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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / November 2007Was I Rude?
So I pull up to a red light. It's a nice day so my windows are down. Stereotypical SoCal surfer dude in the SUV next to me starts to ask me something. "Excuse me, sir - this might sound strange, but..." Just as he started talking, the light turned green. I pointed up to the light, said "light's green, dude!" and pulled away. I absolutely HATE it when a couple of a.sholes sit there in the middle of the street having a f.cking conversation between their cars, meanwhile a zillion other cars are stuck behind them, waiting needlessly. If you want to ask for directions, pull over (or, better yet, get a nav system); if you want to chat with your friends, then you should all ride in the SAME car. Anyway, my sense was this was not some poor lost soul about to ask me for directions to the nearest surf shop. My instinct told me he was about to ask me if I wanted to buy some speakers, of if my car needed bodywork, or some similar scam. In any case, I sure as hell wasn't going to block two lanes of traffic to find out. D'ya think that was rude of me? :) > So I pull up to a red light. It's a nice day so my windows are down. > Stereotypical SoCal surfer dude in the SUV next to me starts to ask me [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > D'ya think that was rude of me? :) No, you weren't rude. You were actually polite. But I don't think he was going to try to scam you. Quite possibly, he might have been interested in buying your car and wanted to know if you would be interested in selling it. - Peter >> D'ya think that was rude of me? :) > >No, you weren't rude. You were actually polite. But I don't think he >was going to try to scam you. Quite possibly, he might have been >interested in buying your car and wanted to know if you would be >interested in selling it. Hmm... Nothing special about my car. There must be thousands just like it driving around... >>> D'ya think that was rude of me? :) >> No, you weren't rude. You were actually polite. But I don't think he [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Hmm... Nothing special about my car. There must be thousands just like > it driving around... Oh. I thought you might have been driving your Corvette. - Peter >>>> D'ya think that was rude of me? :) >>> No, you weren't rude. You were actually polite. But I don't think he [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Oh. I thought you might have been driving your Corvette. You think a 2005 Corvette is some kind of rare collector car? >>>>> D'ya think that was rude of me? :) >>>> No, you weren't rude. You were actually polite. But I don't think he [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > You think a 2005 Corvette is some kind of rare collector car? Not at all. But it's a nice enough used car that it might solicit queries about its availability for sale. The other driver might have been looking to buy a late model used Corvette (if you were driving it) in the color of yours. - Peter >>> D'ya think that was rude of me? :) >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Hmm... Nothing special about my car. There must be thousands just like > it driving around... Every once in a while gardeners ask me if I want to sell my truck.  SignatureCheers, Bev =================================================================== "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury." -- Alexander Tytler (Unverified) >>>> D'ya think that was rude of me? :) >>> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >Every once in a while gardeners ask me if I want to sell my truck. LOL!!! Does that lawnmower in the bed come with it? :) > <bashley101+usenet@gmail.com> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > LOL!!! Does that lawnmower in the bed come with it? :) You mean the goat? Nope, he's a pet! SignatureCheers, Bev 6666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666 Cthulhu for President in 2008. Why vote for a lesser evil? > >>> D'ya think that was rude of me? :) > >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Every once in a while gardeners ask me if I want to sell my truck. I get that about my FJ40 and 928 all the time. SignaturePaul Hovnanian mailto:Paul@Hovnanian.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ The world is coming to an end ... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS!!! >So I pull up to a red light. It's a nice day so my windows are down. >Stereotypical SoCal surfer dude in the SUV next to me starts to ask me [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > >D'ya think that was rude of me? :) Not in the least, and we've got dullards who like to have "middle of the road" conferences here, too. Of course, I also work with people who like to have "elevator" conferences, where they keep the door of the elevator open to carry on a conversation with one of the occupants. Knocks 1/4th of our capacity out when those idiots do that. Fortunately I believe some of them are about to lose their jobs. :-) -- Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. - Admiral Hyman Rickover, U.S. Navy > So I pull up to a red light. It's a nice day so my windows are down. > Stereotypical