RE: OT:Wankers in BMWs (was anyone got this GPS unit?)

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

>Some car magazine said that 'the only people who don't like BMWs are
people
>who have never driven/owned one' - well for me that was totally true.
>


Ah well you see, it's not BMW's that I dislike, - in fact I _very_ much
like
the Z3... No what I dislike is, as you so eloquently put it, the
"antics" of
what seems to be the majority of the BMW drivers, and the stigma that this
creates around them...

It annoys the hell out of SWMBO when I'm right so often, - but when we're
out in the car together, whenever I see any kind of lunatic, or just
downright selfish manouevre, 9 times out of 10 it is a BMW that's doing
it... - yes I know that's a sweeping generalisation, and in many cases you
could accuse me of being biased/unfair/predjudiced or whatever, *but* in
the
case of BMW's and their drivers, the stereotype is just too true too often
to be discounted in such a way...

It has led me to wonder if part of the purchase procedure for a BMW is to
have the part of the brain that deals with couertesy and common sense
removed at the showroom before they hand over the keys...

Picture this scenario...

a strech limo, decked with ribbons, and _so_ obviously a wedding car,
complete with bride in the back on the way to her wedding ceremony is
travelling up a long narrow road. It meets a BMW coming in the opposite
direction which has just turned out of a side road. There is no room for
them to pass, so one of them is required to reverse back to the nearest
passing point... who will give way?
- The limo is squillions of feet long, is difficult to reverse because of
it's size, and the fact that rear-view is limited to side mirrors only (no
rear-view mirror through the passenger cabin)
- The beemer has just come onto this road, and the side road it came from
is
only 20-30 feet behind it...


bet you can't guess...

Paul G.


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