What a freaken day...
What a freaken day...
So I am not sure where to post this but I'll put it here cause it has some local info.
I just need to vent...
Today I decided to get my windows tinted. I've been thinking about it for awhile. I saw that there was a deal with some window shop in MD but I don't want to drive all the way up to MD to get windows tinted.
Anyhow I live down in near Woodbridge VA and I call up Quality Tire in Woodbridge and they give me an estimate of 200 for tinting, which seems good. I Also got a 10% coupon from their website so that brought it down to 180. Well I take the car in at 10 and they say they'll be done in a three to four hours. Which was cool cause I wanted to hang out with my friends and jam for a bit today.
So I go get lunch with my dad, and we chill for a few hours till about two. I call up Quality tire and they say that it will be done at five instead and they are just getting to it... so I'm like whatever that's cool. Me and dad drive home. I call my friend and tell him that we'll jam later.
Well I get my dad to take me up there about four to check up on it and see if it is done. Well, turns out they aren't done and won't be till around 7. Well now I am kinda pissed... but I'm still cool... I'll just eat dinner and do a couple things to pass the time and get my guitar ready.
Well at 6:30 my dad doesn't want to take me. So I scramble and call my friend and I ask him to take me over Quality Tire to pick up my car. We get my car and everything is cool. Windows look pimp and I'm stoked.
I get home and decide to go over to my friends house but I forgot my guitar. So rather than sit there I go get my guitar so we can jam. As I am comming back to his house from mine I hear a really bad scratching sound, like I am dragging my muffler.
My first thought was, "Oh crap my new Magnaflow!" I was about to dump a load. I pull to the side of the road and pull my car into a turn lane. If it was my exhaust I wasn't going to drive to the nearest intersection. I wanted to get that thing back up. Well I get out of my car and it wasn't my exhaust, thank Jebus.
But what is that under my freaken tire? Oh, well, its a two foot bar of iron rebar, used to sure up concrete. Somehow it wedged itself up under my muffler and twisted under my back wheel. I was shocked my muffler didn't break off.
Anyhow I call my dad and he comes with a six ton jack and some flares. We jack the car up and I slide under it to get the rebar removed. It took nothing and was out in a snap... well just as I get out from under my car and as I am about to lower the car a cop pulls up.
He walks up to the car and says, "Is everything alright folks." more like it was a statement than a question. And I tell him what was up. We then walks around my car, looks at my car, and then walks back to me. And then says, "I'm glad your car is fine but you know that exhaust and those windows of your's aren't street legal." I was floored... I was about to get ticketed for some *** muncer leaving a peice of freaken rebar on the road... I was about to go off.
I was hot, I was pissed off, I had just about enough of it. I walked over to the side of the road with him and my dad standing right there, which was the worst of it actually, awaiting to get a new one ripped open for me.
The officer starts by saying that the legal tint on the windows is whatever it is, and then he starts into the whole aftermarket exhaust thing. Well I was so pissed I started to argue. I wasn't mad or to the point of making a nonesense argument but I simply recalled the law and stated it giving the officer a lesson.
I explained that aftermarket exhausts are legal in the state of Virginia so long as they are "factory like," and that the criteria for factory like is that it consists of the same parts as the factory and that only modification to a stock muffler or a aftermarket muffler to make it more loud or less efficent makes it illegal. I asked him if it was illegal why would there be so many freaken muffler shops on highway 1? And why aftermarket exhausts pass inspection all the time...
Then I had to break it down that the aftermarket muffler was exactly the same as the stock one, in that it consists of a pipe after the Cat, a resonator, and a muffler. I told him that it was an upgrade to the former factory exhaust. By now he seems genuinly interested and I go onto the tint.
I tell him the tint was just put on today. But he stopped me there and said, "Calm down... I'm not going to give you a ticket or anything... I've got better things to do." He walks off just laughing...
My dad is standing there smiling, which I found odd... we get home and my dad says to me... "Why the hell am I paying for you to be a history major? You should be taking law classes."
I finally got to my friends house to jam and chill for awhile after all this stupid day but my God, what a freaken day!!! Another page in the saga Fox and his Lancer...
Fox
I just need to vent...
Today I decided to get my windows tinted. I've been thinking about it for awhile. I saw that there was a deal with some window shop in MD but I don't want to drive all the way up to MD to get windows tinted.
Anyhow I live down in near Woodbridge VA and I call up Quality Tire in Woodbridge and they give me an estimate of 200 for tinting, which seems good. I Also got a 10% coupon from their website so that brought it down to 180. Well I take the car in at 10 and they say they'll be done in a three to four hours. Which was cool cause I wanted to hang out with my friends and jam for a bit today.
So I go get lunch with my dad, and we chill for a few hours till about two. I call up Quality tire and they say that it will be done at five instead and they are just getting to it... so I'm like whatever that's cool. Me and dad drive home. I call my friend and tell him that we'll jam later.
