"CAR_IS_MI" (car-is-mi)
06/05/2014 at 11:15 • Filed to: None | 3 | 40 |
Sitting at a light on my way to work and F350 pulls up next to me, I am looking at this truck as it has an obvious lift, but tires that are smaller than stock...
Guy rolls down the window, and with the most serious face and tone imaginable, he asks "Hey, Do they sell those things with doors?"
I was ever so confused. Has this man never seen a Jeep with doors? or maybe a Jeep without? Was this man the worlds best poker face maker? Why does he have such tiny tiny tires? Did I remember to put pants on today?
I just laughed and hoped the light would turn green soon, but I wonder, is this man still out there wondering if Jeeps do, in fact, come with doors.
Whats the funniest question you've been asked at a red light???
(Pictured above not my Jeep but you get the idea)
macanamera
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 11:18 | 2 |
I asked myself, "Is this guy an idiot?"
Yes.
Party-vi
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 11:18 | 0 |
These wheels are teh barf. I can't figure out why Jeep insists on putting these on JKs.
macanamera
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 11:20 | 4 |
I was at a light in Miami once, and 4 young kids in a brand new 7 series roll down the window and ask me, "Do you know which way heads towards Atlanta?"
I was like...Uhhhhhhhhhh north? You in Miami bro, you don't have very many other directions to head if you are trying to leave Florida...(in a car).
Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
> Party-vi
06/05/2014 at 11:20 | 1 |
I like those wheels! lol
bob and john
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 11:21 | 6 |
when i FIRST put my scorion end can on my SV, it was popping pretty loudly. one day, i'm riding home from school, and i I heard it go : burbple burble burbple POOOOHHHHVVVVVVVVVVVVVCVVVVVVVVop.burble
I was just thinking: i wonder what happened there? shitty gas or? when a uhh....gentle man of african american descent pulls up next to me in this JACKED escalde rolls down the window and goes:
DAAAAAM NIGGA, HOW'D YOU GET DAT FLAME OUTTA THERE?!?!!?
turns out, bike spat a 3 foot flame out the back. to this day, i have no idea what caused it. bike is fuel injected, and runs like a top. that was the only time it ever did that.
cazzyodo
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 11:21 | 3 |
I don't think anyone has ever asked me anything at a stoplight.
Ever.
I've actually never had anyone say anything to me at a stoplight...not even a profanity laced exclamation or hatred (because Massachusetts).
Diesel
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 11:24 | 0 |
Them: Do I know you?
Me: I'm Rick James, BITCH!
/end scene
Milky
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 11:25 | 2 |
"Is it front wheel drive?" Not funny, but irritating.
But thats one thing about driving around with no doors, it exposes you to the stupid.
Chris Clarke
> bob and john
06/05/2014 at 11:26 | 0 |
I use to pop some nice flames out the exhaust of my TL100R. It was fuel injected, but when the plugs started to go it would run rich and when the pipes got hot it would put on a pretty cool light show.
I imagine in your case, with the exhaust, the computer was still adapting to the change and was running rich.
Racescort666
> Diesel
06/05/2014 at 11:27 | 2 |
CAR_IS_MI
> Party-vi
06/05/2014 at 11:28 | 0 |
These were my factory wheels...
Party-vi
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 11:30 | 1 |
Hmm. Maybe I'm not a fan of any of their new wheel designs. They just look...odd to me. Then again my newest Jeep was from 1988...
Baber K. Khan
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 11:31 | 1 |
My friend had this 1976 4-door Corolla, unfortunately, day before yesterday, it was stolen. It was kept in original conditions, from hub caps to everything. Mostly at traffic lights, gentlemen in new expensive cars would roll down their window and ask if it was for sale. That's a complaint I've heard from a lot of owners of classic. They all say, instead of appreciating the hard work and sweat I've put in to make it what it is today, they want me to sell it to them. It's just ridiculous.
But if you'd asked what was the best thing ever said to us, we were coming back from a trip. Entered the city and got stuck in traffic due to some rally. And some commercial pick-up driver looked at the 70 Land Cruiser and said, "InshaAllah, I will buy this one day." We said, "Do you like it?", he said,"Yeah, I am working hard for this." we just told him to keep on working hard towards your ambitions and you'll get them. Stay passionate towards what you want to achieve and have achieved.
bob and john
> Chris Clarke
06/05/2014 at 11:32 | 1 |
probably. it was pretty funny though
R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
> bob and john
06/05/2014 at 11:36 | 0 |
i lol'd
Sn210
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 11:38 | 0 |
Not a question, but a good red light story. Back when we were in high school, my wife (then girlfriend) used to like to kiss me while we waited for the light to change. One time we stopped and were just about to kiss when a guy passing us in the opposite direction honked, pointed, and kept a stone cold expression on his face as he drove by. It surprised us at first, but then we thought it was hilarious.
CAR_IS_MI
> Party-vi
06/05/2014 at 11:39 | 3 |
I didn't like them either, that's why they got upgraded to something more suitable for Xmas.
Party-vi
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 11:41 | 1 |
O_O YES THOSE WILL DO NICELY
The Ghost of Oppo
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 11:42 | 0 |
One of my all time favorite car commercials
Rock Bottom
> Party-vi
06/05/2014 at 11:43 | 1 |
Party-vi
> Rock Bottom
06/05/2014 at 11:44 | 1 |
Shut up, Thor.
