IN THE STICKS

Last night on my way home from work I got the "cool car mate " from a kid on a bike (I'm sure you've had this kind of thing ),Whats your reaction ? Do you sort of ignore them and hide behind your sunglasses ? (like me ) Or do you give them the thumbs up and plant your right foot just to make thier day ?What do you do ?
Dave

SCOOBY TOWERS

iTrader: (7)

Nod and wink (at the same time) then floor it

Danny Fisher

Thumbs up and boot it. Depending if the local pigs are about.

Dan

P1-day

u gotta acnkowledge them, i.e thumbs and them boooooooooot off

dhorwich

I have this loads when i go see my bird, there are loads of kids playing near her house... They actually came knocking on her door and asked if they could have a drive in it.... I told them to get a note from there parents and i might consider it.. 10mins later one of them came back with a digital camera and started taking pics of it..... Fame at last..

The most funny one so far was from a 6-7 year old kid who was with his mum in the petrol station and they walked past my car and i could hear him say

"mum look its......... its..... the bat mobile....."

LOL.... he then said

"is your car the bat mobile..."

i just laughed..... my car is silver...!!

Dan

IN THE STICKS

LOL @Dan ...kids with digital cameras, I remember 20p worth of sweets being a luxury (only 36!)
Dave

pthomlinson@hotmail.com

first day I had mine, I went to the village chippy in it. when i come back out, 3 kids all about 5 / 6 yr old were sat on the wall looking at it.

heard one of them say "thats a smart car eh?"

oh i was so pround!

HELLOM8

Always thumbs up.
On the way home from work sometimes I get a group of kids on there bikes. They always give me a thumbs up and try to race me down the road. Its like something out Rocky.

MarkWRX

I get it a lot from the local lads who live by me, one of them even bought his radio controlled scooby round by mine whilst I was washing it!

We test drove an S2000 the other weekend, and my Mrs pointed out that with the scooby it is always the young lads looking and commenting, but with the S2k apparently we had lots of admiring looks from Women instead which cant be bad!

chrisp

So the missus says you have to keep the scoob then Mark ?

7 Foot

I have had many kids shout the same thing. Many have told me that they have a radio controlled car at home just like it.

The least you can do is give them a big grin.

I told one kid he was "clearly a man of taste and upbringing" only for his dad to pop his head round the corner, p155ing himself laughing.

Higgs

I get kids comming up 2 me all the time wanting to go out in it
or wanting 2 know how fast it goes. They even ask me 2 do a wheelspin they dont know very much. I have also had them tacking pictures

kentscooby2

Sad isn't it how we're all still boys but with bigger toys:
I was delighted when 13yr old nephew (who's father completely disinterested in cars) said "cool new motor" and leapt in for a look!

mattstant

Walked back to my car behind two asian lads recently and as they got in a civic one said "thats one quick ride" has he glanced over to my scoob.

StickyMicky

i get it all the time, have done with most of my cars, its little things like that that make u want to keep the car after its pissed you offf soooo much by blowing up and throwing a wobbly everytime u go near it with a socket set

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

Always ...group of kids near my house on bikes, give me the wave and thumbs up.Rude not to give the right foot a little nudge!
Car park guys at work always want to move the car and park it somewhere else (dont worry i check the mileage before i leave) and have quite a few comments of "nice ride", "their quick aren't they" to just plain "NICE".
Makes my day i can tell you.

Gidney&Knowlesy

Had a few girlies shout out "stunning car mate"; I was so embarassed;

as firstly they were attarctive so should I stop and pick them up, secondly as they were near my 15 year old daughters age and thirdly I hope I hadn't been spotted picking my nose....

specialx

The funiest moments we had in ours was 1, our 7 year old nephew ran out the day we got the scoobs shouting phroooaaarrww you got a scooby, is it a WRX?!!! and 2, a large gang of kids walked pass the scoob all saying how phat they thought is was when a liitle lad at the back said looks it's an STI aswell!!!! couldn't believe a young kid knew the difference!!!!! fairplay to him!!!

[Edited by specialx - 7/24/2003 2:12:37 PM]

chrisp

I as drove off my dad heard two lads about 8 walk past and one says to the other "Thats one of them Subaru rally cars, it can do over 180mph", other kid nods "Yep I know" .

My dad couldnt wait to tell me

Jiggerypokery

I've had the "Nice car Mister" a few times from boys on bike...

Smile, thumbs up, say "Nice bike, kid" then boot it.

IN THE STICKS

Jiggerypokery....
Like the 'nice bike 'idea

pugoetru

kids round here dont have any taste they think my wifes escort cab is nice

bigsinky

was out at Burger king today and went to the drive thru. now being in Northern Ireland the window to collect the food was on the passengers side so i had to lean right over to collect the food. while i did so i stood on the loud pedal and redlined her in neutral. the young lad smiled and said and i quote "you can accidently hit the accelerator again if you want"

made me smile anyway.

cheers

sinky

Duck_Pond

Always the thumbs up - get them "on side". All the kids in my street call me "Mr Subaru" and they all love it.

It's beneficial too, if you think about it. All those same kids are likely to be watching the car when you're out, and are likely to notice someone trying to mess with it, and raise the alarm to their folks.

ChristianR

iTrader: (1)

I get it quite a lot with my car, I just say thanks

TonyNesta

Yep, happens to me all the time, and as has been mentioned before, always a good idea to make some kids' day, blip the throttle and give 'em the thumbs up. Keeps 'em sweet, and encourages them not to mess with it when parked up, and keep an eye out too.

Funniest one I had was going over a hump-backed bridge, not fast but in a low gear so quite loud. Three lads on bikes on the bridge started doing the 'I'm not worthy' worshipful hand movements as I approached, and while I went over - Pi55ed meself !!!!

T

thecirsch

Not long ago at about 2AM, whilst filling the Scoob up, three 'travelling' folk pulled up in one of their vans. Passenger leans out the window and says "Nice motor, I bet it's quick" I thought 'Quicker then your Transit and caravan mate' I said "Yep, its not bad"

Suffice to say I didn't go straight home, at least it was an excuse to go back through the twisties!!!!

wrightysti7

The best one has got to be when father and son are out and you can see the son pointing at the scoob and if your around the father realy doesn`t whant to look,makes me smile.

scoobybazza

I had my car about 2 weeks,one day looked out of my front room window and noticed about 3 or 4 kids about 7 or 8 years of age looking round me motor.My wife joined me at the window and told me to go outside and tell them to clear off,i told her not to be so nasty and told her as a boy of that age i use to like looking at cars and dreaming i would have one of those when i grew up.Later on that day went outside to wash me pride and joy and realised they had nicked my dust caps off my wheels.Next time im going to show them somthing quicker than a scooby,the toe up the **** 0-60 in 0.01 of a second...............

Poor Guy

today, doing a little slow considerate driving down a quite track a kid shouted "Imprezas go faster than that!"


4th to 2nd, foot to floor. ah feel that GX power !