lurkers beware

["Craig Robson" <padow@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, not really. I am a "lurker" that occasionaly voices my opinion. I do 
see the humor in many posts and sit back and relish in them. But what is 
wrong with "lurking?" It is similar to driving. One could say that the 
"person" who is driving along at the posted speed limit in his 86 325es 
with Sublime coming out of the stock stereo speakers with 12" of Punch 
backing it up while the ***hole behind him in a 84 f***ed up ford  
ranger is doing 40+ mph on a school campus. The "guy" in the BMW, 
enjoying a peaceful drive in his car, is the luker. The guy that is 
pulled off on the side of the road about to get a ticket for parking in 
the bike lane because there is no other place on campus to park while he 
goes and gets his nightly special, is the "non-lurker." I will explain 
this better. It is fairly obvious that the "guy" in the BMW is the 
lurker, but what about the guy on the side of the road? Well, he is 
often giving his opinion to somebody about somebody or something that 
the other person doesn't really care about, usually about what size 
tires he has on his Chevy 4x4 10' in the air. Also about how much they 
cost him and that his exhaust has no muffler to speak of, only a cherry 
bomb on both sides. What I'm saying is that many of the people on the 
digest talk about how to fix their cars and make them run better. I 
would personally rather hear about the guy in the 86 325es getting 
yelled at because "his" music is too loud and how he told the man back 
that the speed limit is 30 and how the "guy" had to scratch grabbing 
second to keep the ford from eating his bumper. Then the man in the ford 
yelling back that "are you trying to tell me how top drive?" No, I just 
wouldn't do that unless you drive a BMW so that you can outrun the 
police when they catch you. I have no problems with hearing that one can 
put 17's under the wheel wells of an e36 325 if you roll the fenders 
like the M3's are, or how the same person needs to replace his water 
pump because the earlier versions were prone to breaking, it is just 
that I would rather hear about the guy later doing a break in on both by 
doing 125 mph on the outskirts of town and saying that he enjoyed it. 
"Flame suites doned and ready for action sir". "Good let the wheels 
turn, and damnit can't somebody get more power out of this infernal 
486."
Sorry for the WOB
Craig Robson
P.S. i did win the argument.

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