Well I get my dad to take me up there about four to check up on it and see if it is done. Well, turns out they aren't done and won't be till around 7. Well now I am kinda pissed... but I'm still cool... I'll just eat dinner and do a couple things to pass the time and get my guitar ready.
Well at 6:30 my dad doesn't want to take me. So I scramble and call my friend and I ask him to take me over Quality Tire to pick up my car. We get my car and everything is cool. Windows look pimp and I'm stoked.
I get home and decide to go over to my friends house but I forgot my guitar. So rather than sit there I go get my guitar so we can jam. As I am comming back to his house from mine I hear a really bad scratching sound, like I am dragging my muffler.
My first thought was, "Oh crap my new Magnaflow!" I was about to dump a load. I pull to the side of the road and pull my car into a turn lane. If it was my exhaust I wasn't going to drive to the nearest intersection. I wanted to get that thing back up. Well I get out of my car and it wasn't my exhaust, thank Jebus.
But what is that under my freaken tire? Oh, well, its a two foot bar of iron rebar, used to sure up concrete. Somehow it wedged itself up under my muffler and twisted under my back wheel. I was shocked my muffler didn't break off.
Anyhow I call my dad and he comes with a six ton jack and some flares. We jack the car up and I slide under it to get the rebar removed. It took nothing and was out in a snap... well just as I get out from under my car and as I am about to lower the car a cop pulls up.
He walks up to the car and says, "Is everything alright folks." more like it was a statement than a question. And I tell him what was up. We then walks around my car, looks at my car, and then walks back to me. And then says, "I'm glad your car is fine but you know that exhaust and those windows of your's aren't street legal." I was floored... I was about to get ticketed for some *** muncer leaving a peice of freaken rebar on the road... I was about to go off.
I was hot, I was pissed off, I had just about enough of it. I walked over to the side of the road with him and my dad standing right there, which was the worst of it actually, awaiting to get a new one ripped open for me.
The officer starts by saying that the legal tint on the windows is whatever it is, and then he starts into the whole aftermarket exhaust thing. Well I was so pissed I started to argue. I wasn't mad or to the point of making a nonesense argument but I simply recalled the law and stated it giving the officer a lesson.
I explained that aftermarket exhausts are legal in the state of Virginia so long as they are "factory like," and that the criteria for factory like is that it consists of the same parts as the factory and that only modification to a stock muffler or a aftermarket muffler to make it more loud or less efficent makes it illegal. I asked him if it was illegal why would there be so many freaken muffler shops on highway 1? And why aftermarket exhausts pass inspection all the time...
Then I had to break it down that the aftermarket muffler was exactly the same as the stock one, in that it consists of a pipe after the Cat, a resonator, and a muffler. I told him that it was an upgrade to the former factory exhaust. By now he seems genuinly interested and I go onto the tint.
I tell him the tint was just put on today. But he stopped me there and said, "Calm down... I'm not going to give you a ticket or anything... I've got better things to do." He walks off just laughing...
My dad is standing there smiling, which I found odd... we get home and my dad says to me... "Why the hell am I paying for you to be a history major? You should be taking law classes."
I finally got to my friends house to jam and chill for awhile after all this stupid day but my God, what a freaken day!!! Another page in the saga Fox and his Lancer...
Fox
hope it wasnt a state trooper... im about to do my physical test in august to try to get in, and ill give u a hint about MD stroopers... dont DONT argue with them, lol.... they will find a reason to put u in jail 
anywayz, that sux bro, if i was u, i wouldnt demenaded some more money off of my tint for the long wait. also, the rebar, ur damn lucky that didnt break anything!!!
so u wasted a few hours, ended up jamming with ur friends, and got ur car home in one peice
eh, u turned out alllllll right
hey, on a side note, were having a lancer get togather meet on saturday, under the "another whitemarsh" topic... u should check it out, if u need difrections its not hard to get to at all u should really come up
anywayz, that sux bro, if i was u, i wouldnt demenaded some more money off of my tint for the long wait. also, the rebar, ur damn lucky that didnt break anything!!!
so u wasted a few hours, ended up jamming with ur friends, and got ur car home in one peice
eh, u turned out alllllll right hey, on a side note, were having a lancer get togather meet on saturday, under the "another whitemarsh" topic... u should check it out, if u need difrections its not hard to get to at all
u should really come up
Rally,
I was actually planning on going to the Whitemash meet, it would have been my first actually. But my boss scheduled me to work... that and the fact that I am out near the West VA border most of the time means no car meets. Totally sucks but I hope to make some of the other meets later this year for sure.
Thanks anyway man.
Fox
I was actually planning on going to the Whitemash meet, it would have been my first actually. But my boss scheduled me to work... that and the fact that I am out near the West VA border most of the time means no car meets. Totally sucks but I hope to make some of the other meets later this year for sure.
Thanks anyway man.
Fox