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11-14-2007, 05:53 AM | #69 |
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11-14-2007, 08:05 AM | #70 |
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yup. I also let her vote, leave the kitchen and form her own opinions. On occasion she even performs emergency surgery in the field, shocks people back to life, cracks their chest and massages their heart with her hands, and keeps them alive after they get popped by another gang banger. She also prescribes and administers potentially lethal drugs, uses a scalpel to open people, and closes them better than most plastic surgeons. She can even extract a lightbulb from a crackheads ass without breaking it. (<---that was my fav!)
Its just a damn car, why the hell wouldn't you let your wife drive it?? If it's that big a deal, maybe you should have gotten something cheaper that doesn't own you.
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11-14-2007, 08:07 AM | #71 |
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You should see the guys that come in on the hellicopter to the ER. Bad / stupid driving knows no gender boundary. Most of the really bad / stupid wrecks are men.
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11-14-2007, 08:11 AM | #72 |
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the only thing I can understand is if the car is so ridiculously modified that one needs to pay constant attention to what is happening - potholes especialy. My wife admits that she doesn't watch for those things, and wouldn't want to drive my car if it was an issue. It was a question she asked before I bought the car.
Good thing guys never scrape the bottom, damage ground effects, bend wheels, etc. Otherwise so many people here would be serious hypocrites.
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11-14-2007, 08:26 AM | #73 |
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I'm fairly OCD about my cars but having kids really fixed that right up! My wife is free to take my car whenever she wants to. When she does, she treats it the way I do. That is part of the mutual respect that should be a part of marriage IMHO.
As much as I obsess over my cars, they are merely "things" that can be fixed and replaced.
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11-15-2007, 05:16 PM | #75 |
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11-15-2007, 07:00 PM | #78 |
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For now, NO and here is why:
1. In one of her first cars she shifted into 2nd going 60 and burned out the transmission, although it was a frickin' Nissan 2. Loaned her my Jetta for a time while I was driving a 914, drove the wrong way down a parking lot, man without a license (he was "not from this country") backed into her. 3. In an emotional moment, decided the best way across an intersection was to hit the curb and basically land at a gas station. 4. Bought her a new Jetta, scraped fender on side of the garage :sad0147: 5. Hit the side of the garage with her side mirror. All in all, you could say I am hesitant to let her drive it. Couple all of these things with the fact that even thinking about driving it makes her nervous and I am pretty sure it ain't gonna happen. Too much bad luck with cars.
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11-15-2007, 07:23 PM | #79 | |
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she must be the proverbial bull when she is in a china shop
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11-15-2007, 08:47 PM | #80 |
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Mine drives my 335 every thursday and friday... It's just a car... not like its a ferrari or lambo or something... I dont see the big deal...
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11-15-2007, 09:00 PM | #81 |
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I let my wife drive when it snows.... she only travel 6 miles a day.. I plan to take her FX in winter.....snowy days
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11-15-2007, 10:05 PM | #83 |
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Q: Do I let my wife drive my car?
A: NO! That's one of the reasons I buy manuals. Of course my son and daughter drive stick but they don't drive my car either Their driving records speak for themselves... unfortunately If they were excellent drivers it would be a different story. |
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11-15-2007, 10:05 PM | #84 |
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Just got my 335xi two weeks ago tomorrow...didn't think she really cared one way or another, a car to her is just a mode of transportation, she couldn't care less if she was in a Ford Pinto or a Bentley. She needed to run out the other night and I told her to drive the new car...she didn't care one way or another but took it. When she returned she actually went out of her way to tell me she loved the car and that it was a blast to drive...now that's saying something.
She's taken it out several times since...I think it justified my purchase. |
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11-15-2007, 11:41 PM | #85 | |
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Don't listen to the "just a car" people. You obviously don't subscribe to that theory or you wouldn't have posted in the first place. A Honda Civic is "just a car". If you wanted "just a car" you wouldn't have bought a BMW.
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11-16-2007, 06:50 AM | #86 |
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Well said.
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11-16-2007, 07:13 AM | #87 |
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My wife can drive the BM (06 325i) anytime she wants. She is the one who suggested I purchase the car since in her and my family words “I never do anything for myself". So we decided to try out the BMW. Her name is on the title. She has even asked what will be my next BMW (I love the M3 Sedan) since I enjoy this one so much.
She appreciates that I love the car and is very careful in it. When I first purchased the BMW, I would cover it up when going out of town on business as I am on travel for a week or two at a time because she would not drive the car when I was away. Now, she has warmed up to driving the car (and loves a lot of the features) so she will drive it when I am not home. However, she says the BMW is too much trouble (parking away from others, people may damage the car, dodging pot holes, etc.). In the end it really is just a car, albeit a nice one! |
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11-16-2007, 02:53 PM | #88 |
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Sure I let her drive it but she really does not pay attention enough. The other day while taking off from a light she never shifted into 2nd, and I'm sitting there thinking "umm, are you planning on shifting?" So I ever so nicely said "You need to shift" (or more like yelled Shift Shift!).
She has never driven a car like the M before so it is taking her awhile to warm up to it. Honestly I hope that she starts to enjoy the car as much as I do. Going out to dinner and letting her enjoy some 'spirited' driving would only make me happy.
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