| sinewave |
Mar 20, 2001 07:17 PM |
Hey I know, I have a pretty bad temper too but it doesn't do any good to escalate things. There's nothing wrong with having pride in your ride, you just gotta let the next guy show his pride a little too.
There's always going to be someone, somewhere making claims that everyone knows is impossible. I worked with a guy who had a brand new Formula Firebird and claimed that it ran the quarter in the high 12's. He had never taken it to the track but someone told him that that is what the car will do, so he now stated it as fact. Of course, the rest of us knew better. We knew that his car is pretty fast, but not THAT fast, we knew that he would never take it to the track to see what it realy would do, and we knew that we would never convince him of the car's real numbers.
So when he starts to talk about his 12 second car, we just smile and walk away. We knew.
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