I seem to like my nosy Friday surveys to have a little theme. ‘Member the bathroom one? Hahaha. That’s a favorite of mine. I learned so much.
Anyhoo. Today’s, with a car theme.
Please copy and paste into comments so everyone can follow the questions and answers.
1) If you were ever to own a vintage car, what kind of car would you like it to be?
2) Do you sing in the car? If so, do you stop if someone drives by you or pulls up next to you?
3) Do you groom in the car? If so, what do you do?
4) List the best/most comfortable kind of car you’ve ever personally made out in. Look, I know you have. Maybe even — gasp! — more.
5) What is in the back seat of your car right now? (And don’t tell me it’s you, making out or more, okay?)
6) Anything dangling from your rearview mirror? If so, what is it?
7) Are you pro dangling car testicles or anti dangling car testicles?
8) If I pulled up to you at a stoplight, could I hear your stereo? What would it likely be playing?
9) Do you have a hands-free device for your cell phone? (If you live in CA, it’s the law now. I live in CA and I don’t have one because I enjoy being a scofflaw. Shhhhh.)
10) Do you like using your cell phone while driving or would you rather throw it out the window, like me?
11) Tell me, parents, how you occupy your kids on a long car trip. (Can’t wait for these answers.)
12) Rubbernecking at accident sites — yea or nay?
13) You are lost. Your GPS, if you have one, isn’t working. What do you do?
14) Have you ever run over an animal? What kind? (Mammals only.) What did you do?
15) What color is your car? (This may seem boring to you, but the most minute details of other’s lives are fascinating to me.)
16) What’s in your glove compartment — beyond the basic registration papers, etc.?
17) Offer me, please, your theory of why some people blatanly pick their noses in the car.
18) Some young dude jaywalks across the street right in front of your car. He’s just strolling across the street, taking his time. Do you slow down or speed up?
19) You pull up to a stoplight with a homeless guy standing there, advertising his hunger. Let’s say it’s Brunch Hungry Guy. He’s right outside your window, staring at you. Do you give him money? Ignore him? Smile apologetically?
20) T/F In a wee fit of road rage, I have flipped someone off whilst driving.
21) Isn’t the 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior one of the prettiest cars you’ve ever seen? I couldn’t make it fit horizontally, so just turn your heads sideways, pippa. (Some day, 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior, some day.) You don’t really have to answer this question. This is supposed to be a neutral, objective survey. Flagrant editorializing has no place here.
1) If you were ever to own a vintage car, what kind of car would you like it to be?
1968 Jaguar XKE, British Racing Green, Tan leather interior.
http://www.donovanmotorcars.com/images/for_sale/1968_Jaguar_XKE_3.jpg
http://www.topperscarclub.com/pics/toppers48/006.jpg
Oh, and the one for sale, I can’t even come close to affording. It’s almost as much as my house.
2) Do you sing in the car? If so, do you stop if someone drives by you or pulls up next to you?
Nope.
3) Do you groom in the car? If so, what do you do?
Nope.
4) List the best/most comfortable kind of car you’ve ever personally made out in. Look, I know you have. Maybe even — gasp! — more.
Only one. 1973 Plymouth Roadrunner.
5) What is in the back seat of your car right now? (And don’t tell me it’s you, making out or more, okay?)
Two LCD monitors, a Bible Quizzing trohpy for a team I coached, my Bible and a stack of paperwork I need to deal with.
6) Anything dangling from your rearview mirror? If so, what is it?
Nope.
7) Are you pro dangling car testicles or anti dangling car testicles?
Anti.
8) If I pulled up to you at a stoplight, could I hear your stereo? What would it likely be playing?
Nope. It would not be playing anything as it’s non-functional right now, which is quite annoying.
9) Do you have a hands-free device for your cell phone? (If you live in CA, it’s the law now. I live in CA and I don’t have one because I enjoy being a scofflaw. Shhhhh.)
Yes.
10) Do you like using your cell phone while driving or would you rather throw it out the window, like me?
Both, at various times. The drive home (25-30 minutes) is good for a decent conversation with a sibling or my parents on the way home.
11) Tell me, parents, how you occupy your kids on a long car trip. (Can’t wait for these answers.)
Sedatives. Books. Threats.
12) Rubbernecking at accident sites — yea or nay?
Nay. Only enough to verify help has arrived. Twice I’ve been first on seen and called for help and waited till it showed up.
13) You are lost. Your GPS, if you have one, isn’t working. What do you do?
Ask for help. I’m a man. Manly men do ask for help because it’s logical. Doing otherwise is a demonstration of stupidity and wastes time that could be better wasted in other ways, like football. Unless I got lost intentionally. When I move into a new town, it’s the best way to learn your way around.
14) Have you ever run over an animal? What kind? (Mammals only.) What did you do?
Don’t think so. I was in a van that hit a deer once. Someone called the conservation agent and got permission to keep it. Someone else field dressed it. No one else wanted it so I took it, had it butchered, and fed myself for almost a year during college on venison.
15) What color is your car? (This may seem boring to you, but the most minute details of other’s lives are fascinating to me.)
Silver. Used car bought cheap from family, so I didn’t really consider color as any sort of choice.
16) What’s in your glove compartment — beyond the basic registration papers, etc.?
tire gauge, paperwork, not much else.
17) Offer me, please, your theory of why some people blatanly pick their noses in the car.
Some people have this idea that because they are in their car, no one can see them. Seems to apply sometimes to people who do more than make out without considering the visibility issues.
18) Some young dude jaywalks across the street right in front of your car. He’s just strolling across the street, taking his time. Do you slow down or speed up?
Depends. Is he acting like a jerk or just focused on something else? His behavior would also determine, in the speed up case, if I use the brake at the last minute or not 🙂
19) You pull up to a stoplight with a homeless guy standing there, advertising his hunger. Let’s say it’s Brunch Hungry Guy. He’s right outside your window, staring at you. Do you give him money? Ignore him? Smile apologetically?
No money. I might offer work, if I’m in a position to do so, but I’ve heard that usually just gets funny looks. There was a guy a few years ago who admitted he made upwards of $70/hour doing this. Left the intersection to go to a home in a pretty nice neighborhood, car, etc.
20) T/F In a wee fit of road rage, I have flipped someone off whilst driving.
False. I use my horn in those cases, quite liberally.
21) Isn’t the 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior one of the prettiest cars you’ve ever seen? I couldn’t make it fit horizontally, so just turn your heads sideways, pippa. (Some day, 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior, some day.) You don’t really have to answer this question. This is supposed to be a neutral, objective survey. Flagrant editorializing has no place here.
Yes. My second favorite would be a 1964 Mustang, but I’m not a fan of the Red. It attracts sirens and tickets quite frequently in the Midwest. Someone did a study on tickets, and apparently, if you have a sports car in red, it also impacts your insurance rates. I also just prefer darker colors (green, dark blue, for example).
Patrick — I do love a Jaguar in British Racing Green. Nice choice.
/No one else wanted it so I took it, had it butchered, and fed myself for almost a year during college on venison./
Now, see, that’s just good thinking.
/His behavior would also determine, in the speed up case, if I use the brake at the last minute/
Hahahaha. This whole thing drives MB crazy. He HATES obvious strollers.
