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Garret Curtis (Garret13)
| | Posted on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 12:45 am: | 
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I have just read the post "To all of us Disco owners: 25 and younger” I have a branch-off question for those who read that or anyone. Does it bother you (those of you who have earned your cars) when people make comments such as "you don't deserve/earn it" or "daddy bought it"?
Okay, so it still bothers me...Tonight at a super bowl party I drove my new to me car (I purchased it two weeks ago) a '97 Discovery loaded, brush guards, BFG AT’s, roof rack, etc; for about 12k. Anyways as I talked to people for the first time ever, at the party, they made comments about my car. With no luck trying to explain, they still had their opinions of me I guess. Oh well they are just a douche bag- right?
Little to their surprise, I actually earned it. I have worked my ass off over the past 3 years. Moving my way through my company, a full service restaurant, I have gone from a bus boy at 14, to now an assistant kitchen manager at 17, while a full time student! Although I put a large down payment and my previous car towards my Discovery, I still have to make payments (co-signed by my father, however no financial help!) I feel as if I have earned it. I know how it might look being 17 year old driver with a Discovery, but honestly is it so hard to believe?
How do you feel about it, people’s comments that is? |
KJ
| | Posted on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 01:06 am: |
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Sweetie, people talk out of their asses every day of their lives. Just read this bb some days and you'll see that (G). I think we've all endured boorish comments about our trucks and anything else people think they can put their mouths on. When I built my home, one of my customers said to me, "What part of that did *I* pay for?" Uh, none of it you ill-bred somebody! *I* gave you services, you paid fees, *I* determined how to spend my own money.
Good for you for working for your own truck. That pattern will serve you all the days of your life. No one can take away what YOU'VE earned, and don't forget that. Most of all, people can NEVER take away what you know, so learn all you can in this life. Rover on, honey, and enjoy the fruits of your labors.
Karen  |
Carter Simcoe (Carter)
| | Posted on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 01:13 am: |
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It doesn't usually bother me anymore, most of the time the offending party drives a car worth more than mine anyway so I just point that out and they either shut up or say "no way", in which case a very firm "go check the KBB" will generally put it to rest. |
paul londrigan (Neversummer)
| | Posted on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 01:47 am: |
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i usually don't let that shit bother me at all anymore either. you kinda get used to it, i think what it comes down to is that there are to many people out there that envy our huge leeky, un-reliable, full time 4 gas drinking bad ass mofos of cars. if anyone bugs me about it any more i just tell 'em to go pound. besides, how much better is it knowing that you bought that truck, you earned it and the little brats making comments about it did have daddy and mommy buy their bmw and their mercedes. i love knowing i worked for my shit it is one of the most gratifing things about the truck. |
Jason Vance (Jason)
| | Posted on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 01:53 am: |
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I have actually never experienced any of this. Anybody else? |
JC
| | Posted on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 02:50 am: |
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Garret, I know the feeling. I've gotten all sorts of comments and dirty looks.
Of course I know that I invite some of it onto myself for having a full head of dreadlocks AND driving a modded Disco... A notion some people seem to have a great deal of trouble with.
Don't worry about other people, if they don't like that you have a Rover, that's their problem, not yours.
JC |
Carl (Cdoug3)
| | Posted on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 07:27 am: |
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Garret and others,
I agree with everyone you can't listen to what other people say. I too have dealt with the same thing when I worked for a contractor as a laborer through school I always got shit driving onto a jobsite in my disco. I had the satisfaction of saying that I paid for it but you know what who cares who paid for it. THe people who harrass you about your car are jealous that is it. And more importantly if they harrass you about who paid for it.....well what the hell they would take a free car too, it is jealousy plain and simple. Until they pay your bills they don't have any place opening their mouth about it!!
Carl |
John Moore (Jmoore)
| | Posted on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 08:44 am: |
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Come on guys, Boo Hoo!
These rigs are different and more rare than other SUV's from Chevy, Ford or Jeep. Isn't that one reason you bought it? I did. I didn't want to be like everyone else. Yes, they are very off-road capable and they are more expensive. No matter what good deal you got, on average they do cost more than than a Chevy Ford or Jeep with the same miles and condition. Parts are pricey and sometimes hard to find!
When someone gives you grief, don't look for pity, smile to yourself and enjoy your rig!
Geez,
-John |
Pete
| | Posted on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 09:01 am: |
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I also get that shit all the time. My father did buy the D2 and drove it for two years then he gave it to me. But the story goes like this, I have wanted a LR for years. I remeber I was ten when I first read about them in Four Wheeler. So my father said to me that you must work for the good things in life, and I began working my ass off at a very young age. I too started at 14 as a busboy and worked everyday but monday, after school and weekends. At 16 I began to cook and then at 17 I finally had enough money to buy one. I like the D2s and at the time I could find some low mileage 99s for about 27-34K. One day I went home and found a D2 in the driveway. And now I have it. So I guess I fall in between this sort of thing. Yes my father bought for me and I got it with 29K on it. But I realize how hard it is to get the good things and how hard you need to work to get it, because I was under the impression that I needed to buy. My father wanted me to work for it as a lesson to learn. Ok everybody can now make fun of me. |
adtoolco
| | Posted on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 09:42 am: |
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you have nice parents...Ha ha ha.
