The other night I stopped for gas in a St. Louis suburb, and as I was working the pump, a guy came up to admire the car. "Wow, it IS an M5! I told my friend over there but he wouldn't believe me. Boy, I wish I could have a car like this someday!" What I wanted to say was "I doubt you'll ever make enough money for that if you're too dumb to stay away from my gas pump with your LIT CIGARETTE!" At that point the "friend" walked up and started bending my ear about all the modifications that are available for the car from "A. E. Schindler," and some acquaintance's car tricked out with ground effect neons. (I refrained from voicing my opinion that anyone putting those on an M5 should be locked in a room with the first guy, his lit cigarette, and an open bucket of gasoline.) I tried to accept their admiration of the car with grace and respond politely to the conversation, but the second guy just would not shut up and in the end I was forced to just wave bye-bye, close the door, and drive off.
I think I'm beginning to understand how pop stars must feel about some of their fans.
I've yet to hear about a guy catching on fire at the gas station because of smoking. Do you think that this is the first time the guy was smoking at the pump? Of course not. So why isn't he (or the millions of people like him) dead yet? Well?
As for neon lights on a car, it depends on your fan base.... this is a cultural issue and has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the base car, M5 or otherwise.
It seems to me that you should be thankful to be noticed, and even if the guy has different taste than you do, he seemed to be kind and polite---but can the same be said of you, given your harsh words?
kgk: lighten up alittle! From his account I think he was polite to the admirers, he was just sharing his opinions of the encounter.
dwasifar, LOL!
I'm sure if you would have stayed longer, they would have told you the latest "to hot to index" aftermarket offerings that the J.C.Whitney catalog has for the M5......
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The guy smoking will die. Unfortunately it will be a slow miserable ***** that we all will subsidize with increased insurance premiums. Yes, smoking is legal but the business of selling/providing the nicotine drug is an immoral one. Do your friends and family a favor, encourage them to quit smoking.
I've yet to hear about a guy catching on fire at the gas station because of smoking. Do you think that this is the first time the guy was smoking at the pump? Of course not. So why isn't he (or the millions of people like him) dead yet? Well?
Millions? Where do you live, that you see millions of people smoking at gasoline pumps? This guy was the first I've seen doing it in recent memory. Anyway, you're joking, right? You can't honestly believe that smoking near explosive vapors is safe. If you really do believe that, then given that every single gasoline-related item made since before either of us were born - pumps, tanks, cans, etc - is prominently labeled NO SMOKING, and given that common sense tells us burning objects and explosive vapors are a recipe for trouble, I'd say the burden of proof is on you. Can you prove it's safe?
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As for neon lights on a car, it depends on your fan base.... this is a cultural issue and has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the base car, M5 or otherwise.
In what sense is it a cultural issue? Are you associating it with some specific ethnic group? This guy was as white as I am. In any case, my point was that it is a crime against aesthetics to put ground effects on an M5. If you're going to do that, why not get a lift kit and make a monster-truck M5? Or have a landau top installed? Or paint one pink and sell Mary Kay out of the trunk?
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It seems to me that you should be thankful to be noticed, and even if the guy has different taste than you do, he seemed to be kind and polite---but can the same be said of you, given your harsh words?
I didn't say a single harsh word to either of them. (I saved it for you guys. ) In fact, I let the smoking near the pump go on unremarked in spite of my extreme discomfort with the situation, and eventually excused myself from the scene rather than contradict the second guy.
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I'm sure if you would have stayed longer, they would have told you the latest "to hot to index" aftermarket offerings that the J.C.Whitney catalog has for the M5......
Actually I owe my handle "dwasifar" to J.C. Whitney. (Obviously it is not my real name.) I'll tell the story one of these days.
The kind of admirers I wouldn't be able to tolerate would be the ones who will literally lay against the car to look in it! So many times have I seen people laying against the doors and windows to look inside a Ferrari spyder! I would hate that!
"If you want to look at my car, stand on the sidewalk and watch from there, don't lie against it!"
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