I was going out to my car after school today, and while I'm letting it idle, waiting for the A/C to cool down, I hear this engine being revved up behind me.
That might have been meagerly interesting if it weren't a
Toyota Camry from 10+ years ago.
So I see this guy, sitting there in neutral, thinking he's all badass, windows down, revving up his little 4-banger, and I call him out on it. I shout, "Dude! You're driving a
Corolla." I don't know if he heard me, or didn't know I was talking to him since I misidentified the car (
my bad), but I'm guessing he heard something since he felt the need to rev it again, in a failed effort to show off.
Needless to say, I found it overly pathetic, mostly because it was a 4-cylinder sedan in a
school parking lot, but also because my V6 made more noise at 950 RPM than his Camry did at whatever it was at. And I'm standing there, thinking to myself, "You're kidding me, right?"
Seriously, what high school kid thinks he's cool in a
Camry? I know that I've been graced with possibly one of the coolest first cars ever (I'm constantly getting compliments from my peers), something I'm permanently indebted to my parents for, but if I had a sedan, I wouldn't try getting attention that way. I already know not to be doing that kind of thing period.
At least it didn't have a tin can muffler on it...