On the Mustang — yeah, I know you’re more likely to get a ticket if your car is red. Mine is black right now. But the Poppy Red is such an unusual kind of red for a car, a red-orange, really, so I love it for that. They just don’t make unusual car colors anymore.
And, yes, the ’64 would be fine, too. I’d prefer a white interior, though. It’s funny, because I’m really NOT a “car” girl. I mean, I’m not easily impressed by someone’s car, but the old Mustangs have always had a place in my heart. My beloved third grade teacher had one and that’s where it started for me, I think.
1) If you were ever to own a vintage car, what kind of car would you like it to be? one of those wood-sided stations wagons from the forties, in green.
2) Do you sing in the car? If so, do you stop if someone drives by you or pulls up next to you? Yes and No
3) Do you groom in the car? If so, what do you do? Lip balm and hand lotion only
4) List the best/most comfortable kind of car you’ve ever personally made out in. Look, I know you have. Maybe even — gasp! — more. 1968 Chevy Caprice, that belonged to my boyfriend/husband. He’d inherited it from his mom. We drove some big-ass cars in those days
5) What is in the back seat of your car right now? (And don’t tell me it’s you, making out or more, okay?) a car seat (for the g-child), an embroidered map of Texas and its frame, that’s been there for months waiting for me to go to Hobby Lobby to get it a mat; a Sprouts cold-food keeper bag, a mini-roll of Bounty paper towels, two atlases, my car knitting bag, a bag of top-soil, ditto bird seed (2), a copy of “The Keeper of the Bees” by Gene Stratton-Porter, my light-weight keep the sun off long-sleeved shirt and a painter’s cap (have no idea where that came from)
6) Anything dangling from your rearview mirror? If so, what is it? No, but I do have a TollTag attached to the windshield under it
7) Are you pro dangling car testicles or anti dangling car testicles? I have no idea what that means, and am probably thankful for that
8) If I pulled up to you at a stoplight, could I hear your stereo? What would it likely be playing? No, I have no pressing need to ‘share’ my musical tastes with the world. No telling- classical, probably.
9) Do you have a hands-free device for your cell phone? (If you live in CA, it’s the law now. I live in CA and I don’t have one because I enjoy being a scofflaw. Shhhhh.) No
10) Do you like using your cell phone while driving or would you rather throw it out the window, like me? I pull over, if I have to use the cell. Call me over-cautious, but I don’t multi-task well.
11) Tell me, parents, how you occupy your kids on a long car trip. (Can’t wait for these answers.) Keep in mind mine are all in their ’30’s and 20’s, so this is SO out-of-date: we read stories, played “Alphabet”, colored on lapboards and listened to books on tape. The younger ones had access to Walkmen when they were older, so were in their own little world.
12) Rubbernecking at accident sites — yea or nay? Move along, people. Nothing to see here
13) You are lost. Your GPS, if you have one, isn’t working. What do you do? Drive until you find safe civilization, ask for directions. I was the mom they had to let drive on field trips, ’cause there weren’t enough to leave me out, but I always got lost. Seriously lost. Miss the Farmers Market and drive into bad parts of Dallas lost. Misty skyline in the rear-view mirror lost.
All the boys wanted to ride with me.
14) Have you ever run over an animal? What kind? (Mammals only.) What did you do? I accidently ran over my husband’s cat, who was old and deaf. He and our son were at Scout Camp, and I made him tell his dad. Man, that was bad.
15) What color is your car? (This may seem boring to you, but the most minute details of other’s lives are fascinating to me.) that silver-gray color
16) What’s in your glove compartment — beyond the basic registration papers, etc.? a lot of CD’s and a New Testament w/Psalms and Proverbs
17) Offer me, please, your theory of why some people blatanly pick their noses in the car. because it’s a deceptively private place
18) Some young dude jaywalks across the street right in front of your car. He’s just strolling across the street, taking his time. Do you slow down or speed up? Slow down. Life’s too short to be petty in return.
19) You pull up to a stoplight with a homeless guy standing there, advertising his hunger. Let’s say it’s Brunch Hungry Guy. He’s right outside your window, staring at you. Do you give him money? Ignore him? Smile apologetically? Depends entirely on the change in my wallet. I’d probably give him a dollar or two.
20) T/F In a wee fit of road rage, I have flipped someone off whilst driving. False
21) Isn’t the 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior one of the prettiest cars you’ve ever seen? I couldn’t make it fit horizontally, so just turn your heads sideways, pippa. (Some day, 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior, some day.) You don’t really have to answer this question. This is supposed to be a neutral, objective survey. Flagrant editorializing has no place here.
1) If you were ever to own a vintage car, what kind of car would you like it to be? 1973 240Z
2) Do you sing in the car? If so, do you stop if someone drives by you or pulls up next to you? yes, loudly, if you don’t make eye contact you don’t know if anyone is watching
3) Do you groom in the car? If so, what do you do? not so much anymore
4) List the best/most comfortable kind of car you’ve ever personally made out in. Look, I know you have. Maybe even — gasp! — more. Dodge panel van…shag carpet……GASP.
5) What is in the back seat of your car right now? (And don’t tell me it’s you, making out or more, okay?) snow scraper……..still could happen once more
6) Anything dangling from your rearview mirror? If so, what is it? no
7) Are you pro dangling car testicles or anti dangling car testicles? very anti……visual ditraction you know, married to the law
8) If I pulled up to you at a stoplight, could I hear your stereo? What would it likely be playing? motown or 70’s rock…….you know same stuff from the Dodge Van.
9) Do you have a hands-free device for your cell phone? (If you live in CA, it’s the law now. I live in CA and I don’t have one because I enjoy being a scofflaw. Shhhhh.) I do. Try to remember to hook it up.
10) Do you like using your cell phone while driving or would you rather throw it out the window, like me? HATE CELL PHONES period.
11) Tell me, parents, how you occupy your kids on a long car trip. (Can’t wait for these answers.) sorry no kids
12) Rubbernecking at accident sites — yea or nay? YEA
13) You are lost. Your GPS, if you have one, isn’t working. What do you do? relize I must be in another state, because in Colorado, the mountains are always west, and kinda hard to miss……..unless of course your are on the west slope…..
14) Have you ever run over an animal? What kind? (Mammals only.) What did you do? no thank God. But many, many I know have hit deer.
15) What color is your car? (This may seem boring to you, but the most minute details of other’s lives are fascinating to me.) White with black convertable top.
16) What’s in your glove compartment — beyond the basic registration papers, etc.? not much
17) Offer me, please, your theory of why some people blatanly pick their noses in the car. In Colorado you have to. Dry air…….booger capital of the world.
18) Some young dude jaywalks across the street right in front of your car. He’s just strolling across the street, taking his time. Do you slow down or speed up? slow down and give him the evil eye
19) You pull up to a stoplight with a homeless guy standing there, advertising his hunger. Let’s say it’s Brunch Hungry Guy. He’s right outside your window, staring at you. Do you give him money? Ignore him? Smile apologetically? say hello……..but no donations. I send money to a local food bank.
20) T/F In a wee fit of road rage, I have flipped someone off whilst driving. No, scared they might see but when alone I cuss like a sailor.
21) Isn’t the 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior one of the prettiest cars you’ve ever seen? I couldn’t make it fit horizontally, so just turn your heads sideways, pippa. (Some day, 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior, some day.) You don’t really have to answer this question. This is supposed to be a neutral, objective survey. Flagrant editorializing has no place here.
