waddle2gracious,
04 August 2017, 03:39
lol this one hits home for me. Not with garbage cans, but I've had it happen with roadside fluorescent orange caution/construction signs. I look way in the distance, see a bright orange spec and think "Oh boi it's a Lamborghini or a McLaren or something really special" and then I get a little closer and then I realize...it's not even a car.
As for other moments, I haven't really had any significantly embarrassing ones, other than the occasional thought of "oh hey a Ferrari, oh never mind a C7 Corvette." I do remember one in particular though, well over 10 years ago now. I was new to spotting (no camera, just a notebook into which I wrote the cars I saw) and I saw a red spec in the distance. I was riding with my dad, and I remember starting to get hyped up over whatever this upcoming car was. I said, "Oh, look! A 360!" Thinking it was a 360 Spider, which I used to freak out over back in those days, it approached and then I realized...it was a dirty, beaten up, unusually bright red first-generation Porsche Boxster. My dad just gave me a puzzling look like, "You ok?" Ever since then I try not to orally call out cars I think are exotic, even when I'm driving alone.