Ive noticed a pattern to what people say when they see you have a mini, usually on a petrol station forecourt or carpark somewhere, its not a bad thing, its just funny how the same things keep coming up.
What are the things you hear most often, my Mrs laughs now whenever i get out for petrol...because we know the questions will come?
Ill start with some of the most frequent things i get - 99% of the time, these are usually said by men of a certain age.
1) "....We used to have Minis!"
Whos we? and how many minis did you have?
2) "We had a Cooper S's".....
Ive never heard anyone say they just had a standard mini. Always had Cooper S.
3) "..Mine had a (part ive never heard of)........ on it, with a (part ive never heard of) cam and a super mega double (part ive never heard of_)....we adjusted the.... (now your making this up)..... and tweeked the (other bit that fits onto the super pipe)....which we took off a Morris 1100" .........and so on....
4) " We used to have a hole in the floor to let the water out......" i also have a hole in my floor....but thats a natural hole, thanks to rust. :0
5) "Why dont you buy a big boy car?"
This was literally yelled at me across a forecourt by this bulging fat arse with 4 chins with cheap knock off sunglasses on sat in a midlife crisis mobile, some convertible Merc - at the time he was sat next to his bright orange blimp of a wife, i smiled and asked loudly if his car was new? he replied yes and worth 50000 times more than my "clapped out rust bucket"...fair enough, so i asked him if it came with a hairdryer or a nice silver plated shovel to help his wife get her slap on.
Im sure if he could have got out of his car quickly without looking like a buffalo stuck in a wire fence, he would have slowly and tiredly mad his way over to wave his piggy fist at me.....but he just drove off......and yes you guessed it....foot to the floor and a nice crunch into second....what a cool guy.
Edited by happydude2012, 01 February 2018 - 08:23 PM.