Feel better know
-Chris |
Prescottj (Prescottj)
| | Posted on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 10:59 am: |
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fuck everyone that doesn't understand. 03 Disco is only 399 a month to me that is affordable payment and I think anyone out there wants it enough will find the means of paying for it. My wife's Suburban payment runs almost double that. Good for you working hard I believe what you drive reflects your personality. Some of you out there drive the rover as a statement of your status but you know what a disco is an averaged priced SUV. But when I was 18 and I had a new disco I got the dirty looks but I didn't let it get to me because i didn't give a fuck in fact when i'm driving around Scottsdale in my rr retired people give dirty looks. Fuck em. |
Erik Olson (Jon)
| | Posted on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 11:52 am: |
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My buddy's 2003 Tahoe was about a million dollars for 2wd and the thing is already in the shop after only 600 miles on the clock. Chevy wanted to know what he had "...done to it".
His payment on this $40k wonder is about $560 a month and still people don't equate a Tahoe with luxury. We might not think so because we deal with the problems and idiosyncracies, but most folks think anything with the green oval is an exotic. Might as well be driving a Vanquish as far as their concerned.
In San Francisco, every twentieth car is a Disco or Range Rover, but I can see how you might get some heartache outside of larger east or west-coast cities. The only people I worry about is my boss and his boss who think I make too much anyway. |
muskyman
| | Posted on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 02:04 pm: |
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once when I was living in jersey working for a big packaging company I was driving home in my BMW. some num nuts starts a street race with me in his lexas. i smoke him three times from three lights then walk away from him like a no tomorow down rt4. the guy follows me all the way to ridgewood where he pulls up next to me and says "well atleast daddy didnt buy mine"
morale here: there always gonna be a selfesteam lacking putz around to try and spoil your day. so just do what I do say "fuck you putz" and go on with life . try it next time its fun. |
Christopher Scott (Kitscott)
| | Posted on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 02:35 pm: |
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Damn, I have a picture of my wife's Disco that my brother Photoshopped with all the wheels, brushguards, roof racks, even the grill I think all gold, and a big giant heart shaped emerald on the hood. I can't find it but if I do I'll post it. But regardless of your qualities as a person or the truck's qualities as a relatively reasonably priced off-road vehicle, the pics are good at representing what people see when they see them driving down the road. Add to that your young (younger than them anyway) age and you have everything (except the twins from the other thread) that they wish they had. Forget about the fact that you worked your ass off to get what you got. That doesn't matter to them, plus if you point out that you paid less for yours than they did for their domestic
GM(C)/Ford/Dodge then you've pointed out another of their weaknesses to them and they get punchy.
Just be happy with your situation and remember, for everyone on this BB that worked their asses of to get what they have, there's a dozen people out there that did get the handout from mommy and daddy and don't appreciate it. I agree that recognizing that those that frown are the ones with the problems is quite liberating.
Kit
98 Disco, 83 BMW 533i |
Brian Dickens (Bri)
| | Posted on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 05:08 pm: |
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If a person judges me for some reason by my vehicle and says something to me about it I have a very easy way to deal with them-- ignore them.
Or you could ask them about their vehicle and make up some bogus stereotype about them.
Fortunately there are very few people around my neck of the woods that do this. However, if I was at a party like that, I'd probably just leave.
I have never had this happen to me. |
curquieta
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 01:37 pm: |
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How's this for a twist??
I bought my mom a Rangie
whaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaha
whooooooooooooohahahahah |
Ramsay (3toedsloth)
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 03:30 pm: |
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I agree with Musky.
It all comes down to penis envy.
JR |
Jeffry Scott (Jeffry)
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 10:09 pm: |
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It doesn't change. I'm 41 and just got a Disco (96). It's the most inexpensive car I've bought in years, yet people at work are like, how can you afford that? When I tell them the price, they understand. Funny, even a brand new Disco is in the same range as an equivalent leather-clad 4Runner and less than a Sequoia, yet few would question the buyer of a Toyota about price ... |
GregAust
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 05:58 am: |
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Garret,
Get used to it, no one wanted to know about me when I went to parties and said I worked in a factory doing mundane work. That job was a means to saving money so I could learn to fly helicopters, now everyone thinks im loaded with cash, when I would probably earn more back in the factory.
These days when I meet people I tell them i'm a gardener, their not too interested in knowing me then, but if I say i'm a pilot i can't get rid of them.
Sorry to say, get used to it!! Unfortunately most people like to knock everyone else, due to jealousy.
Took me a while, but I dont put up with many people anymore, as i'm sick of people judging me because of my occupation or type of vehicle I drive. But the friends I do have are friends that I will have forever.
This might be a bit heavy for this forum, but thats my philosophy.
Don't let em drag you down!! |
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