dingo said:
rx900, first of all I truly admire your creativity and determination, but just keep it simple. A girl will like you for you if she is truly genuine, 4runner or not. Second, don't read to much into anything or take things too seriously. Don't rack your brains trying to figure how to get this or that person to like you so much. Take it a day at a time and just enjoy yourselves (you'll NEVER be this young again). Ok, enough of my half-ass bumper sticker proverbs for now.
About the rear window - go easy on it man! Might break the damn thing. You'll go blind and then hair will start growing on your palms.
And the house tour - must be a Filipino thing (I'm part pinoy too). Of all the girls I've gone out with, they always show the house and offer a full extended family introduction including the dog and some uncle named "Boy". Then, followed by the ever so mandatory question - "Did you eat yet? We have rice." Umm...no thank you, tita, I just had Goldilocke's.
Having the 4runner over the Honda Odyssey - Agreed, way better. My mother-in-law drives an Odyssey and although it's a great people mover, it's cool factor ranks right up there with a bowl of pubic naval lint. Great for hauling those big as 50 lb. bags of rice though. If I EVER had to drive a minivan it would only be 3 situations:
1. A rental
2. A relative's
3. I've castrated myself.
She's cute. You also seem and sound like a good kid (little crazy ass in the logistics department but you seem very earnest). Don't worry about the lotion smell so much. The new car smell will go eventually. There are far worst things a girl can do to your car. Hell, for all you know she could have farted on your seats already. Given a choice - smell of girly lotion vs. smelly girly fart. Just as long as you don't end up sniffing the seat when she exits. Then you need therapy.
Oh yeah, dude, go to Kragen and spring the $12 and buy a tow ball for that hitch receiver. Come to think of it, get a hitch lock too. You can take that Hazardous Materials sticker off your driver's side window now too. Your not going to read it while your driving anyway. If your parents object, tell them everything causes cancer anyway.
What the heck does that sign say on the window? Right between "Cheesy nachos" and "Peanut butter and jelly sandwich"?
Lastly, I hereby declare that I will now live vicariously through you. LOL. I can't believe I even read this whole thread. Man I feel old. Anyhoo, have fun and enjoy each other's company. Keep us posted (since a vast majority of us have nothing better to do, I mean if you can post a poll on Cheeze-Its or whatnot you know). Just remember to shower, often. Deodorent and soap are your best friends when trying to get your mack skills on (or whatever you crazy kids call it these days).
Well like I said, I just wanted to be fancy in asking her! lol. I have only been friends with her for about 4 weeks now, so I thought something fancy would be nice for her. But like I also said, she woulda gone with me w/o a doubt even w/o this whole show!
haha. I won't be using that window anymore! I rarely use it except these few occasions when I wanted to kinda "show off" by being able to wave or do something fancy to people behind me. lol.
About the whole house thingy, I know it's a filipino thing (I'm full pinoy!) but she's not filipina, she's latina/mexican. But it was alright I guess, except I felt really uneasy the first time, especially knowing that she just broke up, her mom has strict rules of her having guy "friends", and all of a sudden one day she brings home a guy (me) that her mother has never met before! I swore, as I was touring her house, I could smell the blood on the butcher knife that her mom was probably holding, just waiting to attack me! haha. j/k.
When she first saw my 4Runner, she was like "You drive this!" (and I was thinking to myself, do I look like, a rich spoiled kid driving a basic, 2wd V6 SR5 4Runner?!?!?) and i didn't want to act like bragging or something, so I said "well yea but I have a choice between two cars" She liked the Ody actually. Well at first she was kinda shocked when i showed it to her, but she eventually grew into it. She especially liked the idea of the tailgate seats! My 3rd seat folds back and becomes like a loveseat in the back so you can sit comfortably in the back during the summer with the trunk open. The ody'sa great people hauler, even the first, smaller, generation one (the one i have). Still runs great, and still gives me a 19 or 20 in the city!
Well about the smell, I don't have nice fancy wet okole seat covers on the 4Runner, but I do have the typical filipino taxi driver, towels and t-shirt on my seats (haha, I kinda went cheap on that part) so if it were to smell in my car, I'll just remove the covers! lol.
I'm thinking of that ball hitch, but I'm not going to tow anything, but I kinda like that tongue sticking out as like some "distance maker" for cars that tailgate a lot. idk, it sounds like a dumb idea, but that's what i think of it!As for the sticker, I like to keep the car new, and original for as long as i can, my dad doesn't care if i remove that cancer sticker on the window but i kinda want to keep it on. I still have the registration sitcker on my windshield, and when im kinda in the mood, I would sometimes remove my plates, put the dealer plastics on, and my other classmates would sometimes ask if I got a new car! lol
For a sec, I thought you'd also mention, "Use that 4Runner in the rain, that's what it's made for, to get dirty" but I'll definitely pass on that one for now. lol. My best friend is really amazed at how clean my undercarriage and wheel wells still are, and it's almost a year old!
But I guess I'll try to keep you all posted, even though there's nothing significant that will happen in the near future. Oh did I mention, on our offcampus days, she wants to come with me?!?!? lol. :beer:
Oh and i have no clue what else that place sells! We've both havent been there but we decided to have a sundae there since she had an Entertainment book and she had a coupon for a "buy one get one free" so that's how I ended up at some random ice cream shop! lol.