Emotional Attachment to our Cars
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How can you say that , what do you know about another persons state of mind and if they're happy or not ??...It's a hobby for many people and they just love and enjoy tinkering with old classic cars
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EDIT; What "actually" ends up happening, is you shift time, you spent less time traveling, but you need to spend more time working to spend less time traveling, to most it seems a fair exchange...
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Yes, many, I would even go so far and say maybe even most people have an emotional "attachment to their cars"... or At least to what they seem to think a "car can do for them", in "saving them time" even purely for "practical reasons", like not waiting for the bus for 15 minutes to get anywhere, like not getting wet walking/biking, like not sweating, like taking others with them... You know, Practical reasons like that. I explained my theory about saving time if you own a car, it is a false assumption overall for most...
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But quite different for ascetics whose goal in life is to just get by with the bare minimum of everything or anything necessary for living at (but no better than) a subsistence level. Any lifestyle exceeding that level is considered by such "thinkers" to be both impractical and unnecessary and anyone else desiring such excess must allegedly be driven by emotions.
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If you drove the Triumph the bumper sticker of "my other vehicle is a bicycle" would "fit right in" . If you drove the GTO it would look kind of strange. IMO You know, gas, tires & oil...
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Wonder if it's sad to see an old guy on a vintage bike.
People who clearly enjoy their vintage vehicles just make me smile.
People who clearly enjoy their vintage vehicles just make me smile.
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