Car stroking

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jonno

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 N Herts/S Cambs
Came back to my Zed in the car park this morning and saw from quite a way distance that there was a bloke standing near the front left wheel area, *doing something*. I obviously launched over there sharpish and was about to give him a piece of my mind or, alternatively, a piece of my fist, when I realised that he was *stroking it*. Very gently, with a slight appreciative smile on his face.

I didn't quite know what to do. In the end, I hung back, slightly embarrassed, not sure whether I should interrupt this bloke's reverie, or whether I was in fact fully within my rights to tell him to sling his hook. He saw me looking at him, smiled, said "nice car, mate", and walked off. No marks on the car, no damage done.

Anyone else experienced anything quite as weird as this? I'm relatively new to this car, so if this is a fairly common occurrence, I'd be grateful for some tips as to how to deal with it when it happens again...
 
I have seen people looking at my car and had a few nice car mate comments they always make me smile. As for stroking a car that's a new one to me.
 
Dont know whats more ridiculous . . someone stroking your car or you wanting to hit someone for it either way both extreme .
 
Adamski said:
Were his arms still in the sleeves of his jacket, tied round the back :rofl:
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...probably wearing a pair of those trousers you read about, you know, the ones where they cut the legs off and tie them to their knees so it looks like they are complete trousers under neath a grubby macintosh.

You do know what I mean don't you? I read about it - honest! :oops:

I'll get me coat.............. :|
 
A while ago Mrs Eds & I stopped off in a Sainsbury's for breakfast (O/T they're giant bacon sandwhiches are soo good). As we approached the car there was a bloke generally loitering around it while on his phone. As different people passed, he seemed to close in on our car. I was dubious as I got closer, debating is he just into cars and wanting to chat to the owner, or is he actually doing what I never believed before that someone would actually do - and pretending it was his car. When I got the key out and pressed the remote he scurried off to his own car without looking back - he was pretending it had been his.
I've read of people saying they've seen people doing it other forums like PH, but was astonished to actually see someone doing it!
 
yea similar situation happened to me one time - was looking out the window at work and seen these 2 dodgy looking characters seriously checking out the car..the more i watched the more i thought they were eying it up to nick it some day..so i sent the boss out to them to see what they were at and turned out they were gocking purely for asthetic reasons and they got very embarrased when confronted. The boss laughed and preceeded to laugh on hearing this and we all lived happily ever after lol
 
Have a read of this :o http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2000899/Man-admits-having-sex-with-1000-cars.html
Seen this guy on a channel 4 show once just plain crazy, he had his own man made autogylm :lol:
 
vinny t said:
Dont know whats more ridiculous . . someone stroking your car or you wanting to hit someone for it either way both extreme .
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A car enthusiast would never touch someone else's car. Ever. So this guy was either a nutcase, or had nefarious intentions. IMHO good enough reason to be prepared to exchange pleasantries with him :punch: Or maybe I just live in a different universe hemisphere...
 
I do love the feel of freshly polished / waxed paintwork on MY car, but wouldn't dream of touching someone else's - weird. I'd carry some tissues and either offer him one, or use it to clean where he'd been stroking in an obvious manner ...
 
Id prefer that to what happened today. Sat in my Scirocco in a car park, some stupid idiot walking past talking to his friends banged his shopping bag against the front end of the car (not looking where he was going). Tw@ts
 
Pauly said:
Have a read of this :o http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2000899/Man-admits-having-sex-with-1000-cars.html
Seen this guy on a channel 4 show once just plain crazy, he had his own man made autogylm :lol:
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uuuh the guy gets pistonhead then :?
 
Less appealing that 2 weeks ago I parked up in Bristol City in an open car park with the Jag. Walking back 2 lads and 2 girls go out of a car. One walked around the far side of mine and I wondered what he was looking at, but then feared he might be keying it. Moved there quickly to find him unzipping and clearly about to use my car (no Jag jokes please) I asked him not do that and he said 'no way it's your car so what's it to you?'

Let's just say I made it clear that he'd regret it if he continued and with a slight push he moved on. Glad actually as I had clients with me and I don't think brawling in a carpark is a good deal closer :thumbsdown:

What chance of being there at that instant to witness and prevent the incident?
 
Well, glad to know it's not just me and that other people have had something similarly bizarre happen to them.

vinny t said:
Dont know whats more ridiculous . . someone stroking your car or you wanting to hit someone for it either way both extreme .
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I was only thinking of hitting him because I thought he was keying it or something. Once I realised he was just *stroking* it, my reaction was more... puzzlement. Didn't know *how* to react!
 
Old guys can be weird but with pure intentions. I'd just take it as a compliment :thumbsup:

I have been walking back to my Zed and notice people paused next to it to take a look a few times. If I'm only dashing into the shops for 5 minutes I'll leave the roof down but CJ's story about his Jag is a bit scary. I don't think we have anybody that despicable around my town, but still you never know when morons will strike.

Here in Oz we have this thing called "tall poppy syndrome" - if somebody has something better than you society feels the need to cut them down. Bogans feel that this extends to damaging nice, expensive cars they can't have (despite half of them being lazy drongos sponging off the government - they don't realise that if they actually worked hard and didn't blow everything on booze they too could have nice things).
 
:rofl: Can't say I've ever had anyone stroking my car (that I know of anyway...) but I was out in town at a bar the other week and my car was on the street, I was walking out to my car and saw some people looking at it. I got to the car, unlocked it and one of the guys said is this your car love? So I say yes, and he tells me it's "fucking sexy" then proceeds to make thrusting movements over my bonnet :| :lol:
 
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