A moment of self doubt.

[barefoot]

A couple of weeks ago, I was filling up the Scirocco at a garage in the Derbyshires, when a lad in his early twenties came up to me, laughing his socks off at my elderly motor car and asked me why in God's name I'd not traded it during the scrappage scheme.

I glanced over at his newish vehicle and asked him what the silver coloured device was, 'it's a Seat' he proudly responded. 'And how much did you pay for that?' I asked. Astonishingly he'd paid eight thousand pounds.

And this is where things did not go as planned.

Instead of asking why, if he'd eight grand to spend, he hadn't bought a Boxter or an XF or even a Range Rover, I stumbled over my words and experienced self doubt.

'But my car cost a Fraction of yours, accelerates and handles quicker, has a faster top speed and does more to the galleon, mine is a classic eighties sports car and yours is a shopping trolley...'

I should have asserted, but I failed.

I mumbled something about '...don't know what you're talking about' and went to pay for my fuel.

I throw myself upon the forgiveness of the fair people of this Parish and ask.

 

Anyone got a cracking, fuck off style one liner?

[oldcars]

I just ignore them and pretend i didn't hear.

[steveo3002]

cant really be bothered to discuss with those types ...just agree with em as you wont win

[gadgetgricey]

I'd have responded that "he could not afford the VW then"

 

Loved my scirocco's 1XGTi, and 2XGTX's.

[320touring]

A short* lecture on how the lineae of his rear wheel bearings and stub axles can be traced back the the mk1 golf and polo would have boadened his horizons:)

[danthecapriman]

I'd have told him to fuck off and mind his own business before he gets put in the ground!

 

But, seriously, he sounds like a thick twat. It's pointless wasting breath on morons like that. If he's happy pissing his money up the wall on some boring dull modern Seat then he's the one with problems.

Fortunately I find that sort few and far between, most people I bump into love seeing my old stuff out and about.

[mrbenn]

One particularly oddly dressed young man with a BMW 1 series (wearing some sort of extremely baggy vest top teamed with jeans that suggested he had lost a fight with a tiger, honestly looked like he'd slept in a skip) made some comment about a friends' car (Agila) a while back, referenced is as a shit box IIRC.

 

My reply came thus; "At least my mate can dress himself, dickhead". Strangely, no come back.

[Bren]

Not your fault the fucker was as thick as mince and brainwashed into handing over all his money on car/rent/starbucks/mobile phone contract like most of the populus.

[scruff]

I too have had thickos just asking "why?" while gazing brainlessly and whatever heap is transporting me at the time. The "Why not?" response is lost on these tards, far better to claim you are a millionaire playboy or lottery winner who doesn't need to worry about the cost or latest trends. 

[mrbenn]

On the off chance you see this (or similar) mouth breather again, Barefoot, I offer you a choice of the following:

 

1) your Mum liked it when I picked her up last night

2) what about my Porsche, V8 Jaguar or campervan? Are they any more acceptable?

3) Let me have your phone number and I'll run any potential future car purchases by you first

4) I could agree with you, but then we'd both be morons.

[Split_Pin]

"Fuck you talking to/fucks it got to do with you, like min???", usually works.

[xtriple]

Because I prefer to waste £300 a month on Coke and Hookers.

[Captain Furious]

Whats that?

Its a Seat

Oh, I thought it was a Skoda, all these budget VW's look the same to me.

 

I'd have told him to fuck off and mind his own business before he gets put in the ground!

 

 I quite like this approach also, bloody upstarts..

[chaseracer]

Anyone got a cracking, fuck off style one liner?

 

 

...is what SEATTWAT was really saying.

 

#satire

[Rocket88]

"Amazing enough, I don't give a shit, but thanks for your concise and considered opinion" usually works............

[vulgalour]

wow, how insecure do you have to be to berate a stranger about their elderly car?

[RoadworkUK]

Just say:

 

"Yes, well I've still got eight thousand pounds. And a car".

[rantingYoof]

"Hahaha, look at that! He drives a Volvo!" (back when I had the V70).

 

 

"Yes, I do. That is factually correct. Anything else?"

 

 

"Uhhh...."

 

 

It's awesome literally not giving a fuck. In your situation "I love driving scrap around as people like you don't park next to me" or simply "I FUCKING LOVE SCRAP" would have possibly confused them off scent. But you didn't have to justify his neanderthalism with a response at any rate so whatever happened you still win because SCIROCCO!

[stripped fred]

I like to drive old cars and don't care if it confuses and annoys some people. Most people don't care anyway and those that do wouldn't understand. I run 3 cars for the cost of one modern and that's enough justification for me. I also don't want to sign up for a PCP deal. I prefer to pay what I can afford and be able to change my cars when I choose.

