Something new today while driving my car...

[lloyd3]

Sitting at a red light while coming home from lunch with a buddy today (nice cool overcast day here) and I happened to look in my rearview mirror to see a 20-something in his econobox behind me using his cellphone to photograph my car. I think it also happened while buying gas at Costco later as well (this car only has a range of something like 152 miles per 19-gallon tank of gas).  Not used to all the cellphone action so... that's odd to me but maybe I'm overreacting?  I normally don't mind the attention but this kind-of feels like surveillance.

Do young folks photograph everything they encounter these days?

[Kern Dog]

EVERY time I am on the freeway, I see someone recording me in the red car.
This one:



Rarely does anyone take video or pictures of me in this one that I call Jigsaw:



I think that is because the red one is shiny and flashy....it appeals to the younger enthusiasts that must have seen these cars in the Fast and Furious movies.
When I'm getting gas or running errands in the ratty one, dudes of all types come up to look at it. That may be because it looks like so many did in the 80s and 90s...field fresh and a clean slate to start from. I had both at the Sacramento Autorama in 2023. The majority of attention went to Jigsaw!

[70 sublime]

My 69 Charger was a ratty type car when I drove it
Every single time I was out someone was taking a picture
It got to the point that I only put down the driver side window and tried to stay in the left lane at the traffic lights as they always want to see a burn out but with the passenger side windows up I just pretend not to hear them

[Wingnut426]

I stopped driving my Daytona convertible on interstates and expressways. Idiots trying to catch up to you and weaving in and around my car at 60 mph to get a picture.  I do appreciate the many thumbs up and picture takers at gas stations and parking lots. WINGNUT426

[lloyd3]

Yeah, I've had that happen too. It's a bit unnerving. These things used to be just old cars, now I guess they're something else. It's fun to be acknowledged but not to be treated foolishly.  Probably the biggest reason why I normally only use it out in the jingweeds.

[doctor4766]

My Charger gets more than its fair share of attention, especially on the freeway.
Whilst there's plenty of US muscle on the roads here, some cars just stand out more than others, and as such there's always the THAT guy in a local Ford or Holden that want's to prove the size of his knob by driving along side and giving the throttle a squirt.
Either that or the tailgaters looking for pics to put on Facebook 

[Kern Dog]

I was out visiting a friend who lives in a decent place that borders a "diverse" type neighborhood.
As I rolled through the rougher area, I saw a young girl walking, maybe late teens or so. I stopped at an intersection and she pulled out her phone and yelled...."Hey man, can you wait a minute? I gotta get a picture fo my bae".
I waved and let her get ready and take the picture. Nobody was behind me so I delayed no one. She was happy, I was grateful to encounter a nice person that wanted to snap a picture. I had to ask my what a "bae" was. She said it is urban slang for baby, boyfriend.
I'm not fluent in all of the urban slang stuff. I see words like FINNA and feel like I'm in another country.

[hemi-hampton]

I used to get people at red lights yell out, Hey, does that thing have a Hemi. like the commercial that used to be on TV.

[Mike DC]

I was out visiting a friend who lives in a decent place that borders a "diverse" type neighborhood.
As I rolled through the rougher area, I saw a young girl walking, maybe late teens or so. I stopped at an intersection and she pulled out her phone and yelled...."Hey man, can you wait a minute? I gotta get a picture fo my bae".
I waved and let her get ready and take the picture. Nobody was behind me so I delayed no one. She was happy, I was grateful to encounter a nice person that wanted to snap a picture. I had to ask my what a "bae" was. She said it is urban slang for baby, boyfriend.
I'm not fluent in all of the urban slang stuff. I see words like FINNA and feel like I'm in another country.

[426HemiChick]

Thanks for the post. Times have changed. The video clip was an eyeopener. One of these days a candidate for mayor of New York will show up talking the same smack.

HC

[Kern Dog]

Sir, I hope that never happens for the sake of New Yorkers, Sir.

[Mike DC]

 
That 'Airplane!' bit was always an exaggerated joke though.  Those lines were brewed up by the actors.  It wasn't really anybody's normal speech in the 1970s.

 
Some of today's urban slang may be proper words in the future.  Languages evolve. 

The "English" from 400 years ago sounds pretty hard to understand now.  Go back 800 years and it's a foreign language.   

[Kern Dog]

When someone asks another person if they want something....and the other person says "I'm good", it is annoying.
You're good? Good at what? The proper response would be No, thanks.
I know.... languages evolve, or DEvolve over time.
"Party" used to be a noun but is now accepted as a verb.

[Mike DC]