When did dressing your car up become a totally acceptable normal past time? Where I live, in the leafy North Shore of Sydney, people are mad for accessorising their cars. I have tried to stem the tide of Family Stickers by writing about them before. But (unsurprisingly) it made little difference and each and every day I pull up at a red light to find a row of stick figures all staring back at me, most probably from a BMW X5.
(It has also helped me come to the assessment that the richer you are, the more kids you have. I have never seen a huge MY FAMILY collection on a 1992 Ford Laser. It is a status thing, like saying "This is how many kids we have and they are ALL going to private school.")
I urge you to click over to http://www.creepyuncle.com.au/ and get a more realistic variety of characters to chose from.
Which brings me to the point of this blog post. Yesterday as I was driving around, getting about my usual business, I was confronted by no less than a dozen cars dressed up as reindeer. Each time I saw one my blood pressure sky-rocketed and I strained to see who in fact drives a car dressed up as a reindeer.
Was I the only person who did not have a Family Sticker or Reindeer stuff on my car? Were these people happier because they drove around proudly showing off each member of their family on their rear windshield? Was I a mean Mum when I uttered "In your dreams......" when one of my kids asked whether we could dress the car up as a reindeer a few weeks back?
Do we even have reindeer in Australia? And what is the plural of reindeer?
Why when I see them, do I want to cry? Like really really cry?
They too, just saw a car with reindeer antlers....
