wow...
thanks for the thread Aby. for the longest time, i thought people around here were just stuck up, snooty, unobservant, whatever. i grew up in a little country town where everybody waves & smiles at everybody, so when i got here for college, i thought people were just being rude or something not returning anything or looking at me like i'm some kind of weirdo for being friendly
i truely never thought about it from a woman's trying-to-not-get-followed-&-slaughtered-by-an-axe-murderer perspective
my vote is a

as being a neutral 'i like your car' statement