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BMW Drivers

I've had this disdain for BMW drivers for a long time now. Just last night a good example happened. I was parrelel parking into a space when a mid-40's lady on her cell phone decided that it was her parking space and made an illegal U-turn to get it. She had blocked it so I couldn't reverse anymore and we had a stand off. She ultimately huffed and puffed, honked, and took off, all the while on the phone. I sat their with my family cursing her for being in existence. So we walked our way down the sidewalk to the restaurant and low and behold she's entering before us with her two children. She got a spot directly in front of the place, so why did she need to have my spot further down the road? She was indeed traveling the opposite way than me and making an illegal U-turn to get the space, why didn't she notice the closer space first? This lady is attending a birthday party for some 40 year old asshole whom probably cheats on his wife. We, of course, get seated next to their party and I have to be within earshot of their lame, fake tones to each other. Probably all of them drove BMW's to this event. The party was about a dozen folks including children. During the course of our dinner (which sucked) they had lost attention of one kid who crawled down the bench seating and knocked over everything on the table, geezus, they kids they breed are jammers as well. All in all, I hate BMW drivers with a passion. Living in LA and commuting on the westside I am in the brute of them all. Not a day goes by without an encounter to grief about. My wife's dream car for a while was a BMW 8 series, a fast looking car, with a 12 cylinder engine. I was duped for a while that it would be a good fantasy car for her, but no, my views have been changed, this one I can not allow to be even a fantasy. One BMW billboard that was up for a few months on my commute stated "You owe You" instead of I.O.U. Brilliant, at least they know their target market, conceited assholes. This dude says it best in his 10 worst driver on the road today article, and guess what BMW ranks #1:
1:BMW (Any Model). Agg: 10 Att: 10 Crt: 10 AQ: 10
All hail the champion! BMW drivers are bar none, the worst around. They have managed to achieve that elusive combination of disdain, money, attitude, disregard for others, and self-importance that no other drivers have. BMW drivers don't just not care about you … they HATE you. They hate having to share the road with any other driver. They hate those who drive what they consider sub-standard cars (i.e. any car not costing over $40,000) because they are losers. They hate those who drive Mercedes, Lexus, etc because they are stuffy or old. They hate those who drive SUVs because they take up too much room. They hate those who drive Porsches, Corvettes, and other big-bicks sports cars because those drivers don't drive fast enough. They even hate other BMW drivers because they can't stand that anyone else has their car. BMW drivers are generally white 40-somethings with a wife and three kids, plus a mistress on the side. They tend to be largely lawyers or investment bankers, whose philosophy is that the world is here to serve them, and it is doing a bad job of it. They mistreat and underpay their illegal Honduran or El Salvadoran housekeepers, and consistently mispronounce their names. Their children are named Kaitlyn or Brittney or Chase or Brendan. They were all in either fraternities or sororities, play golf badly, and revere Tiger Woods for being a credit to his race. They are the scum of the earth, and are truly deserving the title of the worst drivers around. If you want to have fun, do yourself a favor and cut a BMW driver off without acknowledging him. Then when he honks his horn or gesticulates at you, give him the bird. The audacity of your display will send him into a rage the likes of which will provide you with hours of enjoyment as you recall how many shades of purple his face became as he cursed you out for soiling his planet with your existence.

What he did forget is classic cars, they hate classic cars pulling in front of them. They don't need that in their life either.

horray it's beer!

Luis the camera guy

Huell's got a new guy Cameron now, but Luis was the O.G.

Lagwagn

I had this wagon for a few years. One of my close friends Grandmother had it in her garage. It was her deceased husbands. I asked to buy it, but no go. Then almost 5 years later I got a call that she wanted it out of the garage. So I flew done to LA, gave it some tranny fluid, some new tires and drove it back up to Reno. It was a great car, new engine...power everything. A little too much for me. But it was awesome. I sold my 1970 Dodge Dart to afford it. I sold it on ebay to a dealer in Salt Lake City. From what I remember he wasn't too stoked when it arrived. It looked better in the pics I guess. Anyways, I took the money and ran. My brother Tony found a 1970 Dodge Charger up in Chico and I bought that. It's really part of the whole plan, I knew if I bought that wagon I could resale it for more and purchase a Charger. Anyways...I rented the movie World's Fastest Indian, an bitchin flick, and I saw my wagon in it. It turns out that the movie company bought the car off the lot in SLC and used it for the scenes in the Salt Flats. Back in the day they'd use wagons to hull the crew around in. You can see the tail end of it in the pic:
So there it is, to my surprise the car is a movie star now. Here's a pic of it when I had it up for sale at a car show:
You can tell by the hitch it's the same car. I had Lagwagn on the plates.

How's that saying go?

Oh yeah, "I used to skate"