[omegod]

I had a tasty bird in an audi superlease special meet eyes with me at the lights , got a nice naughty smile from her and then she perused my crusty Rover and the look changed immediately, you'd have thought i'd got out and shat on her windscreen then wiped it all around with a newborn kitten,it made my fucking day     

[Bren]

 

You talkin' to me?

[cms206]

I had a similar encounter in a petrol station a couple of years back. Fuelling the Council Estate, old bloke on the next pump fuelling a white XC90. He finished, walked past, looked at my multicoloured 740 sweating power onto the forecourt, smirked and said "well they don't make them like yours any more, thankfully!", tutted, and went in to pay.

 

I couldn't hear him knocking my window looking for assistance over my burst exhaust and idle like a misfiring piston engined fighter plane after I went in, paid, came out and his wouldn't start. Twat.

 

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[Bren]

Still it makes a change from some scruffy twat in a transit following you home to see where your retro ford lives so it can be lifted in the dead of night.

[barefoot]

wow, how insecure do you have to be to berate a stranger about their elderly car?

Exactly, normally folk talk to me in petrol stations saying things like, 'my dad had one of those', 'you don't see many of them about' etc.

Just took me a little by surprise when cuntybollocks told me it was crap.

[skoda_fan]

"What's it to you?" is my usual retort to such ignorance. Having owned numerous rear-engined

Skodas in the past I've has cause to use it, too. Not worth saying any more. (Off topic, but I share your (presumably) penchant for being barefoot. This elicits the odd similar comment. I find the same response suffices. Why do idiots feel obliged to make random comments to strangers who don't follow the mainstream?).

[fordperv]

I encountered a similar twat when I was taking a mate for a spin in my saph, at a set of traffic lights next to me a lad driving a suzuki swift sport with 3 other lads beckoned me to wind my window down, he said "nice car where did you get it mcguinnesses?" I laughed and instantly came back with well for a start it's worth more than that girls car and your mum wasn't complaining when I was scuttling her on the back seat, his mates pissed themselves laughing and he looked down at his steering wheel embarrassed, he then tried to race me from the lights so I did the polite thing and showed him a set of tail lights for a final insult it was hilarious as it just couldn't keep up with the saph

[skoda_fan]

Actually thinking about it, when I was in my twenties, my mates and I all drove "autoshite" cars as that was all we could afford. There were no sign-your-money-away-for-the-next-N-years-and still-have-a-massive-sum-to-pay-at-the-end schemes like there are now. The boring ones have succumbed to such schemes, and other similar goals of modern life, and I've lost interest. The interesting ones still drive shite and think outside the box.

[mrbenn]

I encountered a similar twat when I was taking a mate for a spin in my saph, at a set of traffic lights next to me a lad driving a suzuki swift sport with 3 other lads beckoned me to wind my window down, he said "nice car where did you get it mcguinnesses?" I laughed and instantly came back with well for a start it's worth more than that girls car and your mum wasn't complaining when I was scuttling her on the back seat, his mates pissed themselves laughing and he looked down at his steering wheel embarrassed, he then tried to race me from the lights so I did the polite thing and showed him a set of tail lights for a final insult it was hilarious as it just couldn't keep up with the saph

Brilliant!

[Chris2cv]

I get similar, working with new cars all day, but driving a 2002 Clio, 2010 Moped or 1985 2cv. The three cost far less to run than the lease cars that some run and I feel no need to follow trends - you have a new car every year? Good for you, I still have some money, a choice of vehicles and the ability to change when I want!

 

  Incidentally, I used to do the traffic light GP, which really annoys people if I win in the 2cv. One group sat in their fiesta mocking it a set of lights, I pointed out that not only was it 25 years older than their mum's car, it was also worth more, and then I left them at the lights! If you are outdragged by a 2cv you should be ashamed!,   Another time, I was out in the clio one night when a group of kids kept asking for a race while driving a 2 year old KA. I said, yours is your mums 1litre shopping car, mine is a turbo (diesel admittedly, but turbo none the less), but they insisted that my car was old and they would win, so at the next lights I left them for dead!

 

  It is like the latest phone, clothes etc. Some need to have the latest thing so they can show off, some of us like something a bit different and don't need to prove ourselves.

[Captain Furious]

The very idea of purposely seeking out someone in a petrol station to tell them their car is crap is totally bizarre to me, if I did I would fully expect to get punched in the nose

 

Moreover, if I was so inclined to try and Lord it over someone in that way, I'd want to be coming at it from something slightly more magnificent than a Seat

 

The human race is definitely on the downward spiral