Over the past year or so I’ve started noticing cars with a large number of little animals - often plastic ducks - on their dashboards. Jeep ducking - Wikipedia
I looked it up, and apparently it started with Jeeps, and apparently has been imitated by other makes. But I see it on all kinds of cars. This morning on a minivan.
Anyone here do this or know someone who does? Do they just think it is a “fun” thing? My car is far from spotless, but about the last thing I’m interested in is a bunch of toys glued to my dash or - if not glued - flopping around the interior.
My wife has a couple of rubber ducks on the dash of her car. It’s not a Jeep, and she’s never driven a Jeep, but at some point, rubber ducks became “a thing” among her little community of fandom ladies: she’s part of an informal group who are fans of various TV shows and movies, and attend fan conventions together.
It may be more common nowadays, but it’s not new. Like the old song says –
I don’t care if it rains or freezes,
Long as I’ve got my plastic Jesus
Sitting on the dashboard of mycar.
One of the drivers who made deliveries to the store when I was still working – maybe ten years ago – must have had at least twenty stuffies inside the cab of his truck, courtesy of his daughter.
Dashboards covered in rubber ducks were a thing in western Oregon since at least the mid-oughts. I don’t imagine they were as popular in Oregon Beaver country.
Well, that clears that up. I’ve noticed that my wife’s niece and her husband, who have a Jeep pickup, have all that crap on their dashboard. I had no idea why, but thought it was just a stupid thing that they did. It is stupid, in my opinion, but it’s not just them, which makes it marginally better. I guess.
Just to be clear - I’m not talking about a single plastic Jesus, hula girl, or plushie. And I guess the ball caps and plushies in the rear windows are another category. But what I’ve been wondering at is what appears to be an entire line of little figures - often ducks but not always - all the way across the dashboard.
Heck, if we were bringing rear windows into this, I’d show my age and talk about bobbing headed dogs…
Yup. Ducks all the way across since at least the mid-oughts, at least in western Oregon. Always very exciting when an unowned duck was a prize in a workplace competition. I’ve always contented myself with one bumper or window sticker, Vulcan Science Academy or Voldemort for President, but I hate having stuff on the dash or rear shelf.
Yeah - I get that. Sorry I came off as testy or whatever. Just a tad surprised that so many of the responses came from Oregon posters.
Kinda curious as an Illinoisian to hear how big the college team is in your state. (Of course, it helps that your state U doesn’t SUCK at major sports!) Around here you’ll see a share of college and sports teams advertised via bumper stickers/decals/magnets, but no single thing like what sounds like near duck mania.
Yeah - as an alum I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that before. But tell me the last time they’ve won a national championship - despite the tremendous $ and ethically questionable effort expended. I could give you any number of examples of how they ALWAYS figure out a way to lose the big game…
But that is not at all what I intended for this thread. Or another one I started in Games.
on my passenger side corner dash. On a god-awful orange Ford Escape. Makes me feel better.