a lesson. I'm sure when you started to cry he felt really bad and had no idea how serious you would take it or how you would react. A poor judgement call on his part but we all have different learning curves. I'm sure that he will never do this again and it's good he had a gracious person on the receiving end of it. And revenge is never sweet, it just creates small people and bigger problems.

 

I think you should go back to working at the MINI Dealer. I had a friend joke about pulling a prank on my MINI that I know his buddies did to someone else. He knew the don't mees with my car rule. He went and hid until I confirmed he wasn't serious.

 

We didn't cry in public, but we sure felt like it when Gromit got hit. Instead we tried to keep our spirits up until our MTTS trip was over-then we cried(and still occasionally want to cry because he's locked up in the repair shop now).

 

I love my mini so much I would cry and cry if something happened to it!
I try to park next to no other cars...my boyfriend makes fun of me but I for no reason park next to huge trucks or suvs.
If you really love your mini you'd do anything for it!!!

 

dang that was a good joke, even had me going as i was reading it

 

I find payback is best when you can hang onto it for a few years, let the other person drop their guard. that reminds me

 

well ive yet to cry about my mini so far (cross my fingers, im sure if i were in the same situation of you i would have been very distressed at the least)

but i am protective as hell over my mini, im always pushing people away form it when were chilling in a lot and there leaning on it with hand on paint (no makrs for me thanks) and i get pissed at my friends over my car. like im generally a chilled out guy (though in my own ways an ********* but none of my friends had actually seen me mad before or angry in public) but sometimes kids, they just dont listen
like i absolutely refuse to let anyone else drive my car (all of my friends want to, and i cant blame them) if they have not proven to me they know how to drive stick (and even some who have i wont let b/c they are just terrible drivers) and one time i took a bud to a hangout spot, and he goes i left soemthing in your car, so i lend him the keys, and i see him start it and start to back it up a little, before i run over screaming my a$$ off, and scared him enough to throw in the clutch before he stalled it (i could hear the shutter already, BTW he only drove stick once and maybe once actually got the VW he was driving going withotu stalling) needless to say i am slightly less firends with that kid, and he felt some pains from that experience (he got lucky if i twasnt that i feel kind of bad for him for certain reasons that are to long of a story, i probably could have been a lot more of an a$$ and not just gave him a hit or two and a verbal disapproval)
basically im very protective and emotional over my car, and i know some friends of mine who have grown to resent my feelings toward my car, but i really dont care, i have nothing against them, but i do see them as less of friends myself, b/c if they were my friends theyd respect my wishes of my car (which really are just not more than 2 other people [im to tall to fit someone behind me] in my car, not touching the paint, not fighting for shotgun by grabbign all over the car and wrestling on it, and treating it with respect [no eating or drinking in it please, and no ***** moves like trying to drive the car without my consent, or their own ability to drive a stick])

sorry for the rant,
but as you can see i too am very emotional over my mini and have my own stories, and my friends play similar tricks as your manager on me to p!ss me off, but they are terrible liars and i can always spot when they are lying

 

Cody, get the fake bullet hole decals and wait until this situation dies down. Then on some future break, put a bunch of them on this guy's vehicle. Also, have someone set off a little string of firecrackers that sound like gunshots.... Maybe do it on April Fool's Day!

 

dang, for a second i thought i was re-seeing the dungeon girl talk
about her captor...

 

OMG, this kinda thread is soooooo where this site seems to be going. I have been reading stuff on here for almost 3 years. geez life in America is soft. Used to be Gofast and how to make it happen. Now people are crying over a joke, your boss is gonna have fun with that one for along time. Then all the sympathy STOP! Your a guy? Come on, Please, don't encourage this people, if my daughter did this I'd have a long sit down with her and explain how real life works. Fortunately after I showed her this post (crying guy) she busted a gut laughing.

 

I have no less than 3 pictures of my car in my cubicle, one from a work place car show and 2 from the track. I plan on putting up more.


I park way out in the middle of nowhere and get my share of jokes about dings or scrapes on my car. The only time anyone has seen me freak out at work was when I first got my MINI and one of the ladies went to rub some road dust off her with a finger, can you say scratches. If she didn't react so quickly to my yelling NO! I might have broken a finger that day. I've become less **** however as with 10, 000 hard miles in the past few months she's picked up a few paint nicks and some side mirror damage. I don't think I would cry unless she was seriously damaged in way that would affect drivability, as I know it will soon be impossible to get a new one.

 

MyFastMini,
im sure you have some valid point or soemthing, but although ive never met cody, from what i read of his posts i feel kind of liek i share a few similar ideals and ***** with him, and i cna say being of pretty much the same age group of him, and he seems pretty down to earth, there are a lot of factors im sure that would give his reaction, or a similar reaction by me.

first off for me personally, i blew alot of cash on my car, and being young if my car were hit, there goes a lot of cash down the drain that def wont come back, and polizei has said things that ive read that make sme believe hes putting a lot of cash to having a MINI for himself too.

second of all theres just the fact of seeing you car more than point A to point B. personally i feel like i have sort of a "bond" with my mini, im not going to be g@y (in a fig sense not literal, not trying to offend anybody) and be like my car is alive and *****, but theres still soemthing there between a man (or maybe boy in my case) and his car which just makes it that much more special.
i do so many things in my car or with it, the loss of my car is like a loss of a bunch of memories, esp. when its in a sudden way like it being hit

basically my mini is my pride, most of the pennies i make i put into my car, b/c of that, and although im not going to say everyone should express similar actiosn to their car, when somebody has pride memoriues, and just invested a lot toward getting their car (especially one they love) there is going to be some emotion shown over the car being wrecked, plus at our age, something liek that would boucne our already high insurance out of the roof, theres just so much a person who truly has prid eint heir car puts in their car, where as i stated earlier if i were in a similar situation maybe id cry, maybe i wouldnt, but id definitely be in a very distraught mental state

 

Well I feel for you my friend, not only do you not understand life and its priorities, but you are cursed with the inability to spell and write a simple sentence. Relax, everthing will be alright with our Minis. (sure hope I spelled everything right)

 

I cried when Audrey was keyed (acutally paperclipped) all the way down her drivers side by a homeless guy. She was only 2 weeks old.

A year later, when my drivers permitted daughter was driving Audrey (w/me in the passenger seat) a girl in a POS Hon-duh crossed 3 lanes and a bike lane to crash into Audrey's passenger side, shoving us into the center meridian, I stayed calm but my daughter cried and cussed like I'd never heard.

So yep, we really love our MINIs, enough to cry over them. But mostly, we smile at them, in them, near them, etc...

 

Another case of if you aren't interested in the topic of a particular thread, don't post to it. Putting folks down who have a different point of view is pretty darn rude.

 

Actually you didn't get it right. It's MINIs.