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Posted: 9/29/2005 10:49:20 AM EDT
Do you "make contact" with a guy based on the car he is driving?
My reason for asking is [insert disclaimer here: I'm very happily married but this got me thinking] I was driving down our road today in my "toy" and passed a woman who lives around me somewhere. She is a very pretty blond who is always walking with her baby in a stroller. I've passed her hundreds of times in my daily driver and she has never acknowledged I'm even on the road but today when I was almost beside her she gave me a very big smile. I'm thinking..okay..what's wrong? Is my fly down..er..wait, she can't see that. Is there something hanging off the car? Check mirrors..nope. It can't be me cause I'm the same tall bald ugly guy I was the last time I passed her. So..it must be the car...right? For reference..here is my "toy". 
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Posted: 9/29/2005 11:21:53 AM EDT
[#1]
FWIW? *I* personally don't get check out men in sports cars...
 I check out men who drive pick ups. Simpleton I am. But I am married too...and hubby drives a pick up...and all is right in the world. |
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Posted: 9/29/2005 12:15:20 PM EDT
[#2]
I don't check out the men in the cars (or trucks or on the Harleys), I check out the ride.
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Posted: 9/29/2005 12:22:14 PM EDT
[#3]
so..she was smiling at my car? |
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Posted: 9/29/2005 3:44:06 PM EDT
[#4]
Who knows Striker. I try to be friendly to everyone regardless. Great car though and you'd better check your fly!
 Patty |
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Posted: 9/29/2005 5:37:35 PM EDT
[#5]
Don't you smile when you see a thing of beauty?! person or object? |
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Posted: 9/29/2005 7:03:41 PM EDT
[#6]
Well yes but..she looked right at me when she smiled.
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Posted: 9/29/2005 7:48:50 PM EDT
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When I was 16, I wanted an IROC so bad I could taste it. You suck! I still have issues over not getting that car...
Anyway, I don't look at the person in the car, I look at the car. I've never been one to like a guy because of what he drove, but hey, there are those shallow people in the world. |
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Posted: 9/29/2005 8:37:34 PM EDT
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I don't see any Canadian cars in that pic.
 It looks like she followed you to the hayfield--is that her behind the car in the pic? 
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Posted: 9/30/2005 2:14:23 AM EDT
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If I see a man driving a fully restored 68 or 69 Camaro you can bet your sweet arse I'm smiling at him....
 But it's mostly to acknowledge that we both know the ride is SWEET!! |
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Posted: 9/30/2005 4:48:50 AM EDT
[#10]
lol, sorry striker, I was in a "mood" last night. Now to answer more appropriately I always seem to smile (and wave) as my neighbors go by, even the neighbors whom I don't know. Maybe she smiled this time because of the car. Hard telling really. |
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Posted: 9/30/2005 5:07:16 AM EDT
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If you're ever up this way let me know..I'll take ya for a spin. Hey TBK1..why are you lurking in here anyway? Hiding from all your fans?  Miss_Magnum..if I owned a 1st gen Camaro it would be a 69 with a 4 speed.  Mrsgungho..thanks. It doesn't really matter why she did..it just caught my attention. If she smiles at me while I'm driving my ride on around mowing the lawn..I'll know it's me!
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Posted: 9/30/2005 9:02:26 AM EDT
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No, she's smiling at you because she wants to jump on your bones.
Yousa silly maaaaan. Why question a smile? Maybe she happened to recognise you from one of her many walks (you recongised her, right)? Maybe she likes your car, maybe she just had a funny thought, maybe she just passed gas. Who knows? Who cares? It's nicer to smile at people than it is to give them the bird. Now, if it were me... I'd be looking at the car smiling. If I happend to make eye contact with you...it would be purely secondary.  Come on, it's a purty car.But I don't go around thinking "hey, I'm going to smile at this or that guy because he has a pretty car." 
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Posted: 9/30/2005 9:07:01 AM EDT
[#13]
Striker? Are you Italian by chance? You do know what people up here say IROC stands for, right?
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Posted: 9/30/2005 9:12:48 AM EDT
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sigh..I guess a 41 year old bald guy can't have his little fantasy without all you logical women deflating it and my little ego as well...
 And yes..Wave was quick to point out what IROC stands for and no..I'm english / scottish! |
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Posted: 9/30/2005 9:17:51 AM EDT
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MMMMkay...I didn't want to deflate your ego... FTR?? I dig men in Kilts more than men in IROCS---easy access and all  Took me YEARS to talk my Italian hubby into one (I used to demo them for a Living History group) and DAMN he looked HOT in it! |
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Posted: 9/30/2005 9:33:56 AM EDT
[#16]
How can we really judge if we haven't seen a picture?! |
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Posted: 9/30/2005 9:37:36 AM EDT
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Well, didn't you purchase the car to "get attention". So, didn't you get what you wanted?
Some women do check out men in cars. And if they're nice cars (I personally don't like IROC's, saw waaay to many of them when I was a young adult, and they're overrated imho. Not ragging on your car, it's a matter of taste), yes, more women will check out who's in the car. Just this AM, I was driving on 95 to work. This car comes up behind me with a muffler that sounded like the friggin car belonged at a Speedway. It had low profile fat tires on the back, normal tires on the front. I looked at the driver, I figured it was a kid. It was a 50-ish guy, balding, hair gelled back, with a leather bomber jacket on, trying to look waaaay to cool. I laughed because he looked ridiculous. |
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Posted: 9/30/2005 11:15:59 AM EDT
[#18]
My dad's pissed ya laughed at him too! |
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Posted: 9/30/2005 11:19:00 AM EDT
[#19]
Next time, give her my number.
