I was at an Autocross yesterday with my son, I had not been to this venue in 5 years so it was sort of a homecoming to me lots of old friends to say hello to etc...
Some guy walks up to me, he asks me what I did for a living. I told him I was a land surveyor. He tells me he remembers me from 20 years ago, I had come aboard a company where its partners were splitting way, he went with one me the other, we maybe overlapped as co workers for 1 week.
Then he said he remembered me from a college C.A.D. class we were both in. He continued to bad mouth my old boss pretty bad, and then bragged about how he is constantly cleaning up after the old firm now. He owns his own company now, like I do.
The crazy thing is I cannot for the life of me remember this guy. He doesn't even look familiar.
He seemed really cocky. He mentions he usually only does track days but a driving instructor recommended he try Autocrossing.
So there he was, he mentioned he has a Cobra Kit car (the funny thing is I had just told my son the day before I might look into one next year) but that he left it home on the lift.......
He was waiting for me to ask the question.
So I did.
So what did you bring to day, he points over my shoulder, A 2003 Ford GT. He never asked what I was driving just went on to tell me how he was on the waiting list 6 months before the car released etc....
I had to chuckle when I checked the results at the end of the day and he was almost 5 seconds behind me.
I walked away kind of bummed out, how could he afford such a car, he said his company was huge, but I have found the bigger the company the more expenses there are and the profit margin isn't all that great.
I muttered something out loud to my son, "man I must have done something wrong, I cannot afford a 300K car."
My son at 15 is wiser than most grown men. He says to me "How so? You debt free, I bet he is in debt up to his eyeballs".
That put a smile on my face.
But it still bothered me, I wish I had a Ford GT. I'll just keep pretending in my RX7..
