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Larry Hill 05-10-2009 11:21 AM

What The Other Half Says About Us
 
After reading Chad Loge's post about what his wife said "Why do you spend so much time and money on your car, someone is always going to be faster?", I started to wonder what other spouses' and friends say about what we do for fun.

A friend of Art Wilkinson's asked the question " If you guys are so good at making these cars go fast, how come there is always something wrong with them?"

Patsy's question is " Are we ready to load up yet?" and then "We'll get em next race!"

What do ya'll hear?

Larry

Dick Butler 05-10-2009 11:32 AM

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" I cant believe you continue to want to do this with the way you are treated by NHRA",
"------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ the rules are."
" I ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- they get you so upset with the lack of rules enforcement" and poor rule making"

It is always great to see our friends". This is Number 1 comment.

Tony Janes 05-10-2009 01:27 PM

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I do not have that problem

Angela Macy 05-10-2009 01:46 PM

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I am the other half and my most frequent line is "Quit your b*tching and fix the car/get your head out of your arse/etc" - fill in the blank with whatever is appropriate for the current problem :D ;)

Dan Fletcher 05-10-2009 02:34 PM

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you suck....

and

it's about f___ing time...

Larry Munk 05-10-2009 03:14 PM

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And if you weren't doing this you'ld just be lying around dying. Shut up and go racing.
(That's as good as I can clean it up.)

Tom keedle 05-10-2009 03:30 PM

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"can you afford to do this?"

or

"you can't afford to do this"

Kenny Wigington 05-10-2009 03:39 PM

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" As long as that is the "other woman", I'm ok with that !" I swear, that was her comment !


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Jeff Lee 05-10-2009 04:57 PM

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That sure is a pretty paint job for $500.00.
That sure is a loud sounding engine for $800.00
That sure is a fast car for $2,500.00 investment....

Michael Barsky 05-10-2009 05:09 PM

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which track are you are going to, oh, i'm not going

Larry Hill 05-10-2009 05:15 PM

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That sure is a pretty paint job for $500.00.
That sure is a loud sounding engine for $800.00
That sure is a fast car for $2,500.00 investment....
__________________

Liar, liar, pants on fire!!

Patsy

Rob Petrie E395 05-10-2009 05:41 PM

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Every time my wife goes with me to a race which is not very often I get the following questions
1. Can we stop at the outlet mall they have a coach store.
2. If its a big city its Can we goto Magianos for dinner

My response is usually Yes we can stop if Coach has started selling racecar parts and we can have dinner if you can get valet parking for this truck and trailer.

Last year at the div 3 bracket finals my wifes niece was mad about not being able to go shopping because with rain we ran late friday night due to rain. Being the brat she is she said "I hope you blow up" to make a long story short the trans let go first round. On the way home it was the most peace and quiet I have ever had in my truck and not one request to stop and goto the bathroom.

jmcarter 05-10-2009 06:21 PM

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Now, where the heck are you going this weekend?

You sure we discussed that?

Whatever.....(sigh)

gmonde 05-10-2009 06:38 PM

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"UPS was here again"

"so if you home early, thats not good right?"

gmonde

Doug Blackley 05-10-2009 07:01 PM

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So you think we can afford it?
When do I get a vacation that doesn't involve a race track?

Those are the most common lines...there are others but those aren't very p.c. LOL.

Michael Barsky 05-10-2009 07:48 PM

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if i bought a $200 pair of pants i'd be a moron

Michael Barsky 05-10-2009 07:52 PM

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hey rob we should talk we maybe married to the same women

Robert Swartz 05-10-2009 08:02 PM

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After a 20+ year hiatus. My wife wasn't around during my racing days. Her usual response is, "we can't afford this". More recently she hit me with " I thought you weren't going to do this anymore". She was a guiding force in encouraging me to drag my old Chevy II out of the corner and begin it's resurrection.

What's really funny, she works at a body shop. She keeps pictures at her desk and gives all the guys out in the shop progess updates on the Nova bracket car as we're working on it. She still hasn't warmed up to the crate motor Firebird yet.

Robert Swartz

Mike Meier 05-10-2009 08:06 PM

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This one is for both racing and sporting events that go to overtime: "When are we going to be done?" LOL

7881 Chris 05-10-2009 09:17 PM

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Being a female racer. My story goes as such. My girlfriend told me she spent $150 on a pair of jeans. I thought she was out of her mind. So with the new requirement of SFI pants in stock I had to tell her that I spent $150 on a pair of pants and "they won't catch on fire". She told me I guess you can't call them your hot pants. LOL No complaints from me.

herbjr 05-10-2009 09:44 PM

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Well I'm divorced but.....well I'm divorced.

imported_Doug 05-10-2009 10:03 PM

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While sitting at breakfast on a Sunday during a National event I asked my girlfriend if she thought I was going to win. She said...."not if you're dead late again".

Mind you, she knows zero about racing.

She's also said...."Where in the world is Medford??"

Oh ya one more....."Dan Fletcher beat you again??"

