Can anyone explain to me why people hang a bunch of shit off their car’s rearview mirror? In my area, about 25-30% of the cars display this affectation. I see feathers, beads, miniature stuffed animals, all kinds of bric-a-brac. I guess I can see the Jesus-on a-spring thing sprouting up on the dash. It’s sort of like an insurance policy. But what is the deal with all that crap hanging off the mirror?
OK. So it isn’t important. I’m just curious.
Hahaha. I love your outrage at this.
When I had my car I was given a load of shit as a birthday present (car maintenence stuff which I never actually used) which included hanging dice (di). I probably wouldn’t have bought this myself, but once I stuck it in the car I reaslised why people hang shit in it - it personalises their car. Just like when people buy ‘novel’ covers for their ipod, or put stickers on their books/laptops/walls or whatever.
It’s the same thing as bumper stickers. I have never put one on my car but I can see how people could view their cars as extensions of themselves or their body parts (we’ve all heard the sayings about men who need sports cars as extensions, lol) would do that. Or the typical car that is plastered with either traditional left- or right-wing mottos (you never see a combination), and run out of room on the bumper so they’re all over the back of the car. So the car becomes more than transportation, it becomes an accessory used to make a statement about the person. Not that different from people who dress a particular way to make a statement. I think marketers use this understanding of human nature to sell us all sorts of crap that we don’t need.
Where I live, we just assume it’s an undercover cop.
Do they actually go to that extent where you live? Or do you just live in a crack den or something?
Well, everyone’s explanations make sense - except faust’s, but even that makes sense in a twisted sort of way. I guess I appreciate clear vision of where the hell I’m going without looking through a bunch of junk hanging from the mirror. Silly me. These days, I restrict my personalizing to refrigerator magnets. My current favorite: “You say tomato, I say fuck you”
I remember a rant where the OP was irritated by the little fishies on the trunk lid. I told him to lighten up and consider the opportunities. They make perfect targets…
“Crack den” is such a politically loaded term, Statik.
Really? Crack is so passe… thinking more in terms of meth haven or the mean streets of salvia. 
in the dog-walking business, “shit hangers” are the little bits of poop that sometimes dangle from a dog’s ass after they’ve taken a crap
just thought i’d share that
“Don’t be sexist, broads hate that.”