What really ticks you off?

Hey, what really f**ks you guys off?

I get to work tonight after spending 3-4 hours hand polishing my car for the day of the VW. I am not at work for 10 minutes and my f**k head of a manager and some other work mates have stuck a 4 sale sign with 500 bucks ONO on it. They thought it was a fantastic joke and were all laughin. Meaning while i have half a dozen drunk early 20 year olds out crawling all over it taking down my mobile number. Next minute there is a women laying on my bumper and boot lid putting her full weight on it. AGHH! Talk about see red. Talk about no f**ken respect. MY argument is they can do what they want to me, just leave my car and my family out of it. :cussing

ANything like this happened to anyone else?

Man I feel your pain...get shit like that all the time. Have a volkswagen racing shirt and wear it to work on Fridays when everyone else wears the ford racing and HRT shirts. Funny how they then band together to hang shit on my shirt. Water of a ducks back.

After 24 000 000 beetles sold, not to mention more Golfs, we're still classed as a minority.

It's just the way it is if you own a vw and in particular a beetle.

But have you ever heard of 'day of the torana' or 'Pajero action day'

are they from penrith?
as long as no damage has been done to the car dont let them get to you.
someone on avd has or had on there avatar, they laugh because your different ,you laugh because there all the same.
they win if you get the shits.



or you could slash there tyres that would be funny

what about the torana feast,,,,lol....
its just i have a torana and a pajero....
as well as my beetles...
cheers

dont you guys know all vws are for hippies and do 40 second quater times.
and because i love and drive kombis i am a pot smoking dealer. everytime i would stop somewhere in my bus in a around aus trip i got asked if they could by some of my pot and i have never even smoked tobacco

Mate, unfortunately it's always been the same but be happy with the knowledge that when all their cars are long forgotten there'll still be vws on the road somewhere.
Bazza

I think you need to use the steath revenge technique on your dickhead workmates. Only strike them one at a time with a suitable break between hits. the classic are always good laughs. prawns in hub caps,super glue door locks or windscreen wiper blades, tyre valves. spray dog piss through their windows or lock a male cat in the car. once a couple have been done you can deflect them blame on to the other clowns and have double the fun as they try to catch each other in the act. enjoy:thumb

i have the same at work and i just tell them at least i own my car out right and then ask how old their cars are and say come back and see me when its 32 years old and still on the road. last week i told one of the guys who has a mazda rx7 that it needs a tune cause i kept up in a stock bug.

i used to get crap about my kombi from my commadore and hoted up jap car driving work mates
untill last week we were all camped out the front of work for 5 days on strike they were all standing around in the sun while i had a bed ,dvd player, esky and heaps of shade
now they all want one

well i hate people putting shit on my car but what really ticks me off is people not indicating on roundabouts!!!!!

yeah that gets me as well but motorbike riders that bleat about how dangerous it is to ride cause no one looks out for them but always weave through the ranks to the front at lights :cussing

mmmm,
1. right lane sitters,
2. people doing 70 in a 60 zone and then 70 in a 80 zone,
:cussing
3. people who think modified means a set of bolt on bits (no offence accessory dudes).
4. People who put a sticker on their VW that says "I wish I was a v8".
I don't mind a decent V8, but really. :vader


but most of all, The thing that really give me the hebbies is...
5. People who think their way of doing things is the only 'right way' of doing things. Unfortunately this applies to some VW lovers as well. 🙁

[Edited on 28-11-2004 by pete wood]

Very good Pete....

although at Show & Shines,
a Modified Beetle IS a Beetle with added on bits... I'll never be able to enter My Beetle as a standard Beetle but its NOT good enough to win as a Modified Beetle.. as I've just done My thing... slight mods here & there... No twin Webers etc.. Not even extractors...
only very slightly lowered... with standard wheels... and a few gauges...
but too different to be called "standard"..... but I look at it as being standard..... I call Porsche brakes or 1835 engine etc as modified....

