s/o -- Things that hang from a car's rearview mirror

[Anonymous]

On the basis of the current thread pasted below, which contains the gem the "white people like ... bumper stickers," I ask you this s/o question:

1. Do you have several air fresheners, a soccer ball keychain, or little red satin pillow with yellow hanging from your rearview mirror?

2. Do you identify yourself as a person of color? Do you identify yourself as Hispanic? From the Mideast?

I see the items listed in #1 constantly in the District, usually blocking the driver's view. The driver has never once appeared to be a Euro-American, aka Caucasian, aka white people. Not in 10 years I've been observing. 'Splain?


http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/459492.page

[Anonymous]

Fuck you.

There's your explanation.

[Anonymous]

OP--you spent all that time crafting a post, complete with a thread, photos and snark. We don't see you as the clever wit you seem to see in the mirror. In fact, we see the exact opposite.

[Anonymous]

DH is Mexican. We have a rosary hanging from the rear view mirror. Not my preference, but I feel like it would be tempting fate (God?) to take it down now.

[Anonymous]

What does race have to do w/it?

I have a fake flower lei hanging from my rear view mirror.

And my daughter has her high school graduation tassel hanging from hers.

We are both Asian if that matters.....

[Anonymous]

Every time I see an old school green tree air freshener, I think of my dear, departed grandfather. He drove a land yacht of a Cadillac and it was always festooned with an air freshener.

[Anonymous]

I have always wondered this, and worried that asking would make me sound naive: remember when people used to hang CDs from their rearview mirror? Why did they do that?

As for OP's original question: I only know of one person who hangs something from her mirror. She is white, middle class, suburban.

[Anonymous]

I had a high school tassle hanging from my rear view mirror for a while when I was 17/18. I'm white.

[Anonymous]

I'm from New Orleans, shortly after I moved to DC I hung Mardi Gras beads on my rear view mirror to remind me of home. I like seeing them, my daughter has always liked the sparkle/clinking sound and as an added bonus they help me ID my car in parking lots.

I never hung anything from my rear view mirror before leaving home, moved here when I was 34. Biracial Af Am and whole lot of other things I don't really know because my Ancestry.com results haven't come back yet .

[Anonymous]

Nothing. I don't like my view obstructed even the tiniest bit.

I'm Eurasian.

[Anonymous]

I've never seen a red satin pillow hanging from the rearview mirror. Photo please?

[Anonymous]

and what does a red satin pillow with yellow trim signify?

[Anonymous]

I am AA. I have my work parking permit hanging from my rear view.

[Anonymous]

It is illegal where I live. You will get pulled over and ticketed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP--you spent all that time crafting a post, complete with a thread, photos and snark. We don't see you as the clever wit you seem to see in the mirror. In fact, we see the exact opposite.

took me all of 75 seconds. Some of us are quick, even when we speak in full sentences with punctuation.