My newest complaint

[Edm]

Sat. we were parked next to a strictly stock on the back stretch at Nss. After the races were over there was a few of us loading a car into the trailer and I look over and see this kid really struggling to push his car around by himself. I got everybody to stop what they were doing and come help this guy load his car. We loaded it on the trailer for him and he turned his back on us and walked away. Not a "thank you" or nothing. I was pissed that we all stopped what we were doing to help this guy and this ungrateful little bastard couldn't even say thank you. I was half tempted to unload his car after he walked away.

[ocalasp76]

Even after having a bad night, there is no excuse for that to happen.
Thanks for being a good racer and helping him out. But don't do it for him again.
I have always thanked people for helping me on a bad night. Most recent this last Saturday.
-JIM-

[Rick Williamson]

On a good or bad night a Thank You is always the RIGHT thing to do. Just like when Jim helped Aaron by telling him the best way to get around the track at Ocala. The night we raced there for the first time. Thanks again Jim.

[ronabneysr]

i got better story than that one some years ago

at a local speed way we had bought a new set of trick tires now these tires stuck like they had super glue on them and we were just saving them for right race

had them put up in trailer well my son and this other guy got tangled up not there fault we busted two left side tires my son came into pits and changed his tires

and other guy busted two right side tires and had no spares well it was taking long time to clean track up

and guy came over to my trailer and asked me if i had two rights he could borrow well i liked the guy and i took the two new soft trick tires never telling my son nothing

of course they had to start in rear and had 21 laps to go they put on a show coming from back now my son had managed to get to front with 3 laps to go

and the guy with the new tires was really getting a bite off corner and could turn down under him the only thing that saved me was the guy got under my son on white flag and passed him and broke an axel going down back chute coming for checkered

my son walked back to i ain't gonna tell you his name cause my son still don't think it's funny and asked him were did you get them right side tires from

on way home my son said he'h dad won't to loan him our motor next week

[Edm]

One of the great things about racing is the camaraderie and racers lending a hand to each other. I am not sure why this pissed me off so bad, maybe it was his spoiled brat attitude. I remember those that helped me and rest assured I will be the first to help them when they need it. I am not sure who this kid was but his car number will be easy enough for me to remember.

Are todays parents not teaching their kids these values? I would think it is common sense.

[Old Sunshine Fan]

Hey EDM

I think it was that young man who is deaf and mute... however, if I am not mistaken,,, he signaled that you were NUMBER ONE as he was walking away!

Now, take a chill pill and get over it... there are worse things to worry about in this world.... like buying me something to eat the next time you run into me at OCALA...save up, one thing I am NOT is a cheap date!

[OLD STYLE RACER 2]

Cheap?????.....no
Easy?????.....yes!!!!!!!!

[Bigbuck]

I think it was that young man who is deaf and mute... however, if I am not mistaken,,, he signaled that you were NUMBER ONE as he was walking away!

Now, take a chill pill and get over it... there are worse things to worry about in this world.... like buying me something to eat the next time you run into me at OCALA...save up, one thing I am NOT is a cheap date!

ssounds like he needed one of my personal invitations!!!

[Edm]

ssounds like he needed one of my personal invitations!!!

I don't recall receiving one.

[Benny The Mule]

One of the great things about racing is the camaraderie and racers lending a hand to each other. I am not sure why this pissed me off so bad, maybe it was his spoiled brat attitude. I remember those that helped me and rest assured I will be the first to help them when they need it. I am not sure who this kid was but his car number will be easy enough for me to remember.

Are todays parents not teaching their kids these values? I would think it is common sense.

Don't let it discourage you too much about racers, That kid is just one of (those) people who piss the world off daily.

I broke a engine one night in my heat race and one of my toughest competitor broke his tranny in the same heat, I loaned him my tranny so he could run the feature and even helped him put it in.

Two weeks later he heard my car breaking up in practice and brought me a distributor, his spare carburetor and a battery and said use what you need.....one of them will fix it........it was the carb.

Camaraderie........i had just as good a time in the pits as i did on the track.

[Pun33]

when you're done helping next time say, "you're welcome"
forces them to say thank you

lmao

[mocha2@dishmail.net]

A thank you would have been nice and I would have been upset too.but if you want to hear about something really sad read this.In July at the Oxford Plains Speedway in Maine a driver lost his life after hitting the backstretch wall.When his friends and family returned to the speedway from the hospital they realized all his tools had been stolen.

[tedrichard]

A number of years back I was running my Legends car on the road course at Roebling Road in Ga. I managed to hit the pit wall (the ONLY solid barrier there WAS to hit there) on the opening lap of the last practice session before qualifying. The car was messed up pretty good and would not roll. I was sitting there waiting for a wrecker or rollback to haul the car back to the pits. Well, there WAS no wrecker on the premises. They sent a young guy my way with a quick jack and we drug the car the half mile or so back to my pit. Now, mind you I was not in the best of shape, this was maybe 2 years before I had my heart attack. I was huffing and puffing, totally out of breath and none to happy that I had to physicaly drag my car back to the pits and the young guy who they sent to help me got pissed off at ME because I wasn't able to act all smiley and grateful for his assistance! It wasn't that I wasn't grateful for his help, it was a friggen miracle I didn't die on the spot!

[Frasson118]

Practice night for New Smyrna's 2008 World Series:

Daughter, Shelly Perry loses control coming out of turn 2, right in front of her father, Butch Perry, wiping out both S-K Mod team cars. No tow truck in sight, so Butch had to go to the pits, unload their third team car from the roll-back, and had to load his own 2 wrecked race cars with his own hauler.

Over 100 racecars in the pits, and not one single wrecker around.

Later in the week, after a huge wreck happened in turn 4, leaving the track covered with oil & water... a bunch of track workers were out there with brooms and leaf blowers to clean up the mess. I asked a track employee "what happened to the tractor with the broom attachment?". I was told "someone left the key switch on & the battery is dead". My first thought (and question) was, "with all these cars, teams and people... not ONE set of jumper cables?".

A New Englander standing in front of me looked at his buddy and says "We drove 1500 miles down here for leaf blowers?"

[RSB]

Hey Edm

I think I would have unloaded his car after he walked away. Maybe I would have poked a few holes in his trailer tires. I SWEAR there are so many kids (and adults) that think they are OWED something or entitled to something and don't give a rats ass about anyone but themselves!