Our house is so not 'cool'
Don't you hate it when you advise somebody (for example, your housemate) not to buy a Nissan Micra for over 4 months and then as soon as they are away from you they go and buy a Micra. Sometimes I think/know that my expert style opinions mean nothing to my friends and housemates. But on this occassion my other housemate Phil also spent a large amount of time trying to get her to understand the facts. One night she was in my room and Phil and I spent an hour repeating the following sentences to her:
- Micras are not cool
- You have been offered your Mum's Clio, buy that!
- Micras are for old people
- Listen to us, we are boys
- Micras smell of old people
- A Micra will NOT break down, that is half the fun of car ownership.
- We are right, you are wrong.
But that obviously didn't work either.
Anyway we have exactly one week of the holidays left until she returns and for that week I will relish in the fact that we still live in a cool house.
Ps: Nick (the owner of the above mentioned shop mobility cart) IS COOL. But this does not detract from the car problem. Maybe we could modify it with some go faster stripes and tinted windows so at least she'll look like a 'Hell's Granny'?
- Micras are not cool
- You have been offered your Mum's Clio, buy that!
- Micras are for old people
- Listen to us, we are boys
- Micras smell of old people
- A Micra will NOT break down, that is half the fun of car ownership.
- We are right, you are wrong.
But that obviously didn't work either.
Anyway we have exactly one week of the holidays left until she returns and for that week I will relish in the fact that we still live in a cool house.
Ps: Nick (the owner of the above mentioned shop mobility cart) IS COOL. But this does not detract from the car problem. Maybe we could modify it with some go faster stripes and tinted windows so at least she'll look like a 'Hell's Granny'?
posted by Nurton at 3:37 am
4 Comments:
You meany!!!! my micra is lovely!!! and besides:
1. since when did i care about being cool?
2. i do value your opinion, i just didn't listen to it
3. don't be rude about Mya before you've been anywhere in her
4. Harry agreed that she is a cool car
5. i didn't want a Clio
6. Tough, I've bought her now so you'll have to live with it!!!
PS Thanks for saying i was cool :p i've obviously failed to deceive you
Anybody who names a car isn't cool.
Since a variant of my car is in the "sub zero" section of Top Gear's cool wall (No shit.) and I've driven not one, but two different Micrae, I feel sufficiently empowered to comment.
As Nurton hints, for a car to be cool it needs at least the following features:
* The chance that it could break down or fall apart at any moment.
* The kind of engine sound that makes you want to drive around pointlessly with the windows open.
* The ability to propel you unexpectedly into a wall through either sheer power or 'entertaining' handling characteristics.
These variables allow you to plot a rough chart of cars coolness, with a TVR somewhere near the top, and the Micra (about a zillion times more practical for the things most people want a car for) somewhere near the bottom.
Don't blame me. It's just mathematics at work.
Well, it seems the general consensus is not in my favour as far as my choice of car is concerned (btw Matt, I love your pluralisation of Micrae!). It would seem to the untrained eye that Nurton has won this battle but for a few key points that can be summed up in two points (one of which I have already aired):
1. I WANTED a reliable car - one that DOESN'T propel me into walls at random intervals, or breaks down half way into work.
2. Being seen to be cool is not high on my list of priorities, hence the fact that I neither shyed away from buying a "Hells Granny" car, nor giving her an appropriate name!! Besides, I would just like to point out that Nurton named his car (AND his CACTUS!)
So, based on those criteria outlined by Matt and Nurton the fact that I have bought a Micra, and they would not means that we both win!
QED
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