Image is a funny thing, it has different connotations to different
people.
I went out a few weeks ago quite late in the evening in
my (unbadged) s3 to Tesco express up the road from me for a nice
chilled bottle of wine for my wife. I parked up in one of the bays, went inside
and when I came out there was an old landrover parked next to it with a group
of 3 dreadlocked fox hunt protester types sat in the back and one in the front.
The driver was presumably inside buying some patagonian root vegetable peace
crisps and some houmous. Anyway, I thought no more of it and got in my car and
prepared to reverse out of the bay and go back home. I looked around and just out
of the corner of my eye I saw the rear passenger sitting nearest to me just staring
at me whilst holding aloft her middle finger. She was about 22 and blonde with matted
dready hair with bits of junk sewn into it, you know the look I mean...
So I looked back at her, (in some disbelief tbh as I wasn't sure what I'd done to annoy her)
smiled and started to reverse. I was looking over my shoulder as I reversed and when I
looked forward again I just caught sight of her hurriedly winding her window up.
Then the penny dropped, the dirty bu99er had spat out of her window at my car while my
head was turned. A much younger me would have kicked off big style at that moment and
almost certainly have got out launched a shopping trolley through their windscreen.
But I'm a bit older and wiser now and looking at them I couldn't help but think I had
already won as I was off back to my paid for flatscreen tv, beautiful young wife and warm
lovely comfortable home. So I laughed quietly up my sleeve and headed back.
A little wipe of quick detailer when I got home and my Audi was gleaming again.
Fast forward to last Friday night and my other half was in Bristol City centre having
some after work drinks entertaining one of her clients on the company credit card.
She shot me over a text to go and pick her up about 11pm. On the way to meet
her I pulled up at a set of lights and noticed a young lad in a clean and tidy looking silver
Astra (Not a sporty one) pull up alongside me with his girlfriend alongside him. He seemed
to be trying to attract my attention, but it was quite late and tbh I thought he was after
a drag race. He did the 'wind your window down' action so after a few seconds I dropped
the passenger window. He leant out and gave me a very approving nod and said 'nice car
mate, I love A3s' I replied 'Thanks mate but it's an S3.' 'IS IT?' he called back loudly, I nodded
'WOW!' he said,' I didn't realise, look after it mate!!' Then he gave me a big thumbs up as the lights
changed and off we went. Not the encounter I was expecting at all.
On my other forum I use regularly a few of the Skoda lot have gone a bit funny on me
since I changed from my old vRS. One accused me the other day in a thread about
Maggie Thatcher that I didn't drive a Skoda due to my leanings toward the right.
I have just looked at your profile and I note you do not have a Skoda is the badge is
down market for a right wing person.
What he doesn't know is that I had two of them prior to my Audi
And I've always voted Conservative.