by "CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
Published 12/26/2017 at 22:33
by "CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
Published 12/26/2017 at 22:33
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What were you doing in October 2004? I was in grade 6 (11 years old)
"aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe" (emaxxbl)
12/26/2017 at 22:41, STARS: 3
I was 5
"interstate366, now In The Industry" (interstate366)
12/26/2017 at 22:41, STARS: 2
I was fresh out of high school and, having decided to wait a year before going to college, doing absolutely nothing.
"for Michigan" (formichigan)
12/26/2017 at 22:42, STARS: 2
I forgot that Fleshbot was a thing. Don’t think I ever knew what sort of thing it was for that matter…
"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
12/26/2017 at 22:45, STARS: 0
Yeah, I forgot too
"CB" (jrcb)
12/26/2017 at 22:46, STARS: 0
I was in fifth grade and my parents were going through a divorce. And thus began the slow descent into how it all went wrong.
"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
12/26/2017 at 22:49, STARS: 0
I’m sorry to hear that. You seem like a nice guy though, so not everything went wrong!
"CB" (jrcb)
12/26/2017 at 22:50, STARS: 2
Thanks! Do what I can with what I’ve got. Besides, life got a hell of a lot better once I moved out for university.
"Nibbles" (nibbles)
12/26/2017 at 22:57, STARS: 2
I was going through the worst, hardest, most tumultuous time of my young adult life. I was certain death was coming for me, or that I could usher his icy touch
Glad I was wrong. I survived (obvs) and now I spend my life shitposting
"scoob" (scoobsti)
12/26/2017 at 23:01, STARS: 2
rip aperson
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
12/26/2017 at 23:01, STARS: 3
Posting stupid stuff on Jalopnik, same as now.
"scoob" (scoobsti)
12/26/2017 at 23:01, STARS: 2
I was 8
"R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
12/26/2017 at 23:02, STARS: 2
I was 19 and full of brainwashing and piss headed for my first unit and first deployment a few months later.
"JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t" (jawzx2)
12/26/2017 at 23:03, STARS: 1
Three years out of college, working in high-end home A/v and automation sales and install in Stowe VT, nominally managing a retail space, daily driving a 1992 Alfa Romeo 164-S, doing my damnedest to be a ski-bum (mostly unsuccessfully) and smoking a shit-ton of weed. I had yet to discover the Gawker properties and was mostly living in the still-relevant glory of my <5000 four-digit Slashdot ID
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
12/26/2017 at 23:07, STARS: 2
I was halfway through grad school.
"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
12/26/2017 at 23:10, STARS: 2
I had been working in my field for 6 years, married for 2, owned a house and had an Eclipse GS-T.
Obligatory “get off my lawn”.
"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
12/26/2017 at 23:16, STARS: 0
Wow! What did you get your degree in?
"Clown Shoe Pilot" (csp)
12/26/2017 at 23:25, STARS: 2
I was driving an RX-8
"Clown Shoe Pilot" (csp)
12/26/2017 at 23:28, STARS: 3
I’d been working in my field for 9 years, married for 3, and had recently sold my Eagle Talon tsi awd.
Nice lawn, neighbor. Fucking kids, huh?
"lone_liberal" (token-liberal)
12/26/2017 at 23:29, STARS: 1
I was 4 years in to a job that would eventually shitcan me after 12 and two years away from meeting my wife.
"Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero" (sampsonite24)
12/26/2017 at 23:45, STARS: 1
First year of highschool
"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
12/26/2017 at 23:46, STARS: 1
Whippersnappers the lot of them.
TSI AWD. Nice. I miss my Eclipse sometimes. I loved the Evo, but the Eclipse looked right to me. Too bad they messed it up with the third gen.
"HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute" (hondoyota)
12/26/2017 at 23:53, STARS: 2
Uhhhh....I was 1.
"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
12/27/2017 at 00:01, STARS: 1
Lol. Christ, I’m old
"BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo" (bluemazda2)
12/27/2017 at 00:02, STARS: 3
Then 6, almost 7 year old BlueMazda2 spent October 2004 hyped about buying this. I even managed to find a picture of the actual thing.
