Someone called my dad's Benz a Piece of Sh*t
 

The car I was driving was my father's 1987 300E, which looks really good for the year, looks better than many new cars.
I was at the boat ramp today to pickup my shoes that I had left there earlier on one of the piers. I went back to get them and heard someone say, "who's car is that?" My car was in this pull around area where people get their boats ready to go before thy put them in the water. This guy's friend was already backing his boat in but he then said to someone else, "who's bimmer is that?" I then walked up and said that is my Mercedes. He then yelled at me, quote: "get that Piece of ***** car out of here!" I was appauled! I have never had anyone in my life refer to my dad's Mercedes as a P.O.S. He then said, "if their were a drunk guy here he'd kick your a** right here!" Then he repeated to me that I should get the P.O.S. out of there because it was a ramp.
He was driving a newer Yukon with what seemed like a brand new boat. What a PRICK! All that yelling he did at me was within 1 minute.
When I was driving away I had to keep both hands on the wheel to keep myself from extending my hand out the sunroof and giving him the finger, but i didn't. I wanted to point out to him that I drove a Mercedes while he drives a Chevy, but I knew it was a waste of my time.
He was yelling at other people for little things also like he owned the place. If I ever see him again I will run him over 18 times and then reverse, etc.

Have people ever done things like that where they think your car is crappy while their's are just god?

David

Appalled. You were not appauled, but appalled.

Ignore these folks. He was pushing your buttons, and you nearly took the bait. It sounds to me like he was your typical over-blown jerk-off redneck, and does not deserve one moment of your attention. You could have pointed out that the technology in his POS was basically 1955 with some leather sewn on to justify the extremely over-blown MSRP so that morons like him might feel good about buying a truck for a Mercedes price. But, what would that accomplish?

Just get in the car and leave. I couldn't really care what some yokel thinks of my car. I bought my Mercedes because of how it drives, not as some status symbol. If you re-read your post carefully, you could be accused of similar behaviour as your mouth-breathing adversary. You asume that your Mercedes is somehow superior and grants you social status above mullet-joe. Stop that thinking. Many people are not impressed by a Mercedes, BMW, or any other car.

He was nothing but a rude confrontational jerk that was looking for fight. Drive away...

Ted:

Bid-ness in the front, and PAR-TEE in the back. Cool mullet my man...

I don't think he thought your car was crappy...he was just using a figure of speech...like somebody callin' you an "*******"...would you actually go home and stand in front of the mirror and think to yourself, "do I really resemble that big black hole inside my asscrack?" no point in thinkin' about it any more...meaningless words by random ppl...who really cares...

Duck, is it just us Canucks? Has this happened to you? Even in the redneckest (not a word?) of places (Alberta) I have yet to come across this level of ruse behaviour. Maybe our rednecks are just plain polite, too.

The thing is that I am 17 driving my dad's car to just simply pick up a pair of shoes. The guy doesn't have to yell at me. He could simply say, "I don't think you should park there, people may need that". But instead he cursed something that is VERY dear to me. I just don't know who he thinks he is to comment on someone else's car. I try not to comment on other people's material things because it would make me seem stuck up.
David

He wanted to get a rise out of you. Later, while drinking his favourite beverage with his pals, he laughed at you backing down and slinking away. You had two options:

1. Defend your car's (a 3300lb bit of metal) honour, and take a swing at this fellow and have him (probably) beat you into next week.

2. Drive away and accept that they will laugh at you.

Take the second option, put it out of your head, and move on.

Sounds more like he was pissed off that you were parked where you were. Were you blocking/in the way of the ramp?

Anyhow, don't feel too bad - I've refered to my own 92 400e, which is in really nice shape, as a POS on several occasions - often when I have something unexpected & expensive break or malfunction!

Who knows, maybe this guy had a W124 and had to simultaneously fix his wiring harness and AC evaporator!

Some parts were humorous because other people couldn't believe that he was yelling at me like he was superior to me because he had the big boat and SUV.
David

In Vancouver, I've seen some pretty heated arguments on the road during rush hour traffic...standard "road rage" kinda stuff...and maybe the occassional "snobby" attitude from a fancy restaurant or the Mercedes-Benz dealership :p...but the blatant rudeness that David described above I have never witnessed or heard about around here...what I find odd is that it happened on a boat dock...sheeeeeesh...4th of July...nice sunny day...goin' for a boat ride...what kinda rage do you really have to take out on a 17 year old kid? It is not as if it is 7:30AM in the morning and you are high on a cup of coffee and sittin' in rush hour traffic tryin' to get to work on time...

Someone made reference to them calling their own car a POS when they are mad and that is understandable. The thing about the car though is that I put a lot of time into it so it upsets you when someone says something like that anyway. Even if it isn't a car it would piss you off after you work on something to call it a POS.

