Some teenagers taunted me when I took this photo but I don't care

"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein) 05/09/2019 at 11:42 • Filed to: None

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My car was nice and deserted the other night after the gym , so I decided to kneel down to take a pic. Then a gaggle of teenagers coming out of Chipotle hollered, “NICE CAAAAAARRRRR!!!! ” followed by lots of ( maybe?) ironic giggling .

I took this in stride and just said thank you back to them and ignored them as I walked the not-short-enough distance to the car from the spot where I took this now-cropped picture.

Of course, after I left the parking lot, I had to wait at a red light and a Camry full of those same kids pulled up next to me and there was considerable more teehee - ing. I don’t know if it was directed towards me, or life in general.

Tee hee the fuck up out of here you durn kids!

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 11:45

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Should have asked the kid if their mom was okay with them driving her car. 

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 11:46

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“Thanks! Where’s your BMW?”

But then again this could backfire as it could be one of those rich fucks whose dad just gifted them a Porsche for their 16th birthday.

It’s funny we only think of these witty responses when you’re lying in bed later that night or in the shower the next morning.

Tripper > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 11:46

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Canned response for next time:

“Cool camry guys! Nice of your mom to let you borrow it while she fucks the everlovingshit out of your dad!”

Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 11:46

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“Laugh now you little shits, my generation is destroying the planet before we hand it off to you!"

Textured Soy Protein > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 05/09/2019 at 11:48

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Can confirm there are many rich spoiled kids around here, although I'm only in the above-average fancy part of town, not the extremely FAUWNCY part of town. 

benn454 > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 11:48

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 Teenagers are morons. Their opinions are worthless. 

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 11:49

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Ha. When I had my Riviera, some punks in a brand new camaro were teasing me for putting premium in it. I pointed out their dad would appreciate it if they put premium in his car when they were done with it. I then got all the overly huffy rage that only a high school boy could scrounge up with all the shouts of “THIS IS MY CAR! ITS MINE! I HAVE A CAMARO!!!!” his little pimply face could manage.

Some people’s children, I swear...

Textured Soy Protein > Tripper 05/09/2019 at 11:49

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“FUCK YOU MY PARENTS ARE DIVORCED!”

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 11:52

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Hello, 911?  Ye ah, car full of drunk teenagers. Get em.

Textured Soy Protein > Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever 05/09/2019 at 11:53

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It’s weird to think of myself as an “older generation” but at 36 I suppose that applies. A couple weeks ago o ne of the college kids who works at the front desk at my gym asked me if I was going to see Avengers and we got to talking about which movie theater around here we like best. I mentioned one of the places is nice because they don’t have any commercials before the previews. He had no idea what I was talking about because he’s never showed up to a movie before the previews thanks to reserved seating. He didn’t even know that movies at one point in the not-too-distant past didn’t even HAVE reserved seating. I was like, “yes child, back in the olden days, movie theaters were... GENERAL ADMISSION!" 

CobraJoe > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 11:54

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I took this in stride and just said thank you back to them and ignored them as I walked the not-short-enough distance to the car from the spot where I took this now-cropped picture.

That’s the right response, just learn to live it.

Enjoy the things you worked hard to get, and ignore the haters or the envious, they don’t know what they’re missing.

Of course, it’s hard to keep that mindset in the moment...

Tripper > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 11:54

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“Wow and all your mom got out of the deal was a beat C amry!? . Too bad... E njoy your fractured childhood!”

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 05/09/2019 at 11:57

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Speaking of Buicks, I was behind a newer Regal yesterday. Not bad looking at all. It left the light quite briskly as well. I was kind of impressed, actually.

CalzoneGolem > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 11:58

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It kinda sounds like you * do* care.

benn454 > Tripper 05/09/2019 at 11:59

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“Your parents have fucked in every room in your house, including yours."

Chariotoflove > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 11:59

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You mean Mom’s Camry.

They were desperately jealous and used mockery to hide their insecurities. 

