post hoax feelings
Yep! That's pretty much where I was coming from. Jealousy? Maybe a small tinge - but that wasn't really the main factor, nor was it some sort of emotional attachment to inanimate objects.
The bottom line is, there are a lot of folks out there right now bragging about "cool mods" to expensive products (whether it be new cars or computer systems), and many of these changes aren't really good for the resale value of the items. I have no problem with people having the right to do whatever they want with something they own. But effectively ruining the resale value of a product by pouring money and effort into fruitless and ill-conceived ideas is always hard to accept, without at least trying to educate the person first.
I'm glad to hear this was just a hoax, and in hind-sight, it is rather humorous - just because of how cleverly it was put together, and how fast and far word got around about it.
But I'll tell you, I own a Toyota Supra twin-turbo sports car (which I really had to sacrifice to purchase, and which continues to be pretty tough for me to afford), and it does sicken me to see the way some folks butcher up these cars. I believe only about 420 were made of the exact type/model I have, in the year it was manufactured (1997), and I bet you'd be hard pressed to find 1/3rd. of them left in original, factory condition today. Movies like "The Fast and the Furious" glorify the idea of slapping outrageous body kits, gawdy paint jobs and neon all over these cars and making them "cool" -- but how many people older than perhaps their mid-20's wants to drive around a car with flames or dragons painted down the side of it? If the teens spending thousands of bucks on this sort of thing would stop and think about the "long term" instead of the "here and now" - they could find much more productive things to do with that money.
Yep! That's pretty much where I was coming from. Jealousy? Maybe a small tinge - but that wasn't really the main factor, nor was it some sort of emotional attachment to inanimate objects.
The bottom line is, there are a lot of folks out there right now bragging about "cool mods" to expensive products (whether it be new cars or computer systems), and many of these changes aren't really good for the resale value of the items. I have no problem with people having the right to do whatever they want with something they own. But effectively ruining the resale value of a product by pouring money and effort into fruitless and ill-conceived ideas is always hard to accept, without at least trying to educate the person first.
I'm glad to hear this was just a hoax, and in hind-sight, it is rather humorous - just because of how cleverly it was put together, and how fast and far word got around about it.
But I'll tell you, I own a Toyota Supra twin-turbo sports car (which I really had to sacrifice to purchase, and which continues to be pretty tough for me to afford), and it does sicken me to see the way some folks butcher up these cars. I believe only about 420 were made of the exact type/model I have, in the year it was manufactured (1997), and I bet you'd be hard pressed to find 1/3rd. of them left in original, factory condition today. Movies like "The Fast and the Furious" glorify the idea of slapping outrageous body kits, gawdy paint jobs and neon all over these cars and making them "cool" -- but how many people older than perhaps their mid-20's wants to drive around a car with flames or dragons painted down the side of it? If the teens spending thousands of bucks on this sort of thing would stop and think about the "long term" instead of the "here and now" - they could find much more productive things to do with that money.
