Pulled in at dealer service and had two wealthy patrons circling my car

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I really got a kick out of what happened yesterday.

I pulled into the dealer service counter to get my four wheel alignment done and was sitting outside on a bench waiting with my two year old daughter for my wife to pick me up.

I was getting my daughter's stuff out of the trunk and some guy waiting on his new car being brought out from service walks over to mine to check out the German road rallye badges. When he pulled off, I saw the German tags on the back of his car. I think he was German.

After he left, over walks this well dressed, apparently well off looking patron driving a W140 to talk to me about my old 300sd. He compliments my car and starts to talk about how he has been fortunate to own these cars for 30 years. He has two W140s and had brought in his wife's SL to be serviced.

He says, "Now this was real German engineering! Not the hybrid crap Mercedes is now of German engineering and Japanese bells and whistles." He went on to say that at least this car had real wire and not fiber optic cable. He said, "You ever tried to find a nick in fiber optic cable?"

He talked to my daughter a minute and headed off. I guess the moral of the story is that newer is not always better, even if you can afford it.