Yes, being the Focus of intense concentration by dozens of highly skilled competitors is intoxicating.
The exhibition of bravery while hard charging beasts weighing thousands of pounds barrel straight towards you sends the adrenalin levels skyward!
But it exacts a terrible toll.
After a number of events, the toxic cocktail of excitement, fear, and adrenalin begin to dissolve the glamour of the Autocross Cone Lifestyle like too much hot fudge on that glorious scoop of vanilla ice cream.
For godsakes, they become nothing more than a chocolate malt...
After that, much more destructive choices leave them homeless, congregating around street corners and roundabouts, the averted eyes, the random shouts of "get a job!"
Won't you please donate today?
Your local SCCA chapter can direct you to a needy Cone shelter.
Thank you for your competi... er, compassion!
I've actually been wondering where to get some for my on street mechanicking. Is it like day laborers at HD or sleven or somewhere much seedier? 
nutherjrfan said:
I've actually been wondering where to get some for my on street mechanicking. Is it like day laborers at HD or sleven or somewhere much seedier?
Good God, man, that's just cruel - have you ever seen your friends knocked down by one car and then another, or dragged underneath?
That said, yep, throw 'em in the back of the truck. You can show them your operation, but they're just lost drunken men, who no longer care where they are.
;)
The things these cones have seen.
I'm ashamed to admit that I've stood over the carcass of a cone that I hit so hard that I separated base from pointy part. Instead of showing proper respect for his (her? I guess I don't even know) sacrifice, I heartlessly argued with the event chair about whether his life was worth 2 seconds, given that the base of his carcass remain in some chalk-lined box, much like the body at a murder scene. And all this in full view of his friends . . .
In reply to OldGray320i :
Actually not but that just means I need to go to an Auto cross before I die. That's a confession.
I am however kinda serious. Where the heck do you buy cones because I'm gonna be the one under a car pretty soon and it's already had a trip up onto the curb due to a secondary hit and run. 
oh yeah and doesn't someone on here have a hand puppet cone? 
Or come to rallycross, where we get the "old cones' that are no longer orange enough for DC's huge autocross program.
