Red Light Drama - Has something like this happened to you lately?

[zZSportZz]

I'm sitting at a red today, minding my own business when this Cadillac pulls up next to me in the other lane. Guy looks at me and yells "My father used to shoot those down in World War II." So being the wise *** that I am yell back..."I didn't know cars could fly" Then hes like..."No I mean the Japs" (apparently he didn't recognize the sarcasm) Light goes green and he guns it....

Honestly, wtf is that all about? It made me laugh more than anything else. Anyone else have any stories like this?

[TheWeatherman]

Originally Posted by zZSportZz

I'm sitting at a red today, minding my own business when this Cadillac pulls up next to me in the other lane. Guy looks at me and yells "My father used to shoot those down in World War II." So being the wise *** that I am yell back..."I didn't know cars could fly" Then hes like..."No I mean the Japs" (apparently he didn't recognize the sarcasm) Light goes green and he guns it....

Honestly, wtf is that all about? It made me laugh more than anything else. Anyone else have any stories like this?

You had the best comeback EVER! Too bad the guy was so stupid that he thought he needed to correct you. Have piece of mind that you made the right comment back.

[nogoodname]

best is not to aggravate the moron.......that was a good reply

[edeeZee]

I remember when I was a car salesman years back (99-02), and I usually worked at domestic dealers because the economy was relatively good then and this was prior to gas hitting $3+/gallon. Full size SUV's were the cars to sell then, because everyone leased them and you made pounders off them.

This old school white guy comes into the Dodge dealer I worked at to shop for a full sized truck, Dodge 3/4 tons or higher. And this was when Dodge did the face-lift and had their new-gen engines in their 2002 Rams i.e. 4.7 V-8 and on, the 318 and 360 engines were gone now.

To make the long story short...I told him our turbo diesel dually would outpull, outhaul any truck out there on the market: including the new Toyota Tundra and Nissan Titan (these came out around then and other customers cross shopped them). Then the old school white dude said something like, (in a rednecky twang) "I don't buy Jap-junk, tie-yo-tuhs, nih-sahns are nothing but regenerated scrap metal..."

I just thought it was funny because we're in S. Cali, and if you're square and stuck in the past, you ain't gonna make it here.

[ZKindaGuy]

Originally Posted by zZSportZz

I'm sitting at a red today, minding my own business when this Cadillac pulls up next to me in the other lane. Guy looks at me and yells "My father used to shoot those down in World War II." So being the wise *** that I am yell back..."I didn't know cars could fly" Then hes like..."No I mean the Japs" (apparently he didn't recognize the sarcasm) Light goes green and he guns it....

Honestly, wtf is that all about? It made me laugh more than anything else. Anyone else have any stories like this?

I think it is known as "atavistic behavior" whereby an individual is an evolutionary throwback to some previous age because of their inability to adapt to their new environment. What is very ignorant about these types regarding your particular situation is that the Japanese people have sworn their honorable continuiiong allegience to the United States after WWII.

The reason being is that the Japanese people have alw3ays considered themselves the greatest warriors. They never thought they would ever meet an advesary that could fight as fierce as they are historically known to be. They also never expected a culture could be more deadly savage as them. That all changed with our dropping of the two A-bombs.

Then after their surrender we turned around and rebuilt their country for them and restored it way beyond its time which allowed Japan to become a world-class industrial power.

For these reasons they have forever pledged their alliance to US in times of real wars. So we really have no good reason to turn on these folks as they have always been in or corner since the end of WWII.

Unfortunatley some of the US folks of the later wars (i.e. Korean and Vietnam) mix the people of Japanese decent up with the other asian folks that are not of Japanese decent. And then these butt-heads propogate that hate to their children which creates the situations you just described.

They really have no clue about history because they sat in school with the heads up their *** most of the time and learning nothing but their present day "good ole boy" habits....which has teh physical impact of making their arms longer so that they knuckle-drag when they walk.

[LiquidZ]

I seem to get "revved" at quite a bit.

[xiven]

Originally Posted by LiquidZ

I seem to get "revved" at quite a bit.

By what vehicles?

[phelan]

I'm getting an "Off Topic" vibe from this. But in related news, I did have a Camaro rev very aggressively at the red light last night. I'm still breaking in the engine, so I was game, but...yeah, nothing as serious as a racial comment.

[2theextreme]

Originally Posted by LiquidZ

I seem to get "revved" at quite a bit.

Me, too......especially by mini vans. What's up with that?

[SOLISIMO]

Did you ask who's doing the warranty work on the Cadi when GM is done in the next few months? The Japs

[chubbs]

Originally Posted by zZSportZz

"I didn't know cars could fly"

[rufio11]

Yes its Japanese but totally the wrong company. Mitsubishi was the type of engine in the Jap Zeros that his father shot down. So whatever, grow tough skin and don't let comments like that get to you, being PC is so lame, just say what you mean, and mean what you say.

[VCuomo]

You younger guys probably don't get it, but there are a LOT of people around who's views towards Japanese products are influenced by WWII - either their own experience or their parents'. It's real, and there are hard feelings about it across the US. You should hear some of the comments that I've gotten from fellow Corvette owners... Sheesh...

[rreign]

I think this is going pretty off topic for some of you. Really the only question was, has anything similar to this ever happened to you. I have had a lot of different imports and jut about every time I ventured out, I had some stupid comment or some jack *** revving his motor at me. It's the nature of the beast unfortunitely.

[Robert_Nash]

The automotive manufacturing business today is TRULY global; people who don’t understand that and what it means are either too stupid to understand, don’t care, or refuse to understand so as to remain confident in their wrong thinking.

What makes such people laughable is that they’ll rail against “foreign” cars and how people should “buy American” while concurrently loading up their Chevy or Dodge pick-up with Chinese made crap they bought at Wal-Mart.

By any objective measure you want to apply; most “foreign” nameplates are, as a whole, as “American” as are GM or Ford (and even the throw-backs can’t argue Chrysler is “American” with a straight face anymore)…if you look vehicle by vehicle, many “foreign” nameplates are more “American” than “domestic” brands. But those who think the like the guy you encountered at the red light are never going to let logic or reasoning or facts get in the way of their opinion.

I can understand the feelings of those who actually lived through/fought it WWII – if I had had some Japanese soldier shooting at me or had a friend or loved one die from a bomb dropped by a Japanese pilot I’d probably wouldn’t feel all that warm and fuzzy about products coming from Japan either but for the rest, for those who weren’t “there”; those feelings have more to do with just plain hatred and very misplaced patriotism than anything else.

I will say that I've never had anyone be this blatantly ignorant with me in person but I sure run into it all the time on forums!