1) If you were ever to own a vintage car, what kind of car would you like it to be?
In my boarding house days, one of the guys was storing a vintage 60’s English taxicab: right-drive, manual tranny, the whole works. I would kidnap that car in the dead of night if I could. Other than that, I have a fondness for my very first ever car, a ’79 Honda Prelude, which was awesome and died on me in like five weeks.
2) Do you sing in the car? If so, do you stop if someone drives by you or pulls up next to you?
Sing, air guitar, drum on the dash… kinda goofy, actually. I’ll usually stop in traffic though. I’d rather not crash while rockin’ out.
3) Do you groom in the car? If so, what do you do?
No.
4) List the best/most comfortable kind of car you’ve ever personally made out in. Look, I know you have. Maybe even — gasp! — more.
Probably my current car.
5) What is in the back seat of your car right now? (And don’t tell me it’s you, making out or more, okay?)
Heh, I’m not actually driving and blogging! (Only a matter of time before someone else tries it, though.) There’s got to be something but I can’t think of it right now.
6) Anything dangling from your rearview mirror? If so, what is it?
My wife tied some ribbon-y thing around the post while we were still dating and I just left it there.
7) Are you pro dangling car testicles or anti dangling car testicles?
Vociferously anti. It’s hick-chic.
8) If I pulled up to you at a stoplight, could I hear your stereo? What would it likely be playing?
Probably not, although I do have to keep the radio a little loud to overcome highway noise. If you did overhear you’re liable to hear almost anything: jazz, funk, pop, rock, Schoolhouse Rock…
9) Do you have a hands-free device for your cell phone? (If you live in CA, it’s the law now. I live in CA and I don’t have one because I enjoy being a scofflaw. Shhhhh.)
I don’t currently. It broke.
10) Do you like using your cell phone while driving or would you rather throw it out the window, like me?
It usually scares the bejeebers out of me if it rings while I’m driving. Do Not Want.
11) Tell me, parents, how you occupy your kids on a long car trip. (Can’t wait for these answers.)
I’m not a parent, and I confess to having the high-minded snooty idealism of non-parents: “No way I’m getting a portable DVD or game system for the kids in the car. That’s just ridiculous!” But you know, I’m smart enough to realize that things change once the kid(s) get there. Stay tuned.
12) Rubbernecking at accident sites — yea or nay?
Nay. I’ve been known to honk and holler at those who do.
13) You are lost. Your GPS, if you have one, isn’t working. What do you do?
Usually, I blunder on until I see something familiar, and hope it’s not because I just saw it three times in the past half-hour. I also keep print maps in the glove box just in case.
14) Have you ever run over an animal? What kind? (Mammals only.) What did you do?
No, but a deer once tried to run ME over – just darted out of the woods and dove right into my wheel-well. Maximum checkout.
15) What color is your car? (This may seem boring to you, but the most minute details of other’s lives are fascinating to me.)
Faded blue. Now it looks lavender. Goes wonderfully with my mocha.
16) What’s in your glove compartment — beyond the basic registration papers, etc.?
A few CDs, a few cassettes (yup!), the aforementioned maps.
17) Offer me, please, your theory of why some people blatanly pick their noses in the car.
Mistaking solitude for privacy.
18) Some young dude jaywalks across the street right in front of your car. He’s just strolling across the street, taking his time. Do you slow down or speed up?
Slow down. Always reminds me of once, at night, when I was on my way to my game when a guy came from the left, through stopped traffic, and stepped right in front of me. I stopped quickly and he stared at me, as if shocked that cars drove on the main drag of town, and then pointed out the “State Law – stop for pedestrians in cross-walk” sign. Which, you’ll note, I did with time and to spare. Maybe they should have a sign reading “Common Sense – don’t simply step out from between heavy traffic at night without looking where you’re going first, you stooge.”
19) You pull up to a stoplight with a homeless guy standing there, advertising his hunger. Let’s say it’s Brunch Hungry Guy. He’s right outside your window, staring at you. Do you give him money? Ignore him? Smile apologetically?
Hm. It would depend. If he wanders up looking deranged, I’m making sure the locks are down. But Raisin Bran Man would get a buck or two.
20) T/F In a wee fit of road rage, I have flipped someone off whilst driving.
Sorta F – as in, that’s the start of the word that I have at times used in anger with people sporting The Option on our fine roadways. But no, no fingers.
21) Isn’t the 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior one of the prettiest cars you’ve ever seen? I couldn’t make it fit horizontally, so just turn your heads sideways, pippa.
That rocket is takin’ OFF! And yes, it is completely sweet.
Now to read everyone’s replies!
Sal — I love trying to guess whose answers these are before I get to the bottom because, shameful boasting here, I’m usually right! I knew that was definitely you, the minute you said, “an embroidered map of Texas and its frame.”
And may I say I don’t know whether to be impressed or frightened by your encyclopedic knowledge of the contents of your back seat. All I can say about mine is “Some stuff I obviously don’t care about or it wouldn’t be there.”
And, Sal, my dear, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you live in TX, so I’m a little surprised you haven’t seen any cars with, pardon me, “balls” on them. They’re metal and hang from the back undercarriage — is that the word? — of a car. And I loathe them.
CV — /in Colorado you have to. Dry air…….booger capital of the world./ Hahahahaha. Although, I’ve now officially crossed Colorado off my list of places to move to.
1) If you were ever to own a vintage car, what kind of car would you like it to be?
An old sports car. 60-something Corvette or Mustang.
2) Do you sing in the car? If so, do you stop if someone drives by you or pulls up next to you?
Yes, and yes.
3) Do you groom in the car? If so, what do you do?
Only lipstick or lipbalm.
4) List the best/most comfortable kind of car you’ve ever personally made out in. Look, I know you have. Maybe even — gasp! — more.
My HS boyfriend’s mom had a late-70s Chrysler station wagon. When the backseat was reclined, it was pretty much the size of a queen-sized bed. I’m just sayin’.
5) What is in the back seat of your car right now? (And don’t tell me it’s you, making out or more, okay?)
An air-soft gun.
6) Anything dangling from your rearview mirror? If so, what is it?
No.
7) Are you pro dangling car testicles or anti dangling car testicles?
ANTI!
8) If I pulled up to you at a stoplight, could I hear your stereo? What would it likely be playing?
No, but if you could, it’d be some sort of “urban” station. My kids like ’em some Kanye.
9) Do you have a hands-free device for your cell phone? (If you live in CA, it’s the law now. I live in CA and I don’t have one because I enjoy being a scofflaw. Shhhhh.)
No.
10) Do you like using your cell phone while driving or would you rather throw it out the window, like me?
I’ll talk on it, but won’t text.
11) Tell me, parents, how you occupy your kids on a long car trip. (Can’t wait for these answers.)
*Getting truckers to honk
*Trying to get all 50 state license plates (Oh, Rhode Island, ye are elusive!)
*Reading
*Listening to the radio
12) Rubbernecking at accident sites — yea or nay?
Nay.
13) You are lost. Your GPS, if you have one, isn’t working. What do you do?
I have a vagina, so I ask for directions.
14) Have you ever run over an animal? What kind? (Mammals only.) What did you do?
Yes, a squirrel, and I cried for two hours.
15) What color is your car? (This may seem boring to you, but the most minute details of other’s lives are fascinating to me.)
