I just like to make other people think there’s something maybe a little exciting going on, like an enthusiast meetup or maybe a glitch in the matrix. It gives me a little chuckle.
Someone ended up with new wipers that way lol, it was heavily raining and my wipers where starting to not work properly. So I stopped at a Walmart and bought new wipers, came out the store and installed them right away. Then I noticed it was not my car when I saw a pack of smokes on the dash (I don’t smoke).
I installed his old wipers on my car and left. His where worse than my old ones, I stopped at another Walmart and bought a second set lol.
I did not wand to reinstall his old ones as I broke a cosmetic clip on one if them and felt I should just give him the new ones for it was my mistake.
Now I wonder the suprise of that person when they came out of the Walmart started their car and had perfectly working wipers instead if his old fucked ones. It rained all day so they must have noticed given the state of their old ones.
Be careful. If you get line up four in a row of the same model and color, they all disappear and you get points.
About a year and a half ago, I was getting into my car and found it in a cluster of same-model, same color cars - one beside the driver’s side, and one across from that one. The driver of the one ‘across’ was just getting out.
Slightly before I was about to open my doors, I called out “Hey, nice car!” and shared a sly grin with the owner as he looked over and saw me open the doors to my car.
I felt smug for a whole day.I did this once but they didn’t notice I had the same car (objectively not a nice car) and they thought I was just being a dick
Oh, not having a joke land is bad enough. Having it taken to be an insult is just the worst.
Woah, this is straying dangerously close to interesting territory!
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I do the same thing
You have my respect. I do the same, for the same reason. I’m glad I’m not the only one.
Although, when I started, I drove a really popular car in a really popular color. There was often 3 of the exact model and color in any random parking lot.
So I realized - rather than having to remember which of the three was mine, and at worst walk to all three if I can’t remember…
If I always park next to one of the other two, then I only have to remember that mine is one of the pair parked together.
Edit: Oh, and one time, the statistically usual other two matching cars were improbably parked with exactly one empty space between them. Naturally I parked there - to create three in a row! It was glorious!
Now I drive a much less common car (thankfully here’s typically only one match per parking lot, and the trim difference is usually enough to tell which is mine), but I’ve maintained the habit, because I imagine I make people wonder if there’s an enthusiast convention for my boring still kind of common car model. Probably doesn’t work, but it makes me giggle.
I drive a 21 year old car that sold about 300 nationwide.
I think I’ve parked next to a doppelganger once in 2007.
