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

["Timothy Morris" <timothy.morris@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 October 2002 07:30
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT:Wankers in BMWs (was anyone got this GPS
unit?)
> 
> 
> 
> >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...
> 
I think we're going to have to wind this thread up before it really
annoys people who have no interest.

I Drive fast (quite often excessively so - but I do blame that on the
car, it makes you want to drive like a hooligan), but I try to be as
considerate to other drivers as I can be - I'll always be the one
letting someone into a queue of traffic.

Next time you see a BMW driving like an idiot look at the badge, I'll
give you odds that the car is a 318i, or has no badge, and a single
exhaust pipe. It tends to be the slightly more mature driver that can
afford the larger engined BMW, and while you still get the odd
hooligan,
they tend to be considerate hooligans. I daren't comment on the wife
driving husband's company 540i to drop children off at school
though....

Tim

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