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
12/27/2017 at 00:11, STARS: 1
My first child was almost 1. I turned 30 in November and was looking for a new job and a bigger house. I think I also adopted a cat.
"sm70- why not Duesenberg?" (sm70-whynotduesenberg)
12/27/2017 at 00:24, STARS: 1
i was 6
"Wacko" (wacko--)
12/27/2017 at 00:27, STARS: 1
I was 25, single, and had 6 years left of payments on my 2003 protege5.
"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
12/27/2017 at 00:30, STARS: 2
I would’ve been going to college, working part-time as a head lifeguard and spending every penny I had to play with the racecar whenever I could scrape enough of them together. I was probably daily driving ye olde 92 F-350, crew cab, long bed, 4X4, IDI (non-turbo) 7.3l diesel.
"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
12/27/2017 at 00:47, STARS: 2
2004?
Shit, I’m old
I was 31 then working hard
My car then is the same car that I have now just with an extra 600k km on it
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
12/27/2017 at 00:50, STARS: 5
I was a freshman in fall of aught four. I was dating a girl I called tits, because she had huge tits. I have no recollection of her actually name, but I remember that I broke up with her because a good friend of mine told me that in the fourth grade she ate a clump of kitty litter.
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
12/27/2017 at 00:52, STARS: 0
Sounds a lot like my wife’s story. Her parents both turned into self destructive monsters after their affairs/divorce. To this day that still blame/hate the other equally.
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
12/27/2017 at 00:54, STARS: 0
That would have been a good idea for me. I went on to tech school right after highschool, and proceeded to put in minimal effort,nad get distracted by girls and skateboarding. Kind of wish I had giving myself a few years to grown the hell up before going to school I had to pay for.
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
12/27/2017 at 00:57, STARS: 0
GS-Ts are for noobs. AWD for life.
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
12/27/2017 at 00:58, STARS: 1
Drug store toy cars! I hate them now, but as a kid I didn’t care. I think I was about 11 when I became a Hotwheels elitist. I remember a friend trying to show off his Matchbox and being distinctly unimpressed
"pjhusa" (pjhuskinja)
12/27/2017 at 01:03, STARS: 1
Seconded
"BahamaTodd" (bahamatodd)
12/27/2017 at 01:16, STARS: 1
I was 19 and in my junior year studying mechanical engineering.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
12/27/2017 at 01:40, STARS: 1
I had finished my doctorate 5 years earlier and was looking for work and working on starting a family. My oldest was born in 2005. I was 38 years old.
"SmugAardvark" (SmugAardvark)
12/27/2017 at 02:08, STARS: 1
I was finishing up college and working full time as a 9-1-1 operator in Florida. That seems so long ago!
"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
12/27/2017 at 02:22, STARS: 0
What’s your doctorate in?
"PG; the scalpel wielder" (pgr34)
12/27/2017 at 02:41, STARS: 1
I had just started Highschool and I think I started reading jalopnik that year too. The days of Ray Wert....
"CRider" (crider)
12/27/2017 at 05:07, STARS: 1
#oppositlock
"Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!" (eurylokhos)
12/27/2017 at 07:13, STARS: 1
I had been married for 4 years and had just bought a Beechcraft B58 Baron and started an airplane charter service. I drove a white 2001 Wrangler Sahara and my son was still 4 years in the future.
Wife still around, Jeep and airplane long gone.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
12/27/2017 at 07:18, STARS: 1
Technical Education. My Bachelor’s degree was in Architecture. I was in my Junior year of that, when I decided to become a teacher. It made way more sense to finish that degree, and go to grad school for education, than to transfer. I got a TA position, so I had free tuition, a small salary (VERY small!), and I thought the lab sections of an Introto CAD class, so I got some teaching experience. I didn’t even realize it when I made the decision, but teachers with a Master’s Degree get paid more too. It ended up being like a quadruple win to get my teacher training in grad school.
"JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!" (jqj213)
12/27/2017 at 07:21, STARS: 1
I was 6; so I guess kindergarten?
"punkgoose17" (punkgoose17)
12/27/2017 at 07:32, STARS: 1
I was 15 and had just started rowing on the new Crew team.
