I drive a 1993 Civic Hatchback. It wasn’t my first choice; I needed a car and this was available. My previous truck violated nearly all of the DOT rules and tended to really piss off the local law enforcement. I like to stay out of the eyes of law enforcement…the Meth lab in my basement is now netting me a hefty profit and I don’t need any ociffers fucking that up.
When I purchased the car, the motor and transmission were blown, there were some serious electrical issues, and some other parts of the car were missing completely. For a price of $500 with a new motor, it was right in my price range. I was a full time student finishing my BS degree with no help from mommy and daddy. My job paid for my coke and prostitute addiction, leaving little money for other things. As the saying goes, desperate times call for cheap car purchases. I was sick of walking to work and school, and trading blowjobs for a ride really wasn’t my cup of tea.
I embarked on a mystical journey with this car, pulling the old motor, building and dropping in the new motor, performing an automatic to manual transmission conversion, and fixing the various problems with the car, only after I had attended classes and work each day. Having only some self taught mechanical experience, putting this thing back together was what some might call “a learning experience”. I call working in a poorly lit unheated garage in the middle of winter with little car knowledge “a fucking nightmare”. Either way, I finished the car after several weeks, a little bit at a time.
The car is not ricey. No 17″ chrome rims…just the stock 14″ steelies. I don’t have a vomit inducing body kit or flashy paint job. No annoying wings, no loud fart can, no performance stickers, no neon lights. The car is quick…if you consider a flat 15 in the quarter quick. It’s a Civic, not a performance vehicle. Next to a 4G63, or a SR20DE, or a 3SGTE, ANY inline Honda motor (with maybe the exception of a Type-R B series) is a far cry from a performance motor. But, like the saying goes, “when in Rome, you can lead a horse to water”.
Driving a Civic automatically makes people around you assholes. It’s true. Seeing a Civic on the road triggers a release of pheromones in the brain of males between the ages of 16 and 34. This pheromone makes us do stupid shit like street racing, fighting with other males, or going home from the bar with ugly/fat/ugly & fat women. These pheromones travel at light speed through glass and metal, and can subsequently trigger the same effect in surrounding males in other cars. I hate asshole drivers. Now that I drive a Civic, they come in droves, waiting for their chance to line up at a red light.
I’m sick of racing on the street. I know my car isn’t fast. I like the 36 mpg I get, but I have no disillusions about what my car is capable of. Instead of street racing, I’ve begun to play a new game. When a challenge has been initiated at a stop light, I bug my eyes out really crazy like, and then back up so the rear license plate is in view. On a pad of paper I write the plate number in big letters, then pull back up next to the adjacent car.
The next step is to display the plate number against the driver window so it is in view of the neighboring car. Just to top things off, I also like to lick the glass a bit.
It’s a bit unsettling, as is evident by the look on the faces. My only hope is that said driver worries that I will get his personal information using his plate. I am an ugly bastard, and I sure as shit wouldn’t want to see me on my doorstep.