SoCal surfer dude in the SUV next to me starts to ask me [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > D'ya think that was rude of me? :) Of course not...you called him "dude." :) <snip> >D'ya think that was rude of me? :) Not al all. Signature======================================================================== Michael Kesti | "And like, one and one don't make | two, one and one make one." mrkesti at hotmail dot com | - The Who, Bargain > So I pull up to a red light. It's a nice day so my windows are down. > Stereotypical SoCal surfer dude in the SUV next to me starts to ask me [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > D'ya think that was rude of me? :) Yes, but he started it. SUV's are rude too! > Just as he started talking, the light turned green. I pointed up to > the light, said "light's green, dude!" and pulled away. I wouldn't have waited even long enough to say that. Anyone who stays and talks is the one being rude. On Nov 26, 10:07 pm, John David Galt <j...@diogenes.sacramento.ca.us> wrote: > > Just as he started talking, the light turned green. I pointed up to > > the light, said "light's green, dude!" and pulled away. > > I wouldn't have waited even long enough to say that. > > Anyone who stays and talks is the one being rude. Agreed...see the definition of "Milan Traffic Jam" on the page. http://www.mylandofmisery.com/roads/mo/mo-devil.htm That causes nasty traffic jams in a town of 2,000. Scott in SoCal: > So I pull up to a red light. It's a nice day so my windows are down. > Stereotypical SoCal surfer dude in the SUV next to me starts to ask me [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > D'ya think that was rude of me? :) On the contrary, it was damn considerate of you.... ...considerate of the drivers behind you, of course. :) SignatureLoco Laura Bush murdered her boyfrined (a.k.a S&DDAM) finally admits to what we have known all along: ">You're an idiot. > >Graham Coming from you that's a compliment. " Ref: http://tinyurl.com/qa5wx Message ID: 0d3da2hgigdhgl9ck484tj0p8jtlhlsb20@4ax.com > So I pull up to a red light. It's a nice day so my windows are down. > Stereotypical SoCal surfer dude in the SUV next to me starts to ask me [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > D'ya think that was rude of me? :) No. I don't think it was rude. In fact, most of the time if someone wants to ask for directions to a location, they'll just ask without prefacing it with "this might sound strange". As in: "Excuse me, do you know how to get to %location%?" Prefacing it with "this might sound strange" more than likely means they were going to ask something stupid and see what your reaction was, or maybe ask something that might make you angry and again, see what your reaction was. If any one of the passengers (assuming there were passengers) also had a camera phone at ready, they might have been attempting to YouTube whatever reaction you gave them (except that they never got to finish their question). > So I pull up to a red light. It's a nice day so my windows are down. > Stereotypical SoCal surfer dude in the SUV next to me starts to ask me [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > D'ya think that was rude of me? :) <yawn> Seems a little rude to waste the bandwidth to report such an insignificant "event"... but I'm not privy to how completely vacuous your life must be... ----- - gpsman > Seems a little rude to waste the bandwidth to report such an > insignificant "event"... but I'm not privy to how completely vacuous > your life must be... If course, you think it's alright for drivers to stop in the middle of the road for no reason, so this doesn't surprise me. >> So I pull up to a red light. It's a nice day so my windows are down. >> Stereotypical SoCal surfer dude in the SUV next to me starts to ask me [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >insignificant "event"... but I'm not privy to how completely vacuous >your life must be... And yet you still had time to post; how ironic. -- Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. - Admiral Hyman Rickover, U.S. Navy > So I pull up to a red light. It's a nice day so my windows are down. > Stereotypical SoCal surfer dude in the SUV next to me starts to ask me [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > D'ya think that was rude of me? :) Not at all. However, I'd be DAMN curious what he was going to follow that "strange" intro with... "...do any other people call you 'sir'?" "...does this bathing suit make me look FAT?" "...if I throw mustard at your car, would you be able to tell?" "...can you see my girlfriend's head from where you're sitting?" "...could you tell me if O.J. was guilty or not?" "...what' is the quickest way to get to Brunswick, New Jersey from here?" "...Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour On The Bedpost Overnight?" "...could you tell me your opinion on the growing amount of albino births in Azerbaijan and what their consequences on the future there might be?" "...if the light turned green, would you just be rude and take off?" "...are Lenny Kravitz and Gladys Kravitz from 'Bewitched' related?" "...would you go out with me?" Uhm, among many others. Heheheheh. John B. |
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