Significant Other's Reaction to WOT

[Poobah]

If I yield to the urge to put my Cadillac through its paces while my wife is with me, I usually get a dirty look or, on occasion, a snide comment. Do the rest of you share this problem - or is it just me?

[CadiKing]

If I yield to the urge to put my Cadillac through its paces while my wife is with me, I usually get a dirty look or, on occasion, a snide comment.

Poobah,

I rarely get a look from my wife 'cause I know she's trying to give me "the look".

So I don't Look at her! She'll get over it...

Now my son, that's a different story...He loves it! We share many WOT together in all our cars...always have!

He's twenty now, but we have an understanding...

He gets out of college, gets something killer to drive, 'vette?, I get to drive it for paying for the college. Deal works for me...

thanks for asking...

[oldalbert]

A compilation of spousal comments may be interesting. Mine says smuggly "There goes another litre of gas".

[wgt31]

It depends on what I'm driving at the time. Sy/TY/ Vette I am traveling solo, I have to much fun stop light dragging, most of the time they don't know what just left them in the dirt. I haven't set my self up yet with the caddy. If I play I'm gonna win. Thus most of the time I'm by myself. The caddy is a DD anyway. But it has the look and sound that shakes the ricers and a few ponies making them take notice.

[kcd1184]

I couldn't hardly get my wife off the back of my Harley before I sold it. One of my great regrets. In fact, the night I met her , I asked her for a dance and she said "I can't, my boyfrind is in the band." I said," Well I've got a Harley, and if you want a ride, here's my number." Two weeks later she called and the rest is history.

She doesn't pick races but says she can tell when I'm going to WOT it by a neck twitch she says I get in my pre WOT mode. She is a great lookout and has saved my butt a few times when she sees that twitch start up.

Wants to know when she can have something as fast, and I told her she could have this one, I know where there is a 96 ETC just waiting for me. Didn't say no.

Kent

[tjtjwdad]

All I usually get is ah ... "watch your speed"

Jim

[ByStorm]

My wife braces her self and then says "ok Joseph" thats pretty much it . She knows once in awhile this is what we're going to do. She also knows that is part of the reason I bought the '01 STS

ByStorm

[Bill K]

After all these years together I know shes going to say something when the pedal hits the metal.

I just laugh and say "Yes dear".

I dont think she really cares but feels she has to say something. Especially when the kids were young. Now its just a habit.

[davedog]

my girlfriend threatens never to ride with me ever again

[gibson]

My wife goes yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

and she is 35...

[timothyr]

the girl I am dating now has me utterly perplexed....if I want to joyride at high speeds with no one around, she wants out at the next corner...if we pull up next to a ricer at a light, she insists that I drive it like I stole it, to the point where one while just playing with a decked out accord, she kept pushing me to "put him in his place" and I was doing full four wheel drifts (something I am totally against doing on the street).

I will say the poor kid (must have been about 20) (i am almost 30, gf is 25) was pretty shocked to see a caddy bustin some of the moves we were pullin. it does move good once you get used to throwing it around,

[Regis]

Apparently I need to go have her (not the caddy)checked out after reading most of these posts. She must be abnormal.....which is probably true hahaa just kidding. Ahem... she knows of this site. Anywaaaaays at WOT she always says the samething: "woohoo..... yeah baby!" Nice!!!

-kg

[trmnatr]

BYSTORM My wife braces her self and then says "ok Joseph" thats pretty much it . She knows once in awhile this is what we're going to do. She also knows that is part of the reason I bought the '01 STS

All I want to know is how you got MY wife in Your car?? LOL Cause my wife says the same thing! "OK,Joseph!!"

[MARK 99STS]

When I break the tires and the Corsa exhaust kicks in, my wife uaually says something like "Do you have to do that while I'm in the car". I usually drive it hard alone.

[sonjaab]

I get the "50 yard stare" !!!! Even better... She b*****s " NO beating MY car"

routine !!!!

