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I'm curious...

I've noticed this strange phenomenon the past few years...people putting Christmas wreaths, bows, etc on their cars.

Is this happening in the US too or is this just another crazy Canadian thing?

I haven't seen this myself, but maybe in some of the larger cities? I was in Milwaukee, Chicago, Toledo, Cleveland, and Erie the week before Christmas and didn't notice automobile decorations there, but I really wasn't looking for them.

I've seen christmas wreaths on cars and trucks both in the Fall River, Ma. area and here in West Texas so I don't think it's just a crazy Canadian thing.

I've seen them in the US a few years back, and I thought it was cool and made a mental note to do it the next year and forgot.

I haven't noticed them this year or since, but I wasn't looking for them.

You know what is really big in Michigan? Red Wing hockey flags suction cupped on car windows, especially when they're hot that year.

I notice it. Wreaths or red booties and such blocking the air flow to the radiator. Not too bright.

There's a guy in my neighborhood that has glued fake grass to every square inch of his car. A woman had sea shells and little figurines made of ceramic glued to the top of her car from the front bumper to the rear. Every inch of metal was covered. One day she had a minor collision with another driver and everyone of those shells and figurines had shattered like glass. That stuff was all over the road like powder. It was all I could do to keep from sticking my head out the window and laugh. Last time I saw her car it had rubber figures glued to it. California, the land of nuts and fruits.

-1bigsteve (o:

Fake grass glued to a car? I would like to see that, just for kicks. It sounds weird.

The shells was funny!

I always thought it meant they got the car as a Christmas present.

I saw one car this year with a wreath in front and one car decorated with lights~ those LED rope lights! That must be expensive!

~~~ However! ~~~
This is the car I saw this past Tuesday on I-4, one car ahead of me

Harry @ Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:44 am wrote:I always thought it meant they got the car as a Christmas present.

A guy around my neck of the woods drives his big 1958 Ford dump truck with wreaths mounted on the front grill every Christmas. I guess he still loves his present.

Everytime I see that grass-covered car, Augusta, the words "lawn mower" come to mind. Hmmm, I have no idea why.

-1bigsteve

It's funny that the only person at my office that I mentioned my sighting to had also seen it that morning! His main job is at the Hospital and the Hot Dog Mobile had been brought to the Ronald MacDonald House next door so the kids and their familes could tour it! That is cool they did that!

That is very cool Kat that they did that. I have seen the hot dog mobile only once.

That is some car, Kat. It's great they took it to the R. McDonald house. I don't know how many of them there are: 1 or 2? One is usually at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

Ha! A lawn mower! I'll buy the gas, BigSteve.