White.
16) What’s in your glove compartment — beyond the basic registration papers, etc.?
The manual to my car, and maybe some gloves.
17) Offer me, please, your theory of why some people blatantly pick their noses in the car.
They think the glass is a one-way mirror, I guess.
18) Some young dude jaywalks across the street right in front of your car. He’s just strolling across the street, taking his time. Do you slow down or speed up?
Speed up.
19) You pull up to a stoplight with a homeless guy standing there, advertising his hunger. Let’s say it’s Brunch Hungry Guy. He’s right outside your window, staring at you. Do you give him money? Ignore him? Smile apologetically?
If I have cash handy, I might give him a dollar or two, but normally I just ignore them. Hell, party of one!
20) T/F In a wee fit of road rage, I have flipped someone off whilst driving.
True.
21) Isn’t the 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior one of the prettiest cars you’ve ever seen? I couldn’t make it fit horizontally, so just turn your heads sideways, pippa. (Some day, 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior, some day.) You don’t really have to answer this question. This is supposed to be a neutral, objective survey. Flagrant editorializing has no place here.
I agree.
Ohhh, mud flaps! Just never heard them called that before. ANTI- particularly if they have nekkid women silhouettes on them.
Lisa — You’re killing me!!
/I have a vagina, so I ask for directions./
Hahahaha! But, you know, we now call it our fancy place. I have declared it. And Sheila and Cara and Sarahk are all on board. So, Lisa, how’s your fancy place?
/Yes, a squirrel, and I cried for two hours./
Why am I laughing? I’m demented. But I am. Poor Lisa.
/Hell, party of one!/
We’ll drive there together in our 1965 Poppy Red Mustang with the pretty pretty Pony interior.
NF — /Faded blue. Now it looks lavender. Goes wonderfully with my mocha./
I adore you, NF.
/Mistaking solitude for privacy./
There it is! I think you totally nailed it. Well said.
And, you know, Raisin Bran Man was THE best homeless guy ever. I always keep an eye out for him.
Whoa.
Should have Googled first.
NOT a mudflap. I can’t believe I’ve never actually seen these.
I’d be speechless, but I was behind a guy today whose entire rear window was an ad for his XXX-rated DVD and ‘ertoic iad$’ store. Just drivin’ around.
So my supply of speechless is all used up.
1) If you were ever to own a vintage car, what kind of car would you like it to be?
~My husband does have an old muscle car, and we belong to a car club and all that, but if I were to have one of my very own? Let’s see…I have always loved me a 57 Bel Aire. I am a sucker for fins. I would love 40’s or 50’s “woody” of some sort. I’m not too picky about the make and model, but since my hubby’s car is a two seater, it would be nice to have room for the grandkids and the dogs.
2) Do you sing in the car? If so, do you stop if someone drives by you or pulls up next to you?
~The ONLY place I sing is in the car. And no, I don’t stop…I sing LOUDER. It’s my car. I am a star in my car. If the other drivers think I’m a crackhead, so much the better. Maybe they will get out of my way.
3) Do you groom in the car? If so, what do you do?
~Maybe some lipstick at a stop light, but nothing more than that.
4) List the best/most comfortable kind of car you’ve ever personally made out in. Look, I know you have. Maybe even — gasp! — more.
~Probably my mom’s 70 something Dodge Aspen.
5) What is in the back seat of your car right now? (And don’t tell me it’s you, making out or more, okay?)
~My car is disgusting right now. There is junk mail and yet to be paid bills, an environmentally appropriate grocery bag that says “USC” on it, my granddaughter’s stroller, a bag of stuff I need to mail to my parents and a dog leash and some tire chains. Pretty, huh?
6) Anything dangling from your rearview mirror? If so, what is it?
~An air freshener
7) Are you pro dangling car testicles or anti dangling car testicles?
~ANTI! Staunchly and severely ANTI!
8) If I pulled up to you at a stoplight, could I hear your stereo? What would it likely be playing?
~Maybe…if the windows are down. It would be playing something off my iPod. Could be anything, really. I have a pretty diverse musical preference.
9) Do you have a hands-free device for your cell phone? (If you live in CA, it’s the law now. I live in CA and I don’t have one because I enjoy being a scofflaw. Shhhhh.)
~I live in CA. I have a hands-free device…and I hate it. I have to repeat everything twice…at least.
10) Do you like using your cell phone while driving or would you rather throw it out the window, like me?
~I talk to my mommy in Iowa every day on my way home from work, so I guess I do.
11) Tell me, parents, how you occupy your kids on a long car trip. (Can’t wait for these answers.)
~I give them Benedryl and hope they fall a sleep. Kidding…about the Benedryl at least. See, usually I am singing, so they fall asleep voluntarily just to protect themselves from the horror of it all. I torture them into submission.
12) Rubbernecking at accident sites — yea or nay?
~I try not to, but sometimes you just can’t help yourself.
13) You are lost. Your GPS, if you have one, isn’t working. What do you do?
~Use my hands-free device to call someone at home with a computer to guide me via mapquest. Failing that, I pull over and ask.
14) Have you ever run over an animal? What kind? (Mammals only.) What did you do?
~Yes…once I hit a bunny, and once I hit a groundhog. They were very very dead, so I just kept driving. Oh, and I cried over the bunny.
15) What color is your car? (This may seem boring to you, but the most minute details of other’s lives are fascinating to me.)
~Fire engine red
16) What’s in your glove compartment — beyond the basic registration papers, etc.?
~Just the basic registraiton papers and maybe an emergency pair of sunglasses.
17) Offer me, please, your theory of why some people blatanly pick their noses in the car.
~They think they have two way mirrors for windows, and they can see out, but no one can see in? I don’t know.
18) Some young dude jaywalks across the street right in front of your car. He’s just strolling across the street, taking his time. Do you slow down or speed up?
~It depends on if it is day or night, and what kind of neighborhood I’m in. If I am afraid of getting shot, I slow down.
19) You pull up to a stoplight with a homeless guy standing there, advertising his hunger. Let’s say it’s Brunch Hungry Guy. He’s right outside your window, staring at you. Do you give him money? Ignore him? Smile apologetically?
~I usually give them money. I know I maybe shouldn’t, but I can’t help it. I just feel so bad. But they have to really look homeless. I don’t give money to the guys in clean clothes and new shoes who are standing there asking for money.
20) T/F In a wee fit of road rage, I have flipped someone off whilst driving.
~Uhm, weekly. Yeah…I’m THAT girl. Sorry. I have issues.
MM — /I am a star in my car. If the other drivers think I’m a crackhead, so much the better. Maybe they will get out of my way./
Hahahahahaha! I’m dying! Like, WHY would they think you’re a crackhead, per se, MM?
“Check out that crazy chick singing in her car. She is OBVIOUSLY a crackhead.”
And I love how you insist that the homeless “really look homeless.” Before I give you this buck, you must be dirty and sticky and drooling and mumbling.
Oh, I just LOVE my nosy surveys — can I say that? — because you guys always KILL me. I sit here with tears in my eyes laughing. Bless all of you goobers.
1) If you were ever to own a vintage car, what kind of car would you like it to be?
Mustang from the 60’s, or Mom’s old ’67 Thunderbird
2) Do you sing in the car? If so, do you stop if someone drives by you or pulls up next to you?