"Chuckles" (chucklesw37)
12/27/2017 at 07:55, STARS: 1
I was in my first semester of college, and I was without a car because my 1990 Honda Accord EX had just died. RIP Hobart.
"Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW!" (theduckduck)
12/27/2017 at 08:28, STARS: 1
Just graduated from high school and was starting my first year of college.
"interstate366, now In The Industry" (interstate366)
12/27/2017 at 08:42, STARS: 1
I kinda wonder how I would have turned out had I gone to college straight out of high school.
"HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute" (hondoyota)
12/27/2017 at 09:22, STARS: 0
Meh. Only 5 years older than me, not TOO bad. You’re still like 19.
"HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute" (hondoyota)
12/27/2017 at 09:22, STARS: 1
Edit: I read that completely wrong. Never mind:)
"Svart Smart, traded in his Smart" (svartsmart)
12/27/2017 at 09:31, STARS: 1
I was a boarding student in my senior year of high school in Chattanooga.
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
12/27/2017 at 09:34, STARS: 1
I was 2 years old
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
12/27/2017 at 09:35, STARS: 1
2 here
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
12/27/2017 at 10:36, STARS: 1
Trumpet performance. I had planned on getting a job teaching at a university. Fortunately I didn’t, and now I play professionally.
"Manwich - now Keto-Friendly" (manwich)
12/27/2017 at 10:51, STARS: 1
I was probably getting ready to take my two kids (one of which was less than a year old at the time) out for Halloween.
I was also oblivious to the divorce axe that was gonna come down on me less than 4 years later.
"BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo" (bluemazda2)
12/27/2017 at 10:54, STARS: 0
Ah, but you see, I still like them. They’re just so neat. Maybe it’s nostalgia speaking, but I’ll buy one from time to time.
"Manwich - now Keto-Friendly" (manwich)
12/27/2017 at 11:11, STARS: 1
Sooo... you were probably sitting in your own shit then, right?
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
"Manwich - now Keto-Friendly" (manwich)
12/27/2017 at 11:15, STARS: 0
Well as long as it’s equal it’s okay, right?
"Manwich - now Keto-Friendly" (manwich)
12/27/2017 at 11:17, STARS: 0
I thought you stopped having birthdays at 30...
"Manwich - now Keto-Friendly" (manwich)
12/27/2017 at 11:19, STARS: 0
Also of note... I was also driving a 1987 Honda Civic Wagovan at the time.
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
12/27/2017 at 11:24, STARS: 0
That’s what they seem to think.
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
12/27/2017 at 11:26, STARS: 0
That makes sense.
"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
12/27/2017 at 11:41, STARS: 1
Cool!!! I didn’t expect that!
"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
12/27/2017 at 12:06, STARS: 1
That said why I went Evo.
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
12/27/2017 at 14:14, STARS: 1
Nice. An Evo 9 is my “maybe some day car” I just cant bite the bullet on a 20 thousand dollar car that’s 10 years old. My Gvr-4 is good enough for now. But man owning a 27 year old DSM isn’t easy
"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
12/27/2017 at 14:47, STARS: 1
03 Evo VIII. Owned since new. Love the thing. Needs some work after being rear ended last summer. It will live again.
"Manwich - now Keto-Friendly" (manwich)
12/27/2017 at 16:56, STARS: 1
Yes Gramps, you are old...
"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
12/27/2017 at 18:26, STARS: 0
I feel old.
"Manwich - now Keto-Friendly" (manwich)
12/27/2017 at 19:00, STARS: 1
You probably still remember AMC ads when they were new!
"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
12/28/2017 at 02:12, STARS: 0
you’re thinking of women
;)
"Manwich - now Keto-Friendly" (manwich)
12/28/2017 at 03:24, STARS: 0
YOU’RE NOT A WOMAN????
"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
12/28/2017 at 03:29, STARS: 0
:P
"19JRC99" (19jrc99)
12/31/2017 at 12:29, STARS: 1
I was in Kindergarten.
"19JRC99" (19jrc99)
12/31/2017 at 12:32, STARS: 1
Ah, a story of young love. Isn’t it a beautiful thing?