SO when we get home I hand her the keys to our beater rat Escort.

Thats YOUR car !

So i gotta sleep on the couch till she cools off........Its more comfy anyway and I'm closer to the big screen TV and the fridge !

The kids love it tho....Esp. when I break out my GTO and do some REAL smokey

burnouts at cruise nite !

Whats funny tho....Folks expect that Goat to run hard from light to light. I just

let them rev their engines and jump the clutch for fun. Then just "putt" off the

light.

The Caddy........i just NAIL it outta the hole and suprise the heck outta them!

...........geo

[ByStorm]

To TRMNATR: LOL......

Peace ByStorm

[bc6t]

There is no joy driving with the wife in the car! Whether it's the "look" I get or the snide remark like "I knew you were gonna race like a teenager" or "is this how you drive when you have the kids without me".

Basically, the best part of the day is the drive to and from work without the wife or anyone else in the STS! Of course if she drives it (after too many drinks on my part) - I am not allowed to comment!

[Rickster]

The wife hits it more than me. Well maybe not as hard.

[Regis]

The kids love it tho....Esp. when I break out my GTO and do some REAL smokey

burnouts at cruise nite !

Whats funny tho....Folks expect that Goat to run hard from light to light. I just

let them rev their engines and jump the clutch for fun. Then just "putt" off the

light.

The Caddy........i just NAIL it outta the hole and suprise the heck outta them!

...........geo

Would that "cruise night" be on Erie Blvd? Always a good show on Friday nights.

-kg

[STYES]

HA! HA! My wife is the daily driver of our STS. She used to question what I was doing, but would never complain. She KNOWS when I get on the long entrance ramp what I am going to do! She has since seen the fuel ecomony gains, and I have made her read enough of the posts where she accepts it! We also own an older Monte SS, and a 64 Impala SS, both with sweet exhaust notes. My wife has since come to appreciate the sound of an engine! I had an old Nova which was a bracket car, when I first met her. She knew nothing of single purpose bracket racers! A huge lift cam with long duration, not like the refined cams I could find today! An engine that would not travel more than two degrees once I turned the key off. 12.5 to one baby! On a small block! Talk about putting a brick through a wind tunnel, a car that could barely crack the 12's. But I was a kid, and what I had back then was awesome by those standards! The STS barely cracks into the 14's, but it made her do the following. She now always wears the seatbelt! That, alone, is worth the price of admission! SHE is my baby now, not some car!

[TDK]

There is a certain onramp with a good vista is a basline: From a standing start, needs enter I-80 at a bit over 105. Not too much said from her, since it is for testing purposes after all.

She snips a bit if cruising over 90. You know, "Do we need to get there that fast?", yada, yada.

There are those times on a two-lane, straight road where a good opening permits passing 4-6 cars in a string. Apparently, the problem is that I don't like to mosey on by, so we are well into the triples for a while. That usually results in a lecture of sorts.

Then there was the time that we were well above 120 for about 25-miles on a narrow two-lane bounded by white ranch fence! The song about telephone poles looking like fenceposts comes to mind. That can get to be a bit tedious after the first 10-minutes or so, after the andrenalin wears off a bit.

I probably got yelled at the most (by both her and my youngest son, sonething about not wanting to die just then), after I passed a truck in the driving rain on a two lane at 111. I don't recommend that either, since you have to commit without seeing anything ahead - due to the malestrom comming off the truck trailer. At least tht was their perspective, but I was able look ahead past the truck and all because of a sweeping left-hand turn.

Generally, if I am driving, the passengers already know what to expect to some degree. Trust me though, it is always worse being a passenger on a fast motorcycle...

[rmac-etc]

The song about telephone poles looking like fenceposts comes to mind. That can get to be a bit tedious after the first 10-minutes or so, after the andrenalin wears off a bit.

That song would be "Hot ... Rod ... Lincoln". The fateful story of an attempt to catch up with a cadillac.

