To think my neighbour is a snob, and a very strange one at that?

[Bluemonkeyspots]

My car is in the garage today for a service so told dd this morning she would have to walk home, not a problem she does this most days anyway. Sat earlier and I see my neighbour driving into our street and dd is in the car so I go to the door to check everything is ok and this is the conversation that followed

Me- "hi, everything ok"

Neighbour- "yes fine, dd just wanted a lift home in a BMW today "

Me- "sorry?"

Neighbour- "yes, since you were not there at pick up dd thought it would be nice to get a lift in a BMW"

Me- "dd, did you want a lift in a BMW?"

Dd- "what's a BMW"

Neighbour- "aahhhh come on now dd, it must have been nice sitting in a BMW?"

Dd- (looking totally confused) "yes, thanks for the lift home"

Me- "thanks for that"

Then she smiled and walked off.

Was lovely that she offered dd a lift as it was starting to spit rain but was this really such a treat.

To put it into context a bit my car is average but only six month old, the BMW in question is very old (nothing wrong with that my last car was old) but I feel I'm missing something by neighbours attitude.

ha 'what's a BMW'

bizarre, it would be justified had she come home home in a helicopter.

See, if i had a Bentley, i would just modestly call it 'the car' and expect people to know and appreciate that I am being modest.

[drool... bentley]

What job does your DH do on a military base? Mine is too fecking busy to make phone calls about rides in cars. If I want him it's ring at lunchtime and hope to god he will notice a missed call on his phone. If I rang to say I had given a kid a ride in my car he'd think I'd lost the plot!

But your neighbour is odd!

Amazeballs. Never mind your dd's treat, this is obviously the best thing that has happened to your neighbours all year!

Sixpack, you'll notice I am not mentioning what car I have, cos I am so modest and do not wish to humiliate you all.

(actually, we have no car...)

Aww littlemiss your dh must be much more important than mine in the military

No need to be snippy, bluemonkey! DH isn't allowed his phone at work, there is often no signal in the building he works, and even if there were he wouldn't be ringing me to ask me about lifts in neighbour's cars!

This thread is making me lol.

An annoying mother at school once told me she was moving near us to "X Avenue". "Oh, that's nice" said I, politely. "Yes, the house is more than we wanted to pay but it is X Avenue", she said and then went on about it being the "premier road" in our area.

Honestly, it's a street that looks exactly the same as all the other streets around here.

My little car has a name - DD names it Bubbles as that's what she thinks it looked like. It is useful though - differentiates between which car I am taking (Bubbles or the bigger one). Useful esp as one car only seats 4, the other 5 so makes a difference it I can or can't pick friends up, etc.

DH's (or the family car as not really supposed to be his/hers here) car doesn't have a name - we are replacing the bigger one next Monday, maybe Dd should name that one...

Is naming a car really that bad?

Christ, the woman and her DH are as weird (as well as snobbish) as each other. Have they nothing much to do?

'What's a BMW?'

My parents used to have a holiday villa in Florida. Everyone shop assistant/salesperson/doctor/nurse/dentist/neighbour/binman/postman etc had to be told at any opportunity by mother. She was so skilled at turning every conversation towards how she 'had recently seen/done/tasted whatever during her trip to her 'villa in Florida'. Drove me nuts.

They lost tons of money in the US recession and handed the keys back into the bank. Strangely that has never made it into any conversation with a stranger.

Because I have NO idea what any car is, I am always missing moments like this....I get into a bucket as happily as a Rolls apparently and with the same amount of reverence for each. If it's got wheels and goes, then I am thrilled.

:o at this

Poor woman needs to be pitied.

A friend of mine was on a course and she got talking with a bloke over the group dinner, as you do, about cars.

They disagreed about cars. He said a car was something really important, that said something about you, and was something that you should be proud of. My friend said she disagreed, a car was something to get you from A to B, no different from a washing machine, said nothing about you as a person, and that she thought people who were proud of their cars were odd.

The guy went on to use his car as an example. I have a great car, he said, a real prestige car, I'm really proud of it and it makes a statement about me. My friend said: well I have an old shit heap and I don't care about it or what it says about me; it gets me where I want to go and I don't care that it's crap.

On the last day of the course they walked out to the car park. They had the same car.

Lol

My in-laws have two cars and one is a BMW but they always say "shall we take the car, or the BMW?"

So is the BMW not a car then?

DD2(12) would like a lift in a BMW, she likes lifts in Mercs, 4X4's, especially if grandpa goes off road and various friends people carriers. It's just my focus that's boring.

I used to look after two boys who were at private school and their dad put me on the insurance for their Mercedes. I was looking forward to driving a decent car but his boys wanted me to take them to school in my neon yellow fiat. I suggested their dads car, I then suggested that I parked around the corner and we walked the last bit but they insisted I drove it into the parking area. I think it was worth about the same as a tyre on one of the other cars but apparently it was the height of cool. I was in a sea of jags, mercs, bmws and Daimlers with my yellow car.

Ha! I also know someone who refers to their car as 'the jag' !!!

Come on you lot! It's blatantly obvious that the OP only wanted to boast that she actually knows people who own a BMW!

Wow! OP I am faint with envy. Your daughter is sooooooooo lucky!

Seriously though, I think the neighbours must be a bit bonkers I lied about the 'a bit' bit but it was nice for your DD to get a lift home.

I once spoke to a mom I met at the school gate. I asked her where she lived and she replied 'I live in a David Payne home!' and obviously expected me to be impressed, but instead I replied bemusedly 'er, ok, but where do you live?'. I'd never even heard of David Payne homes, much less formed an opinion on how desirable they were!

You have to pity these kinds of people if they derive their self esteem from their possessions.

What is a David Payne home?!!

Drug dealers Car....

What is a David Payne home?!!

Exactly!

From what I can gather, they were kind of like local Wimpy homes or summat. Nothing spectacular anyhow. But I lived in a council house so she probably expected me to shit myself with envy.

AFAIK, everyone says "the jag"