Thought I'd seen everything...

[scirocco at powerlink.net (John C. Worden)]

At 07:49 AM 7/16/03 -0700, Mike Smith wrote:

>But last night topped them all.  I was driving home and came to a stop 
>light one lane over and a few cars back from an OK looking blinged 
>Suburban.  Wasn't too flashy, so I didn't look at it in contempt, as I'm 
>wont to do.  Basically, lowered, really nice dark blue paint, and big 
>shiny rims.  OK, big deal, seen worse.  But then, I noticed the tail 
>pipe.  Wait, is that chrome?  Looks horrible!  All dented and wrinkly 
>looking.  Must be falling off after having backed into something.  But, 
>wait, there's other things (like bumper, trailer hitch) between it and 
>whatever would get backed into.  Couldn't be that.  A couple blocks down 
>the road and I get a closer look... NO!  It can't be!!  All the money 
>spent on rims and paint and they did THAT!!!!  Apparently, the "chrome" 
>that I was looking at was actually tinfoil wrapped around the pipe.  They 
>didn't even cover it all, just up to the elbow.  GAH!  I finally got next 
>to the driver's window.  It was down.  But the middle eastern girl was
>  busy chatting with her friend and I just didn't have the heart to ask 
> her if it was indeed tinfoil.  So I shook my head, laughed and left them 
> behind me.
>
>I think, NOW,  I've seen everything.  Something tells me that I'm wrong, 
>though.  Dead wrong.  Everytime I think it can't get any worse, it does.
>
>Anyone else seen stuff this cheesy?
>
>Mike (still shaking my head when I think about it)
>
>
>word (w?rd)
>interj. Slang. Used to express approval or an affirmative response to 
>something. Sometimes used with up. Source
>
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I've seen a few Dodge K cars running around with the twin racing stripes 
(ala Neon R/T and Ram SST), but best for stripes I've seen was a 
Dodge(another Dodge!) Dynasty
with the twin racing stripes, but they were contact paper, and the 
color....Woodgrain!  never had seen anything as funny at the time.

John