Almost always, and no, I don’t stop.
3) Do you groom in the car? If so, what do you do?
I don’t groom in the car. Frankly, I groom in the morning and call it good.
4) List the best/most comfortable kind of car you’ve ever personally made out in. Look, I know you have. Maybe even — gasp! — more.
Mom’s ’67 Thunderbird (don’t tell)
5) What is in the back seat of your car right now? (And don’t tell me it’s you, making out or more, okay?)
My kid’s stuff. They are supposed to take EVERYTHING when they leave the car, but there is usually shrapnel left behind.
6) Anything dangling from your rearview mirror? If so, what is it?
My husband HATES stuff dangling from the rearview mirror when he drives. He doesn’t drive my car often, but anything I put there would be gone when he did.
7) Are you pro dangling car testicles or anti dangling car testicles?
I don’t hate them – I guess I just roll my eyes.
8) If I pulled up to you at a stoplight, could I hear your stereo? What would it likely be playing?
I listen to the radio — no fancy CD player or ipod. My programmed stations are Christian, Talk radio, Adult contemporary and two Country stations. 70% of the time it’s probably Country.
9) Do you have a hands-free device for your cell phone? (If you live in CA, it’s the law now. I live in CA and I don’t have one because I enjoy being a scofflaw. Shhhhh.)
No. I don’t answer the phone if traffic is dicey, and the only one that ever calls my cell is my husband who keeps it short when I’m driving.
10) Do you like using your cell phone while driving or would you rather throw it out the window, like me?
Given the choice, what I’d really prefer is to have a chauffeur and to surf the internet on my phone on my way home from work, but I’m not holding my breath until that happens.
11) Tell me, parents, how you occupy your kids on a long car trip. (Can’t wait for these answers.)
A few years ago from Iowa to North Carolina we borrowed a DVD player. My oldest is now a bookworm and is happy as long as she has a book. (She is a girl after my own heart.) They also bring a few toys (I’ll buy a couple before a long trip) and blank books to draw in. A lot of the trip is just chatter. It’s amazing how much those two girls can chatter!
12) Rubbernecking at accident sites — yea or nay?
Oooo, I’m really hypocritical about this one. If traffic is really slow, I’m annoyed by the rubberneckers holding up traffic. If it isn’t, I’m disappointed that traffic is too fast to see the accident.
13) You are lost. Your GPS, if you have one, isn’t working. What do you do?
The city I currently live in is on a grid, so it is hard to get lost. If I go straight on almost any road I will end up on a large one I know. I may not figure out where I’m going, but I’ll always find my way home. The city I grew up in has crazy random streets, so it is easy to get lost. I’ll definitely ask for directions there (although I’m more likely to know where I am there.) My new cell phone has Google maps with yellow-pages-type software and a “you are here” function, so it is less likely that I will get lost now. Google maps was awesome when we went to Texas at Christmastime.
14) Have you ever run over an animal? What kind? (Mammals only.) What did you do?
Once. I was going pretty fast on a highway. One second I see a furry face turn its head toward me, and the next second I hear the thud. I have no idea what kind of animal it was. Not a cat or dog, and I think I would recognize a skunk or raccoon. Beaver? Possum? No idea. I just kept going and said a prayer that it was a painless death.
15) What color is your car? (This may seem boring to you, but the most minute details of other’s lives are fascinating to me.)
It’s gold. That wouldn’t be my first choice if I were picking out a new car on a car lot, but for the price I got my used car in the great condition it is in, I can’t complain about the color.
16) What’s in your glove compartment — beyond the basic registration papers, etc.?
A pair of backup sunglasses in case I don’t have my purse or don’t have sunglasses in my purse. A pen and gas receipts. If I have time when I get gas, I check the miles on the trip odometer and figure out the gas mileage I’ve gotten on that tank. I then put the gas receipt in my glove compartment and never look at it again. I don’t know why.
17) Offer me, please, your theory of why some people blatanly pick their noses in the car.
I don’t know, but once I saw a guy I know pick his nose at a stoplight and I thought of that every time I saw him again.
18) Some young dude jaywalks across the street right in front of your car. He’s just strolling across the street, taking his time. Do you slow down or speed up?
Neither but I hover my foot over the brake just in case he is a complete moron.
19) You pull up to a stoplight with a homeless guy standing there, advertising his hunger. Let’s say it’s Brunch Hungry Guy. He’s right outside your window, staring at you. Do you give him money? Ignore him? Smile apologetically?
I usually ignore him, but I let the Holy Spirit lead on this one. If I feel led to give to a homeless person, I will. It’s only happened a few times, though.
20) T/F In a wee fit of road rage, I have flipped someone off whilst driving.
F
21) Isn’t the 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior one of the prettiest cars you’ve ever seen? I couldn’t make it fit horizontally, so just turn your heads sideways, pippa. (Some day, 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior, some day.) You don’t really have to answer this question. This is supposed to be a neutral, objective survey. Flagrant editorializing has no place here.
I didn’t see this when I picked my answer for #1. I love old Mustangs! Beautiful!
1) If you were ever to own a vintage car, what kind of car would you like it to be?
I have fond memories of my mom’s Dodge Dart. so maybe that. It was blue and I loved the little windows in the front.
2) Do you sing in the car? If so, do you stop if someone drives by you or pulls up next to you?
Yes, I do sing in the car. I don’t stop unless I get a weird look from someone. In fact, the Saturday before Easter, I was busted in the grocery store’s parking lot when I got in the car, started singing (car not turned on yet!), and looked to my left–there was a five-year-old kid standing there waiting for his dad to unlock their car (parked next to mine). Intense stare.
3) Do you groom in the car? If so, what do you do?
I used to be notorious for putting on eye shadow and lip gloss at stoplights on my way to work. Back when I had a long commute and got out the door at the last minute because I hated my job.
4) List the best/most comfortable kind of car you’ve ever personally made out in. Look, I know you have. Maybe even — gasp! — more.
At the risk of looking like a dork. . . I don’t have more than one car to compare. Sorry.
5) What is in the back seat of your car right now? (And don’t tell me it’s you, making out or more, okay?)
My “Respond & Acclaim” (music book for church singing gigs), a couple of old church bulletins, and a few sport bottles of water.
6) Anything dangling from your rearview mirror? If so, what is it?
Nothing dangling from the mirror, although last week I had a parking tag for an event for my job.
7) Are you pro dangling car testicles or anti dangling car testicles?
Anti. For the love of subtlety.
8) If I pulled up to you at a stoplight, could I hear your stereo? What would it likely be playing?
I don’t think you could hear it unless the windows were down. It would be 104.5 FM or the newest Depeche Mode CD.
9) Do you have a hands-free device for your cell phone? (If you live in CA, it’s the law now. I live in CA and I don’t have one because I enjoy being a scofflaw. Shhhhh.)
Yes, although I have yet to find one that’s comfortable. And it’s almost the law in Philly proper.
10) Do you like using your cell phone while driving or would you rather throw it out the window, like me?
I don’t like taking incoming calls while I’m driving; otherwise, I don’t mind making the occasional call. But it’s really occasional.
11) Tell me, parents, how you occupy your kids on a long car trip. (Can’t wait for these answers.)
N/A.
12) Rubbernecking at accident sites — yea or nay?
Nope. Just wanna keep moving.
