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06/03/2015 at 14:13 • Filed to: None
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"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
06/03/2015 at 14:13 • Filed to: None | 1
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Today on my way to work I stopped at a gas station to buy Power Bars and sugar-free Rockstar energy drinks, because I apparently have turned into some kind of gym rat meathead who buys Power Bars and Rockstar energy drinks at gas stations with deals on these products.
As I got back in my car with my bag o’ 3 Rockstars for $5 and 2 Power Bars for $2.22, a guy pulled up next to me in a pale yellow first-gen New Beetle.
He was wearing carpenter jean shorts, a fleece vest over a particularly long t-shirt, redneck shield sunglasses, and a flat-brimmed baseball cap with some kind of plaid pattern on it that was not Burberry but maybe sorta kinda intended to be like Burberry but different colors. Oh, and it was 74 degrees while he had this fleece vest on.
He was, for all intents and purposes, a weird hybrid of redneck and wannabe gangsta, driving a pale yellow New Beetle. Then as I rolled down my windows before pulling out of my spot, he eyed my 135is and said to me,
“Hey man nice car.”
I being the generally polite dude that I am thanked him for his compliment and headed off to work.
But I’m not sure how to take that compliment from someone whose personal sense of style has led them to wear a weird hybrid of stereotypical redneck and wannabe gangsta clothing while driving a yellow New Beetle.
I just hope his liking of my car doesn’t cast some sort of weird redneck yellow New Beetle aura over it that makes me start buying carpenter jorts.
Gamecat235
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06/03/2015 at 14:21 |
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I would like to state, for the record, that it was not me. I drive a silver New Beetle. Also, I almost never wear vests.
But as someone who regularly compliments others on their vehicles, and who has questionable “style”, and drives a first gen New Beetle, I guess I just want to say “hi!”
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
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06/03/2015 at 14:22 |
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Just because his own categorization of what makes for a good car and good taste are mis-calibrated doesn’t mean he’s wrong in your case. Sure, the compliment means less, but just because he doesn’t know what *doesn’t* make for a nice car, that doesn’t mean he doesn’t know what does. In terms of Accuracy and Precision, his Nice Car-dar may be imprecise, but not inaccurate.
RockThrillz89
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06/03/2015 at 14:47 |
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What you encountered is what is called the BassPro Special. The Beetle is probably his daughters car; she probably wanted to take out the Tahoe since she is about to graduate high school as she goes out to celebrate/spends the week at the beach. The shorts are because he just got home from work, and was tired of wearing steeltoes and pants, and wanted to be comfortable. He probably works in a really cold office type area (think A/R clerk who is always hot, so blasts the A/C all day; wearing long sleeves and vest is probably preferred over hearing the A/R clerk huff and puff/bitch all day). He just needed to run out for a minute and didn’t feel like changing shirts first.
This is the type of man who will go out of his way to help someone, give you the shirt off his back, and has never met a stranger in his life. You will never hear him complain; for he suffers in silence. It’s his problems to deal with and his alone. Or because every time he opens his mouth people have to correct his pronunciation. One or the other.
It honestly sounds just like my dad (except for the gangster part; he just wears whatever hat he grabs; usually a Myrtle Beach hat since he has to buy one along with a Koozie every time we go every year for the past 25 years).
Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
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06/03/2015 at 15:04 |
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Dude sounds like my High School counselor.
LuczOr
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06/03/2015 at 17:43 |
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Now you have to burn your car to the ground. It’s tainted.