A moment of self doubt.

[garethj]

Driving an old car means that you can't lose in the traffic light grand prix.  If you lose, the shiny-suited twat can tell his mates he beat a middle aged man in an 18 year old small Japanese hatchback.  Wow...

 

And if you win, he literally hides his face in shame as happened to the spotty faced oik who tried to leave me in a cloud of diesel smoke when the traffic cleared on the M1 last week.

[bub2006]

You don't know shame until the lights go green and a Renault Clio left my Audi for dust when the bloody thing keeps losing boost. I get remarks about the age of my motors and how I see it is simple. Ya can all bollocks. My choice so what the feck has it got to do with you

[hairnet]

'you spunked 8k on a seat worth 5 - does you dick feel big now?'

[xtriple]

I take HUGE delight in telling owners of Bentley Continental GTs that they have a VW Phaeton W12 in  a party frock. This may be the reason that I am no longer welcome at BDC meetings?

 

I just can't help myself, I am a twat and have fully embraced my twattishness in all its glory. All the dozy twats that have got SZ series RR and Bs are mad/eccentric/just released from the asylum - often just on day release but the buggers with the newer ones are total gits and wear suits and have fancy hairdos...

 

But then, I like old cars in general and often admire people older heaps. I honestly wouldn't give garage room to any modern VAG product - I do have a problem with VAG and have to resist the urge to set fire to all the cars, dealerships, sales staff and owners.

 

Perhaps I should get help...

[Laseraligningfoofooflanges]

Grimsbys full of knobs like that seat ibiza's/Fiesta ST's the usual culprits.

 

I was conversing with some older lad about my audi 100 and he was saying he used to have an 80.

 

Anyway spotty worzel gummidge haired 19year old lad in a clio with broken springs and a cherry bomb exhaust is stood behind us in the queue,The old chap was literally about 10 minutes getting his card sorted i must have took 5 with my shrapnel..

 

Through this whole saga worzel's behind us not complaining not tutting not a peep, Just quiet as fuck.

 

Get in the car who comes ragging it up to my bumper and beeping away(hilarious) as i pull out of the garage yeah.. worzel.

I just give him the v's.

 

Thats the type of insecure thicko your dealing with. Anyway not all bad cause i see his shitbox often so i just drive an inch from his bumper with the beams on! CNUT

[rml2345]

I always feel sorry for the sort of person who feels the need to validate themselves by trying to make others feel small. Not enough that I wouldn't laugh in their faces mind...

When he told you what it was you could have said "I like dreadful cars too". And advised him of Autoshite.

Or blown raspberries.

[Cavcraft]

Personally I'd have told him the Scirroco cost the same as one payment on his Lego sales rep's car, did everything his did then offered him a race and handed him his arse on a plate

[BorniteIdentity]

Different strokes for different folks innit.

 

His bemusement at your "shitbox" is exactly the same emotion you experienced looking at his bland "eurobox". The inexplicable difference is he felt the need to voice his opinion*.

 

You can't buy class.  Move on, enjoying the warm comfort of being the better person.

 

*Opinions are like arseholes: We all have one, but I have no wish to hear or see yours.

[mercrocker]

Only once had a similar encounter and it was on a slightly different level.   I was filling up a (borrowed) Lincoln yonks ago when a bloke on the next pump filling his brand new Fiesta was making that oinking noise that irritating folk do when they want you to talk to them. 

 

Eventually he couldn't stop himself....."Ow much does that do t'gallon, mate?" he chortled, carefully watching the dial on his own pump.   

 

I never even looked round at him, just said "Eight"  It was a slight exaggeration but obviously what he wanted to hear.   

 

Going into full Terry Scott mode he nearly wet himself with excitement  "Blimey, what do you do for a livin?" 

 

I turned to him, replaced the pump nozzle and said "I'm on the dole" before extracting a wad of notes from my back pocket and walking to the cash desk. 

 

I had borrowed the car for a wedding during my week off and the money was to do with that but he wasn't to know that.  Bet he whinged like fuck to his missus later on....

[brownnova]

Early twenties probably means he wasn't even born when the sirocco was made....

 

Which is why he doesn't get it. I'd have made some reference to that.

[BorniteIdentity]

I take HUGE delight in telling owners of Bentley Continental GTs that they have a VW Phaeton W12 in  a party frock.