13) You are lost. Your GPS, if you have one, isn’t working. What do you do?
Call my dad for help. He knows how to get anywhere.
14) Have you ever run over an animal? What kind? (Mammals only.) What did you do?
Yes. I don’t want to go into any more detail than it had feathers.
15) What color is your car? (This may seem boring to you, but the most minute details of other’s lives are fascinating to me.)
Sapphire blue pearl, according to the manufacturer.
16) What’s in your glove compartment — beyond the basic registration papers, etc.?
Pens and straws. I got sick of never finding either when I needed one.
17) Offer me, please, your theory of why some people blatanly pick their noses in the car.
Their car feels like home?
18) Some young dude jaywalks across the street right in front of your car. He’s just strolling across the street, taking his time. Do you slow down or speed up?
I slow down but give a dirty look and mutter a lecture intended for him.
19) You pull up to a stoplight with a homeless guy standing there, advertising his hunger. Let’s say it’s Brunch Hungry Guy. He’s right outside your window, staring at you. Do you give him money? Ignore him? Smile apologetically?
I don’t outwardly acknowledge him but I pray for his needs and safety.
20) T/F In a wee fit of road rage, I have flipped someone off whilst driving.
Yup, although I tend to keep the gesture out of sight.
21) Isn’t the 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior one of the prettiest cars you’ve ever seen? I couldn’t make it fit horizontally, so just turn your heads sideways, pippa. (Some day, 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior, some day.) You don’t really have to answer this question. This is supposed to be a neutral, objective survey. Flagrant editorializing has no place here.
IT’S PRETTY!!!!
1) If you were ever to own a vintage car, what kind of car would you like it to be?
–Prolly a yellow 1967 Camaro because that’s the first car I remember my parents having when I was a little kid. They were just teenagers when they married and I was born (in that order, although only just) so they had to have a good car.
2) Do you sing in the car? If so, do you stop if someone drives by you or pulls up next to you?
–Oh, sweet Petey-pie, yes I do! Usually it’s when we’re playing the soundtrack from Mamma Mia! or the Julie Andrews Selects Her Favorite Disney Songs CD.
3) Do you groom in the car? If so, what do you do?
–Absolutely. I pluck chin hairs because outdoors has the best light for this activity. I keep a very nice pair of tweezers in the van and use them every day faithfully.
4) List the best/most comfortable kind of car you’ve ever personally made out in. Look, I know you have. Maybe even — gasp! — more.
–Oh, gosh… I can see it in my mind but I can’t remember what it was. It was an 80s muscle car, and he was an 80s muscle dude. I’ve also made out in pickup trucks, which was certainly acceptable, but that one car that Brad J drove was one awesome car for making out. And maybe more. I ain’t talkin’.
5) What is in the back seat of your car right now? (And don’t tell me it’s you, making out or more, okay?)
–Some really old wallpaper sample books that I will be using in art class that I dug out of a garage sale somewhere… a folding tripod chair that I use on photo shoots… a fuzzy blanket (hey, you never know)… and assorted crud from my children because I never think to make them clean it out when we get out.
No, I wouldn’t be making out in my mini-van at this point. I’m too old and there are WAY more comfy locations for such activities.
6) Anything dangling from your rearview mirror? If so, what is it?
–Handicapped hang-tag (my daughter, severe epilepsy and cerebral palsy), and one of those hangy-downy air freshener things from Yankee Candle Company. Clean Cotton, please.
7) Are you pro dangling car testicles or anti dangling car testicles?
–Anti. Although in the blues band I used to play in when I lived in Iowa, I was the only chick, and the guys all threatened to dangle a pair of them from my keyboard just so I wouldn’t feel left out. Sheesh.
8) If I pulled up to you at a stoplight, could I hear your stereo? What would it likely be playing?
–Probably you would hear my stereo. Currently, you’d hear the soundtrack from the original Superman movie. John Williams is a friggin genius.
OR you’d hear Mark Levin telling someone to “Get off the phone, ya big dope!” My kids think Levin’s the shiz. So do I, for that matter.
9) Do you have a hands-free device for your cell phone? (If you live in CA, it’s the law now. I live in CA and I don’t have one because I enjoy being a scofflaw. Shhhhh.)
–Hands-free, schmands-free. Not a chance, people. I suppose I *could*, but it’s just never seemed necessary to me.
10) Do you like using your cell phone while driving or would you rather throw it out the window, like me?
–I prefer to talk while driving because then it doesn’t prevent me from doing something constructive. I usually don’t like talking on the phone, but I don’t mind if I’m in the car.
11) Tell me, parents, how you occupy your kids on a long car trip. (Can’t wait for these answers.)
–I load up my iPod with audiobooks like Harry Potter or Charlotte’s Web or A Wrinkle In Time. THE BEST THING EVER, and I’m not kidding you. My kids will sit quietly and beg me to hurry up when I stop for gas so we can start the book again.
12) Rubbernecking at accident sites — yea or nay?
–Nay. But I don’t really get to pick that, now, do I? If I’m stuck in traffic, heck yes I’m looking at the carnage. I’m not gonna lie.
13) You are lost. Your GPS, if you have one, isn’t working. What do you do?
–Drive until something looks familiar. I love being lost and finding my way back. It’s how I discover some of the best stuff.
14) Have you ever run over an animal? What kind? (Mammals only.) What did you do?
–I run over skwerls every chance I get. I have never hit another kind of animal, ever, that I knew about.
15) What color is your car? (This may seem boring to you, but the most minute details of other’s lives are fascinating to me.)
–Boring white. Because I didn’t really get to pick it out. It’s just what they had.
16) What’s in your glove compartment — beyond the basic registration papers, etc.?
–replacement hangy-downy air freshener things from Yankee Candle Company. Clean Cotton fragrance, please. I have three stinky people who ride around with me a lot.
17) Offer me, please, your theory of why some people blatantly pick their noses in the car.
–I think it’s because people feel as though they’re alone with no-one watching. I pick MY nose in the car, but it’s because I don’t care who sees. If it needs pickin’, I’m pickin’ it. That’s just how I roll.
18) Some young dude jaywalks across the street right in front of your car. He’s just strolling across the street, taking his time. Do you slow down or speed up?
–I slow down. But I speed up in my mind.
19) You pull up to a stoplight with a homeless guy standing there, advertising his hunger. Let’s say it’s Brunch Hungry Guy. He’s right outside your window, staring at you. Do you give him money? Ignore him? Smile apologetically?
–Ignore, assiduously. I’ve traveled in places where people really ARE hungry and who will work all day for a bowl of rice and beans.
20) T/F In a wee fit of road rage, I have flipped someone off whilst driving.
–False. Surprising, yes, but I really never have. I have BEEN flipped-off, but I’ve never done it. In the car, anyway. heh
21) Isn’t the 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior one of the prettiest cars you’ve ever seen? It IS quite nice, I do agree. 🙂
1) If you were ever to own a vintage car, what kind of car would you like it to be? Ouch, I can only choose one?
then it is a 1968 Ford Mustang, black with white interior. or would it be a red and white 1958 Corvette. or maybe a 50’s Porsche Spyder… dang hard question, dang hard.
2) Do you sing in the car? If so, do you stop if someone drives by you or pulls up next to you?
In the car, yes, definately. On the motorcycle, not.
3) Do you groom in the car? If so, what do you do?
Nevah!
