OT: What do you do for a living? What do you drive? Social pressure?
Retired teacher and coach(football, wrestling).
Winter car.....Chevy. Summer car....Porsche 911
Well said Dan.
As a woman who largely lurks on mgoblog, I am fascinated at the often tweenage-girl-like social striving of manly men. Really guys?
If you like strawberry daquiris (a former mgoblog post of male trepidation), DRINK THEM!
If you dont want the hassle (or CAR payment!) of a late model Lexus, Beemer, et al, DONT DRIVE THEM!
If a woman doesnt dig you for you, well DITCH HER!
What do I do for a living? Im a NYC financial planner who drives a Subaru to her very unsophisticated VT farm house. Definitely not hip. Definitely lovin my life. May you find the same.
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March 11th, 2015 at 12:55 AM ^
Thank you Mr. Crisler.
I love your helmet by the way.....
Do what you LOVE**. All else will follow.....
**If youre not lovin what youre doin now so much, DONT spend that idle dollar on bling; save it so that you can get to be doin what you love.....
One more thing...
We are all familiar with the concept of "shadenfreude"...
Have you heard of its converse, "mudita"?
I hadnt until reading an NYTimes Magazine article on, our boy, Tom Brady, in the midst of everyone stumbling into "deflategate"......
As all the jealous ones were relishing Mr Brady's " downfall" he was describing the concept of seeking joy in another's success - the Hindu concept of "mudita". The timing of his lesson could not have been more exquisite. Hot DAMN! Now that is a concept I can really embrace. Mudita to you all!
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Will do Dan :)
March 11th, 2015 at 12:52 AM ^
Another thought for this forum:
What would Harbaugh drive**?
**Assuming he wasnt making a gazillion $$ a year....
March 10th, 2015 at 10:53 PM ^
Professional services, Chevy Colorado, None whatsoever as I like trucks and before that I drove a beatdown VW Jetta, so I really don't care. I will say the choice of mini-van as directed by my wife did seem to conform to that as I noticed all her friends drive the same brand.
March 10th, 2015 at 10:03 PM ^
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Lifted Unlimited Rubicon
When I go into work I am quite fine driving to work muddy, park where I want with no fear, can create a space if needed
SAP consultant neighbor with the Aston can kiss my ass, I've pulled his FJ out of the mud twice. I get way more "like your Jeep" comments than I got "like your BMW" when I had a 535i.
1) Teacher/coach (football and track)
2) Jeep
3) Nope
we have 4 vehicles on the farm, all but one is diesel and all but one is a stolen and/or salvage vehicle that we fixed up. collective mileage of the 4 is somewhere north of 600K. we make our own diesel fuel though, i built a bio-diesel reactor in the barn years ago. the farm equip runs on on it too.
see answer to vehicles above, answer is obviously 'no'. we're more like the beverly hillbillies.
March 10th, 2015 at 10:27 PM ^
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am/are real. i guess i could've mentioned one of the vehicles in particular that people like - its a 15 passenger stolen van that i bought at auction and converted to 4X4 for beloved mgowife. we have been blessed with a much larger than average number of children and there are too many of us to fit in a large SUV. i couldn't have momma sliding off the road with the kids, thus the van conversion i had done through a really slick outfit. all the teenage boys stare at it, but i always think of the aforementioned beverly hillbillies.
and i have another job that helps pay the bills, but farming is a big part of what we do. indeed, last night i had the 5 sons with me in the hen house mucking it out since the temps finally got above freezing. that was a whole lot of chicken scat, ankle deep in most places.
oh, and the old ford pick-up is going to be a problem one day. all the kids have called dibs on it and i can't play solomon and cut it into 7 pieces, assuming it keeps on going....