 

I just can't help myself, I am a twat 

 

No comment.

xx

[Sheefag]

 

Yeah but you still live with your Mum.

And she fucking hates you.

 

[nigel bickle]

I've got a Seat Ibiza. Actually I've got two. And a Malaga, And a Ronda, oh, and a Bocanegra too.

 

And I'll wager my outlay is substantially less in running costs/ depreciation than Finance boy.

 

But he'll never understand that, till one day he loses his job, the finance house snatch the car & ruin his credit record - and he's forced into an 'old un. Only then might he begin to see....

[dugong]

Just out of curiosity, what happens if you're some cunt with a (paid for) two year old Seat and a barn full of rammle?

 

The options are in:

 

a: GET TAE FUCK

b: GET TAE FUCK

 

[mashes 'b' button with elbow while honking like a goose]

[oldcars]

Personally I'd have told him the Scirroco cost the same as one payment on his Lego sales rep's car, did everything his did then offered him a race and handed him his arse on a plate

Made me laugh, i have a customer that was a Lego sales rep many years ago. The best rep car he had was a 1800 Marina estate he loved it to bits.

[mercrocker]

 1800 Marina estate he loved it to bits.

 

Sadly, probably quite literally....

[alf892]

Raise your eyebrows at Seat

 

Laugh at the price.

 

Or just smile and tell him he is wonderful

[garethj]

l'esprit d'escalier is what's happening here, only thinking of a witty response after the time has passed.

 

Chances are you won't meet a dimwit like this again, berating someone in the street for their choice of car is thankfully quite rare.  Perhaps keeping it simple is best, "you spent all that money and only ended up with THAT?" is probably the easiest.

 

Justifying it with logical argument doesn't work, idiots are always good at being idiots so you're wasting your time trying to change that.  Like trying to get empathy from an angry wasp or an honest evaluation from an estate agent.

[Vince70]

Or you could of said.. I was also given one of those free when I was on disability benefit or I wish I could afford to rent a car On a three year contract rather than buying one.

[nisfan]

Yes a lot of us are probably inverse snobs, i know im one but what gets me is a lot of people feel the need to point and laugh or say your cars shit mate etc whereas i wouldnt walk up to somebody and say you look like jimmy saville

[Junkman]

I can't possibly drink as much as I want to piss on modernz.

 

Works every time.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Not too long ago I was in a rough-as-areholes M reg 316i, a real pig without a decent panel on it. A couple of shaven headed Asian hard men in a new Focus ST tried to pull out in front of me but I just kept on* and got the look of fury from the little gangsta. He pulled alongside so I powered the passenger window down and shouted "Is that your Mum's Fiesta? What's that worth then?" to which the miniature hero spouted :thirty grand innit". I just laughed at him and drove off but not before the poor lamb tried a manoeuvre that went a bit wrong resulting in a very kerbed alloy. 

 

Seat Boy would have at least been called a prick, but we all freeze from time to time. Arseholes are nothing new alas. 

 

 

 

*Yo Vanilla

[tooSavvy]

... just stare intently at his face...squint a bit...tilt your head ever so slightly... then say

 

"ooff! TWO brain cells... one for left & one for right, interesting gene pool"

 

.... cretins...

 

 

TS

[Split_Pin]

Just remember, Karma will rape this wee wido up the arse until it's red raw.....

[strangeangel]

You get this sort of thing from Real Bikers if you ride a scooter. If I can be bothered to address such walnut brains, it's only to tell them to piss off and mind their own business.

 

You can neither reason with nor educate pork. Best not to waste your time trying.

[oldford]

'It's easy to be flash with someone elses money', may sow some seeds of their financial committment.

[Squire_Dawson]

'Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish'.

 

Euripides.

[maxpower]

When he said he spent 8k on the car you should have said

 

"you woz robbed"

[maxustaxus]

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.

Try with a laugh:

 

If you need to ask that question, you definately won't understand my answer....

 

One line, and probably true!

[danthecapriman]

You get this sort of thing from Real Bikers if you ride a scooter. If I can be bothered to address such walnut brains, it's only to tell them to piss off and mind their own business.

 

You can neither reason with nor educate pork. Best not to waste your time trying.

What defines a real biker?

 

A mate at work rides a Lambretta, it's a lovely old thing but I just love winding him up by calling it a moped! He really hates that!