I forgot to post it earlier but i thought about it today and had another laugh.
As many of you know, KC LX and I were the official-types for that event on the 16th. Which meant, beyond all the other slave-like duties associated with the job of Benevolent Dictator, you're also the go-to person for every tom dick & harry that has a bone to pick about whatever's on their mind.
I saw a handful of people throughout the day get out of their cars redfaced and pissed because they heard a DNF call and goddammit they saw EVERYTHING and there was no F***ING WAY they DNF'd...then they'd go talk to the people making their calls and come back with their tails between their legs. I personally witnessed about 80% of the runs and almost all the DNF's were in the exact same place.
Anyway late in the day as I'm trying to watch KC LX make one of her runs I get a guy bugging me with a problem that took me probably over a minute just to figure out what the **** he was talking about. I think he might have been an SVTOA guy, he was driving a Cobra. He kept going on about how can people call in DNF's 3 heats late. I was like WTF, 3 heats? WTF are you talking about? You mean you got scored with a DNF hours after you ran? Eventually I figure out we're having semantic difficulty, he meant 3 RUNS later. He was pointing at his slip that listed a DNF for his first and last runs saying "they were calling a DNF on a silver Cobra" and on and on. I told him that now we have a different crew on course and I would have no way of knowing who called in what at this point, but that it didn't matter because I had total faith in them. He's *****ing and moaning and I said look, I've watched most of these runs personally, if they say you got a DNF, you got a DNF, end of story. They're 10 times more likely to miss one than they are to lay one on somebody by mistake.
So he says "they were calling in a DNF on a silver cobra...mine's not silver". What? "Mine's not silver". Oh. That's a problem. So he points way over to the lot and says "see that Cobra there, behind the red one? "Yeah" I say. "You mean the silver one?" He says "no, it's not silver, it's Mineral Gray. For a moment I was actually speechless. Then I collected my thoughts and said "Let's see, of all the Cobra's we've had running today, we had a Green one, a Red one, a Black one, a White one, and a Yellow one, and yours". "uh-huh" he says. So I say "OK so yours is 'Mineral Gray' but wouldn't you agree it's a ****load closer to silver than green, red, black white or yellow are?" "Yeah, but it's Mineral Gray", to which I replid "I can't expect my courseworkers to be familiar with the paint catalogs of all the car makers, your car is SILVER for all intents and purposes, you got the DNF's fair and square". I don't even think there was another Cobra running in his heat of ANY color and this guy's splitting hairs over the color?
He finally left but he wasn't happy about it. I mean WTF? The more I thought about it the more I laughed but then again I was pissed becuase the whole time he's there tuggin' on my arm I missed KC LX get ALL out of shape and by then the video camera had quit, so I never got to see it.
So beware, don't EVER call Mineral Gray "silver" or you'll lose valuable minutes of your life explaining why the car is more silver than it is black, white, red, green, or yellow :rolleyes:
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