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

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Bluemonkeyspots · 10/09/2013 15:37

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 Grin"

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.

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AmpullaOfVater · 10/09/2013 21:32

Way OTT and over anxious. And I'm speaking as someone who lives in a country with the world's highest number of kidnappings.

LEMisdisappointed · 10/09/2013 21:32

Vault and Stehpen - you should play eye spy with my DD. "I spy wiht my little eye something begining with g" us: Grass? DD: no, us: garage? no
ad nausem.......us: We give up - DD - getting frustrated: "its girrafe mummy" HmmGrin

AnneUulmelmahay · 10/09/2013 21:33

With a peugeot 205? 105? as a second car. White, with flared wheel arches and go faster stripes Blush this was called The White Car

LEMisdisappointed · 10/09/2013 21:33

A BMW is one of the few cars I haven't shagged in.

StephenFrySaidSo · 10/09/2013 21:34

are there ever any giraffes? i'm guessing no? Grin

if you knew me (and some Mners do- who might not realise it due to NCing) you would know i m very far from an over anxious parent.

VaultFullOfTwizzlers · 10/09/2013 21:37

Hit and run, any sort of twattery - I see your point.

They always mention the make of car on Crime-Stoppers and men are encouraged and expected to know this stuff from an early age.

I have been a bit of a crap feminist and parent I think.

beitou · 10/09/2013 21:37

If you are being kidnapped don't the baddies always put a bag over your head to negate your car recognition skills. Mind you you could always identify them by saying they shopped at ASDA, Sainsburys, Tesco or if it was a superior rustle with a hint of politness rarely seen in the North, Waitrose

beitou · 10/09/2013 21:38

I have shagged in a BMW, he wanted to put it in my bum, something about rear wheel drive.

VaultFullOfTwizzlers · 10/09/2013 21:40

lol at LEM's DD.

DS is six and still can't understand that it's about what you see rather than imagine.

We like the Mini game though. Tickle for the person not to spot it first and extra ones if it's a yellow one.

SoftKittyWarmKitty · 10/09/2013 21:46

Am I the only person who's wondering why the OP's car was having a service if it's only six months old?

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Bluemonkeyspots · 10/09/2013 21:48

Well dh got in from work and we had a good laugh with dd about her getting a ride in a BMW today. Dd was still very Hmm "what the heck are you pair on about?"

Half an hour later we are sat talking in the living room while dd is lying behind the couch on FaceTime to her best friend and we hear her saying something like "I don't know why they find me getting a lift in a KFC so funny, they were laughing about it when dad got in from work" que dh and I wetting ourselves at her.

Perhaps we should start teaching her some car makes, she is obviously more clueless than I first thought.

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Bluemonkeyspots · 10/09/2013 21:49

Why is that strange soft kitty, I bought it a few weeks ago and part of the deal was they would give me the 10k service.

Is there a minimum time that a car should get serviced,

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VaultFullOfTwizzlers · 10/09/2013 21:52

at DD describing it as a KFC Grin

LEMisdisappointed · 10/09/2013 21:57

Vault - we play the Yellow car game, its sort of a family tradition now, although when DD1 played it invariably ended with me getting a dead leg Hmm as you have to thump the oher person and shout yellow car! I don't tend to do it now as DD2 is only 8 and i worry i'll forget myself and lamp her one! Grin For long journeys is Eddie Stobart Spotting, although that only tends to work if we venture north!

marriedinwhiteisback · 10/09/2013 21:57

My dd once referred to mummy's picasso and the neighbs thought we were very rich :); DH still snorts. Still drive a Picasso tbh.

Round here BMW's, expecially old ones are referred to as something that would be banned from mnet.

marriedinwhiteisback · 10/09/2013 22:01

LeMis. Really!! It's only really comfy in a hurse :).

VaultFullOfTwizzlers · 10/09/2013 22:02

DD's friend introduced it to us but we have adapted the thump for a tickle. I wouldn't usually be so responsible but DD is very fragile and DS is autistic so chances are we'd have to abandon any day out or holiday in favour of the nearest A&E Grin

RevoltingPeasant · 10/09/2013 22:19

I don't know if this counts, but my dog recognises Toyota Rav4s because my mum and dad used to have one each.

She only tries to chase ones in midnight blue or champagne though.

Sorry OP, but my golden retriever is more consumer-savvy than DD....

.... Wink

Doubtfuldaphne · 10/09/2013 22:29

Very very annoying! My mil does this too.. Refers to everyone's cars their 'his car or her car' but hers is the Mercedes. Never just the car. I don't get it at all.. A car is a car. I couldn't give a shit.

neunundneunzigluftballons · 10/09/2013 22:32

My mate used to go on about her 'Alfa' like that. God she loved that car, took me a while to understand their must be something marvellous in some parallel universe about Alfa Romeo, thing was it was the teensiest car you could begin to imagine. It was a nasty ugly little thing and it nearly bankrupt her but each to their own I guess.

StephenFrySaidSo · 10/09/2013 22:35

is your car a Renault OP? i know Renault recommend their cars be serviced every 6 months for some reason.

Bumpotato · 10/09/2013 22:36

My dad had an elderly BMW when we were kids. My brother and I used to refer to it as the "Barely Mobile Wreck". OP should explain to her DD what BMW stands for.

moanalot · 10/09/2013 22:37

I really hate snobs. To me a car is a car and as long as it gets you from A to B that's all that counts. Nothing about a car could ever impress me.

SPBisResisting · 10/09/2013 22:39

Are we the only couple with a car each who talk about "your car" and "my car"? Did we mss the cool names memo?

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Bluemonkeyspots · 10/09/2013 22:41

No it's a s max (titanium if that gets me extra points!)

I used to have a Renault though which i loved but our friend who is a trained mechanic and does all the little jobs on our cars would groan everytime I called him. He said even changing a bulb for a major job Grin

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