Ash78, voting early and often > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 12:00

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Wow...I was confronted with reserved seats for the very first time 2 weeks ago. It seemed ridiculous because the theatre was maybe 20% full. And it slowed the whole transaction down, too, as the clerk made me choose seats, then confirm them. Crazy.

Thomas Donohue > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 12:00

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Most theaters have reserved seating now?

I guess I should go more than once every five years. HD/Blu-Ray and large widescreen TVs have spoiled me and allowed me to stay at home to avoid the cell-phone users and talkers in theaters.

ttyymmnn > Tripper 05/09/2019 at 12:00

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Nice, but I would have gone with the cable guy instead of dad. 

ttyymmnn > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 05/09/2019 at 12:01

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Some people’s children, I swear...

This, exactly. I’m working very hard so nobody says that about my kids.

ttyymmnn > benn454 05/09/2019 at 12:01

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I have three teenagers. I concur. 

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 05/09/2019 at 12:02

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Sounds like a certain president I know.

Ash78, voting early and often > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 12:02

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I’m inclined to be like “Yeah, maybe one day you could have one, too.”

But teenagers are so insecure, all you need to do is hit back with the same.

“Nice phone” (big smile, slight chuckle)

They’ll be on TikTok 5 minutes later telling the same story you just did, totally confused

Textured Soy Protein > Ash78, voting early and often 05/09/2019 at 12:03

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The theaters in Madison went reserved seating around the same time as when they switched to recliners, which was within the past 5 years or so. Here in the DC burbs it may have happened longer ago.

benn454 > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 12:06

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I’m only a year younger than you, and reserved seating on Fandango is all I use now. It's basically the only way I can guarantee getting a seat at the back.

Ash78, voting early and often > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 12:06

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Here in Birmingham we had a nice chain of independent theatres called RAVE — they were basically a decade ahead of AMC and Regal several years ago (they had stadium recliners, digital projectors, etc, way before the national chains)

Well AMC bought them out a couple years back and it’s been a slow decline in service (and increase in prices) ever since. Part of that decline is the mandatory assigned seating, regardless of how busy it is.

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 05/09/2019 at 12:08

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You know of a president who drives his mom’s Camry?

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 12:09

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As someone who was once a teenager I can confidently say that a lot of teenagers are idiot assholes.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 12:10

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FWIW, if I saw you taking a picture of your car, I’d say “nice car” and mean it.

But I’m weird.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 12:12

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No Scrubs TLC

Oh, oh A scrub is a guy that thinks he’s fly
And is also known as a busta (busta)
Always talkin’ about what he wants
And just sits on his broke ass So no, I don’t want your number
No, I don’t want to give you mine and
No, I don’t want to meet you nowhere
No, I don’t want none of your time and No, I don’t want no scrub
A scrub is a guy that can’t get no love from me
Hangin’ out the passenger side
Of his best friend’s ride
Trying to holla at me
I don’t want no scrub
A scrub is a guy that can’t get no love from me
Hangin’ out the passenger side
Of his best friend’s ride
Trying to holla at me Well a scrub checkin’ me
But his game is kinda weak
And I know that he cannot approach me
‘Cause I’m looking like class, and he’s looking like trash
Can’t get wit’ a deadbeat ass So no, I don’t want your number
No, I don’t want to give you mine and
No, I don’t want to meet you nowhere
No, I don’t want none of your time and No, I don’t want no scrub
A scrub is a guy that can’t get no love from me
Hangin’ out the passenger side
Of his best friend’s ride
Trying to holla at me
I don’t want no scrub
A scrub is a guy that can’t get no love from me
Hangin’ out the passenger side
Of his best friend’s ride
Trying to holla at me If you don’t have a car and you’re walking
Oh yes son, I’m talking to you
If you live at home with your momma
Oh yes son, I’m talking to you
If you have a shorty that you don’t show love
Oh yes son, I’m talking to you
Wanna get me with no money
Oh no, I don’t want no
No scrub, no scrub
No scrub, no scrub No, I don’t want no scrub
A scrub is a guy that can’t get no love from me
Hangin’ out the passenger side
Of his best friend’s ride
Trying to holla at me
I don’t want no scrub
A scrub is a guy that can’t get no love from me
Hangin’ out the passenger side
Of his best friend’s ride
Trying to holla at me See, if you can’t spatially expand my horizon
Then that leaves you in the class with scrubs, never rising
I don’t find it surprising
And if you don’t have the G’s
To please me and bounce me here to the coast of overseas
So, let me give you something to think about
Inundate your mind with intentions to turn you out
Can’t forget the focus on the picture in front of me
You as clear as DVD on digital TV screens
Satisfy my appetite with something spectacular
Check your vernacular, and then I get back to ya
With diamond-like precision
Insatiable is what I envision
Can’t detect acquisition
From your friend’s Expedition
Mr. Big Willy, if you really want to know
Ask Chilli, could I be a silly ho?
Not really
T-Boz and all my senoritas
Are steppin’ on your FILA’s
But you don’t hear me, though No, I don’t want no scrub
A scrub is a guy that can’t get no love from me
Hangin’ out the passenger side
Of his best friend’s ride
Trying to holla at me
I don’t want no scrub
A scrub is a guy that can’t get no love from me
Hangin’ out the passenger side
Of his best friend’s ride
Trying to holla at me

