Since the ordering of my new MCS on May 24, all I see is mini's. It is driving me insane. I actually had one tailgating me on my way home from work yesterday (I know, usually it is the other way around) and then had one drive by my house as I just happened to be standing near the fron window. I used to never see them around at all except once in a great while.

To top it off, for the first time EVER, I saw a commercial for the Mini on TV last night. Not to mention that the Italian Job has been on tv for the last 2 nights in a row.

Please tell me that this is not only happening to me.

 

Do you find yourself standing in front of the refrigerator with the door open....just looking?
Do the days seem longer lately?
Is it hotter outside now than it was 6 months ago?
You could be "chipped". Do this test: bite down on a small piece of tin foil. If it taste unpleasant, you have been bugged.
Forget the tin foil hat, they're techs have defeated them. Just get a map and start looking for roads with lots of twisties and few intersections. Maybe you can shake the tracking before they get you with the "mod implant".
It's all downhill fast with that. Well, uphill fast, too. And around curves. Just fast.

 

You are experiencing the MINI cult indoctrination. Once MINI receives your order, they send out droves of MINI zombies to re-educate you to the way. You will love your MINI. You will willingly accept any flaws it has or develops. You will go on far away trips to join other MINI lemmings. You will run errands, even to buy feminine hygiene products...... Get used to it. You cannot resist.

 

Haha, you never notice them until you order one.
Last night the wife wanted me to go get ice cream. I told her if I had the MINI I would have run right out..... probably to the best place in town as far away as possible for the most driving as possible.
For now it is a loooong wait for late night ice cream.

 

(in my best George Montgomery Burns) Exxxceeelllent.

Another candidate for the "Skuzzy School of Whine". You are currently going through the 12 phases to ownership of a Mini. It is nothing to worry about unless you let it get control of you and you start attempting to dart in, out, and around tight places because the Mini can, only to be driving a luxo-barge car and you in fact are careening off of every other vehicle on the road!

We call this falling-off-the-deep-end. Or dropbottompititis. It can be lethal, but mostly just makes you look foolish.

Another symptom is when you find yourself sitting the middle of your living room floor going, put-put-put-put and making screeching noises as you barrel around turns at break-neck speeds. This will give your better-half pause and concern. In extreme cases (donning leather cap and goggles), the better-half may in fact have you committed.

Dunt(tm) worry though. At the "Skuzzy School of Whine" we teach you how to cope with these minor issues on your way to ownership and possesion of your Mini.

 

I think we have a new recruit skuzzy. I will willingly give up my place to 1chaos52

 

Oh no,..the more the merrier. The more ears there are, the less I have to listen.

 

But I hate to say it (heresy or bad luck or something) but there's not much left for me to whine about. Smudge is on her way to the docks and a ship is waiting

 

Sir, you have plenty of whine left, you just need someone to bring it out. Let loose the dogs of whine! Uncork the bottle of whine and pour it! Sieze the whine!

Your MIni is not with you. You yearn for it. She is just out of reach!! You can see her, but she CANNOT SEE YOU!!!! ARRRRRRGGGHHHHHH!!! HOLY CARP MAN! I AM WHINING ABOUT IT!!! HOW COULD YOU NOT BE WHINING ABOUT IT??!?!!!??

 

Wait 'till they get to your family!

For six months my 5-year-old would point out the ones I missed!

"Look dad! A MINI COOP-UH!!!"

Arrrrggggggg!!!

 

And his could be on the Poseidon, too.

 

Because Sir, I am British

 

I know exactly what you mean 1chaos52! Every where I look now I see them. I've created a new game the hubby and I play when we are out......spot the MINI. Never fails we will spot at least one. And I've never seen The Italian Job movie but as I was flipping channels on tv, there it was......with all its MINI's. AND last night we rented The Holiday and guess what? Yep, Chili red MINI there too! They are everywhere! Congrats on placing your order, your baby will be with you soon enough. Let me just interject my whine here: MINIUSA does not, I repeat, DOES NOT update your owner's lounge info in a timely manner. My Scarlett was listed as waiting at the dock for departure for ages when in fact she had boarded a shipping vessel and was well on her way to America. She should arrive in Charleston tomorrow and if all goes well I should have her in a week or so. So if you are having issues with tracking your MINI, know this: we all feel your pain and have been there, done that. Good luck!

 

Ahhhh,...so it is the water.

 

Pink Floyd:

"hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way"

 

sorry got to go, car payment to earn

 

Once your MINI arrives, you won't see another one again because you will then be the MINI that you would have seen before.

 

Well, mine hit the paint shop today. But knowing my luck it will get on the boat and the boat will sink and I will be continually taunted for several months.

Even my girlfriend is taunting me.

Last night when I went to bed she was already upstairs and was watching the Wonder Years on TVLand, and reminded me that the girl from that show's name is Winnie Cooper. She then came to visit me for lunch today and gave me a matchbox mini. I have never asked a higher power to smite someone before that.

 

When I ordered mine, I saw them often and everywhere. Once I got it and was driving, I was actually looking forward to the wave to other Mini drivers, I never saw them...

 

when you find yourself singing tootsie roll commercials, you know you are officially insane! "every car I think I see becomes a mini cooper to me" I see mini EVERYWHERE now, taunting me, reminding me...ha ha you don't have one yet! and to think I only have about 2 1/2 months left to wait...LUCKY ME!!!!!! no big deal right?...RIGHT!?!?!....Arrrrrrgggggg!!!!!!!

 

I am going to miss this class when it graduates.

 

Nice one, how about this...

"Oh I wish I was an Oscar Meyer weiner" Then I wouldn't be taunted while waiting for a &%#@ Mini.

It doesn't rhyme, but I think it gets the point across.

 

One of my favorite Pink Floyd lines.

 

Oscar-Meyer anyone?
Move over Pink Floyd! LOL!


Oh, I wish I had my Nightfire Red Cooper
That would be a lovely site to see-e-e
Cause if I had my Nightfire Red Cooper
Everyone would be in love with me.

 

Unfortunately, everything Oscar Meyer makes taste like bologna. And what is that, anyway???