Dear Woman Driving With a CD Hanging From Her Rear View Mirror,
Hi! You may not remember me, I was driving behind you the other day. I know I’m probably not the first person to ride your ass, judging by all the dents and scratches on your car, but I remember you. You, and people like you, will always hold a special place in my heart…
You see, I wish I knew you better. I have an intense need, as a fan of music, to understand such an intense love one must have for a band. A love so deep that the only way you can find to illustrate it is to thread a string through a hole in a CD and then tie it to your mirror. I mean obviously you are aware of both the laws you break by doing so, as well as the safety risk you pose to others as you blind us with the glare of a thousands suns as your CD shines in our eyes on the road. But you soldier on.
Moreover I am mystified by two things about you:
- You obviously have yet to embrace the technology of the mp3. Way to keep it real. Real 1995. What all these modern era music lovers don’t understand is that the invention of the mp3 doesn’t allow oneself to add flair to their driving experience. Honestly, who wants to drive around town with an unobstructed view of the road and potential children crossing crosswalks on any given day? Not you!
- Assuming the former to be true, that you both have no mp3 player to speak of, and have now hung your favorite CD from the rear view mirror of your car… HOW THE FUCK DO YOU LISTEN TO IT!?!?! Does your vintage Steely Dan CD have a quick release lanyard that allows you to get to it the moment you need a shitty music fix? What the fuck does hanging a CD from your mirror DO for you?
In closing, I hope this letter finds you well. I would one day like very much to sit down with you and discuss this further. I know our paths may not cross again, but everytime I see the glint in another drivers eye, I will think of you and the temporary blindness you chose to share with me once upon a time.
Sincerely,
Jrodius
Actual picture of car
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people like that make me want to slam my car into them and then blame it on the glare from the shit hanging in their car.
baby shoes piss me off, too. why do you need to display 17 year old baby shoes IN YOUR CAR? put them in a shadow box or memory chest. don’t hang them from your rear view mirror.
and while we’re on the topic of stupid things people do to their cars, why do people dedicate their cars to their dead mother/father/brother/sister/accountant/lawyer? is your car “in memory of”? i’m just wondering.
hahaha Kelly. I was just thinking about the exact same topic the other day re: “in memory” stickers.
Well I have whole blog posts in the archives here on stickers on cars, but I never did one of those ones in particular. And they leave them up for YEARS. So now it reads “In me_o_y _f Little LoLo”
Hilarious! Did you happen to notice whether there was also a plastic Virgin Mary figurine suctioned to the dash? That’s classier than the disco ball CD.
jrod & kelly- I’m having crazy synchronicity shit happening to me all over the place.
The “IN memory of” stickers are driving me crazy. Yep, further obstructing the view of the driver. And, what can the driver “see”, isn’t it a backwards, “in Memory of”? IMO probably was killed by an asshole driver to, boot!
jrod- you have the CD lady, formula down…the CD, we got..the rosary gotit…the feather has to have some crazy Indian shit associated with it…She was probably smokin some peehootee, too!
Go get em jrod-Have Camera, will Travel…
Peace.
Don- I think the feather may have been the flair on top of the flair that is the Dream Catcher.
I have a cop friend that loves these people because it is instant license to pull them over for anything he likes.
LOL, Kathy! I would like to think that the Virgin Mary would slap the shit out of them for being so stupid.