Hammer Time: Damn!
The mind can deviate to all sorts of weirdness when it comes to cars. Baby on Board signs. ‘Rims’ that cost more than the actual vehicle. The ungodly use of purples, yellows and lime greens on entry level econoboxes. Then there’s the real deals. Cars that are so hysterically and vomitously ugly that only it’s creator can appreciate the rancid spewage. I see a lot of that at the auctions. Let me give you a few true classics of the trade…
People memorializing their cars in honor of dead people. Don’t get me wrong. I’m probably one of the biggest promoters of having a ‘keeper’ in the family. But the only car that should ever be dedicated to a dead person is a hearse. When I see someone telling the world that they’re dedicating their commuter to the dearly departed, I feel sorry for them. Not just for the loss but for the fact that they’re using their Buick in place of a proper memorial. Or a nice dinner for two. Hell, when I pass on the last thing I want to do is remind a fellow driver that someday soon they will also snuff it. Life’s too short for daily deathly reminders. That’s why when I become the punchline to a Monty Python dead parrot sketch, I want to be shot out of a cannon facing the ocean and have my best friends go fishing with plenty of beer. Maybe they could put the cannon on the boat and shoot me out several times. Hey, life’s short.
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"People memorializing their cars in honor of dead people..." WTF?. Da*m. It is true... http://images.google.es/images?um=1&hl=es&tbs=isch:1&q=%E2%80%9CIn+Loving+Memory%E2%80%9D+car+memorials%22&sa=N&start=18&ndsp=18 American culture is an endless source of amazement for me (Do not get me wrong. I am also sometimes positively amazed). Here in Europe no one -I mean NO ONE- memorializes his/her car. Roadside memorials here are rare and restrained, and maintenance crews remove them customarily if they are removable (i.e., not made of concrete and iron).
Here in the frozen north I've yet to see a car memorial.