They protect me from evil! They make me all warm and fuzzy!
Is that what people think who hang them from their rear-view? Well guess what, Sparky. I’m driving behind you. The sun is refracting (I think) off your goddamned crystal and blinding me! Stop it! Take it down. Have you not been blinded by another idiot crystal hanger?
I seriously hope this is a NY fad and not all over the country.
Be a real man/woman and hang a stuffed Grinch changeholder from your rearview. Not only is he much cooler, he has a handy zippered compartment for emergency cash or condoms.
In North Carolina, it is a sort of fad for drivers of sports cars to hang a CD (or 5) from their rearview mirrors at varying heights, kind of like a mobile. It’s annoying as hell.
The ones I always see are the lead crystal stuff, not the rock variety. I think that’t the type that does all the refracting and twinkling all over the damn place. One of my friends borrowed his sister’s van, and she had this little glass menagerie going. Not just the rearview, but the whole damn van roof. It was like riding in the middle of a fucking chandelier.
Bollocks. Nothing says “I’m a stud” like a white and pink lace garter. With a tiny red bow. Obviously torn from his mate’s thigh with his teeth and hung from the mirror like a trophy.
my damn wife had a crystal hangin’ from the mirror! i had to educate her on the many reasons this was a bad idea. (i always thought a damn cop was behind me flashin’!)
We have crystals, garters, and CD’s all a-hangin’ here in Kansas City. When the crystals and CD’s blind me, they make me angry enough to think of renacting a scene from an older movie…Walking Tall, was it?
No crystals, but my sis used to have a really nice convertible Mustang that my parents gave her. Dad put a big red bow and ribbon on the car when he gave it to her. As is customary with Long Island Guidettes, sis hung the bow and ribbon from the rear view mirror. “Get this thing outta here,” I would protest. “It’s blocking your vision.” She didn’t listen. Car was totaled. I nearly wept.
Sis explained the multi-PTAF thing to me a couple years ago. It’s for kids who smoke in their cars and don’t want their parents to find out. Or for kids who drink in their cars and don’t want cops to find out. They open the window, and instead of smelling tequila or whatever, the cop is overcome by the smell of piney goodness. Sis also tells me that the PTAF scent doesn’t cover anything. If ya wanna cover up some incriminating evidence, cherry flavor is evidently the way to go. (She was talking about smoke evidence, not booze evidence, just to clarify).
No, crystals aren’t just in NY. There here in Michigan too, but not too much.
Taz is the ruler around here. Oh yeah. The Tazmanian Devil hangs from every second car in these parts.
Not mine, though. I have nothing hanging from my rear-view mirror. Not a thing. I’m no sheep! You silly folks, with your crystals and your CD’s and your Grinch changeholders! I follow my own path! The Path Of People Who Don’t Want Taz On The Rear-View! The Path of People Who Can’t Afford Crystals! The Path of People…
[sub]um, the Grinch changeholder sounds kinda cool. Where can I get one?[/sub]
Best rearview accessory I’ve seen, on a friend’s car in high school: a little stuffed Winnie the Pooh. It was blindfolded, gagged, and its hands were tied behind its back, and it was hanging from a noose.
