A note on waiting

[Duckw]

Michael Gazzaniga, an evolutionary neuroscientist at U. C., Davis, argues that, whatever our biological age, our consciousness never gets older than it was at nineteen or even less. If that's so, then it's natural enough for youthful enthusiasms to hang on.

Does anyone here but me find that waiting for your 1er proves the hypothesis? In sixty-one years of driving (since I was eleven), I’ve had nineteen cars (including four previous BMWs), yet this delay is more agonizing even than the summer I endured waiting for a 2005 Mini Cooper S to be delivered that September. Anyone out there with a consciousness so middle-aged as not to be counting the weeks (days, hours, minutes) to delivery? Anyone not trying to find out where your car is right now? If Gazzaniga is right, our undimmed enthusiasm for this car is not inappropriate to our chronological age. We don't have to rationalize. We’re just letting our consciousness be itself.

135i, SGM, 'ette, sport. Due in Charleston the 15th.

[joelk]

exactly!

it's like having to pee ... the closer i get to the bathroom the more i have to go. i've annoyed more than one sales guy with status checks. it's a natural bodily function. :-)

[imported_Maurice]

Thanks DuckW! I'm glad to find out mu obssession with the 1 doesn't mean I'm regressing. I guess I may not have matured as much as I had thought either...:smile:

[UK135i]

Yeah i totally agree with you DuckW. I am going to be able to pick up my car on Saturday having waited for it since the end of November. I would not have been able to survive without this forum. I have not been able to think of anything esle apart from my car. By the way i am getting SGM as well....seems very poipular on both sides on the pond

[bimmerfile]

I also feel your pain DuckW..
I've been driving for over 40 years and still feel like a teenager when it comes to buying and waiting for a new ride.. :headbang:

[Dave]

i have been thru 3 cars and i still love the wait.
its like the first kiss

[peppebmw]

I'm 29, been driving since I turned 16 and this will be my 9th car! Ouch! I thought my 04 R32 would be a keeper but then I crashed it. I hope to hold onto this one for some time. We shall see. Two more weeks! Yea

[Oregon]

Originally Posted by Duckw

Michael Gazzaniga, an evolutionary neuroscientist at U. C., Davis, argues that, whatever our biological age, our consciousness never gets older than it was at nineteen or even less.

Nineteen? Speak for yourself. More like twelve for me as that's the age I learned how not to get caught.:wink:

[Duckw]

I said d19 or less, Surname. When our large family get together at our summer place in Canada, we have a rule: anyone who does not regress to age fourteen within three days is considered "mature," which is synonymous with "dead." I guess that in the first post in this thread I shouldn't have made waiting seem wholly painful. As others have pointed out, there's pleasure in anticipation. What I'm really trying to say is that for youthful enthusiasm to remain strong is as good as it is natural.

[Oregon]

What's the expression? Your only as old as you feel? For me, 53 going on 13.:smm7:

[plexiglass]

Ok.....who wants to put up the "How old do you think you are poll and the counter poll What mental age do people say you are."

[Bringinthewolf]

I blame this forum for making the wait so hard, especially now that we are getting so close. I don't know if we are more addicted to the 1 or the Forum.

[fuhgetaboutit]

I agree the forum actually makes the wait worse in a way. But honestly without it, I would not have had enough information to even consider ordering the 1er.

It has been a cool experience overall. It's like we are a bunch of kids living on the same street all waiting for new bikes to show up, except we are spread across the globe, and our bikes are $40K, 300hp twin-turbo rocket ships.

[JSierra]

Im losing my hair because of the wait and dont have much time.....

[UR2SLOW1]

Honest to God this is true, every night I wake up at some point and lie there trying to get back to sleep and what do you think runs through my mind ? Yea the 135i and what it will be like to own one and drive the crap outta it or what it will feel like after the Dinan reflash. Do I tell the wife about the reflash or just wait and hope she doesn't notice the difference in power. Hmmmmm if I do it soon enough after I get the car she will never notice ? 30-45 mins later the sleep finally comes again.

[imported_Maurice]

The wait has been much easier, and more exciting because of this forum. It has been so much fun to learn about BMWs in general and the 1 specifically here. I will still be looking around and posting here after I get mine, and I hope everyone does!

[TP 135i]

Originally Posted by UR2SLOW1

Honest to God this is true, every night I wake up at some point and lie there trying to get back to sleep and what do you think runs through my mind ? Yea the 135i and what it will be like to own one and drive the crap outta it or what it will feel like after the Dinan reflash. Do I tell the wife about the reflash or just wait and hope she doesn't notice the difference in power. Hmmmmm if I do it soon enough after I get the car she will never notice ? 30-45 mins later the sleep finally comes again.

Now here is the real sickness (addiction). I'm driving my wifes Cayman S yesterday and I'm picturing myself driving my 135........ouch I got it bad. Can't wait any longer....help me :eyebulge::eyebulge::eyebulge:

[edge350]

Originally Posted by UR2SLOW1

Honest to God this is true, every night I wake up at some point and lie there trying to get back to sleep and what do you think runs through my mind ? Yea the 135i and what it will be like to own one and drive the crap outta it or what it will feel like after the Dinan reflash. Do I tell the wife about the reflash or just wait and hope she doesn't notice the difference in power. Hmmmmm if I do it soon enough after I get the car she will never notice ? 30-45 mins later the sleep finally comes again.

This post perfectly summarizes my own experience. And that is why I keep coming back to this board.
Incidentally, what a GREAT idea! I might just flash the car and not tell my wife for about a week and see if she notices...it would my own little "blinded study"...:smile: