# What's hanging from your rear view mirror? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 5, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800 "2005-08-05T22:36:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/1 "2005-08-05T22:36:00Z")
Don’t see many fuzzy dice these days. I’ve got: A cord with a pen attached Mini flashlight Hello Kitty bubble gum scented air freshener Cute mini plush HK doll My ID badge for work How about you…??? ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/2 "2005-08-05T22:38:06Z")
I don’t like to have a lot of dangly stuff on my rear view mirror, so my memorabilia goes elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/3 "2005-08-05T22:40:25Z")
Funny you should ask…just last weekend, I bought a Hello Kitty berry-scented air freshener and hung it from my mirror. It’s the first thing I’ve ever hung there in all the years I’ve been driving. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/4 "2005-08-05T22:46:39Z")
If this is an OK place for Hello Kitty confessions, I have a very cute Hello Kitty backrest pillow. It embarrasses me that I find it so attractive, but that’s the way it is. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/5 "2005-08-05T22:46:46Z")
I can’t imagine why anyone would want ANYTHING hanging from a rear view mirror. As if there weren’t already enough distractions while driving, or enough bad drivers. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/6 "2005-08-05T22:56:46Z")
I’m so tall the the rear view mirror is pretty much in my line of sight as it is, so I don’t have any bling bling there. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/7 "2005-08-05T23:04:18Z")
Ye Olde Parking Pass for school. No seriously, it really is old. It’s from last semester and I just haven’t gotten around to taking it off. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/8 "2005-08-05T23:06:16Z")
Nothing. Stuff on the mirror is too distracting for me. My kid has all kinds of junk on hers, but I prefer a nekkid mirror. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/9 "2005-08-05T23:12:35Z")
My son’s first pair of itty bitty construction boots. He is now a big 4 year old and thinks it’s kinda neat that I have them there. They are not in my line-of-sight and I agree with this objection. I hate when people drive around with a lot of crap there or the big-ass handicap placard they now require. What’s with the CD hanging up there? Where did that come from? ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/10 "2005-08-05T23:14:30Z")
I just noticed that this thread is listed on the front page as **What’s hanging from your rear…** , so it’s probably inevitable that people will come in here hoping to talk about dingleberries. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/11 "2005-08-05T23:17:18Z")
Unless a spider has built a web from there in the past 24 hours, there’s nothing there. Now if we could talk about what I’d like to have there, it would be a chain of shrunken heads from people who annoyed me in traffic, at work, and places like that. I know that’s not politically correct, so I stay with the plain mirror. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/12 "2005-08-05T23:18:19Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > I just noticed that this thread is listed on the front page as **What’s hanging from your rear…** , so it’s probably inevitable that people will come in here hoping to talk about dingleberries. …at the very least! ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/13 "2005-08-05T23:28:33Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > I just noticed that this thread is listed on the front page as **What’s hanging from your rear…** , so it’s probably inevitable that people will come in here hoping to talk about dingleberries. Please. They prefer to be called Klingons. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/14 "2005-08-05T23:35:00Z")
Nothing. I’ll have to see if I can find my Carl Kassel: International Newsman of Mystery car air freshener when I unpack. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/15 "2005-08-05T23:41:33Z")
A mini disco-ball. I like to take the party with me everywhere I go. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/16 "2005-08-05T23:58:01Z")
Nothing, I’d prefer to cut down on things that could obstruct my view. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/17 "2005-08-06T00:11:37Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > I just noticed that this thread is listed on the front page as **What’s hanging from your rear…** , so it’s probably inevitable that people will come in here hoping to talk about dingleberries. Or perhaps dingleberry-scented Hello Kitty air fresheners… I have a carved wooden skull and the parking pass from my last job. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/18 "2005-08-06T00:14:10Z")
A Dreamcather we bought while at the motorcycle rally in Sturgis, ND in 1996. I had it in my mini-van for years, then switched it to my new car when I bought it in October. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/19 "2005-08-06T00:18:07Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > Or perhaps dingleberry-scented Hello Kitty air fresheners… Hey, it could happen. And I have the perfect brand name: **Hello Shitty**. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800/20 "2005-08-06T00:27:03Z")
I was told it was illegal in Calif to have anything hanging from the rearview mirror. That was my pre-SDMB days, so maybe I should have asked for a cite. In any case, I wouldn’t because my car’s windshields are small enough. I do have a little grasshopper wearing a scout uniform, complete with a backpack and bedroll. He hangs from the a/c vent. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/315800.md?page=2)