BABY won a trophy today!!

[BarryK]

thanks Rich!

yep, it sure seems to be the best and to say it was unexpected is a true understatement

 

[IH2LOSE]

Barry congradualtion on your trophy.Well deserved.

Just becarefull its adicting. My forum handle was supposed to be
IH82LOSE meaning I hate to lose.But as normal I mispelled it and never wanted to change it once I memorized my sign in name and pass word.

Any ways I have said it several times I dont enjoy car shows I more enjoy car cruises. I dont want a trophy,I dont need a trophy.I enjoy building the cars more then driving or showing them.BUT when I am at a show and I dont win ,It ruins my day because I hate to lose at anything.

Especially when the car that beats you is a **** wagon,dripping oil like the Exxon valdeze. over heating on a 50 degree morning,has so many runs in the paint you would think they were trying to make a couple new body lines on a midyear.the car stinks as if it spent the last 5 years in my grandparents wine celler,Has more tye straps and electrical tape holding every thing together then a radio shack on inventory day.

Did I ever tell you how much I hate to lose.

Once again congrats

 

[BarryK]

Larry

I understand what you are saying and I'm not usually thrilled about losing either if I'm doing something competetive but I guess to me car shows are different. I really don't consider the differences between "car shows" and "car cruises". To me they are both just places to go to see a lot of nice cars and talk to nice people.
If I went with a competeitive frame of mind than I would feel exactly like you do if I lost and would get upset but I never go wanting or expecting to win a trophy and most of the time I don't even walk up to the trophy presentations. H*ll, half the shows I go to I leave before it's over and before they do the trophy thing anyway. To me a car show is the same as a cruise show and just a way to have fun with other cool cars and their owners.

Now, when it comes to being competitive............ I start thinking about the last year I was working for one of the major camera manufacturers as a sales rep. The first month of the new fiscal year I came in top salesman of the month. After that I had it in my mind none of the other salesmen would beat me so I worked my butt off and ended up being the salesman of the month for each of the 12 months of the entire fiscal year and ended up as Salesman of the Year at the end of the year. I was the only person in the history of the company to ever make salesman of the month every single month of a fiscal year and it was because I got it into my mind to be competetive about it! The irony about that though was I never was able to recieve my Salesman of the Year award because I got laid off at the end of the year and never made it to the awards dinner. How's that for irony!? :eyerole
I figure if I can deal with that, than losing a trophy at a car show most of the time is the very least of my concerns!
I CAN be very competetive at times and hate to lose when I get into that frame of mind but to me cars shows aren't that important to get upset over (with the exception of one last year but that's another story) as they are supposed to be meant for fun.