Lia and I had to go to Aldi's today. We both wore our masks. People on the road, at the gas station and in the parking lot waved if they were also wearing masks. Reminded me of the time I drove a Saab 900 S Turbo. Where ever I drove, the Thruway, in Rochester, other Saab drivers would honk and wave- the brotherhood of people loving these fast cars and did not minding paying too much for parts.
I miss my Saab.
Let's start a brotherhood of people wearing masks and gloves. I'll wave at you when we see each other.
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I TELL people I am smiling when wearing my mask...otherwise how would they know? Lol!
AnneWimsey
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Apr 6, 2020
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Hi safe friend.
Lorajay
Level 9
Apr 6, 2020
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Waving from over here by Lake Ontario>
I used to get that when I drove a Triumph Spitfire. I feel like in general people have been conditioned not to interact socially much. For sure no one misses cat calls, bodily comments, and subversively harassing "Smile", but a friendly wave, smile, or nod... When I'm out on my bike I find it hard to even get nods from other riders. Whereas on social networks everyone is liking, +1-ing and such like crazy. It's like now we are in public everyone is "Leave me alone, my nose is in my phone, it's private time!".
So I'm glad you have found a little shared experience during this mess to wave about (because smiling doesn't work with a mask right). We're all in this together right?
prometheus
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Apr 6, 2020
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Triumph Spitfire. I used to eat them in this car - an indecently modified Austin Healey Sprite.
@Petter My grandson has inherited my taste for interesting cars. Last year, he bought a Nissan Skyline- steering wheel and everything on the wrong side. He is on his second exhaust system, one louder than the other, and has managed to collect many tickets for very odd violations.
Prometheus: You are friends with Slartibartfast?
@Petter as you should. Remember a sports car of that era was lucky to top 90 hp. Would love to have one and put a Tesla electric motor in it...
But it looked as pretty and was fun to drive top down. Although I sold it to a friend when I left and a few weeks later he told me a front wheel had basically fallen off going round a roundabout. It makes me shudder to think about all the times I did a ton in it on the motorway and could have bought it in a flash...
We drove a triumph spitfire in the 70s too. It was a project car and we finally got primer on it. I was always amazed no one ever stole it because we parked it on campus and like most ragtops it couldn't really be locked. Then there was the fact that instead of a key we had a toggle switch.
@Larry-new No. The 283 engine was in the full blown Healey, not the Sprite, which was much smaller and normally sported a 1 litre (62 cubic inch) engine, and had "frogs eyes" headlights. This one had a streamlined fibreglass body to reduce weight, and a very high performance, 1.7 litre engine, creating an excellent power to weight ratio.
LOL misses? You act as if cat calling or pervy street harassment has stopped. It has not. At least not for young-ish women. :/
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