Ultimate snub by a C6
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St. Jude Donor '03-'06-'07-'08-'09
Ultimate snub by a C6
Didn't want to steal Rattler71's thread so here is last night's experience.
Had just put my baby in the garage last night about 6:30 and was walking to my truck which was parked on the street. I get to end of my driveway and a White C6 vert with the top down came around the corner slowed to about 5 mph and essentially ignored me and the thumbs-up I gave him. Ignore is not the right word....ICY stare! This wouldn't be so strange in most neighborhoods except that I live in a small (less than 150 homes) gated-complex and most of us know one another. I can virtually count on one-hand the number of cars that normally pass by in the course of 2 hours. Our house is in the most distant corner from the gates so that there's almost no traffic and most neighbors have no reason to go out of their way, in that our street is part of a square approx. 1/4 mile on each side surrounding the lake. The exception to the soccer moms driving by our house in SUV's after school are a few neighborhood friends (one Z4, two NSX's, one Rolls, and another vette), prinicipally checking to see whether I'm in the driveway detailing the C5 or it's rims, again. Anyway, after that experience, I won't be complaining about not having waves returned.
Had just put my baby in the garage last night about 6:30 and was walking to my truck which was parked on the street. I get to end of my driveway and a White C6 vert with the top down came around the corner slowed to about 5 mph and essentially ignored me and the thumbs-up I gave him. Ignore is not the right word....ICY stare! This wouldn't be so strange in most neighborhoods except that I live in a small (less than 150 homes) gated-complex and most of us know one another. I can virtually count on one-hand the number of cars that normally pass by in the course of 2 hours. Our house is in the most distant corner from the gates so that there's almost no traffic and most neighbors have no reason to go out of their way, in that our street is part of a square approx. 1/4 mile on each side surrounding the lake. The exception to the soccer moms driving by our house in SUV's after school are a few neighborhood friends (one Z4, two NSX's, one Rolls, and another vette), prinicipally checking to see whether I'm in the driveway detailing the C5 or it's rims, again. Anyway, after that experience, I won't be complaining about not having waves returned.
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People that buy the very first of anything are not always fanatics like we are. They just want to have the newest, period. This time it happens to be a Corvette. He'll probably trade it in on a new whatever-comes-out-next before a year is up...
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Originally Posted by BigJoe
People that buy the very first of anything are not always fanatics like we are. They just want to have the newest, period. This time it happens to be a Corvette. He'll probably trade it in on a new whatever-comes-out-next before a year is up...
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Originally Posted by BigJoe
People that buy the very first of anything are not always fanatics like we are. They just want to have the newest, period. This time it happens to be a Corvette. He'll probably trade it in on a new whatever-comes-out-next before a year is up...
this person is probably in the minority. Keep on wavin I will wave at all the C6's
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Maybe since that driver probably doesn't live there, they were looking for a an address (hence driving 5 mph). I don't always put too much weight on people paying full attention when they're driving anyway. Most people drive 
.... no offense to anyone, but that's what makes me such a defensive driver. I wouldn't take not waving personally. From the sounds of your neighborhood, maybe they thought they were gonna get carjacked! 
.... no offense to anyone, but that's what makes me such a defensive driver. I wouldn't take not waving personally. From the sounds of your neighborhood, maybe they thought they were gonna get carjacked!
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Originally Posted by 99C5Vert
I didn't think C6 verts were being built till November. Anyway, don't fault the car for an idiot owner.
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Keep waving - that C6 owner was hopefully in the minority.
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Originally Posted by Avanti
And, the reason you care is... ? Come on!
Come on!agreed. Why get worked up on whether or not someone waves at you or, for that matter, responds back to your thumbs up? With more than 30K Vettes made a year nowadays, it stands to reason that a few of them don't even care about their own Vette much less the need to respond to a guy standing in his driveway trying to somehow show linkage to another that he doesn't even know.
