Miata Mailing List: October 1993, Message #9
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   From: Alan Dahl 
Subject: Final Warning to non-wavers
   Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 17:40:22 -0400

Brad.Martinson@Eng.Sun.COM (Brad Martinson - Just Say NO To Bugs!) writes:
> All right, that's it.  If y'all are NOT going to wave back, I'm going to
> start waving at Mercury Capris.  Well, ones with their top down, at least.
Now, now, Brad I had someone in a Miata flash his lights just today at lunch  
and I waved back so not every Miata driver out there is rude. One problem here  
in Kirkland is that if I waved at every Miata I saw I'd never have time to put  
my hands on the steering wheel.

Of course some other bozo with his top *up* didn't even look my way but, hey, I  
figured it *must* be a rent-a-car since no real Miata driver in Seattle would  
_ever_ leave his top up when it's 75 and sunny.

> Sheesh - you'd think you might *notice* another person with almost as
> much good taste in cars as you have, and wave back. I'm not even requiring 

> you to initiate the wave - just respond.  Oh - and wave with *all* your
> fingers, not just the middle one.
I'd expect this from CRX or Capri drivers but not from Miata owners. Perhaps  
Mazda sould give prospective owners a personality test before selling them the  
car. Or maybe it was the aformentioned rent-a-car driver.

Just to show that all rent-a-car drivers are not philistines, one of the  
Canadians from Cantel working here at McCaw temporarily has been driving a  
rental Miata for the last couple of months. When the rental company announced  
that they were going to stop renting Miatas until next summer (they're  
replacing all their '92s with '94s) he decided to *buy* the car from them!

> Brad "And maybe even del Sols, too" Martinson
NO! Anything but *that*! :-)

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