Hi, friends! Happy Tuesday!
Have you seen any really cool people this week? You know, the super cool people. The people so cool that mere mortals like us peasants aren’t cool enough to appreciate how cool they are?
This post is brought to you by the super! cool! dude in ugly green Maserati with a racing stripe (I don’t know car models, it’s the one that looks like it’s cosplaying as a race car) who felt the need to rev the motor and act like a fool in an entrance ramp onto the interstate yesterday. Who after someone had to let him merge (he couldn’t accelerate effectively I guess despite all that horsepower), showed all us peasants he was in a dealer car.
Gosh he’s so cool.
i did see a bright yellow lambo earlier this week
and he (i assume) was definitely doing the rev and be loud thing….in probably a rental..i mean…i live at a racetrack…exotics are not so exotic here…
im beginning to think my new boss is cool tho.. swiss dude named cedric….says everything in get to da choppa! accent
learnt passable spoken dutch in 2 years..,..and actually listens to staff saying shit..
dudes an anomaly
i think i will enjoy my year or two with him before shareholders kick him out
Oh nice! It’s always a (short) breath of fresh air when there’s competent leadership at work.
it really is…
course the counterpoint is….i have to bite my tongue and not tell him how fucked he is
Walking on a busy Vancouver street I had a guy from behind shoulder check me while walking his dog, I guess to get past me? I loudly said “not even an excuse me?” but he didn’t say anything. He then slowed down as his dog sniffed something and I gave him the death glare & he just kind of looked away. I don’t like to start shit in Canada because they all play or played hockey so like to fight but I also don’t backdown from assholes & call out poor manors. On the actual cool people side, the lady that did our Chinatown tour and dumpling class was so cool & superstar of the neighborhood. She knew every business owner, took us to the old folks Ma Jong game, and was very involved in keeping Chinatown a cool place. If anyone is going to Vancouver, she also gave us a list of all the best restaurants in the city so I can share that.
should be manners up there. Where’s my edit button Myo! (speaking of Canadians that would definitely shoulder check you!)
That’s pretty rude. We have our assholes here too.
Lesson in Shoulder Checking…
A decade ago at the Pill Factory, I was going upstairs for break (it was day shift so I was grouchy from lack of sleep and just being there for day shift.) I was walking down the corridor and there were four young guys from the office walking abreast down the corridor (WTF.) As I closed in, they didn’t move to side like most people did.
I went from grouchy to don’t give a fuck mode (as I went from the right side to the middle of the corridor). I went right up the middle between the four guys. One guy stuck his shoulder out (which was a mistake because I am very broad shouldered and years of weight lifting/snow shoveling kept them pretty strong) as I “inadvertently” bounced him off his friend and the wall as I pushed through.
A couple of weeks later, I encountered the same guys and they moved to one side (pretty quickly) and that was that.
Someone in another forum called me a fucking psycho for that move.
…the over-rev’d/under-silenced combo is generally obnoxious…but what particularly confuses me isn’t the rental ones or the test drives
…statistically there’s surprising numbers of people in un-registered/-taxed/-insured/-MOT’d(where applicable/&c “flash motors”…often paired with a lack of license…so…you’d think you’d…not seek attention?
…even that is less confusing than the “no, really – I am out here dealing drugs” ones…sometimes on bikes or mopeds, even…sometimes in cars…that you can hear a block away when they’re pulling out of a parking space
…guess I got old…apparently before “trapstar” or “hood rich” became fashion statement brand names…so…it seems a bit “playin’ ya self” as the jeru tune had it…but they seem very pleased with themselves?
…just waiting for someone to do it to a scooter now, I think
I see plenty of motorists who don’t see me on my bike, even though I obey traffic signals and whatnot. I just don’t exist unless I’m in my overpriced steel cage.