Comments on: Car Traditions

Car Traditions

azul — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:40:22 -0800

Show Me Your Motor! "Some guy once said he had an awesome car he imported from Japan. No one believed him so we said "take a picture of a carton of milk, bread, and a sign that says "Initial D World" or "IDW" in your passenger seat". He responded saying "Ok, when I get milk tomorrow". We never heard from him again but it has evolved into doing it on the hood instead." Tradition! Tradition! Car traditions! [Via AlexChat]

By: grateful

grateful — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:46:05 -0800

Yeah. Okay. Just put the milk down and back away from your car. Everything is going to be just fine.

By: xmutex

xmutex — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:49:48 -0800

I don't get it at all.

By: PWA_BadBoy

PWA_BadBoy — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:57:47 -0800

Which was the original picture though?

By: sleslie

sleslie — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:01:38 -0800

xmutex: North American bread and milk would be hard to get in Japan, so if the car was imported and in this guy's possession, it wouldn't be hard to take a picture of the car with the bread and milk. You can fake it (mailing milk carton and bread packaging to Japan, organizing a picture to be taken of the car), but then you're going to a lot more trouble it is worth. Unless you're confused about why everybody else started taking these pictures?

By: VulcanMike

VulcanMike — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:03:38 -0800

The "Tradition!" link points to a page that attempts to install all sorts of adware on your computer. Don't click it!

By: carter

carter — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:10:13 -0800

You learn something new everyday ...

By: skallas

skallas — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:56:55 -0800

This is how used car dealers should list their cars in the paper.

By: armage

armage — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:52:00 -0800

Neat, but why not just take a picture of the car that shows the steering wheel on the opposite side?

By: armage

armage — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:56:44 -0800

...though the thought occurs to me that Japanese imported cars could have world-standard left-side steering wheels. But that would take the fun out of it all.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:04:20 -0800

I was half expecting that it had evolved to something else entirely.

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:29:52 -0800

MJJ, at the risk of oxymoronizing, I believe you've opened the door (so to speak) to a brand spanking new tradition! Who wants to go first? (Actual spanking optional.)

By: carter

carter — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:20:10 -0800

Well, you could do a sandwich on the hood. If you had some margarine.