Doug Lambeck

Jim Wahl 05-10-2009 10:09 PM

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Well said Herb, been there.....done that! Jim

B Aceves 05-10-2009 10:28 PM

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After reading all these posts its seems maybe the wives should figure out how to fix the AHFS,
they all seem to agree on the same thing, What is wrong with us? lol

Valentine 05-10-2009 10:36 PM

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Hey Barsky if you bought a $200 pair of pants i would call you a moron. hahahaha Hope all is well brotha!!! Tell Kim i said whats up.

Todd Bailey 05-10-2009 11:52 PM

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This has probably been heard over and over but I remember hearing it from a lady in the stands at Green Valley YEARS ago during a points meet. "When are they gonna come around again?

While not exactly pertaining to the theme here my mind flashed back to a time long ago. Was late getting to the track one night for some grudge racing so I was moving quickly to get the car unloaded. The straps came off and the girlfriend/wife/ex-wife was asking me if "I was going to use those......uh.....what-are-they called......uh the long things"........At this point I was halfway ignoring her while trying to get to the lanes before they closed. Fired up the car and I could still see her mouth moving. I could not hear her and I had to shut the engine off which made me even more frantic. Again, the question about the long things. Fired the car up and was moving backwards when I realized what she was talking about.

Cars roll off of trailers much better when the ramps are installed.

Jack Matyas 05-11-2009 06:50 AM

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" I'll go along if you fix the satellite dish......"

Brandon Peterson 05-11-2009 07:02 AM

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I could go on for days with the crap i hear when i go racing....lets see "why do you have to go racing again this weekend,if its only 1 day then you shouldn't have to go, do you have to go to this one",then i say well do you wanna come,
'no i don;t want to sit in a camper all day long" call here a few times at the race,what are you doing"sitting at home watching tv"(duh)...."when you lose you better load up and come home don't hang around and watch your friends race".(thanks for the kinds words sweetie).."oh you won great how much did you win, can i get my hair done then"..those are some of the better ones i hear when i go racing....here is the best she has ever done, it was after my son was born.
"you don't need to go racing anymore your a dad now"..my answer was my dad raced when i was a kid look how i turned out,this was as i was walking out the door to go to a combo race 3 years ago..i also get the your never home comments all the time. i say im home monday-friday and usually only race 2 weekends a month when the season comes in

Dion Hildebrandt 05-11-2009 07:22 AM

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these are pretty funny, the only complaint i here is 'why do we have to leave at 5:30 am? cant we leave later?' that happened just yesterday. on the way back the comments are ' that was a fun day' or 'i like seeing your reaction when you break out' (which doesnt happen often but it this case i was solidly under the index which looked like i won the round haha)

Troy Henderson 05-11-2009 07:35 AM

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"When can I drive" which has now evolved into "When do you think you'll have my car built"

I can't complain.

Mike Voth 05-11-2009 08:16 AM

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Troy - As long as she realizes that you have to get yours together first! haha

My fiance is brand new to drag racing. So far she loves it! When I was out of town on business, she even went to a division race without me to see dad run!!

bobby 05-11-2009 08:32 AM

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1st wife-you're not going to drive that car on the street, you're going to race it instead. smartest thing she said to me besides "I want a divorce".

2nd wife-If we go on vacation, can we take the racecars?

Marc LaBrecque 05-11-2009 09:58 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Jack Matyas (Post 119872)
" I'll go along if you fix the satellite dish......"

Jack , if you'd part with a few buck's we'd get you hooked up with a satillite that dosn't take as long to find the signal, as your usally around the track !
Marc

RHINO 05-11-2009 10:27 AM

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my ex-wife asked me one day "why do you work on that stocker all week till late at night for eleven seconds worth of fun".

i got a t-shirt made and on the back it said Racing Is My Life Deal With It. every time she brought up racing i just turned my back end let her read it. no more words from me.

Ed Fernandez 05-11-2009 10:33 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RHINO (Post 119908)
my ex-wife asked me one day "why do you work on that stocker all week till late at night for eleven seconds worth of fun".

i got a t-shirt made and on the back it said Racing Is My Life Deal With It. every time she brought up racing i just turned my back end let her read it. no more words from me.

Do you wear body armor by chance?????


Ed F.

RHINO 05-11-2009 10:36 AM

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i do have body armor, because i am a police officer, but i wasn't smart enough to wear it. but you do see i am divorced.

Rusty Davenport 05-11-2009 10:46 AM

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She must love it..........she knows the best way to get me to quit is START GOING WITH ME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So far that has not happened !!!!!

Larry Hill 05-11-2009 11:51 AM

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Phillip Saran, I couldn't figure out how to reply to you off the Private Message, but the quote from Chad Loge is under "Sorenson 1.40 under"
Patsy

Jack McCarthy 05-11-2009 11:52 AM

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she said "it's me or that wagon"...

damn ol wagon's been running good ever since !

captain jack

Jim Wahl 05-11-2009 06:15 PM

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At-a-boy Jack! Jim


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