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 12:12

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Fossil.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 12:14

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I’d rather watch a movie on my 52-inch plasma, in my jammies, bowl of popcorn in my lap, #ANYDAY #EVERYDAY than sit in a movie theatre.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > ttyymmnn 05/09/2019 at 12:14

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Me too.

benn454 > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 05/09/2019 at 12:15

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“I’m 18! I’m an adult!”

LOL no

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Ash78, voting early and often 05/09/2019 at 12:17

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yuck. I have not been to a theater in nearly a decade, but that sounds awful.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 12:24

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when I first got my WRX I went to a park to take some photos.  Some guy said something about it and made a comment about his own car, something along the lines that he liked that the duct tape was still holding it together.  Looking at the car, i wasn’t too sure if it was really even road worthy.  

Chuckles > benn454 05/09/2019 at 12:25

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Chuckles > Chariotoflove 05/09/2019 at 12:26

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It might be jealously, but I'm not so sure. A lot of kids now just don't care about car ownership.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > benn454 05/09/2019 at 12:30

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Pretty sure I’ve met plenty of people in their 30s, 40s, 50s whom I still wouldn’t consider “adults”.

benn454 > ttyymmnn 05/09/2019 at 12:31

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My condolences. 

benn454 > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 05/09/2019 at 12:38

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Absolutely. There are days I don’t feel very “adult” myself. But the need to insist is childish itself. 

shop-teacher > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 12:38

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Oh, so she’s banging a Home Depot clerk then!?!  That employee discount must be nice!

ttyymmnn > benn454 05/09/2019 at 12:39

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The three stages of marital sex:

Stage 1: House S ex. This is where you have sex in every room of the house.

Stage 2: Bedroom S ex. This is where you have sex only in the bedroom.

Stage 3: Hallway S ex. This is where you just  pass each other in the hallway and say, “Fuck you.”

DipodomysDeserti > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 05/09/2019 at 12:44

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My wife teaches art, and one of her students asked if she had any paint that could be used to touch up a bumper. When she went to look at the girl’s car it was a brand new Cayenne...

DipodomysDeserti > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 12:45

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You had the correct response (none). Teenagers feed off responses.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > DipodomysDeserti 05/09/2019 at 12:45

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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 12:53

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I remember the night I picked up my then new-to-me E34 525i. I was happy as could be, so proud of my new purchase, the nicest and fanciest car I had up until that time. It was 11 years old, clean but completely stock. I was at the has station topping off the tank when someone shouted out “Hey! Nice car!” I thanked them, but then realized that they they were talking to the guy on the other side of the aisle about his new Viper...