4) List the best/most comfortable kind of car you’ve ever personally made out in. Look, I know you have. Maybe even — gasp! — more.
1984 Honda Civic… comfy.
5) What is in the back seat of your car right now? (And don’t tell me it’s you, making out or more, okay?)
Last months copy of Layers magazine, sunflower seed shells, and one of my kids cups.
6) Anything dangling from your rearview mirror? If so, what is it?
Nada.
7) Are you pro dangling car testicles or anti dangling car testicles?
Tacky.
8) If I pulled up to you at a stoplight, could I hear your stereo? What would it likely be playing?
Yes, especially last night when my little head-bangers in the backseat requested Demon Hunter at FULL volume. I obliged.
9) Do you have a hands-free device for your cell phone? (If you live in CA, it’s the law now. I live in CA and I don’t have one because I enjoy being a scofflaw. Shhhhh.)
Yes, but rarely use it, I’m not big on talking and driving.
10) Do you like using your cell phone while driving or would you rather throw it out the window, like me?
I don’t like it much, I’m on the phone enough at work.
11) Tell me, parents, how you occupy your kids on a long car trip. (Can’t wait for these answers.)
Classic sign games or find the license plate, I spy, books on CD, the navigator will read a book out loud, or the portable DVD player for a little quiet time for mom and dad.
12) Rubbernecking at accident sites — yea or nay?
Gotta see. The key is to look without looking like your looking – it’s an art.
13) You are lost. Your GPS, if you have one, isn’t working. What do you do?
I’m a dude, I’ve got internal GPS, I never get lost. NEVAH!
14) Have you ever run over an animal? What kind? (Mammals only.) What did you do?
Too many to count. In high school the drive to my friends house was fraught with ‘possum, many of which fell victim to the brush plate on the south side of my sweet ’79 Subaru Brat.
15) What color is your car? (This may seem boring to you, but the most minute details of other’s lives are fascinating to me.)
Green, dark green.
16) What’s in your glove compartment — beyond the basic registration papers, etc.?
Emergency flashlight, a box of .380 ammo, and Band-aids.
17) Offer me, please, your theory of why some people blatanly pick their noses in the car.
It’s due to the invisible shield the protects us from recognition and the belief that everyone is looking straight ahead watching for brake lights.
18) Some young dude jaywalks across the street right in front of your car. He’s just strolling across the street, taking his time. Do you slow down or speed up?
Curse, slow down and glare with my best death-stare.
19) You pull up to a stoplight with a homeless guy standing there, advertising his hunger. Let’s say it’s Brunch Hungry Guy. He’s right outside your window, staring at you. Do you give him money? Ignore him? Smile apologetically?
I first see if I recognize him from the shelter and then ignore if I don’t.
20) T/F In a wee fit of road rage, I have flipped someone off whilst driving.
T!!! I have my bird set on automatic-repeat.
21) Isn’t the 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior one of the prettiest cars you’ve ever seen? I couldn’t make it fit horizontally, so just turn your heads sideways, pippa. (Some day, 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior, some day.) You don’t really have to answer this question. This is supposed to be a neutral, objective survey. Flagrant editorializing has no place here.
I’d look good driving that. More so if it was black.
1) If you were ever to own a vintage car, what kind of car would you like it to be?
1969 Pontiac GTO The Judge
or
1970 Dodge Challenger
2) Do you sing in the car? If so, do you stop if someone drives by you or pulls up next to you?
Yes and No
3) Do you groom in the car? If so, what do you do?
Sometimes I’ll comb through my hair. I have shaved in the car before but it was rare and I was usually running late for work.
4) List the best/most comfortable kind of car you’ve ever personally made out in. Look, I know you have. Maybe even — gasp! — more.
I used to own a 1965 Ford Custom 500 and the back seat was pretty much the size of a small couch.
5) What is in the back seat of your car right now? (And don’t tell me it’s you, making out or more, okay?)
Um, I’ve got a toddler seat and some old papers.
6) Anything dangling from your rearview mirror? If so, what is it?
No
7) Are you pro dangling car testicles or anti dangling car testicles?
I don’t like them, but, heck, I’m not against people doing what they want to do if it doesn’t hurt anyone else.
8) If I pulled up to you at a stoplight, could I hear your stereo? What would it likely be playing?
The Sirius Garage, Lithium or Boneyard channel.
9) Do you have a hands-free device for your cell phone? (If you live in CA, it’s the law now. I live in CA and I don’t have one because I enjoy being a scofflaw. Shhhhh.)
I do not and I really try to avoid doing anything cell-phone related while driving, but I won’t lie – I have checked to see what a text says or chatted on lesser-traffic roads.
10) Do you like using your cell phone while driving or would you rather throw it out the window, like me?
See above
11) Tell me, parents, how you occupy your kids on a long car trip. (Can’t wait for these answers.)
We have a built-in DVD player and that comes in handy. The Nintendo DS is a Godsend.
12) Rubbernecking at accident sites — yea or nay?
Nay
13) You are lost. Your GPS, if you have one, isn’t working. What do you do?
Um … head in one direction until I hit a major road, drive until I find a gas station and get reoriented.
14) Have you ever run over an animal? What kind? (Mammals only.) What did you do?
A friend and I thought we hit a rabbit once. We kept on driving. In ’98, when we just got back from Okinawa, we bought a new Taurus and on the way home from the dealer, my wife hit a deer. We drove on home and called the police to file and accident report.
15) What color is your car? (This may seem boring to you, but the most minute details of other’s lives are fascinating to me.)
I have a white car. Our family car is gunmetal gray.
16) What’s in your glove compartment — beyond the basic registration papers, etc.?
Various auto repair/checkup paperwork, napkins, pens
17) Offer me, please, your theory of why some people blatanly pick their noses in the car.
I think a lot of people feel isolated in their vehicles. They just tune out the outside world.
18) Some young dude jaywalks across the street right in front of your car. He’s just strolling across the street, taking his time. Do you slow down or speed up?
That happens all the time in Memphis. I swear, this place has the worst drivers and pedestrians of any city in which I’ve driven in the U.S.
19) You pull up to a stoplight with a homeless guy standing there, advertising his hunger. Let’s say it’s Brunch Hungry Guy. He’s right outside your window, staring at you. Do you give him money? Ignore him? Smile apologetically?
Ignore him, most likely
20) T/F In a wee fit of road rage, I have flipped someone off whilst driving.
T
21) Isn’t the 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior one of the prettiest cars you’ve ever seen? I couldn’t make it fit horizontally, so just turn your heads sideways, pippa. (Some day, 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior, some day.) You don’t really have to answer this question. This is supposed to be a neutral, objective survey. Flagrant editorializing has no place here.
I like old Mustangs but prefer white or blue with the racing stripes. My uncle had a ’64 and my grandfather still has a ’66.
1) If you were ever to own a vintage car, what kind of car would you like it to be?
I love those old-school American Grafitti cars that look like enormous gleaming round-edged refrigerators cruising down the boulevard.
2) Do you sing in the car? If so, do you stop if someone drives by you or pulls up next to you?
Yes, I sing in the car. In my mind, I am the lead singer in a band – and the band is all guys. I am so damn cool. I usually put the kibosh on the fantasy if someone pulls up – but then the second they pull ahead, I’m back in the fantasy.
3) Do you groom in the car? If so, what do you do?