BM I did take it personally enough to let him beat me up anyways so that way at least the authorities could get involved.
David

Dave,

You've really got to learn to shrug off stuff, especially random comments like this...it is really not a big deal at all, unless you keep turnin' it over and over again in your head and blow it out of proportion...if you keep doin' this for the rest of your life, you are gonna end up with a nasty ulcer...R-E-L-A-X!!!

That guy was a retarded redneck who only yelled at you because

a) He thought he could take you
b) He was jealous you had a nicer car than his
c) you are younger than him

If I was there, I would've F-ed him up.

Your car isnt a POS, it was just a figure of speech like the duck said. :)

Heh
 

*******s always seem to come out from caves when I am driving my 240D. Some 35 year old guy passes me on a two lane country road (I am doing 60) and think's he's the **** with his 1986 Prelude. See me in 330,000 miles pal...then we can race.

Or the guys who rev their engine at you, and then I rev my engine back. They take off like a jackrabbit, and I just slowly paddle through the gears like I am not even racing.

We have an area in the city next to mine called "The Ave"

Basically, all the ricers hang out at the Ave, and drive up and down, and park in Wendy's, and blast rap music from their ****ty stock stereos the entire time.

My friends and I intentionally go there on Saturday, load up the Daler Mehndi Indian Hip Hop/Pop CD, along with Happatei (a Japanese Boy Band) and other funny music (Right Said Fred, Men at Work, Men Without Hats, French Rappers) and drive down the Ave with all the windows down, blasting this stuff as loud as possible. We always look menacing too, heh. My new style has been wearing a suit jacket over a t shirt with sunglasses, and people get freaked out :p

Anyhow, a little off topic. It's amusing to "fight the power" at least in my area by making a total mockery of their Saturday ritual of driving up and down a 4 lane Avenue....

-Kyle

He must have had MULLITUDE

I live in union central those guys actually hate people because of the cars they drive. I have an employee that drives my Tundra and a stupid red-neck %$# wnated to pick a fight with him "because his car is gay".

I hate stupid *********s that make life miserable for others.

When I get in situations like that (on the occasion that I actually don't react with some emotional middle finger or something) I just remind myelf of what kind of person the other guy is.

How miserable of a human being would he have to be to yell at a young kid [sorry, 17's young:)] because he parked his car where he shouldn't have for a couple minutes? If he gets that emotional about something so trivial he's a miserable person.

WANT '71 280SEL,

This sad lame-brain couldn't tell the difference between a MB and a BMW.

He's not worthy of your anger, forget the low-life and move-on.

this actually happened to me last night at a friends apartment......everyone was hanging out outside and I decided to jet early and as I was going to the car one kid said...."who the hell would want to drive that huge old tank?"

I didnt want to start anything but I was very mad!!! But it wasnt worth getting mad cause this guy doesnt even have a car!:rolleyes:

lol...crappy. Jerks everywhere.

I had a guy pull something like that on myself and a friend in my 300E. I had just parked the car on a busy street downtown and this dude in a massive Ford Exploder screeched behind me, jumped out of his SUV and started yelling at me that it was his spot. He was nowhere near me when I parked. He began getting abusive and threatening. I was amused at first but quickly got upset myself. He referred to my car as a "crappy German P.O.S". No doubt to get a rise out of me. That was when my friend introduced himself. He's a cop. Officer Alex X. of the Regional Police Force. Hehe. ;) You should have seen the guy fold like the wet noodle he was. It was raining apologies so hard that I had to grab an umbrella. If my friend had not been there, I might have done something stupid.

It's hard not to let crap like that get to you, but later, when you cool off, you'll always be glad that YOU kept your cool and didn't make things worse by say, knocking the guy's teeth out...

That guy was definitely a piece of *****.
Tim

Been there dun that. Then it turnd out 2 be the wrong guy!:eek:

I subscribe to this theory.

Not much you could do except shake your head, walk away, and feel sorry for the guy for making an ass of himself. I'm sure people around who saw this knew EXACTLY what was going on. Don't fret, these things get easier to deal with as you get older. Just prepare yourself for how you're going to react next time it happens.... and it will!

If you are certain your Dad's car is insured, motor around close enough where you have to back up and, due to the several confusing factors, back into the boat ... it would be an accident.

My father had a guy who worked for him in St Petersburg, FL 30 years ago ... the guy, driving his VM van accidently bumped a car (Cadillac) in front of him and when he got out to apologize and start the process of determining damage, etc, the owner of the other car, an elderly man from NJ began screaming and swearing at him. He thought it over, and then, backing his VW van away from the car positioned his van at the front, rear, and both sides and ran into the Caddy over and over. It cost him a lot of money and some jail time, but he was convinced the Caddy owner, would, in the future, be civil when dealing with his fellow drivers.

Dude...don't worry...I am 17 to and I drive a 1983 240D with 266,000 miles on it. A lot of my buds make fun of it (them owning Chevies) because its Diesel and all...but I remind them that when they are taking their Chevys to the junkyard, I will still be driving my Benz.

That cracks me up! Al Gore would be so proud!!:p