41 degrees at the moment in Scone 1pm.....

Lee

If You have a good looking Beetle or type 2-3 , it will attrach people... so long as they look and don't touch...

putting a for sale sign on Your car was Bad though......
They are just idiots who are worse idiots when together....

I don't know how You kept Your cool with that woman laying on Your Beetle.....

and KOMBIS are Strike Breakers... a "New" sticker ??🙂🙂


Lee 41C in Scone at 1 pm

What ticks me off is people questioning that I dont know everything there is to know about everything.

Cheers
Dave

68AutoBug wrote:Very good Pete....

although at Show & Shines,
a Modified Beetle IS a Beetle with added on bits... I'll never be able to enter My Beetle as a standard Beetle but its NOT good enough to win as a Modified Beetle.. as I've just done My thing... slight mods here & there... No twin Webers etc.. Not even extractors...
only very slightly lowered... with standard wheels... and a few gauges...
but too different to be called "standard"..... but I look at it as being standard..... I call Porsche brakes or 1835 engine etc as modified....
Lee

hey lee, you know the funny thing. In 30 years time, if all those bits are the same age as the car, it will be considered standard, least that seems to be the case with most resto custom stuff. You could have the weirdest 60's roofrack in the world and various other period accessories no one ever saw on a dub at the time, but now it's 20 years in the future, it's just an accessorised 'standard' vehicle.

What I meant was a silly body kit or some eye brows. Now I love eyebrows, but that is not a modified car.

Your car sounds like a nice cruiser. Subtle little things that you have done yourself to make the car yours and just that bit better. That is what hot-rodding about is about. Doing what you can be it simple or complex to improve the car. Mostly the simple things are the best. Keep up the good work. If you like your car how it is, no one else has to judge it.

As for car shows...

I'd need a whole new bunch of catagories to describe what gets up my nose there, but most of it fits catagory no.5.

i hate it when people park next to you in a car park and open their bloody door strait into the side of your car:cussing:cussing:cussing:cussing:cussing

my peeve for the week is guys in v8 bombadores who race you at lights going uphill.
woopy-doo, you just beat a beetle going uphill... :duh:duh:duh

Starbuggy wrote:my peeve for the week is guys in v8 bombadores who race you at lights going uphill.
woopy-doo, you just beat a beetle going uphill... :duh:duh:duh

You do know what they say about guys who drive v8's ???? making up for a "lacking" in another department !!!!! hehehehehehehe

OK, where do I start?

As already mentioned above - not indicating at roundabouts is fairly close to the top of the list, along with people who sit in the right lane on a four lane, 110km/h highway, doing less than 80km/h when all the other lanes are moving faster than they are.

Also, parts suppliers/repairers who take months to rebuild/supply a part when they told me that it would only take a couple of days/week to do.

...and finally, people who ring up to order a delivery pizza, who don't know either their address, phone number, what they want to order, or even their name (or all of the above! :duh )....and you think I'm joking :bounce

R 🙂

[Edited on 29-11-2004 by ratty 63]

dont get the sh!ts get even i say, tie helium ballons to there diffs........ and stuff them up under the car......... the dont see them........ every1 else does.... etc etc,

What shits me is people who think watercooled VW's aren't "real" VWs. If it's got the badge, it's a VW. I don't see this type of crap with any other marque, including the Citroen forum I hang out on - they had aircooled cars as well (2CV, GS, etc)

I don't like ill-informed people who mistake metal construction for safety. Controlled deformation of surfaces to make crashes survivable = safety. This is why eggs come in cardboard or foam, not hard steel packaging. This particular nugget of stupidity is most evident with people who think ladder / chassis vehicles (such as large 4wd's) are safe. Nothing could be further from the truth. Passive and active safety often requires your car to sacrifice itself to allow you to walk away with a shaken ego and little else. It's why we have insurance.