HammerheadFistpunch
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 11:45 | 1 |
Not at a red light but I recall being asked how the card reader on a gas pump worked once, I was in escalante and at first I thought he was joking with me, but he really had never used one. that was weird.
OPPOsaurus WRX
> cazzyodo
06/05/2014 at 11:50 | 0 |
I tried to merge infront of someone who was being difficult. After a few brake checks from this fine example of humanity we get up to the next set of lights. The crazy lady, who keep in mind almost ran me off the road from trying to keep me from merging in front of her told me to stop driving like a jack-ass cuz she had a baby in the back seat.
CAR_IS_MI
> HammerheadFistpunch
06/05/2014 at 11:53 | 0 |
I've watched people at a gas station before whom appeared to have no prior knowledge of how the pump worked, that you had to pay first, that you had to select a fuel type, etc. It was funny.
phenotyp
> Milky
06/05/2014 at 11:58 | 0 |
I got that a lot with my MR2. I'd tell them yes, that they run a driveshaft up to the front wheels from the engine in the back. Only one person ever called my bluff.
thebigbossyboss
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 11:59 | 1 |
That happened to me. Apparently while I was living abroad for 11 months they changed the rule because some guy got run over trying to stop someone from stealing $7 worth of gas and now we all must go back to collect our change all the damn time.
cazzyodo
> OPPOsaurus WRX
06/05/2014 at 12:03 | 1 |
BABY ON BOARD!
Someone told me that they were in case the car crashed people would know to look for a small child in the back seat. I told them it was ironic that the people with those signs are typically the ones driving like assholes most likely to end up in a ditch.
thebigbossyboss
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 12:09 | 2 |
People don't usually talk to me anyways at red lights. The real stupid questions seem to come at gas stations.
CAR_IS_MI
> thebigbossyboss
06/05/2014 at 12:13 | 0 |
Lol, yea I get those too. My favorite is "Nice Jeep, but I like the ones with the hard tops better" (this is when I have no top on). The first time I told someone the tops come off and are interchangeable I got glared at like I was some jackass telling lies, so now I just laugh and sigh when I get this statement.
sm70- why not Duesenberg?
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 12:17 | 0 |
In 2009 when we got our Flex, before they were common, every parking lot, gas station, and several stoplights became Q&A sessions. The best one was "Is that some sort of Mini Cooper?" Yes, ma'am, it's called the Bigi Cooper.
thebigbossyboss
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 12:37 | 1 |
One time, I gave my buddy my credit card (before credit cards had pins) and told him "fill the car up with gas, I am going to get gum" (or something). He then told me he had never put gas in a car and didn't know how. I was amazed.
CAR_IS_MI
> thebigbossyboss
06/05/2014 at 12:46 | 0 |
Saloon_Hoon
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 12:54 | 0 |
Back in '05 I'd been asked at the pump (more often) and a few times at the lights if my car was electric (because it was shaped like a toaster?)
(*sidenote, its amazing what google images can find with a few words - I don't even know my old online albums but google knows. Google knows.)
zomg! I forgot about this pic! (maybe the steel salt flat discs made it look electric lol)
William Byrd
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 12:54 | 1 |
I was once asked what the retail of my car was at a stop light by a couple of youths. I informed the driver, who posited the question, that it appeared as if the manufacturer's suggested retail price of my vehicle was well above his means. His passenger said something inaudible to him and they sped off in a bright orange Toyota of some sort. Very strange.
thebigbossyboss
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 12:59 | 1 |
Exactly.
thebigbossyboss
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 13:03 | 1 |
It was especially surprising that the dumbest question ever heard at a gas station...emanated from my own car.
CAR_IS_MI
> William Byrd
06/05/2014 at 13:23 | 1 |
I know those guys, I saw them eating shrimp at a diner on the PCH. They came flying into the lot in that orange car and then a Black F355 spider came flying by shortly thereafter...
CAR_IS_MI
> thebigbossyboss
06/05/2014 at 13:33 | 1 |
Lol, actually, now that I think about it, my best gas station story was back when I had my Mustang. It was 2 years old at that point (so relatively new) and I pulled up to the pump, the big cam thumping away, exhaust resonating off the building, on the other side of the pump a Cayenne GTS.
As I get out the Porsche owner comes over "Nice, bet it't terrible on fuel though?" I inform him its not too bad and I average about 14 to which he proclaims "better than mine!!!" while looking back at his SUV.
The next question is "is it fast?". No as modest and sarcastic as I am, I say, "ehh, it does okay".
He responds with "well how fast does it go?" and I inform him I have never actually topped it out so I do not know.
"Well what does the gauge say?" he asks. I laughed a bit at the ignorance, and said "the gauge only goes to 140, but it can go faster than that" (radar at LVMS has seen that car at 160 and it still had more to go just not enough track...).
The Porsche owner gets this smug look on his face and proclaims "Well, my speedometer goes to 170 so mines faster" and walks away.
I just chuckled and rolled my eyes.
William Byrd
> CAR_IS_MI
06/05/2014 at 13:44 | 0 |
That's strange, I happened to be driving my Ferrari down the PCH when this occurred. Small world. I let them pass after I bested their pedestrian car and then gallantly turned my flashers on in a sign of victory and let them pass. I'm sure they said they "smoked me" but there are two sides to every story. Wonder what happened to those guys?
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> CAR_IS_MI
06/06/2014 at 00:15 | 0 |
Change and directions a few times.