A&Q about Lotus
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I was stopped in traffic outside a used Ford dealership today when one of the employees walks outside the office and after seeing me shouts "Get a Mustang!". I just grinned and he started grinning, so I expect he really didn't mean it.
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My girlfriend was stopped by a guy we work with. He asked if that was our car. She said it is. He asked why we didn't get a Mini.
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Originally Posted by Rich
My girlfriend was stopped by a guy we work with. He asked if that was our car. She said it is. He asked why we didn't get a Mini.
Isn't it funny when people with little witt try to come up with a quick put down to impress a girl.
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Actually, I think he was serious.
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There's this little canyon right by my place that I cruise through to get up to my place. I don't like to fly around my neighborhood, but at night I'll punch it through the canyon a bit. Anway, as I'm coming through there a couple days ago some woman standing at her trunk is franticly lowering her hand from above her head to her waist over and over - I'm assuming she's trying to tell me to slow down. I make eye contact (as I'm plowing through 2nd) and do the exact opposite (raising my hand quickly up over my head over and over) as I crack my smartass smile. She gives me this pissed off smile - that to me looked like the 1950's boys-will-be-boys kind of look. Very funny (if you were there, of course)...
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Originally Posted by cjl
franticly lowering her hand from above her head to her waist over and over...raising my hand quickly up over my head over and over) as I crack my smartass smile. She gives me this pissed off smile
Sounds like a bizarre mating ritual
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Originally Posted by cjl
franticly lowering her hand from above her head to her waist over and over - I'm assuming she's trying to tell me to slow down.
Last time somebody did that to me, I came around the next corner to find a stalled motorhome blocking the road. Be careful!
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Originally Posted by Colinsmix
Last time somebody did that to me, I came around the next corner to find a stalled motorhome blocking the road. Be careful!
full of nuns and crippled children...
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I was in an accident with my Elise 10 days ago, rear-ended by some idiot.
Anyway, as the Police and EMS vehicles converge on the scene, traffic is slowed to a crawl as everyone goes by my car and the pickup that hit me. I'm standing on the driver's side of my car as the other cars slowly go by. The pickup is partially blocking other cars from seeing my car until they get by him. Funny to see the facial reactions as the Elise comes into view!
One young couple stops right next to my car, and the woman (the passenger) looks at my car, then at me, and cries out: "Oh no, not an Elise!!" I say, "Oh, yes it is", and she asks who did it? I point to the driver of the pick-up, who is dealing with the police, and she says, in a stone cold voice, "He should be put in prison." Then, they drive away...
I actually wanted to beat the living s**t out of him, but her idea seems better.
Wayne
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This weekend while ~9 of us driving Elises take turns though a stop sign in a very small town I heard this...
Two guys on the corner:
-"What the heck are they?"
-"They're Lotuses"
-"No way, Lotuses are totally different"
-"Dude! It says it right on the back, 'LOTUS'."
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While I was driving out to get lunch, a guy at a stoplight asked a question I haven't heard before:
"Excuse me, how much to those cost to import?"
My response:
"I let the dealer do it."
Him:
"Really, sweet."
I guess he didn't know you could buy them here.
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This one was interesting.
I'm at a stop light in the city and I hear someone yelling 'HEY!' once and awhile. I don't think it's directed at me so I ignore it. Then I hear 'HEY! How does it RUN!' I look over and there's a man (beggar with a crazy look about him) standing in the lanes next to me - partially blocking traffic (cars are going around him). I appologize for not hearing him at first. He then walks across the busy road and stands at my window and asks again how it runs.
'Great', etc, I respond.
What is it?
A Lotus.
OH YEAH! A LOTUS! THAT"S RIGHT! Yells the man.
He then lightly smacks the front quarter panel (in a 'aw shucks I knew it' manner). If he had a ring he hadn't hawked yet it would have chiped or scratched.
Light goes green and I leave. Guy was on something and I didn't want to get into a discussion about the faults of touching another man's car.
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Originally Posted by sholtzma
...And NOBODY has sex in it or on it except for the owner.
sex is better when you are not doing it alone.
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Today I was sitting in the elise at the Wally World parking lot waiting for my mom to come back and some elderly lady comes up to me and says,
"Nice Deloreon (spelling)! I haven't seen one of those for about ten years!."
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Yesterday, while I was getting gas, a teenage guy asked me if you could really shift the car with "that". I asked what he meant and it turned out that "that" was the windshield wiper control. I just pointed to the stick and said no, I use "that". I suppose he was thinking about paddle shifters??
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So there I am, sitting at a red light. From the car next to me I hear, "HEY!" At this point I'm used to people asking about the car.
I look to the right and there's an LAPD cruiser. I smile and roll down the window.
The officer is smiling ear to ear and shouts, "what the heck is that thing?!?"
"It's the new Lotus" I yell back.
"Nice....Really Nice!" he says.
I tear-out at full throttle from the green light and see him laughing with a thumbs-up in my mirrors.
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This one's funny but unfortunately came out of a bad circumstance. I was driving Angeles Crest Highway today and went by a really nasty accident, ambulances, cops, fire trucks, people on stretchers, really ugly. Traffic was stopped - 2 lane road- and they were letting each lane go every few minutes. As I pass by the chick assigned to stop traffic, I hear her say "Silver Lamborghini" into the walkie talkie. OMG! I thought a Lambo had done a header into the rocks. As I pass by the actual accident, I saw car parts and severly injured people, but no Lambo. Then I realized, Oh, she was telling the guy at the other end that the last car in the line was a Silver Lamborghini, me! Ha, she thought I drove a Lamborghini.
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Originally Posted by JWA
Other than the occasional "How much does that cost?", which I find to be rude and tacky (If it is their first and only question), I haven't had too many funny comments. I did have a perfectly put compliment a few weeks ago though. I was at a stop light and a guy pulled up in an Explorer. He looked over at me and said "Hey - nice choice. It's beautiful." What a great way to put it - not judgemental or jealous, simply complimentary while recognizing that we all make our choices and the cars that we purchase are simply one of them.
Nice post .. I totally agree ..
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A few weeks before my car was delivered, I told my neighbor I was buying a Lotus Elise. His response: "Oh...cool". He clearly had no idea what a Lotus Elise was. He was standing in his driveway when I brought my car home from the dealer. He walks up to the car and says: "That's the car you were talking about? I thought you were getting one of those new Mustang convertibles". My response: "No, I said I was getting a Lotus Elise". His response: "I remember what you said, but I just thought you did not know what you were really buying".
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the operating yelled out, "Lotus Spider, GQ!"