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YOU KNOW YOU'RE DRIVING BRITISH WHEN:

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Jedi Knight
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You know you’re driving BRITISH when:

· You receive sympathy cards from the Department of Transportation when it’s time to renew your registration.
· When you are walking across the parking lot, you see a priest performing last rights on your car.
· While stopped at traffic lights, other motorists offer to help push to get you started again.
· You have preferred customer status at Moss Motors.
· You have to stop along side the road at least once a day to pick up parts that have fallen off.
· You leave your keys in the ignition and a $20 bill on the dash for gas money in hopes that someone will steal your car.
· When you drive though town, people stop what they are doing and just point.
· In place of a spare tire, you find a pair of running shoes.
· <Your Reason Here>
 
- You park on the street every night with the top down and your car is always still there in the morning.
- When you valet park your car, you have to go fetch it yourself because the attendant can't start it.
- 60MPH feels like 120MPH
- You know what it means to be "Struck by the Prince of Darkness"
 
- you get just as wet with the top up as with it down.

- jump starting your car just might involve the fire department....


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-you are skilled a driving without an working engine. Particularly if one you started out with one.

-everyone you meet says "I used to have one of those." And they emphasise the "used to".
 
- every girl you meet says, "My dad/brother/uncle/grand dad/etc used to have one of those!"
 
you watch the engine temperature and oil pressure gauges more than the tachometer, speedometer and road combined.
 
Every year the state offers 500 bucks to take your car off the road

There are more tools in the trunk than in the garage

Your neck gets sore looking up at lowered civics
 
- People stop just to tell you that there are about five of your cars in the local junkyard.
 
You have to go through the pain of listening to
Lucas jokes - by people who've never owned a British car.

- Doug
 
- EVERY car on the road blocks your view of the traffic a head.
 
You check the gas and fill up the oil

the wind blowing in your hair refers to you driving with the top up.

anyone with over a size 9 shoe has trouble pushing the gas pedel

when it time to do a clutch you call one of your skinniest friends because he the only one that can fit under the car.

when you meet a girl at Bar you to tell her you own an MG and she replys " whats and MG"
 
*sigh* I know that one all too well... I get ~lot's~ of people letting me know I have a "cool car", but very few actually know what it is.


- You're car is unique in the office parking lot!
 
You pay close attention to lifted trucks not only to keep your self from being used as a speed bump but to make sure there exhaust will not be 6 inches from your ear. x2 for diesels.

You have had stage 1 hypothermia from the heater failing

You watch your rear view mirror not only for traffic but for parts that may have jumped ship.
 
- You look for SUV's and trucks that have exhaustss that exit the ~BACK~ so you can use them for shade at the next stop light.

- You ~AVOID~ SUV's and trucks that have exhausts that exit the side, for the reasons Stewart already mentioned.
 
You can't explain away that silly grin every time you go out for a drive!!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/driving.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
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