Oh, OK. I'm afraid that does make you rather shallow.
Slightly sensitive question related to the going car free thread
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Oh, OK. I'm afraid that does make you rather shallow.
At least you're honest!
Boris Bajic
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Sir, by changing a part of my post from:
"When I met my wife I drove a 2CV, which is in many ways the inverse of owning a car"
to:
"When I met my wife I drove a 2CV, which is in no sense at all the inverse of owning a car."
and adding an FTFY...
... you may have been seeing things as a cyclist, rather than a more general road user. Whilst you (as a cyclist) may see the 2CV as a car, most drivers (as drivers) see it as some sort of Coelacanth-like prehistoric hybrid between an umbrella and a sewing machine.
In truth, they are right in many ways. I drove little else for over a decade and can confirm that apart from attracting tax demands from the exchequer, it had little in common with what modern society thinks of as a car.
If they were still built, I'd still drive one.
Well, forgive me if I am wrong, but the 2CV is in fact a car, last time I checked!
SavageHoutkop
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my tuppence...
If I were to hypothetically head back into the dating scene, as a woman, I wouldn't want to be picked up in a car on a first date by someone I didn't know well, so first impressions and all that wouldn't apply.
If I were to hypothetically head back into the dating scene, as a woman, I wouldn't want to be picked up in a car on a first date by someone I didn't know well, so first impressions and all that wouldn't apply.
Boris Bajic
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Well, forgive me if I am wrong, but the 2CV is in fact a car, last time I checked!
It is. I am wrong in the purely technical sense of the word 'wrong' and I have thus run out of bullshit to defend my hopeless position.
Luckily for you, I am not Marshal Foch and this is not the Marne.
But (in my defence) if you ever wanted to design a car that didn't think it was a car, you'd design a 2CV.
That's not really a defence, is it?
lukesdad
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This, 20 years on still working a treat.
Arch
Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
Well, forgive me if I am wrong, but the 2CV is in fact a car, last time I checked!
True, but Boris's comment made me laugh (and give it a Like, I think), whereas you're just coming across as a rather dull pedant...
Anyone who's owned or ridden in a 2CV knows exactly what was meant
Night Train
Maker of Things
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- Greater Manchester
That is an understandable response.
Of my many first dates we often either arrived in our own cars or with our own choice of public transport. Only rarely did I arrive in a car at her address to pick her up and on every occasion I gave my registration number and description of my car to her to pass onto a friend and suggested the friend saw us off for her own safety.
On some of my best first dates the car(s) were more of a hindrance as we were clock watching due to parking time limits.
lukesdad
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Excuse me !
my local is 4 miles away and up a bloody great hill home....just ask Graham !Excuse me !
I used to live sharply uphill from the boozer, and mostly quite enjoyed the bike ride home, but I could deduce from traces of wild garlic caught in the rear mech that I had fallen in the hedge quite often.
lukesdad
Guest
Ive done this on many occasion and have also enjoyed it (all 1000 ft of it). However the wife insists if I am incapable (which I frequently am) to leave the bike at the pub and she'll come and get me
