Have you ever paid attention to how car owners care about their beloved autos? Sometimes when I see a man, carefully washing his car in such a way that one clearly sees all love and awe that he feels, I can not help laughing! It’s so childish and funny! From time to time it seems to me that men excessively fuss over their cars; but at the same time I believe that they really receive pleasure from the very process of care.
I have a friend who cares about his car exactly in such a way. Frankly speaking I don’t really like to invite him to my place or even somewhere in a supermarket; and even if I occasionally meet him in the street I usually say that I’m in a hurry or something like that. I have started to behave in such a way after one ill-fated evening.
That day (lets name my friend Peter) Peter came to my place. He spent with me about 3 hours and it was hours of torment for me, because during all that time he was talking only about his car and everything connected with it. He announced that he managed to make Bmw tuning, changed spark plugs in his auto, managed to buy cheap car care products, he bough cheap ATV tires as well and started to look for new seat covers for his beloved car; and all those things I had to listen to for more than 3 hours. It was awful even unbearable! I dreamt about the moment when he said:
- Oh, excuse me, my dear, but it’s high time to go home. (He always says the same phrase… LOL)
It was an endless evening for me and every time I tried to change the topic of our conversation he always managed to return to his favourite topic in about 2 or 3 minutes (he has a special gift for it). It was awful and very tiresome! Oh, I forgot to tell that he described me in all the details an online store that sells Avon tires. He depicted its design, range of the goods they offer, Avon tires prices for all types of tires and many other useless things that I wasn’t interested in.
When I reminded him that I didn’t have a car there was a pause for about half a minute and then he started to tell me about scooters (that time I had a scooter). It was quite close topic to cars, so he found a lot of “interesting” (as he thought) facts that I definitely had to know like where I could buy a scooter cover, cheap spare parts, a new air pump, good aerosol spray-on paint etc.
It was very annoying. I can hardly understand a person who can keep up conversation only on one topic. Such people are “handicapped” in some way; they even try to develop their personalities by the means of hobbies, useful books, scientific TV programs or interesting online articles. I feel pity for those people.
In the end I’d like to add that after Peter left I heaved a sigh of relief. My torment was ended.