Lastly, I'll put in my two cents for the right hand lane huggers, tail gaters, people who deliberately want to be "in front", frequent lane changers in peak hour traffic, people who don't know how to merge at speed, slow / unsafe drivers, and lastly environmentalists who drive old untuned cars with the emissions output of 30 modern cars or more. If they really cared about the environment, they'd walk or ride a bike, and hire cabs for those times they really do need a car. Of course, we as responsible VW owners keep our cars tuned, right? 😉

Andrew

t2 sauerkraut bug wrote:are they from penrith?
as long as no damage has been done to the car dont let them get to you.
someone on avd has or had on there avatar, they laugh because your different ,you laugh because there all the same.
they win if you get the shits.



or you could slash there tyres that would be funny

HeHe That will be my saying ay!

Melbourne drivers piss me off, i bust my gut to go to the DOVW, only to get abuse from wankers in there comm's and falcons, not to mention tailgating 4WD's, i was taking it nice and steady about 100kph in a 100kph zone and the wankers are pushing me on, thay overtake me and then hold ME up, but you see there face when on the freeway i pass the barstewards doing 100 Miles ph and more to go LMFAO, arh the joys off owning a VW, thanks for a great weekend guys

Andy

I hate it how people who can't be behind a bug overtake by going over the speed limit cut infront...then slam on the brakes 😠

Wog box drivers. Kill'm all.

What ever happened to old school cool. Kids today have no idea.

Oh here goes....you've all got me started. Some of these are already mentioned.

1 - Right lane hogs
2 - People who don't indicate
3 - People who walk across the road in front of you and dawdle
4 - Trucks overtaking trucks
5 - Trucks overtaking trucks, overtaking trucks....uphill.
6 - Tailgating trucks
7 - People who speed in the 40kmph zone outside of schools
8 - Immigration detention of children
9 - The Iraq war
10- George Bush
11-The Americanisation of Australian children
12-The public health system
13-My ex wife :cussing

Ahhhhhhhh I feel better now.

Squiz.....

What ticks me off? Condensed version of all that has been spoken on this thread.....

IGNORANCE....

This includes people who malign my car. Unfortunately, thats some VW owners as well as torana and pajero owners...

Traffic grrr i hate traffic, people not getting out of the way on the road and ross i feel your pain as i know your same parts dealler and gee theres i chain being draged around that workshop

I can associate with people pushing ya. The trip down to Day of the VW for me was taken from bendigo, heathcote, Seymour, through to Yea, and onto Yara Glen which is an awesome drive as its all through the hills so passing opertunities are limited... F**ken arse in his 4x4 tried to pass on over taking lanes up hill. I could see him coming and could also see the Left lane ends, merge right sign. I go to merge so instead of being nice,:party the prick floors it and pretty much holds me in the damn bike lane almost in the dirt all because his Landcruiser dont have the balls to do things in the provided space... Did a naughty and hit the horn, and pulled back in behind very pissed. Down hill now and hes doing 90, 100, 90, 95, 105, 95, 90, 85, 90.... AGHH! First opertunity. dropped to third, got the run up, hit 4th and punched it. 95mph and i passed him and another 2 cars. WOOHOOO! Go the beetle. No police men around thank god. I had to laugh thou. As i go to turn off the main road onto the race track the 4x4 comes screamin up behind and holds the horn on as he passes me.... He got the last laugh this time.... Wait till next time.

For me it is
1 - People giving me shit for being in the army, and giving me shit for taking thier girls, well i am sorry for the military supporting your shit hole little piss ant of a town, who without us the town would stop to exist and your parents would be out of a job...........and we do not choose to go to war, join up and find out that we protect democracy and freedom of speech, unfortunatley it is not practiced, if we are told to go.....we bloddy go. Oh and i married a girl from my home town, and didn't take one of the skanky 13yr old whores...

2 - Wankers reversing into my bug and saying they didn't see it.

tonights pet peeves:

tailgaters... im driving fast enough already!!

and why the hell does every new car have to have super bright headlights? im driving in the city and i sometimes forget to turn on my lights its that easy to see... so what the hell are they trying to see? an extra rare species of lizard which happens to be sleeping on the bark of a tree 50 meters away??