And I was only too happy not to need a car. (Even though my uncle was a designer at Ford and I have always loved cars.) When my wife got her first tenure-track job, we bought a then brand new 98 Civic--manual transmission, McPherson struts and wishbone suspension. At the time I read an article in Car and Driver that asked if it might rival the Model T in its solidity and journeyman perfection. The next year they dumbed them down, and shortly they became quite ugly, but we paid $500 for some kind of extra coating, got it loaded (for a Civic) and with mud guards. . . and drove it up and down the West Coast for a summer before heading inland to her job
and it now has 315,000 miles on it. It has never broken down once except in my driveway (fuel pump), still has all of its paint beautifully intact, still gets 28 and 34, and still drives really well. In fact, when I go to test drive other cars (because it has to die some day, I figure), they often drive like crap in comparison to my 98 Civic. (Nobody believes this story except my Honda mechanics.) It's been paid for since 1999.
There was a period when my in-laws used to rib us, ask when we were going to get a decent car. They don't rib us anymore. A lot of our friends have been through four or five cars in the meantime; with the money we have saved we have left the country almost every summer for the last ten years. My life would be fairly different if we hadn't bought this car, and my daughter's college will be paid for, a decent retirement financed, and the house paid when my wife retires. . . so, despite the Great Recession really really sucking, we have had some decent luck.
My next car--when I give Greenie to my daughter seven years from now to take to college--might be something like a Mazda CX-9. (I love the way the recent Mazdas look and drive.) Something I can pull a little boat behind, and take on a cross-country journey with my wife. But I have been fantasizing for a long time about trying to drive Greenie to Tierra del Fuego. And I just may do it yet.
1) I'd rather not say
2) I''d rather not say
3) I'll admit it, yes.
2. 2015 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited (my 4th Jeep, Jeep Family)
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March 10th, 2015 at 10:35 PM ^
At my professional peak, I was an advertising copywriter/associate creative director and I drove an Alfa Romeo Spider. I'm now a stay at home mom with a small furniture business who drives a Jetta wagon TDI. My son, who is somewhat obsessed with cars, suggested I look into the $800,000 Singer. Oh, ok (Jennifer Lawrence nod)
Forgot to answer the pressure question. No pressure. We have reverse pressure where I live. If you drive a flashy car, you're looked down on.
1. Student, Construction Engineering
2. 2004 Chevy Silverado
3. No, always been truck guy from when I was little
Small museum curator, Chevy Malibu (2014), No, but I wish I had test drove the Impala.
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1. Engineer
2. Malibu & Chevy Pick-up
3. No
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1973 Plymouth duster
I once took off my skate and tried to stab somebody
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2. Me-Hyundai Santa Fe (wife's old car), Wife-Honda Odyssey (wife's new to her car).
3. See number 2.
March 10th, 2015 at 10:12 PM ^
Whatever I wish, as I work for a car company.
Pressure for me is more about houses than cars, as all my friends work with me.
Do you need to own a personal car?
March 10th, 2015 at 10:31 PM ^
1. Digital Marketing Strategy
2a. Commuter (my favorite thing in the World)
2b. Grocery / Kid Hauler
3. I LOVE German cars and I LOVE to drive - It has nothing to do with the Jones'
March 10th, 2015 at 10:13 PM ^
Decisions, decisions. Must be rough.
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2. 2010 Toyota Yaris and my wife replaced her 1998 Ford Escort Wagon in Nov. when someone hit her and we now have a 2015 Nissan Versa.
3. I'm to cheap to care what others think. There are other vehicles I'd rather drive but I have grad school to pay for as well as IVF treatments. (Shameless plug: http://www.gofundme.com/gvs5wo)
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1: I buy drugs
2: Nissan Rogue
3: "The indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without comlpaint, and to die singing." -Alexis de Tocqueville
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99 Jeep Grand Cherokee with just over 200k. Haven't had a car payment in over 10 years but it's on it last leg and the wife wants to get pregnant. Will be forced to buy a newer one for safety purposes. God damn car payments......Damnit I'm cheap. Lol to #3