the_pack_rat
04-15-2005, 01:55 PM
Black MM today(Fri) @ 11AM give or take ..... Gulf Coast Dodge(Ft Myers) dealer sticker & plate frame on the back.
The drive-thru touchless wash on Kings Highway next to the 7-11 by I75.
Pulled up behind you in my Town Car ... but you were just about ready to head in ... so rather than run up to your drivers door to make an intro - mention this website etc etc - I let you be. When the wash was done - you pulled right out & didn't stick around.
But speaking of people "letting you be" ... wish I could say the same for some knucklehead in a Lexus RX300 SUV(think that's what it was) that was there at the same time. He wasn't young - but he certainly wasn't that old where he should have been acting the way he was(if that were the case I would NOT be here poking fun at him - I would have helped out any way I could).
He came up to watch me like a lil' kid - no sooner I pulled in, to make my selection at the machine just outside the wash.
Him - "Ummmm think there is something wrong with that ..... guess I need to watch you & how you use it".
I take one look at him & just KNOW right off the bat he's defintely NOT playing w/a deck of 52 cards & I'm just NOT too keen already on how he's chosen to approach me
I reply to him ... "pretty easy really - not that hard to do"(unless your a lazy moron I'm thinking to myself).
So after I select my wash ... I was waiting for the voice "confirmation" that my money was accepted(this usally takes a few minutes - I was useing a credit card) ... which I eventually got w/o a hitch. After the confirmation ... Mr Lexus is STILL standing there & points to the display on the machine & says ... "so you got the works huh ?".
Me - knowing deep down fromt the minute this character walked up to me he was gonna be a thorn in my side, I reply w/a slight tone ... "ummmm yea".
So here Mr Lexus is still STANDING ... at the LR door of my TC(practicly leaning on it mind you) in front of the machine... alternating stares between that(the machine) & the wash itself where the black MM was. A real MYSTERY all this was, that was going apparently(insert sarcasm).
Meanwhile I whip out a steel wool pad so I can go over the whitewalls before my turn thru the wash ... which at this point I had made what I now realize was a really SILLY assumption ... that he was going to go walk back to his car - let me be & get in line behind me or just leave as this whole process was just TOO much for him to handle on his own.
But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
He is STILL standing there in the SAME spot - if he was any closer to me ... we may as well have been joined at the hip.
At this point ...
I had about enough.
So I say ... "ok then ... nothing to see here - time to move on - your in my way" ... as I do a "shoo-away - get lost" motion with my hands.
Finally he gets the picture ... & I was able to go about my business doing my whitewalls - washing the front/rear bumpers & lower rocker panels before my turn going thru the wash.
I don't mind helping people out ...
But to say this guy was a just a dumb & annoying CHARACTER ... would be a gross UNDERSTATEMENT. He just reminded me of the kind of guy that is NOT unable to DO for himself ... but rather one of those people that would rather have & expects everyone else to do everything FOR him. Again this had NOTHING to do with age he wasn't that old(again I would have helped no problem) ... he was just a schmuck - lol.
If you're here(black MM owner) ...
Was he pestering your poor *** too before I pulled up ?.
My deepest SYMPATHIES.
:P
The drive-thru touchless wash on Kings Highway next to the 7-11 by I75.
Pulled up behind you in my Town Car ... but you were just about ready to head in ... so rather than run up to your drivers door to make an intro - mention this website etc etc - I let you be. When the wash was done - you pulled right out & didn't stick around.
But speaking of people "letting you be" ... wish I could say the same for some knucklehead in a Lexus RX300 SUV(think that's what it was) that was there at the same time. He wasn't young - but he certainly wasn't that old where he should have been acting the way he was(if that were the case I would NOT be here poking fun at him - I would have helped out any way I could).
He came up to watch me like a lil' kid - no sooner I pulled in, to make my selection at the machine just outside the wash.
Him - "Ummmm think there is something wrong with that ..... guess I need to watch you & how you use it".
I take one look at him & just KNOW right off the bat he's defintely NOT playing w/a deck of 52 cards & I'm just NOT too keen already on how he's chosen to approach me
I reply to him ... "pretty easy really - not that hard to do"(unless your a lazy moron I'm thinking to myself).
So after I select my wash ... I was waiting for the voice "confirmation" that my money was accepted(this usally takes a few minutes - I was useing a credit card) ... which I eventually got w/o a hitch. After the confirmation ... Mr Lexus is STILL standing there & points to the display on the machine & says ... "so you got the works huh ?".
Me - knowing deep down fromt the minute this character walked up to me he was gonna be a thorn in my side, I reply w/a slight tone ... "ummmm yea".
So here Mr Lexus is still STANDING ... at the LR door of my TC(practicly leaning on it mind you) in front of the machine... alternating stares between that(the machine) & the wash itself where the black MM was. A real MYSTERY all this was, that was going apparently(insert sarcasm).
Meanwhile I whip out a steel wool pad so I can go over the whitewalls before my turn thru the wash ... which at this point I had made what I now realize was a really SILLY assumption ... that he was going to go walk back to his car - let me be & get in line behind me or just leave as this whole process was just TOO much for him to handle on his own.
But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
He is STILL standing there in the SAME spot - if he was any closer to me ... we may as well have been joined at the hip.
At this point ...
I had about enough.
So I say ... "ok then ... nothing to see here - time to move on - your in my way" ... as I do a "shoo-away - get lost" motion with my hands.
Finally he gets the picture ... & I was able to go about my business doing my whitewalls - washing the front/rear bumpers & lower rocker panels before my turn going thru the wash.
I don't mind helping people out ...
But to say this guy was a just a dumb & annoying CHARACTER ... would be a gross UNDERSTATEMENT. He just reminded me of the kind of guy that is NOT unable to DO for himself ... but rather one of those people that would rather have & expects everyone else to do everything FOR him. Again this had NOTHING to do with age he wasn't that old(again I would have helped no problem) ... he was just a schmuck - lol.
If you're here(black MM owner) ...
Was he pestering your poor *** too before I pulled up ?.
My deepest SYMPATHIES.
:P