PORSCHE Haters: Is it a New England thing?

[BE911SC]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

New England is full of people who simply are incapable of being happy unless they're miserable and letting everyone else know it. It's a weird place where suffering is deemed to be a badge of honor - probably one reason I don't really fit in here, since I avoid suffering and don't enjoy doing things the hard way. Different value sets I think.

This can be said of much of the country. We are a competitive country and we hate it when someone else gets ahead. The big squeeze is on now and people are getting worried about their futures and many vent this worry through acts of jealousy or envy of others. FIDO. F*ck It, Drive On.

I've said it before around here, that the only power most people have is to piss other people off. That's why they clog the left lane on the freeway, race past us in their Priuses, flip each other off and speed away, make all the noise they can with their vehicles at all hours and basically act like a-holes as much as possible. I call it the lizard brain. Most people are not in control of their emotional impulses and their lizard brains cause them to make stupid gestures and comments at the rest of us. FIDO. Oh, and try to see them coming and avoid and ignore.

They love to piss us off but they hate to be ignored. Smile as they flip you off, it'll make them crazier and they'll simmer because you ignored them.

[Danimal16]

Originally Posted by 911SauCy

So after rereading my OP, I see why you guys are talking thick skin and this bothering me etc.

It does because this is my passion and what I work hard to achieve, can't deny it.

But, not in a personal way...in a more like WTF is wrong with humanity way. I wouldn't ever consider making any sort of negative gesture toward another indisviduals passion..

There are other things I could share that personally bother me...thats like 3 other threads though.

S

Like an old warrant officer told me "its people being people"!

[dyusem]

Originally Posted by Rick V

I learned very early on in Porsche ownership that you will be stared at, especially by little kids, you can not just stop at the gas station and get away without fielding a question or two, and that people will be jealous. The latter all stems from ignorance. Just smile and waive as you pass them during your day and enjoy what you have and have worked to attain.
Half of my neighbors refuse to acknowledge me when I am outside. Three Porsches and a Mercedes in the drive has a tendency to do that, but you know what, if that is the way they are, I really don't want to be around them in the first place. I just waive as they drive by because I waive to everybody that drives by.

The kids are the best!

BTW, you and Queen Elizabeth II have something is common.

[dyusem]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

I was driving my 997 across country this summer. I was in the middle of nowhere in Montana, and pulled off at an exit to get a cup of coffee from McDonalds (desperate times call for desperate measures....). It was 6am, and the light was just coming up. I pulled up to order, and one the kids working there was out back with a mop bucket. You could literally see his jaw drop open He put the mop down, opened the door, and shouted inside. But the time I got to the window, 3 more employees were crowded around, smiles all around. The kid who handed me my coffee asked me a few questions about the car. It was fun.

I'm going to be doing something similar with a '10 997 4S next month; my travels will take me through MT so I'm looking forward to seeing some real people get as crazy as we are for these vehicles!

P.S. Bringing some French Roast along with me cause 6am at McDonalds (drinking fully leaded) is a sin, right?!?!? ;-p

[RWebb]

New England is full of people who deem suffering to be a badge of honor - because it was settled by Calvinists and similar religious sects.

I get thumbs up from all sorts of different people here; never had a negative directed at the car.

Is there any possibility that something else PO'd your neighbors?

[HardDrive]

Originally Posted by dyusem

I'm going to be doing something similar with a '10 997 4S next month; my travels will take me through MT so I'm looking forward to seeing some real people get as crazy as we are for these vehicles!

P.S. Bringing some French Roast along with me cause 6am at McDonalds (drinking fully leaded) is a sin, right?!?!? ;-p

Driving across MT has its advantages. Vast, wide open spaces with virtually no traffic. I've heard that some *ahem* rather irresponsible sports car owners will test the upper speed limits of their cars in such places. Random photo *ahem* I found on the internet.

[Hugh R]

Only a compliment once in a while. They ask what year. But in LA you see some variant of a 911 about every five minutes on the road.

[dyusem]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

Driving across MT has its advantages. Vast, wide open spaces with virtually no traffic. I've heard that some *ahem* rather irresponsible sports car owners will test the upper speed limits of their cars in such places. Random photo *ahem* I found on the internet.

Lol...whoever the irresponsible sports car owner was must've had a headwind.

