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Not turning engines off/revving engines

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  • meritaten
    meritaten Posts: 24,158 Forumite
    I'd love to see you try this with me. I'd of course tell you what a massive tool you were, followed by making sure you were aware of the repercussions of so much as laying a finger on my car.

    You don't sound 'cool' or 'hard' threatening people with being pushed off a cliff, just a total bell end.

    roflmao - I would just quit right there - it is you who sounds like a tool! Had a sense of humour by-pass have you?
  • fluffnutter
    fluffnutter Posts: 23,179 Forumite
    ...the repercussions of so much as laying a finger on my car.

    This reminds me...

    There was a local guy (known as Fake Ferrari Fella) who spent every weekend polishing his car whilst wearing a Ferrari F1 team mechanic's outfit and listening to Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain' (the F1 music) over and over again. It was to compensate for the fact that he hadn't been laid in 20 years.

    Be very wary of men who love their cars too much.
    "Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell" - Edward Abbey.
  • Hermia
    Hermia Posts: 4,473 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    This reminds me...

    There was a local guy (known as Fake Ferrari Fella) who spent every weekend polishing his car whilst wearing a Ferrari F1 team mechanic's outfit and listening to Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain' (the F1 music) over and over again. It was to compensate for the fact that he hadn't been laid in 20 years.

    Be very wary of men who love their cars too much.

    I used to live next to a guy who got a new car every year and felt he was Mr Macho 'cause of that. He got a car that could be opened by keyfob before a lot of people had them. When he first got it he spent the first week spending hours nonchalantly sitting in his garden. Whenever anyone went past he would beep his car open and shut. He was obviously hoping they would say something 'cause he would look soooo disappointed when they just walked by.
  • pulliptears
    pulliptears Posts: 14,583 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Years ago the teenage girl two doors down from me got herself a new fella. He was inordinately proud of his heap-o-shite jalopy and would pitch up in it, park it in the bays opposite my house, leave the engine running, open all four doors, the boot and the bonnet and crank his stereo right up. !!!!!!??

    Lad across the road, and friend of DS acquired himself a girlfriend, she drives a car (a Punto without a straight panel, every time you see it she's dented something else. I'm still in shock that she's actually managing to insure it at 18 but anyway, I digress).

    When they first started dating she'd bring him home at 1am where they would sit in the car sucking each others faces, music thumping until 2am or later. I let it go the first few times, when I was woken up for the third time I calmly went downstairs and sent a Facebook message to him, it read:

    Dear Annoying boy across the road,
    Whilst I appreciate Love is blind, unfortunately it isn't deaf. If you really must sit sucking your girlfriends face until stupid o clock in the morning can you at least do it with the engine and music off as it's now getting a bit irritating.
    Thanks
    Pullip.

    Worked like a charm :D
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