Q: What's the difference between a Subaru and the principal's office?
A: It's less embarrassing if your friends see you leaving the principal's office.
If you think that joke is funny, you're probably not a Subaru owner. Like a midget wrestler, Subaru owners have something to prove:
but there's no denying that there is tremendous loyalty (and bonding) between Subaru owners once you make the leap and actually buy one.
This was spelled out loud and clear last night when Jaine and I were in the parking lot taking stuff from our car to the hotel room. As we were moving in, a guy named Mike came up to me and said "I think there's something hanging from your car. On inspection, there was a small rubber 'mud flap' that was hanging oddly from the left back fender. I checked it out and removed it as the fasteners were missing to hold it in place. I look over and he had a Subaru Outback almost exactly as ours except it's a 2010 instead of a 2014 that we own. The next thing we know, we're extolling the virtues of Subarus and trading stories on why we love them. We parted as great friends and I appreciated Mike looking out for us by pointing out that loose part on the car. Subaru owners cover for each other.
Jaine and I no sooner got done talking and were about to leave for dinner when Katherine came up and started talking about her Subaru. She said her brother worked for Subaru and that the 6 stars on the Subaru logo represent the 6 major companies that are involved in building a Subaru. I looked it up and here's what I found:
Subaru is the Japanese name for the Pleiades star cluster, which in turn inspires the Subaru logo and alludes to the six companies that merged to create FHI. The word "subaru" means "united" in Japanese, and Fuji Heavy Industries has used the term to describe how the Pleiades constellation is a unification of the stars. Fuji Heavy Industries is therefore a constellation of companies united together.
Katherine had a 2004 Subaru Forrester and was about to buy a new one. Again, we talked for almost 15 minutes trading Subaru stories** and parted as great friends.
As we left the parking lot, Jaine and I looked back and the only 3 cars in the lot were Subarus. Not only that, they were the same silver color.
Coincidence?......I think not!
** This last winter I drove 150 miles during a raging blizzard only to wind up in a retention pond at a Hampton Inn in Liberal KS. It was total white out conditions and when I dropped 2 feet into the hole of the pond I saw the pond ran about 60 yards along the parking lot. Desperate, and knowing I had a Subaru, I gunned the vehicle, ran the length of the pond and turning the front wheels slightly towards the parking lot at the last minute, hit the 2 foot wall of the pond. With All Wheel Drive, the front tires grabbed the wall and flew the car up in the air just like 'Dukes of Hazzard' and I drove into the parking lot with almost no damage to the car whatsoever. When i got to Tucson, I replaced a bottom plastic skirt that cost $57 dollars.
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