Textured Soy Protein > CalzoneGolem 05/09/2019 at 12:54

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I was more just amused by the amount that these kids were amused by a grown-ass man very deliberately taking  a picture of his silly car in a strip mall parking lot. Their lack of filter was...refreshing?

Chariotoflove > Chuckles 05/09/2019 at 13:02

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If they’re using a car as their social facilitator, I’m sure they do care.

I’ve had friends from NYC and the like who never needed a car and so didn’t care.  But if you’ve got your crew piled into a Camry, well, for boys at least, the coolness of your car will always be an issue.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 13:02

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Yeet.

Chuckles > Chariotoflove 05/09/2019 at 13:08

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If they’re borrowing the family Camry to go out, they might just see a car as a means to an end. It gets you somewhere. Hard to understand the mind of teenagers even if you used to be one.

I was a teenage boy once. I cared about cars a lot. But I also understand that plenty of people didn't care about cars as a teenager, and that seems to be a growing trend. They might have been jealous. But they just as easily could have been thinking "why would you take a picture of your car? Its just a car. That's like taking a picture of your shoes."

CalzoneGolem > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 13:15

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It is refreshing to get young people’s perspective on things. 

Milky > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 13:19

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On the other hand little kids are great. It hit 60 in Michigan, in February, so me and my friend were driving around with our tops down. This little boy got excited and started pointing at us. I did a little burnout at the stop sign and he lost his shit, it was great. His parents didn’t look as excited, but lol, fuck them.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 05/09/2019 at 13:31

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It’s scary and sad how many middle aged people are actively fighting the outside forces trying to make them take responsibility for themselves and their actions like, you know, an *adult* should. At what point do you realize it’s actually easier and more fulfilling to not constantly try your hardest to be an immature twat?

BeaterGT > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 13:36

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Damn, you got that Red Bull suspension? That’s some rake.

BeaterGT > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/09/2019 at 13:39

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What color is this?

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > BeaterGT 05/09/2019 at 14:13

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Silverstone II

Picks up blue from the sky when it’s outside, looks like a normal silver in a parking garage, picks up warm tones at sunset, and looks great under low light.

Also my car, with my “winter” set.

https://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110972

Textured Soy Protein > BeaterGT 05/09/2019 at 14:13

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The fender gap is basically dead eve n front to rear , just the angle of the pic and the sloping character line along the side makes it look like a rake.

BeaterGT > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/09/2019 at 14:28

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That is awesome. Thanks for the info. 

ateamfan42 > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 14:38

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a Camry full of those same kids

There’s your explanation.   A bunch of kids driving around a sensible *yawn* car isn’t going to appreciate an enthusiast enjoying a cool car.  They are the ones missing out, but you’ll never get them to see that.  So don’t waste your time trying.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > BeaterGT 05/09/2019 at 14:41

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Sure thing! 

gettingoldercarguy > CalzoneGolem 05/09/2019 at 14:59

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I wonder what percentage of them take selfies and post that on Instagram or whatever?

CalzoneGolem > gettingoldercarguy 05/09/2019 at 15:11

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#nofilter

JeepJeremy > Textured Soy Protein 05/09/2019 at 16:45

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that’s a good looking Bimmer! 

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Textured Soy Protein 05/29/2019 at 15:46

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So something mildly strange happened to me last weekend. It was about 1am, I was driving around at night (my weekly zen ritual) in the C7 and stopped by a gas station. There were some young people sitting at a table there off to the side chattering and I paid them no mind. I figure they’re older teens, maybe college maybe HS. I think they’re girls, didn’t really care. I’m hungry.

I go in, I get a snack and come out, bite into the snack and it sucks. So I go to throw it into the garbage can, which happens to be close to that table, and as I walk to it, I hear a shit ton of squealing and giggling. I figure someone just got a text from a boy or something , and then dump my garbage and walk back to my car. The sound stops.

I’m too old to be messing with kids that late so I get in my car and drive off. Didn’t think twice about it at the time. Now based on your story, I am wondering, wtf was that all about?