You know that your'e a Mazda-maniac when...

[DeanSweet]

...when your neighbors come out of their house when you're washing your car and tell you "you're going to wear the paint off that car".

LOL I get this all the time.
So far you guys have described me to a 't' with all your comments on how anal retentive/obsessive compulsive we are about our cars. Here I had always thought I was the only one like this?!

here is my favorite quote from my 8 year old son talking to his friends.
'stay away from my dads car, and I don't mean like an arms lenth, I mean like the whole yard away from it!'

 

[JOS3]

i was seriously getting pissed yesterday because i was going through some nice curvy roads but i had my spare donut on and i was so pissed i was hitting my steering wheel because i wanted to have fun, but i couldnt.....

 

[cbcbd]

you record the mazda song "Zoom Zoom Zoom" and play it in your car while you drive

Yep, guilty

 

[20EVOLUTION01]

You know that you're a Mazda-maniac when.............(uhm)

you trade your wife/girlfriend in for a mazda.

all you can hear is the word mazda in your conversations.

they ask you what you got under the hood and you say "Zoom Zoom Baby"

you start daydreaming that you are in your car driving windy roads up in the mountains.

start beating everyone in site with a stock Mazda.(dunno)

 

[20EVOLUTION01]

you record the mazda song "Zoom Zoom Zoom" and play it in your car while you drive

Yep, guilty

hehe and I thought I was alone. (headbang)

 

[Iggy]

when you are on vacation for three weeks, and all you can talk about the entire time is how you can't wait to go home and drive your car again.

 

[bazooka joe]

when your wife asks to borrow the car and you tell her it's real low on gas....

 

[DiS]

....when every single time you work on your car outside, its always dark out.

 

[Protephile]

^^^Or, when you are still on this forum after three years resurrecting your own threads.

 

[DiS]

(rofl) I knew that someone would say that, hah!

.....when you come back from a long ass vacation and drive your mazda for 3 hours around your house just to get rid of that "sitting in the back seat of the SUV for 12 hours" feeling.

 

[B1GHAM]

*When you take up 2 parking spaces just so no one will be close enough to "accidentally" hurt your car even though you already have complaints about it from the apartment management office

*Your girlfriend doesnt even ask but assumes you are driving your car and stands by the passenger door

*You drop down a gear for NO reason just to feel the pull of the turbo

*You take the keys out of the car even if someones waiting in it just so theres no "funny business"...

* you drive your car atleast once a day even if you have no where togo

*when driving becomes something that doesnt NEED a destination

* you spend the day washing and cleaning the car then drive it around just so people can see what a good job you did.

*Everytime you drive with your windows down someone asks "whats done to it?" "is it stock?" or "Want to race?"

*Your friend buys a new car, parks it next to yours and people still say "The mazdaspeed is better" (just happened today lol)

Sean

 

[smo0f]

when instead of getting a tux, you wear a mazda tshirt and hat you just picked up from a meet the night before to your best friend's wedding.

 

[chiefmg]

I have been guilty of many of these since buying my RX-7 in 1981. Here are a few from my Protege:

1) when your gf says she wants to drive your car while you are gone, "because everyone who knows you knows your car is the most important thing to you and it helps me feel close to you while you are away." (she has no idea, once I get my RX restored watch out!)
2) you ask your gf not to wear a certain piece of clothing, such as a sweater, because it sheds and leaves a bunch of crap on your interior (especially irksome after you have just cleaned).
3) you take a curve on the highway about 20 over the posted limit, everyone says you are going too fast, and you are puzzled what the problem is because you are already going slower than normal.
4) people tell you the speed limit posted on the curve signs, and you tell them those are only recommended safe speeds for the 50th percentile drivers, and you can easily increase them by a factor of two.

 

[LinuxRacr]

I've been guilty of number 3 in the past.

 

[Protephile]

Hell yeah for #'s 3 & 4.
How ya been chief? Back on dry land yet?

 

[chiefmg]

Hell yeah for #'s 3 & 4.
How ya been chief? Back on dry land yet?

Nah, I agreed to extend for a week, then my relief tore an Achilles' tendon so I am stuck for an additional two weeks until the new relief comes out. So I am still here in the Footprint of Freedom. My gf took the news pretty well all things considered. I did mention to her that I would be sure to have Valentine's Day home with her next year (an auspicious date for us), that probably hasn't done me any harm. My line of work you learn pretty quickly to work every angle. Then again I have a former ex, so maybe I am a slow learner!

Forgot, here's another:

5) take every opportunity to do a little oversteer with the first gen MPV (rear wheel drive V6), usually when taking a curve (laws of physics don't cha' know), then telling your youngsters not to tell mom. Of course being properly indoctrinated they egg you on the next time...

 

[GordonJ]

I have been guilty of many of these since buying my RX-7 in 1981. Here are a few from my Protege:

1) when your gf says she wants to drive your car while you are gone, "because everyone who knows you knows your car is the most important thing to you and it helps me feel close to you while you are away." (she has no idea, once I get my RX restored watch out!)
2) you ask your gf not to wear a certain piece of clothing, such as a sweater, because it sheds and leaves a bunch of crap on your interior (especially irksome after you have just cleaned).
3) you take a curve on the highway about 20 over the posted limit, everyone says you are going too fast, and you are puzzled what the problem is because you are already going slower than normal.
4) people tell you the speed limit posted on the curve signs, and you tell them those are only recommended safe speeds for the 50th percentile drivers, and you can easily increase them by a factor of two.

Guilty of ALL of the above...and like 80% of all the others in this thread.

I actually let my gf drive my P5 a few times back when I had it, now, she won't even bother asking anymore.

 

[Bala]

You take a picture of your four day old daughter in an RX8 wheel ...
http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=122271

 

[GhostMercury]

o who cant pay for there msp but refuses to get rid of it so whether i have to beg borrow or steal i will make my payments

 

[chiefmg]

6) you drive your new RX-7 all over the countryside at all hours to heal your soul after the loss of your first love. And it works.
7) you are away from home for a long period of time, and the thought of what you will do to your car takes equal or greater time in your mind as what you will do with your significant other when you finally get home. Of course you never admit this to your significant other.