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[GottaDesigner]

...Multistorey carparks are actually fun places to be.

...You have better conversations with your car than you do with your mates.

...You get 'ditched' because you spend too much time with your car.

...You consider an uphill, double S bend a source of great amusement.

...You have more car cleaning products than you do cosmetics.

[Harry Beaver]

You get weird looks from people due to the big grin you have on your face, for apparently no reason when driving the Mini

[Mini Sarah Sway]

When walking along listening to music you dont hear a Mini you sence it haha I did it twice today!! Maybe it a differnt vibration on the ground haha

[Se7enS1ns]

When people ask me what i drive, and then look me up and down in disbelief (i'm a tall bugger, to say the least).

[GottaDesigner]

You get weird looks from people due to the big grin you have on your face, for apparently no reason when driving the Mini

Too right!

[Natalie]

You think everyone else is driving with their fullbeams on but realise your headlights are just really poor.

[andyc142]

You jump up, walk to the window and smile whenever you hear an approaching A series

You impatiently wait for the AA man to formulate the same conclusion as yourself as to what has broken this time, while suspecting he's just enjoying working on a car with a bona fide mechanical fault that he can fix without a laptop

Your rear door pockets are full of bottles of oil, water and lead free fuel additive, and your front pockets contain points, condensor and radiator cap

Your maps are all mouldy from being kept on the floor in a puddle ('It leaks? They all do that Sir!')

You carry a complete kitchen towel to aid winter visibility

But the first time you drove it you thought it only did 60mph. Then you realised your right foot was on the wheel arch.

Happened the other day after not driving for 1 whole weekend oops lol

[Ethel]

You think everyone else is driving with their fullbeams on but realise your headlights are just really poor.

Apologies but I couldn't resist getting seious 'n puttin' on my anorak of sublime nerdity when I read that one.

I happen to think that warm yellow glow you get off a sealed beam unit is actually quite effective. I actually have difficulty seeing where I'm going with a modern dipped beam that's ultra bright to around 30ft then sharply turns to total blackness. The contrast is too much for my peepers I reckon and we could see oncoming cars quite adequately before they had nuclear fusion happening at each corner of the bonnet - which also makes adjacent indicators difficult to spot.

Rant over, back to the Friday afternoon jollities

[BJst416]

lol, that was a good one:
Not hearing but 'sensing' other minis on the road.

You know you drive a mini when...
you see another one on the road and your wife goes: that's such a cute little car

[Ethel]

You read a post on TMF that starts with 'congratulations' & it's not until you've read half way down the second page you're quite sure someone's had a baby 'n not bought another Mini.

[neil_g]

...when you and your partner/friends/family are in a non-mini driving along, you see a mini and shout "MINI!" at the top of your voice.

[CharlieBrown]

Or you do it so often that your other half does it for you as well!

[BiMU]

...when you yell "Wooohoooo" at a top of a hill.

...when people say "Hows the mini?"

...when you reply "There's a little problem..."

...when they say "...again?"

...when your dad says "Just get a new car!" and you give a look like he's trying to take baby away from a mother!

...when you've fixed something on the mini you look for the next thing to repair or improve.

...when you grimace as you go over a pothole or crack in the road (WHICH IS LIKE A FRICKIN' CRATER TO THE MINI!)

[neil_g]

..when you remove something to repair it only to find 5 other jobs that need doing. before you know it youre left with a shell on castors and youre doing a nut and bolt rebuild..

or is that just me

[marmite]

..when you remove something to repair it only to find 5 other jobs that need doing. before you know it youre left with a shell on castors and youre doing a nut and bolt rebuild..

or is that just me

well put!!

When the wifes says how long are you going to be and you can't actually give a time scale!

Can never understand why I have a big smile before I even get in the Mini