I look forward to returning to those vast wide open spaces soon...

[patssle]

But in LA you see some variant of a 911 about every five minutes on the road.

And in Houston - you can go weeks without seeing another Porsche in the wild. Not counting my own - of course!

[mossguy]

Originally Posted by RWebb

...........Is there any possibility that something else PO'd your neighbors?........

Interesting observation.

[speeder]

Being a hater is ingrained in certain cultures and groups of people. I grew up in Minnesota, which is a great place in certain ways, but it has a deeply ingrained Scandinavian ethic that absolutely hates any display of wealth or success. It's ok to be slightly upper middle class, but that's about it. Anything that could be considered bragging in any way, including expensive cars, is really frowned upon by a lot of people.

My BIL, a successful cardiologist who could own any car on earth, buys only Volvos/Toyotas/Chevys and the like, and he has a deep hatred for BMW owners that dates back to his college days and some stereotype about rich frat boys or something. I schit you not.

I don't like ostentatious idiots but I absolutely despise the hater mentality. Ironically, IMO, one group completely devoid of this mentality is poor people in the ghetto or 'hood. I've driven many a high-dollar car through the hood and gotten nothing but smiles and "thumbs up" type of greetings. They absolutely love expensive cars. Weird, huh?

[masraum]

Originally Posted by patssle

And in Houston - you can go weeks without seeing another Porsche in the wild. Not counting my own - of course!

Really? I see them every day. Granted, not that many older models, but I see lots of boxsters and newer 911s, then the occasional 993 and then declining numbers as you get older from there which makes sense.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by speeder

IMO, one group completely devoid of this mentality is poor people in the ghetto or 'hood. I've driven many a high-dollar car through the hood and gotten nothing but smiles and "thumbs up" type of greetings. They absolutely love expensive cars. Weird, huh?

I worked at an auto parts store in the hood of Tampa for a while when I was younger. For the most part, the folks that I dealt with there were the nicest, most courteous, down to earth folks I have ever dealt with.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by masraum

Really? I see them every day. Granted, not that many older models, but I see lots of boxsters and newer 911s, then the occasional 993 and then declining numbers as you get older from there which makes sense.

Same here even in podunk Wichita. I bet I see at least one Porsche daily. Now when I had the Maserati, THAT got some attention. Kids were the best because they would point and stare.

[KFC911]

I get nothing but nice compliments about mine....just last week at a semi-rural cross roads station (where I can get 93 non-ethanol )...: "what year is it? you sure don't see many of those any more". Black guy, 'bout my age at an intersection a few weeks ago: Is it "natural"? I'm thinking turbo vs n/a, so I say "it sure is!" Him: "It doesn't sound natural with a big thumbs up. But kids are always the best....never fails

[DanielDudley]

Haters gonna hate...

Sell your Porsches and buy a Miata. Someone's going to hate you for that too. Talk like a Pirate, and see where that gets you.

You problem is that you think they are responding to you, when in reality there is a little subprogram in their minds that is telling them what to think. With more interaction, you could probably win them over.

Ever had someone screw you over in a business deal because they are jealous of the car you drive ? Now THAT'S a real eye opener there. Your neighbors are cupcakes.


BTW, I was driving in the Berkshires a number of years ago, and I saw a really nice old Ferrari convertible out in front of a crappy looking coffee shop. I mean a genuine million dollar car, the kind that would fit in at Pebble Beach. The owner was a really nice guy and very approachable. When I told him how much I liked his car, he told me he was very fortunate to have it.

That is what I tell people about my cars. But it is the people like the Ferrari owner that I would prefer to talk to, and not the twinkies and the cupcakes.

Haters always gonna hate something.

[DanielDudley]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

That is because it is full of Yankees!

Okie dokey !

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by DanielDudley

Haters gonna hate...
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I would hate to ever run across one....might damage my car

[Rick V]

Originally Posted by dyusem

The kids are the best!

BTW, you and Queen Elizabeth II have something is common.

I am waiving at you right now with 1/5 of my hand.

And yeah the kids are great. I will usually let them sit in the car and such if they are polite and the parents are cool with it.

[911SauCy]

Originally Posted by mossguy

Interesting observation.

Not enough interaction in the first place to aggravate them.