05-18-2006, 05:25 PM
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At work,almost everybody calls me "rich white boy" after there hear I drive a Boxster. A guy last week asked me if it was a Fiat! I insisted to him that it is a Porsche and he said, "No,no this has got to be a Fiat". A few months back a homeless guy started assualting me at a light after I told him I have no cash, "Boy I wish my daddy had money to buy me a $50k Porsche. Spolied a55 white boy".
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05-19-2006, 04:56 AM
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Originally Posted by blinkwatt
At work,almost everybody calls me "rich white boy" after there hear I drive a Boxster. A guy last week asked me if it was a Fiat! I insisted to him that it is a Porsche and he said, "No,no this has got to be a Fiat". A few months back a homeless guy started assualting me at a light after I told him I have no cash, "Boy I wish my daddy had money to buy me a $50k Porsche. Spolied a55 white boy".
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To which you reply "Shut up before I come over there and CRUSH you with my wallet" lol...
People are always haters. I don't really hear that much, but I do get girls car and stuff like that. Guys always consider a convertable a girls car for whatever reason. I guess we are ment to have hard tops or somehing?
I dunno, but when your as good looking as I am, you want to have a convertable to shed some good-looking-ness on the world.  j/k...
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05-19-2006, 05:40 AM
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"People are always haters. "
Absolutes about human behavior are always wrong, at least part of the time!
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Last edited by Brucelee; 05-19-2006 at 10:11 AM.
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05-19-2006, 06:25 AM
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Every time! I've stopped mentioning it.
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05-19-2006, 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Brucelee
Absolutes about human behavior all always wrong, at least part of the time!
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You know I've noticed that it's always people from California who are the ones making generalizations. Luckily, people from Colorado never do that....
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05-19-2006, 08:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Brucelee
"People are always haters. "
Absolutes about human behavior all always wrong, at least part of the time!
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Absolutely!... 
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99
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05-19-2006, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by 986Jim
To which you reply "Shut up before I come over there and CRUSH you with my wallet" lol...
People are always haters. I don't really hear that much, but I do get girls car and stuff like that. Guys always consider a convertable a girls car for whatever reason. I guess we are ment to have hard tops or somehing?
I dunno, but when your as good looking as I am, you want to have a convertable to shed some good-looking-ness on the world. j/k... |
Where do you drive your Boxster? In NYC I get a lot of thumbs up and positive complements.
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05-19-2006, 11:52 AM
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Originally Posted by blinkwatt
At work,almost everybody calls me "rich white boy" after there hear I drive a Boxster. A guy last week asked me if it was a Fiat! I insisted to him that it is a Porsche and he said, "No,no this has got to be a Fiat". A few months back a homeless guy started assualting me at a light after I told him I have no cash, "Boy I wish my daddy had money to buy me a $50k Porsche. Spolied a55 white boy".
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WOW that's 2 much. And I thought I had it bad. Heres another interesting 1... http://www.audifans.com/archives/1998/08/msg00382.html
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05-19-2006, 06:25 PM
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I took my Boxster to work for the first time yesterday. Admittedly it has had a little work done to it, but it's still unmistakably a Boxster. I didn't say a word, just parked in my space in the garage, as always. At my first meeting of the day, a dork that I work with (and self professed car guy) entered the conference room and loudly announced to the 20 plus people in attendance that I'd bought a Ferrari. The phone didn't stop ringing all day. Today I drove the truck. 
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05-20-2006, 06:44 AM
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"A guy last week asked me if it was a Fiat! I insisted to him that it is a Porsche and he said, "No,no this has got to be a Fiat"."
This is getting serious. I had EXACTLY the same thing happen to me last summer. I was sitting at a stop light and this guy in a pickup next to me leaned out the window and said "What kind of car is that?" When I replied "It's a Porsche" he said "Oh. I thought it was one of them Fiats."
Are they having us on? Is there some conspiracy to dog on Porsche drivers by "mistaking" their car for a Fiat?
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05-20-2006, 07:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Ronzi
Are they having us on? Is there some conspiracy to dog on Porsche drivers by "mistaking" their car for a Fiat?
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I don't know, but just in case, next time some one asks what kind of car it is... Tell them it's a Fiat.
Anyway, this car has been out for a while. I find it surprising people people don't know what it is. But the fact that they're asking has got to be bit flattering, right?
Any you guys ever been camera phoned? I got my first picture taken today at a red light (thank goodness for limo-tint). I had no idea this car was camera phone worthy! My phone's camera doesn't get put to use for anything less than a F430.
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a dork ... (and self professed car guy)
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Hey, I fit that description.
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05-21-2006, 05:48 AM
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"Any you guys ever been camera phoned? I got my first picture taken today at a red light (thank goodness for limo-tint). I had no idea this car was camera phone worthy!"
Hmmm. I know there is a web site for Hummer-haters, where people post pictures of themselves giving Hummers the finger on the highway. Maybe the Porsche-haters have something similar. Or am I just getting paranoid?
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05-21-2006, 06:23 AM
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Lots of first time Porsche owners here eh?
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