- by Bill Bunson
The car as wife ... and mistress?
29 January 2003: Most of us treat our car with respect but some people have gone completely OTT about theirs. Now, let’s be clear, we’re talking about people on the ‘other island’ off Europe.
A new exercise in unearthing the strong bond between owner and car makes for extraordinary reading.
For example, it found that they can be so fond of their motors that they consider they have been unfaithful if they use a hire car on holiday.
(Duh-uh?)
Other car owners are happy not only to wax their cars but to wax lyrical about them as well, in the form of flattering poetry addressed to their beloved.
The closeness-to-the-car attitudes were discovered by UK based parking company Purple Parking which invited holidaymakers to send a postcard to their car while they were away.
The company, which operates at Heathrow airport in west London, found:
*35% of postcard senders used a nickname for their car and names included Viv the Volvo and a Mercedes called Dandy.
*More than 45% of cards contained some form of apology to the parked car for their owners' ‘infidelity with another car’.
*15% sent poems and verses to the car they had left behind.
It wouldn’t happen here ... could it?
(C’mon ... confess. Send us in your love poems to your cars!)
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