We left San Pedro late one night;

The moon and the stars were shinin' bright.

We were drivin' up Grapevine Hill,

Passin' cars like they were standin' still.

Then, all of a sudden, in the wink of an eye,

a Cadillac sedan passed us by.

The remark was made, "That's the car for me."

But, by then, the taillights wuz all you could see.

Well, the fellers ribbed me for bein' behind,

So I started to make that Lincoln unwind.

Took my foot off the gas and, man alive,

I shoved it down into overdrive.

Well, I wound it up to 110;

Twisted the speedometer cable right off the end.

Had my foot glued right to the floor;

I said, "That's all there is - there ain't no more."

Now the fellas thought I'd lost all sense;

The telephone poles looked like a picket fence.

They said, "Slow down, I see spots."

The lines on the road just looked like dots.

Went around a corner and passed a truck;

I crossed my fingers just for luck -

The fenders clickin' the guard rail post;

The guy beside me was white as a ghost.

Smoke was rollin' outta the back

When I started to gain on that Cadillac

I knew I could catch him and hoped I could pass

But when I did I'd be short on gas.

There were flames comin' from out of the side;

You could feel the tension; man, what a ride.

I said, "Look out, boys, I've got a license to fly"

And the Cadillac pulled over and let me by.

All of a sudden a rod started knockin';

Down in the depths she started a rockin'.

I looked in the mirror and a red light was blinkin';

The cops was after my Hot Rod Lincoln.

Well they arrested me and put me in jail.

I called my pop to make my bail.

He said, "Son, you're gonna drive me t' drinkin',

If you don't quit drivin' that - Hot ... Rod ... Lincoln!"

[Texas Jim]

Then, all of a sudden, in the wink of an eye,

a Cadillac sedan passed us by.

The remark was made, "That's the car for me."

But, by then, the taillights wuz all you could see.

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Smoke was rollin' outta the back

When I started to gain on that Cadillac

I knew I could catch him and hoped I could pass

But when I did I'd be short on gas.

All of a sudden a rod started knockin';

Down in the depths she started a rockin'.

The thing that has always intrigued me about that song..... the guy in the Cadillac was just cruising. He wasn't racing or even LOOKING for a race.

The guy with the Lincoln motor had to blow it up just to catch the guy cruising along in the Cadillac.

I guess thats why we drive Cadillac's not Lincoln's.

At least that is ONE reason I do. Down thru the years I have had both. Trying to compare them is like apples and oranges. Really can't be done.

[Texas Jim]

As far as WOT's go, after 40 years of being married to me, she is used to it. I get an occasional LOOK... but thats about all.

As someone said in an earlier post, it is amazing how much you can throw it around in curves and corners and how well it handles.

On a recent trip to the mountains in Colorado, I made believers out of a couple of guys in a V8 Canaro convertible. They zipped up behind me and when I eased over to let them around... the driver waved at me with just the tips of his fingers while grinning at me. Seemed to be saying... "get off the road Grandpa... let a fast car by."

Well for the next 3 or 4 miles I stayed right on his bumper... straighaways, curves and all. He got a little rear end slide a few times. He was a pretty decent driver and knew what his car would do.

Remember that I have a '06 Performance Sedan with 4 channel braking, Stabilitrac and 245x50X18 tires.

We came up on a left hand curve where I could see up the side of the mountain and nothing was coming meeting us. As we went into the curve, I dropped to the left and just totally out braked him going into the turn and passed him on the inside.

After that, I let him follow me for a couple of miles.... occasionly sticking my hand up thru the open sunroof and waving for him to "Come on... Catch up."

THEN I started getting THE LOOK. Next time we had a clear space, I eased to the right as far as possible, stuck my hand out the window and waved him on around.

There was a new look of respect on their faces when they passed. Got big waves and thumbs up from them.

[thu]

Why do you bother doing it with her in the car? You *know* it's gonna be an issue, so why do it?

If she doesn't like it, then she can change the oil and rotate the tires next time.