Have any of you encountered extreme hostility, due all or in part to your Z4? I did tonight.
After leaving a bar in a nice local town where my friend's band was playing, me and another guy stopped into the all-night greasy spoon for a bite. I was driving my roadster. These two other guys came in a few minutes later and start in right away about f'ing rich people, f this and f that. I didn't pay them any mind, as it's midnight on Saturday, so I assumed they might have been drinking too much. They sat in the booth next to us. Then they began to complain about the interracial couple sitting a few tables away, calling them everything but human. This got on my nerves, but I was there for dinner, not a brawl, so I ignored them. When my buddy left the table to go to the bathroom, one of the guys says "Man am I glad he left. All that Wall St. talk bs. That mf'er should get a radio show. F'ing A******." Needless to say, we had been talking about the band at the bar we just left, not about stocks or Wall St. Idiots. When he came back, we paid and left, as we had finished eating.
As we get outside, I told my buddy that I thought we were about to have a problem with these two idiots. He had noticed them as well, but hadn't said anything. Oh well, we go to my car and I drop the top via remote before we get in. In my rear view, I noticed that Redneck #1 has gotten up from his table, walked to the full-length window facing the parking lot, and is standing at the window pointing to my car and telling his friend something. He's red in the face with anger and very animated with his gestures.
While these two were obviously looking for a fight, I've never had someone focus so much hate at me because of my car. I don't know if he thought we were gay (neither of us is) due to the number of "hairdresser" comments I see on the forum from the UK drivers, or if we were the subject of his rant about rich people, as he saw my car on the way in but didn't know who was driving it. All involved were white, so it wasn't a racial thing.
Has this happened to anyone else?
After leaving a bar in a nice local town where my friend's band was playing, me and another guy stopped into the all-night greasy spoon for a bite. I was driving my roadster. These two other guys came in a few minutes later and start in right away about f'ing rich people, f this and f that. I didn't pay them any mind, as it's midnight on Saturday, so I assumed they might have been drinking too much. They sat in the booth next to us. Then they began to complain about the interracial couple sitting a few tables away, calling them everything but human. This got on my nerves, but I was there for dinner, not a brawl, so I ignored them. When my buddy left the table to go to the bathroom, one of the guys says "Man am I glad he left. All that Wall St. talk bs. That mf'er should get a radio show. F'ing A******." Needless to say, we had been talking about the band at the bar we just left, not about stocks or Wall St. Idiots. When he came back, we paid and left, as we had finished eating.
As we get outside, I told my buddy that I thought we were about to have a problem with these two idiots. He had noticed them as well, but hadn't said anything. Oh well, we go to my car and I drop the top via remote before we get in. In my rear view, I noticed that Redneck #1 has gotten up from his table, walked to the full-length window facing the parking lot, and is standing at the window pointing to my car and telling his friend something. He's red in the face with anger and very animated with his gestures.
While these two were obviously looking for a fight, I've never had someone focus so much hate at me because of my car. I don't know if he thought we were gay (neither of us is) due to the number of "hairdresser" comments I see on the forum from the UK drivers, or if we were the subject of his rant about rich people, as he saw my car on the way in but didn't know who was driving it. All involved were white, so it wasn't a racial thing.
Has this happened to anyone else?
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