Just in case. 
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Posted: 9/30/2005 11:33:04 AM EDT
[#20]
Striker, if you were driving a bitchin' Camaro I would, like, so toooooootally do you.
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Posted: 9/30/2005 11:40:49 AM EDT
[#21]
I don't suppose an old truck that smells like horse shit would have the same effect on you.
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Posted: 9/30/2005 11:44:27 AM EDT
[#22]
He lives in Canada--he's French.
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Posted: 9/30/2005 11:46:15 AM EDT
[#23]
oo la la...gotta love those French Canadians... |
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Posted: 9/30/2005 12:01:32 PM EDT
[#24]
He even wears a
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Posted: 9/30/2005 12:07:22 PM EDT
[#25]
I have five horses. You've discovered my kryptonite!!!!! ARGGGG!!! 
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Posted: 9/30/2005 12:08:30 PM EDT
[#26]
Nice. He can moon the enemy while he runs away from them. |
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Posted: 9/30/2005 4:42:32 PM EDT
[#27]
sigh Being Canadian doesn't make you french..I am about as far from being french as you can get.
As for buying the car to get attention..nope. Furthest thing from my mind. My criteria for buying the car. 1. It was a 5 speed. 2. It was a Chevy. 3. It has a worked over small block. 4 Most importantly..it is a southern rust free car and I can fit the whole family in it. As for my kilt..don't have it anymore. Had to turn it when I "retired" from the military. |
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Posted: 9/30/2005 5:52:45 PM EDT
[#28]
That's low...even for you! |
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Posted: 9/30/2005 8:14:20 PM EDT
[#29]
They give you standard issue ETA: Begging for forgiveness (Oh God, please don't kill me, or take away my magic buttons. I really am kidding. Really.) 
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Posted: 10/1/2005 4:40:04 AM EDT
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another name added to "The List!"  Just to satisfy all the kilt comments. Here I am in my kilt with the only woman who will ever sit in the passenger seat of my Camaro. 
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Posted: 10/1/2005 4:54:21 AM EDT
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That's not a kilt, Striker. That's a mini kilt...I am talking of a full reg Scottish great plaid.  learn how |
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Posted: 10/1/2005 5:07:27 AM EDT
[#32]
Gotta admit--that's a cool pic. Brenda looks just beautiful. <sigh>
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Posted: 10/1/2005 5:08:13 AM EDT
[#33]
My bad...it is a VERY cool pic...I'm a kilt snob...sorry. |
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Posted: 10/1/2005 5:23:55 AM EDT
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You gotta be kidding. She looks like the Missing Link. Check out the mustache, dude. Wait, wait. She's the one in the long skirt, isn't she? Never mind. |
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Posted: 10/1/2005 5:30:44 AM EDT
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That is a great pic, Striker. You two look great together...and since I've seen more recent pics of you, I can say you still look great. No, really. I'm not sucking up.
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Posted: 10/1/2005 5:32:57 AM EDT
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Playmore...Whoever this guy is, he's got great legs. Wow.
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Posted: 10/1/2005 6:18:58 AM EDT
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Ahh..I've been around pipe bands, highland dancers and kilts all my life..and my kilt looks just like all the ones I've ever seen with the exception most of them had knife pleats where mine had box pleats which is a traditional military kilt. My mother makes kilts as well..so I can say a kilt expert used to make me supper! I've never seen a kilt like you pictured. I'm gonna be a kilt snob now and say his is waaaaaaay to short. A kilt hem should cut your knees standing or just touch the floor if you're kneeling. But with all the different clans in Scotland..there are just as many kilt designs and tartans I imagine. |
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Posted: 10/1/2005 6:22:39 AM EDT
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After seeing your picture Striker, she may well have been smiling at you. You are a handsome fella (and yes I tried to imagine you without hair since you said you were bald)
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Posted: 10/1/2005 6:27:39 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/1/2005 11:22:20 AM EDT
[#40]
He needs to put some lotion on those knees...they're a bit ashy.
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Posted: 10/1/2005 5:01:01 PM EDT
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Okay, keep in mind I'm a lesbian, so this answer is likely FAR too "practical" Vehicles are meant to get one from "point A" to "point B" if it DOES that - it's all good. I'm w/ SP1Grrl on the "shallow" part though. But maybe the neighbor lady has always liked THAT "type" of car, hence NOW maybe she sees you as a "41 year old bald guy" with good taste. Or as someone she NOW has a "refrence" for, whereas before, you didn't seem at all "interesting" because there was no "connect" with anything she associated w/you. I know I've done similar things w/others.... they went wholly unnoticed as I'm typically doing 3 things minimum all at one time. Then I find out someone whom I've "noticed" but not really "NOTICED" likes animals, or a certain author I like, or firearms, or any myriad of other things I like - THEN they "register" this is MY guess, but it's just a guess. I "edit out" a LOT until something hits my "radar" it's like in one (eye, ear, whatever) and out the other. And it doesn't get "retained". That's my guess. Is it a messed up way to be? Probably, but frankly, I just don't have time for stuff that doesn't matter to me. And best case, I've got another 50-60 years then  . So will very likely continue to be my SOP. 
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Posted: 10/1/2005 5:08:35 PM EDT
[#42]
Thanks for all the replies ladies.
Unfortunately..I know the answer to the question of whether or not boys notice cars..and my daughter has her sights on the Camaro
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