Miata Mailing List: May 1999, Message #391

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Previously on damn old biddies, James Davison <james.davison@home.com> said...

> I had not one but 2! people (wearing the blue rinse and the polarizing
> wraparounds, btw) yell at me to slow down even though i was only going 50 or
> less in both cases. this, by the way, is a regular occurrence. why do people
> associate engine noise with speed?

Because they are ignorant.

> ... it spoiled my afternoon because i don't like upsetting people...what to
do?

The problem, Grasshopper, lies not with the blue-hairs, but with you.  You
know that they are wrong, and yet you allow their ignorant comments to ruin
your day?  What do you care what they think?  Why do you attach your happiness
to the feelings of strangers who certainly don't care about yours?

What to do?  Laugh at them.  They wouldn't know what to do with a car if you
handed them the book.  Maybe give them a big grin and a wave, that'll really
piss 'em off, if somebody's day needs to be ruined, I say let it be the
idiot's.

	-John

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John Freas (jfreas@earthlink.net)
Red '90 Base-ish #7690
Long Island, NY
Team LS1,2, SP, the Gap...
Team dlralt, MRoadster, PBC, Roebuck, Team Miata, Voodoo...
"I have no idea what those dimple things on the windshield frame are for."
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