Nope.
4) List the best/most comfortable kind of car you’ve ever personally made out in. Look, I know you have. Maybe even — gasp! — more.
Nissan 300 ZX. Color – gold. So low to the ground you basically had to kneel down in order to enter it. But the seats went all the way back. All hell broke loose. And I had a paper due the next day.
5) What is in the back seat of your car right now? (And don’t tell me it’s you, making out or more, okay?)
Black pumps in a shoebox. I really must return them.
6) Anything dangling from your rearview mirror? If so, what is it?
A little air freshener thingie from Yankee Candle
7) Are you pro dangling car testicles or anti dangling car testicles?
I think if that’s what you feel you need to, go for it. I will openly find you strange, but I will move on with my life, not giving it another thought. After all, I’m too busy singing in my band.
8) If I pulled up to you at a stoplight, could I hear your stereo? What would it likely be playing?
Oh yes. Maybe Eminem. Maybe Metallica. Foo Fighters. I like loud music in the car.
9) Do you have a hands-free device for your cell phone? (If you live in CA, it’s the law now. I live in CA and I don’t have one because I enjoy being a scofflaw. Shhhhh.)
I do not.
10) Do you like using your cell phone while driving or would you rather throw it out the window, like me?
No. I don’t talk on the phone when I drive – it freaks me out.
11) Tell me, parents, how you occupy your kids on a long car trip. (Can’t wait for these answers.)
12) Rubbernecking at accident sites — yea or nay?
13) You are lost. Your GPS, if you have one, isn’t working. What do you do?
Pull over, ask directions, weep openly.
14) Have you ever run over an animal? What kind? (Mammals only.) What did you do?
Yes. Many skunks (they’re everywhere in Rhode Island), squirrels, birds … but nothing larger than that. I have almost hit a deer many many times (again, they’re all over the place in RI) – but no collision yet.
15) What color is your car? (This may seem boring to you, but the most minute details of other’s lives are fascinating to me.)
Black
16) What’s in your glove compartment — beyond the basic registration papers, etc.?
A pack of gum. A small flashlight.
17) Offer me, please, your theory of why some people blatanly pick their noses in the car.
I love the Colorado explanation!!
I know I feel totally alone in my own little self-regarding universe when I’m in the car. I am barely aware I am in public.
18) Some young dude jaywalks across the street right in front of your car. He’s just strolling across the street, taking his time. Do you slow down or speed up?
I slow down. I make a rude gesture.
19) You pull up to a stoplight with a homeless guy standing there, advertising his hunger. Let’s say it’s Brunch Hungry Guy. He’s right outside your window, staring at you. Do you give him money? Ignore him? Smile apologetically?
Ignore him. I am so over Brunch Hungry Guy.
20) T/F In a wee fit of road rage, I have flipped someone off whilst driving.
True
21) Isn’t the 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior one of the prettiest cars you’ve ever seen? I couldn’t make it fit horizontally, so just turn your heads sideways, pippa. (Some day, 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior, some day.) You don’t really have to answer this question. This is supposed to be a neutral, objective survey. Flagrant editorializing has no place here.
Love it! Hot!
Wow, I’m so far behind on your blog! Two nosy Q&As I’ve missed!
1) If you were ever to own a vintage car, what kind of car would you like it to be?
I’m not into cars, so… I’ll probably copy from a book. 1986 Volkswagen Rabbit.
2) Do you sing in the car? If so, do you stop if someone drives by you or pulls up next to you?
Yes, and hell to the no. I get more animated so they can have something to twitter about later.
3) Do you groom in the car? If so, what do you do?
Yes, I put on my makeup in the car. I go by feel and only check the mirror at stoplights. I can put on both mascara and lipstick without a mirror, and that’s usually all I wear, because I look dead without them. I mean, it’s WRONG for me to go out in the world without makeup.
4) List the best/most comfortable kind of car you’ve ever personally made out in. Look, I know you have. Maybe even — gasp! — more.
I don’t remember the type of car, but I was a sophomore in high school, and I remember the street we were driving down. Not who was driving. I do remember who I was making out with. Teenagers. So stinking rude, making out in the back seat while someone’s driving.
5) What is in the back seat of your car right now? (And don’t tell me it’s you, making out or more, okay?)
Nothing. The seats are folded down.
6) Anything dangling from your rearview mirror? If so, what is it?
One of those neck cooling thingies–I wore it when I went to the Grand Canyon with Frank. And the dice necklace from the Rio casino from when I auditioned for American Idol.
7) Are you pro dangling car testicles or anti dangling car testicles?
I will not discuss a car’s testicles when the car isn’t here to censor me.
8) If I pulled up to you at a stoplight, could I hear your stereo? What would it likely be playing?
Maybe, I don’t know. I’m usually not in the other car at the stoplight. But my music is loud. Right now, you’d most likely hear The Black Ghosts, something from the Twilight soundtrack, or something from the Buffy musical.
9) Do you have a hands-free device for your cell phone? (If you live in CA, it’s the law now. I live in CA and I don’t have one because I enjoy being a scofflaw. Shhhhh.)
Not for this one, no.
10) Do you like using your cell phone while driving or would you rather throw it out the window, like me?
I’d rather smash it with a hammer and never see it again. I do not like talking on the phone. It’s there for emergencies, really. That said, I called Frank while driving today.
11) Tell me, parents, how you occupy your kids on a long car trip. (Can’t wait for these answers.)
The biggest one, I give her a rawhide and sometimes crack a window. The little ones, it’s generally something fish-flavored.
12) Rubbernecking at accident sites — yea or nay?
Nah. A glance whilst moving by is plenty.
13) You are lost. Your GPS, if you have one, isn’t working. What do you do?
Even if that blasted thing is working, it’s getting me lost in the mountains trying to kill me. I try to call Frank and have him google directions for me. If he’s with me, I figure out which way’s north, where I want to go from north, and I go from there.
14) Have you ever run over an animal? What kind? (Mammals only.) What did you do?
Mammals only! Hahahahaha. Um, I think I’ve run over a mammal, but I don’t remember what it was. I kept driving. I think I was the 2nd person to hit it, so I made it good and dead.
15) What color is your car? (This may seem boring to you, but the most minute details of other’s lives are fascinating to me.)
Toreador Red.
16) What’s in your glove compartment — beyond the basic registration papers, etc.?
Receipt for my tires, sometimes a gun.
17) Offer me, please, your theory of why some people blatanly pick their noses in the car.
They are 100% oblivious that there are other people on the planet.
18) Some young dude jaywalks across the street right in front of your car. He’s just strolling across the street, taking his time. Do you slow down or speed up?
I honk and slow down.
19) You pull up to a stoplight with a homeless guy standing there, advertising his hunger. Let’s say it’s Brunch Hungry Guy. He’s right outside your window, staring at you. Do you give him money? Ignore him? Smile apologetically?
I’m a terrible person, so I ignore him.
20) T/F In a wee fit of road rage, I have flipped someone off whilst driving.
F
21) Isn’t the 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior one of the prettiest cars you’ve ever seen? I couldn’t make it fit horizontally, so just turn your heads sideways, pippa. (Some day, 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red with the Pony interior, some day.) You don’t really have to answer this question. This is supposed to be a neutral, objective survey. Flagrant editorializing has no place here.
I exercise my lack of requirement to answer this question.