[OT] Engine braking

[Walter Bright]

On 8/1/2013 3:52 AM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
> Grow up, Walter. You're not a teenager anymore. Driving a noisy, inefficient car
> doesn't make you cool. It makes you a pathetic man trying to recapture his youth
> while annoying the neighbors and making a fool of himself.

One advantage to growing older is ceasing to care what others think about the 
things I enjoy.

You might be amused to know that I've been driving muscle cars since I was a 
kid, and was the only one at college with one, the only one at any of the 
companies I've worked for, the only one in my neighborhood, etc. Motorheads are 
few and far between. The only time I run into others is at a meet or the drag 
strip. I'd drive my other car on dates because girls didn't like them. It's 
pretty rare to see one on the road. You could say those cars were never cool 
among my peers, who'd often just look at the car blankly, and pine for a BMW or 
Porsche.

BTW, you don't think the Prius is a status symbol? :-)