Minding my own bussiness

[flyinlow]

Had to get brake parts for my wife's El Camino, so I fired up the Charger and headed for Car Quest. Stopped at McDonald's for breakfast. Living in rural Ohio the most common vehicles in the parking lot where full sized pick ups.  Walking up to the entrance, I held the door for a somewhat intense looking woman.
Waiting in line behind her, she turns and says " that's a really big car you are driving"  (73 SE-440)
I said " back when it was built it was a midsize, but I guess today it would be a fullsize car."
She replied " you won't be able to drive it much longer"  I am thinking she is referring to the fact it was going to rain later that day and a chance of flurries later in the week. Wrong, I had just run into the dreaded man car hater." Do you know they are going to ban gas guzzlers that make that much pollution" she said. I was caught off guard little, I just assumed that all women love Chargers and since she started taking to me about my car she was going to say something nice about it.
I quickly looked for a Smart Car or Preius in the parking lot but did not see any.
Trying to come up with a responce, I said "Well it gets about 14mpg overall, about the same as alot of SUV's , When the weather is good I ride a Motorcycle that gets 40mpg ,so I think my carbon footprint is about average, and keeping existing cars running saves on raw  materials being taken from the earth.  "
"You should get an electric car instead" she snapped .
By now it was my turn to order, and I wanted to end this converation ,so my parting comment was" If they ever make an electric car that will do as well as my 40 year old Charger does I"ll think about it, but today I am going to run my errands and then take the scenic route home."


Wish I had a better comeback

[chargd72]

You should have told her you were an Exec for BP and you weren't too concerned with it.  Then ask if she had any other complaints.

[Dans 68]

I would just ask the next person who "inquires" about your ride that way "Do you enjoy life?"

You own a Charger. 'Nuff said. 

Dan

[MoparManJim]

Let it go man, people like her in life won't get very far.. Maybe someday you can catch her in a older car if her brand new car leaves her down and then you can come back at her then like she did on you.   

At least one thing, think of it like this, if you ever get in a wreck, I bet your vehicle would do more damage to the other newer one. The newer ones are made mostly out of thin metal and plastic now days  . The older cars like mopars are built some what strong and can take a good punch if they have to and they are almost all made of heavy metal. Besides the older cars has one thing where the newer cars doesn't have either, they have "style" 

[FLG]

Next time ask the dunce what he/she plans on doing with all the battery waste from the electric cars once they go south?

Or how about all that plastic they put on cars now adays? Where's that gonna go.

Or simply tell her the only footprint she need worry about minimizing is the one on her ass.

[69rtse4spd]

Smoky burn out gets them all the time.

[FLG]

Smoky burn out gets them all the time.

Mhmm, tell em your returning rubber back to the earth.

[MoparManJim]

Or simply tell her the only footprint she need worry about minimizing is the one on her ass.

Now, that's a good one right there! 

[BrianShaughnessy]

I just assumed that all women love Chargers and since she started taking to me about my car she was going to say something nice about it.

2 kinds of women... Those that got their cherry popped in a Charger    and the rest of 'em.

I never worry about what the rest of 'em say.   

   

[flyinlow]

Smoky burn out gets them all the time.

Mhmm, tell em your returning rubber back to the earth.

Thought about it 

[ChgrSteve67]

Maybe the batteries in her vibrator died?


Next time tell her your Charger runs on a Hydrogen / Ethanol mixture based on Guggenheim's tentative theory of strictly regular binary liquid mixtures.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/96978

Its total crap but it sounds good.

Then ask her what her car operates on.

[TruckDriver]

You should have told her you were an Exec for BP and you weren't too concerned with it.  Then ask if she had any other complaints.

[Silver R/T]

wow, what a bitch. Should've asked her how many tampons does she go through in a month...

[RallyeMike]

I'm impressed with your civility. Some people just don't get it, and it's really not worth your time because they never will.

[Back N Black]

Should have told her, My Charger is a hybrid car, it burns gas and rubber. 

[greenpigs]

Why does it matter what ANYONE says? I agree with the laying of the rubber & a smokey 360 for good measure. Just make sure they don't record it.    

[NGC414]

Should have told her:
"I don't care, I'm just out on bail. It will be along time before I can drive a car or see a woman. You live around here?"
Maybe then she will realize it's ok to have an unexpressed thought.

[loudmouthaussie]

i would have asked the bitch what the fuck she was doing eating in mcdonalds then?

food wastage
food wrapped in paper
grain fed beef contributing to deforestation
largest producer of plastic toys

Im sure theres way more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Drive my 70 and other classics weekends and walk all around local area to buy local produce. ladies like that can go shit in their hats

[bull]

I think that would have been a good time for the simple yet effective MOAB response known as "Go f_c_ yourself, b_t_h."

[SFRT]

Sunday I was driving around randomly and some older prunefaced guy in a new Prius looked over at me at a stoplight and pulled 'disgusted'  a face...so i hit my switch, opened the headers and did a giant assed linelocked burnout for him.


he kept far back after that.

good times, good times

[RD]

I think that would have been a good time for the simple yet effective MOAB response known as "Go f_c_ yourself, b_t_h."

  in real life.. that was awesome!

[Todd Wilson]

I think that would have been a good time for the simple yet effective MOAB response known as "Go f_c_ yourself, b_t_h."

Thats what I was thinking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!     



Todd

[Todd Wilson]

Sunday I was driving around randomly and some older prunefaced guy in a new Prius looked over at me at a stoplight and pulled 'disgusted'  a face...so i hit my switch, opened the headers and did a giant assed linelocked burnout for him.


he kept far back after that.

good times, good times

HAHA! I bet that was great!   Probably the same Ahole that was on the interstate a month or so ago  running 50mph in his Prius. I guess it wouldnt go any faster or he was trying for 90mpg.


Todd

[PocketThunder]

Maybe the batteries in her vibrator died?


Next time tell her your Charger runs on a Hydrogen / Ethanol mixture based on Guggenheim's tentative theory of strictly regular binary liquid mixtures.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/96978

Its total crap but it sounds good.

Then ask her what her car operates on.

I have this sticker for my back window.

[SRT-440]

I've gotten that before with the RR...mainly cuz the exhaust is so loud (ex race car)...my usual response when they tell me my car is killing the atmosphere is "yup destroying the ozone a quarter mile at a time"..
They really hate it when they ask about mpg...it's fun watching their expression when I tell them it prolly gets 5-10 MPG and only runs on 110 octane at $7 a gallon. 

They won't ban muscle cars in my life time so I'm not worried about it.