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Everyone on this forum comes from all walks of life, we vary in age, occupation, location, income etc. I would say that the group here is pretty well rounded, so I want to spring something on you guys.
I live about half an hour from a major beach destination, Ocean City MD. Not being a big beach person or a huge crowd person, I tend to avoid that town like I owe it money. However, the car shows they put on each year do draw me into the City. now Ive been to various car shows over the years, mostly classic and mustang shows, but this year I decided to drive in to see what the H20 show was all about. It started out as mostly an import show, mostly VWs, Audis, BMWs etc but its evolved into bring what you got. my buddy brought his corvette down and was hanging out so I decided to shoot down in the Mustang. The city was PACKED, some of the cars were amazing, I mean it was everything from your typical ricer pos honda civic to modded GT-Rs, a few Lamborghinis high end Audis, stuff you rarely see on any given sunday.
now while the cars are fantastic, and I love anything with a motor for the most part, but I cant stand the people. Ive never met some of the biggest most idiotic immature f***tards in my entire life. I mean idiots hanging out of cars, using the 4 feet of space between them and the car in front of them to drop the clutch or just light up the tires, people just making a$$es of themselves. this year, they almost had a riot at the convention center, I was sitting at a light and saw numerous patrol cars rolling deep into the center of the city to quell the riot.
I dont understand what causes people to act that way, I dont know if its a generational thing, I dont think it is, because most of the people I saw were around my age, mid 20s. Me and my buddy are both 26 and we just chilled in a parking lot checking out the rides as they drove by BSing about work. We werent going to be out tooling around on crowded streets like everyone else. The only issue we ran into was the bike cops yelled at us because we were parked in a Pay-2-park lot, ok, no harm no foul, we didnt realize it was a paid lot so we said sorry to the cops and beat feet. Both me and my buddy being cops ourselves, its not like we were going to cause an issue, thus we rolled. In fact, I didnt find out about there being the issue at the convention center until I got to the office for the night shift, but it still is mind boggling. I know most of you have been on power tour before, and I imagine that kind of shenanigans would not be tolerated in the least. I dont know if its just the Euro car culture or just general immaturity or that whole mindset of "we are in a beach city, there must be no laws here, lets mess some stuff up" I understand now why VW enthusiasts get a bad rap sometimes, probably because of these clowns.
on a related note, some of the girls I saw in town, ho-lee-cow, some of the most drop dead gorgeous women ive ever seen, who also caused my mind to melt, because Id see these 9s and 10s sitting next to some sideways hat wearing toolbag who looks like a meth-dealer in a rusty and plasti-dipped 1989 jetta with the "stance" and horribly offensive bumper-stickers. heck I think I saw one on a GTI that said "Nazi-vagon" yeah real classy.
I just dont understand it. I know every group of car enthusiasts have "that guy" the one that always acts a fool to impress, burnouts and stuff like that, but this.... Its like watching a freak show, but if this is the way the other side of car culture acts.... well then I'll just stick to the classics. Though I really really do want an old Datsun.... and a first gen beetle.
anyone else have any input? or am I just completely in left field? I did just get off a long draining night shift, so I could just be ranting and rving at this point.
I live about half an hour from a major beach destination, Ocean City MD. Not being a big beach person or a huge crowd person, I tend to avoid that town like I owe it money. However, the car shows they put on each year do draw me into the City. now Ive been to various car shows over the years, mostly classic and mustang shows, but this year I decided to drive in to see what the H20 show was all about. It started out as mostly an import show, mostly VWs, Audis, BMWs etc but its evolved into bring what you got. my buddy brought his corvette down and was hanging out so I decided to shoot down in the Mustang. The city was PACKED, some of the cars were amazing, I mean it was everything from your typical ricer pos honda civic to modded GT-Rs, a few Lamborghinis high end Audis, stuff you rarely see on any given sunday.
now while the cars are fantastic, and I love anything with a motor for the most part, but I cant stand the people. Ive never met some of the biggest most idiotic immature f***tards in my entire life. I mean idiots hanging out of cars, using the 4 feet of space between them and the car in front of them to drop the clutch or just light up the tires, people just making a$$es of themselves. this year, they almost had a riot at the convention center, I was sitting at a light and saw numerous patrol cars rolling deep into the center of the city to quell the riot.
I dont understand what causes people to act that way, I dont know if its a generational thing, I dont think it is, because most of the people I saw were around my age, mid 20s. Me and my buddy are both 26 and we just chilled in a parking lot checking out the rides as they drove by BSing about work. We werent going to be out tooling around on crowded streets like everyone else. The only issue we ran into was the bike cops yelled at us because we were parked in a Pay-2-park lot, ok, no harm no foul, we didnt realize it was a paid lot so we said sorry to the cops and beat feet. Both me and my buddy being cops ourselves, its not like we were going to cause an issue, thus we rolled. In fact, I didnt find out about there being the issue at the convention center until I got to the office for the night shift, but it still is mind boggling. I know most of you have been on power tour before, and I imagine that kind of shenanigans would not be tolerated in the least. I dont know if its just the Euro car culture or just general immaturity or that whole mindset of "we are in a beach city, there must be no laws here, lets mess some stuff up" I understand now why VW enthusiasts get a bad rap sometimes, probably because of these clowns.
on a related note, some of the girls I saw in town, ho-lee-cow, some of the most drop dead gorgeous women ive ever seen, who also caused my mind to melt, because Id see these 9s and 10s sitting next to some sideways hat wearing toolbag who looks like a meth-dealer in a rusty and plasti-dipped 1989 jetta with the "stance" and horribly offensive bumper-stickers. heck I think I saw one on a GTI that said "Nazi-vagon" yeah real classy.
I just dont understand it. I know every group of car enthusiasts have "that guy" the one that always acts a fool to impress, burnouts and stuff like that, but this.... Its like watching a freak show, but if this is the way the other side of car culture acts.... well then I'll just stick to the classics. Though I really really do want an old Datsun.... and a first gen beetle.
anyone else have any input? or am I just completely in left field? I did just get off a long draining night shift, so I could just be ranting and rving at this point.
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