"Anon" (tjsielsistneb)
02/25/2014 at 18:44 • Filed to: None
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"Anon" (tjsielsistneb)
02/25/2014 at 18:44 • Filed to: None | 4
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Here are some facts about me. I drive a 2006 naturally aspirated Mini Cooper, I love cars, and I live in rural Louisiana.
Being a guy and driving a Mini in Lousiana really makes you pop out. Sometimes this is a pretty fun thing. The closest Mini dealership is over 150 miles away so I have one of only three Minis in town, which makes it kind of like driving a Lamborghini. Every time you stop at a gas station someone's going to ask you about it. Little kids are going to wave at you and ask to sit in it, and people are going to take pictures of your car. Also a fun bonus is that some women love it. I haven't really worked out why, but I honestly don't question a good thing.
However sometimes this attention can be unwanted. You'll get idiots in their giant pick-up trucks that'll yell insults at you at red lights. If I had a nickle for everytime I was called the "F" word I would be able to afford several new Minis probably. Though I don't really care. Why should anyone be insulted by being called the "F" word by someone who so needs to prove to themselves that they're strong that they feel the need to insult random people on the street based on their car choice. Yeah it's an annoyance but I don't really care. (However the one time that my dad was riding with me and it happened I just about had to restrain him from jumping out and breaking the guy's neck.)
Also living in the country and having a small car often times requires you to use it in ways that manufactures didn't originally intend. For example, my family owns six horses who need food. This is my car every monday and friday.
That's 4 bags of horse food (my high score being six bags, a tractor fuel tank, two twelve packs of tomato plants, and my brother). I also regularly pick up hay bales, 2x4s, and all sorts of other fun things. Also when I go visit my grandma my Mini Cooper pulls double service as a makeshift rally car on a road designed for trucks. But you know what? It does all of this well and without ever complaining. It deals with the little kids asking to sit in it, the idiots who slam it, dealing with dirt and pothole filled roads, picking up two-hundred pounds of horse feed and hay twice a week, the extreme temperatures, and you know what? I love it for it.
jkm7680
> Anon
02/25/2014 at 18:46 |
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Haha, thanks for not buying a Bro truck
Brian Silvestro
> Anon
02/25/2014 at 18:47 |
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"Hey boy, yeah you, in that foreign car y'got there. What's that all about? It's mysterious to me and therefore I don't like it!"
Am I on the right track?
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Anon
> Brian Silvestro
02/25/2014 at 18:48 |
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Right on. But for everyone that gives you crap for it there's four that love it.
Vince-The Roadside Mechanic
> Anon
02/25/2014 at 18:50 |
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Great article
Niquemarshall
> Anon
02/25/2014 at 18:50 |
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This is true
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Brian Silvestro
> Anon
02/25/2014 at 18:50 |
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That's good to hear. I live in New York so all kinds of cars don't usually warrant a second glance. Sometimes I think people purposely go out of their way to buy cars that aren't nice/comfortable/cool/fast in make some sort of hipster statement.
feather-throttle-not-hair
> Anon
02/25/2014 at 18:53 |
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Oh...the other F word. Got it.
in all seriousness though, that's crazy. I can't go 2 blocks without seeing about fifty mini coopers up here. Yeah...we're really really into them in Seattle for some reason. A good friend of mine drives an NA Cooper. Actually now that i think about it, his name is Alex too. Also my mom has one, but her name isn't Alex.
Hell i've seen 2 cooper works GP's in the northwest in the last few months.
Weird to think that they're rare in some parts of the U.S.
505Turbeaux
> Anon
02/25/2014 at 18:58 |
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I had a cooper s the year it came out in that same color. Even though I wasn't in rural la it was like driving something from outer space with the amount of people checking it out. It was utterly useful and fun, and tough. Nice little write up, and thanks for your Nola tips for me. I went to mothers like 4 times
ZHP Sparky, the 5th
> Anon
02/25/2014 at 19:14 |
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my high score being six bags, a tractor fuel tank, two twelve packs of tomato plants, and my brother)
Case in point as to why 90% of the people who justify owning a truck by saying "no, forreallz - I need one! i have horses/chickens/ducks/cows/goats" are full of it.
Makoyouidiot
> Brian Silvestro
02/25/2014 at 19:21 |
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You forgot tiny. I get shit all the time driving my Fiat...then I unfold all 320lbs of me from the car and dudes get quiet. Even though it is literally all bacon grease under the skin. Go figure.
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Brian Silvestro
> Makoyouidiot
02/25/2014 at 19:30 |
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That's probably a fun situation for everybody.
hethoughtofcars
> Anon
02/25/2014 at 19:36 |
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Nice! I owned a Clubman in the city and rarely heard anything about it from passer-bys. How has it been reliability wise? How many miles are on it?
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Anon
> hethoughtofcars
02/25/2014 at 19:41 |
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I really don't want to say anything about reliability because I had a bad engine. I bought one that the previous owner had hooned the crap out of.
f86sabre
> Anon
02/25/2014 at 20:04 |
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Good to see you use your Cooper. You should send the horse feeding thing to Mini. They would probably get a kick it of it. We have a 2005 S and we have jammed all kinds of things in it. There have been a couple of times where I had to pause and think about how I was going to load it, but it has always brought home home what I asked it to.
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Anon
> 505Turbeaux
02/25/2014 at 21:30 |
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I'm sorry for all the weight I probably made you gain.
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505Turbeaux
> Anon
02/25/2014 at 21:33 |
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lol totally worth it. I came back fat and happy. And still half drunk
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Anon
> 505Turbeaux
02/25/2014 at 21:33 |
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Ah, the New Orleans experience...
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Anon
> Vince-The Roadside Mechanic
02/25/2014 at 21:35 |
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Well thank you.
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Vince-The Roadside Mechanic
> Anon
02/25/2014 at 22:44 |
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I always love to hear people talk about their cars and you love your car even if most people hate it I respect you and your car
Levitas
> Anon
02/26/2014 at 00:12 |
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I love hauling unusual things in my Mini! Kinja isn't letting me attach a picture, but I once commuted 60 miles with 8 10ft 2x4s. They went from the rear part of the 'trunk' up through the sunroof. People gave me the weirdest looks that day and I have no idea why
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Makoyouidiot
> Brian Silvestro
02/26/2014 at 00:45 |
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Indeed!