I got a thumbs down for my hot rod on Friday

This was a first for me, Friday afternoon after work I was getting onto I-4 from International Drive in my 34 Ford when a dude turning right gave me a thumbs down with a sneer. He was a crotchety looking older fella with a rebel flag sunscreen in his back window.
Perhaps the civilian backlash against rat rods has finally started to gain momentum.

About ****ing time is what I say.

 

I'm willing to bet he recognized you from a certain toll booth incident.

 

Probably not Richie, all the toll booth takers around these parts are either Phillipino, Vietnamese or so far with one foot in the grave that they have memory spans in the nanoseconds.

 

Make it shoot a 10 foot flame out of the engine and EVERYONE will like you.

 

he's lucky hes not 1000 miles away from me on the internet... i'd e-kick his ***!

seriously though, when people are getting shot at wendy's for not giving enough sauce out, why the **** would you be so blatently rude to someone.

 

I've had the thumbs down before too. I've also had the thumbs up. Personally I've come to not really care one way or another because the only person I have to please is me. Why do people think they owe you any comment at all? Beats the hell out of me.

 

Which digit was your response?

 

What's a toll booth?

 

LOL.. thumbs down. That's a lot of effort for someone just trying to be a jerk.

It kind of reads like those "Real Men of Genius" commercials...

"Thumbs down to you, Mister 34 Ford Driver."

 

Do I really present as crotchety?

huh...

I thought I'm more "overfed and unkept"

 

I got one on my Triumph the other day from a little old lady.
It shows we're doing it right!

 

Nads, I've seen pictures. You're getting pretty grey yourself, ya know. It won't be long before AARP starts courting you and stuffing your mail box. Might be time to stop baiting the older folks. ;-) But, then, the Adolescents are still adolescents in their mid forties, so perhaps we'll start seeing Clearisil™ ads in the AARP **** they send out. he he he…

Now as for adjitating the peckerheads with rebel flags, there I feel you are doing good work.

 

nads, you werent wearing a tube top or something were ya???
i never look at people when im drivin...round here everyone waves at everyone, so they could be flippin me off, i just wave if i see movement and keep on trukin!

 

Seriously, I'd like to know what his reason was, he didn't flip me off, but I could feel his hostility. Perhaps he's a restorer and has a cherry, stock 1934 Ford at home and was dismayed at the ruthless way in which my poor car was modified.
I too am disgusted when I look at certain vehicles, Donks in particular, but I wouldn't give the driver a thumbs down, not just out of courtesy but because they're usually driven by very large black men who could kick my *** but good.

A good 'WTF????' look I can understand, but this was something else.

 

I'm barely visible in my car, it's dark and musty in there, like the confines of Paris Hilton's cranium, I'm pretty sure he couldn't make out what I was, never mind what I was wearing.

I'm befuddled by his response, I wasn't raising a ruckus or acting the fool, I was behaving quite gentlemanly....at that moment in time.

 

He was probably scratchin his *** and had a dingleball stuck on his thumb.

 

Maybe he was just a cracker...

And by 'cracker' I mean Boyd Coddington's brother in law...

 

ohh,,,thats too much!!!!

btw,,nads, you have a pic on here of your ol skool rod???
id like to take a gander at it!
ya know, see if there a "rebel flag window tint means you **** your sis" bumper sticker or something like that you have forgotten about!

 

I was raised in a small town in Mo. and once on a visit back home my daughter said "dad you sure know a lot of people here"
I never thought anything about it until I got back here and all you get is the finger...lol

 

As someone who put the "cracker" back in Cracker Barrel, I resent that remark!! (j/k)

Who knows why some folks do the things they do? Inferiority complex, Slingblade type mentality, methadone withdrawals, sister/wife wouldn't give it up last night: any of these could be reasons.

Shrug it off and let the HAMB give you a warm re***uring hug and push the throttle down a little further. It's gonna be alright.

 

Perhaps the "Buy Disney T-Shirts here" sign on the side of the car prompted the thumbs down. I guess he's just not a Disney fan.

 

We were driving back from the NSRA Nats East on Sunday morning on Rt.501 thru Lancaster and p***ed a bunch of Amish driving to church in their horse drawn buggies. One teenager leaned out of his buggy and gave us all the thumbs up !!! It really cracked us up.....

 

Old and crotchety driver pissed at the world??? yep...musta been Boyd himself!

 

Maybe he saw your gas pedal at the Tasty Freeze...

 

Is this what's become of the HAMB? More threads about some guy getting his feelings hurt? over a truck driver? I'm surprised it's not CLOSED yet..... WHO CARES!!!!!

 

Maybe he recognized the "winner" of the Ebay shoot-out, and his bid was shy of Mr Nads?

I kinda like THX 138's reply.

 

how's this for weird...'bout 3 weeks ago, I was on my way downtown, sitting at an intersection, and a COP turns into the intersection from my left...he stops, does the "kill it" throat slashing motion across the neck, then promptly speds off...to what was behind me...and never turned around. he just kept driving!

stereo was up, but it's not that loud, the car was at Idle, so it wasn't that loud (at that moment, anyways.) and I am sure, just sitting there waiting to turn I was not currently in violation of any laws. (well, mabey 2 or 3, but I try.)

What the heck was that all about? he pulled up and I had a silly grin on my face, but mabey he was telling me to stop potentially having fun? I don't get it. screwed my drive all up, mains. I swear I spent more time looking in the rear view than out the windshield.

and "Mr. Thumbs Down"...your exhaust probably dislodged the corn cob he had stuffed up his *** and made him stain his maroon velour.

either that, or he was trying to flick a booger, and you misperceived his motions...you know how hard it is to get a real sticky one to let go.

 

I think we all build them alittle for the shock value.
Or maybe just to tell the world this is what hot rods are about....
Either way any reaction (positive or negative)makes my day.
I too p***ed a guy coming out of a fuel station Saturday morning as I was coming in to get gas with a whole line of cars behind me.
The old flatty rumble and echo'd threw the buildings. The guy looked pissed and the cars behind me said he just shook his head.
You rebel Nad! The world hates you but we still love ya.

 

WTF, dude, where did you glean from my post that me feelings were hurt? And how would you know what's become of the HAMB?

Here's a pic of the ****box in question.

 

sheeiitt nads...i would have wrecked my car rubber neckin to get a better look of yours!! thats *****in man!!!! but from what ive heard about ya, id prolly have to give you a thumbs up, then the finger anyway!