*grumble*

mscabrio wrote:You do know what they say about guys who drive v8's ???? making up for a "lacking" in another department !!!!! hehehehehehehe

so what do they say about people who drive v8's and vws?????????

Well I work for an interstate Transport Company in the Western Suburbs, (with some really rough Blokes) but no body there hangs shit on My Volkswagen they actually all like it.

But what pisses me off, is when people say things like
"Air cooled Beetles from 58 - 67 are the best Cars ever made, and every thing else on the road is a Shit Box".

Or my 40 year old Beetle / Kombi is better than any modern Car.

I wish they would open there minds, its those kind of attitudes towards other peoples Modern Cars that will make them want to hang shit on your Old Beetle or Kombi.

I have 3 Bajas and I love them, but I also have an XR8.
Since a 40 year old Buggy isn't alway practical.

I also hate Dick Heads who do 95 K/p/h in the right hand lane of the Eastern Fwy.
Also TOOLS driving V6 Commodores with P Plates who try to entice me into a Drag when I'm driving my Ford.

And another thing I recently hated was when SOME TOOL tried to do a LINE LOCKER at the D.O.V.W in Yarra Glen, while he driving through the pavilion.

His Gutless Car couldn't even get the wheels to spin so he did it on the gravel instead and sprayed about 6 Cars with Stones.
My Car wasn't sprayed thankfully, but I thought it was very IMATURE.

holden drivers
holden drivers that always have their headlights on in BROAD DAYLIGHT
the guy who almost killed me while trying to be hardcore by overtaking a bug doing the speed limit on the great ocean road (he was driving a holden)
holden drivers
the sleazy prick from apollo bay who almost started a pub fight last week on our schoolies trip
people who decide to cut blind corners on the great ocean road
motorbikes who lean into the opposite lane on the great ocean road

in other words, morons piss me off
and when i say holden drivers, i mean the hoons and not your every day driver

ratty 63 wrote:...and finally, people who ring up to order a delivery pizza, who don't know either their address, phone number, what they want to order, or even their name (or all of the above! :duh )....and you think I'm joking :bounce

R 🙂

[Edited on 29-11-2004 by ratty 63]

Well I suppose a fair number of people ordering pizza would have the 'munchies' for the same reason they forget those details LOL 🙂

I don't let anyone piss me off. I usually just ignore them, shrug my shoulders, smile, wave, laugh or if in the kombi - give them the peace sign.

Even if I accidentally did some thing whilst driving, if the other person gives a 'tap' on the horn, you know like a really small 'bip' where it doesn't even go off fully. I always wave a sorry, or whatever.

If they overreact and go off their head or hold their hand on the horn for something that is an honest and in my case usually not a dangerous mistake, that's when I never go off. I don't care if they go off. They can go off for the next 24hrs for all I care. They are the ones getting ill with angst.

I smile happily on my way watching them drive off in the distance growing ulcers in their guts with stress and bad vibes.

Oh yeah. That was just the car stuff. The same sort of principle applies in a lot of the rest of my life.

I thank checkout attendants. (if they have attitude I tell them to smile and be happy)

If I have to wait in line and get told at the end "sorry about the wait" I don't just mumble "That's alright" I usually say something along the lines of "you had to wait for me too, so thank you for waiting"

I think it makes a lot of difference in this world if we can be a bit more humane and a bit less human.

If I get asked for money by someone on the street. I hold out my hand and say "I won't give you any money, but I will shake your hand." I have never had anyone knock back the handshake or get nasty.

I won't do this with scagged out or overintoxicated people as they have no idea what they are doing and should be avoided.

Bad time!!! Beat Vagrancy and Time banditry, all of these tick me orf!!!

my little list...
arrogance
people who deliberately try to bring people down with their crap mood
the next door neighbours cat who enjoys shedding, peeing and crapping inside my bug....😠