Random Conversations at Petrol Stations

Yeah I have had quite a few. The usual older guy saying he remembers when he had a Dolomite or such and such had one. Annoyingly a few times now I have been told that they had an 1850 Sprint!
 
I guess, he'd probably have believed me, he seemed a bit odd anyway which I guess is why he was talking to random strangers at petrol stations :p
 
NicktheNorse said:
Hehe, I've had the exact same thing happen to me, this at Sainsbury's in Kidlington?
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Yeah - absolutely retarded design if you ask me, especially as it was revamped last year. Surely not too much effort to put all three grades at each pump... Everywhere else manages it. Normally fill up at the Shell on the peartree roundabout but V-Power is getting silly expensive now and Sainsburys super is a bit more reasonable.
 
I had a girl at a garage say to me, when I went in with my recently bought Mondeo TD


" I did not recognize you without your BMW"

Clock the Car then the Man eh? :(:o:D
 
When I had the Mini, people would talk to me ALL the time. Literally, I rarely filled up without someone coming over to tell me how nice it was, or some kids asking me how fast it was.

When I was driving the e30, mostly just got young guys coming up asking me if it was the 325i. I'd point to the badge....

In the 530d, I just kinda get odd looks - think they all assume I'm driving "daddy's" car...
 
used to get ppl talking to me all the time asking about my smart!

Cant see it happening anymore thou i miss my smart :(

Andy
 
penski said:
Sitting in the passenger seat of a mate's beetle, half asleep after sharing driving duties from Cornwall to Scotch corner following a week-long reunion/party/road trip thing with very little rest...

I heard a tap on the window, looked up and there was a guy in his forties beaming at me.

Opened the window and the conversation went something like:

Him: Ooooh that's lovely, that is. Is it yours?

Me: Nope...

Him: I used to have one just like this when I were your age. Only it wasn't broken...

Me: Pardon? It's not broken...We've driven about 2,000 miles in it in the last week!

Him: It must be...Mine didn't look like that...

Me: What do you mean?

Him: All rusty and with broken suspension...Does it drive?

Me: It got here didn't it?

Him: Er...

Straaange.

*n
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I'm guessing because you don't drive, therefore never get out of the car at petrol stations you felt left out, so you made up a story.
 
OllyM said:
I get that too if I'm not wearing a suit :D
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I have a no suit required job. Only time I feel "right" driving it is when I'm heading on a night out or something. A girl that I met in a nightclub once asked me if I'd stolen it... which was charming :o
 
I tried to talk to a guy at the Shell garage on the A51 near Hixon some months back and he pretty much ignored me, which to be fair I would probably have done as well. He turned up in a Ferrari 288 GTO so how could you NOT talk to him, but he seemed somewhat disinterested in talking to me about his lovely motor, meh!

It's an interesting little garage as it is small and seems to attract some nice motors. I got chatting to another lad in his new 997 C2S when I was in my GT3 and we moved away from the pumps and started doing the petrolhead 'sitting in each others cars' thing. Some footballer I was told afterwards by someone who knows him, great bloke, proper car nut and probably felt at ease as I had no idea who the hell he was, but plays for Villa I think. Seen him before and he is an obvious Porsche nut as he seems to have a different one every other week!
 
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