Friday, June 24, 2011
Spiteful dads go “topless” to embrace irony
As representatives of conscientious and responsible young drivers it wouldn’t be like Hoot to forget to Father’s day.
So with the third weekend of June having just passed, we thought it fit to continue with our dad-related theme.
Yes, why is it that dads, just as they retire from being the free taxi service, so often decide that it’s the perfect time to, excuse the pun, convert to convertible driving?
Is it just to spite their offspring that they spend the whole of our childhood and adolescent years resisting any idea of buying a convertible that they then, just as we move out and have to start thinking about getting our own car and our own car insurance, suddenly decide that they’ll take a chunk out of our inheritance and splurge on a soft-top?
Ironically, more than one in ten dads who buy convertibles say that they do it to “recapture their lost youth” – to me it seems that all their doing is exposing their old age to the elements.
Another ironic twist is the desire cited by many to “feel the wind through their hair” – unfortunately for many the winds of time have already swept most of that hair away.
To complete our triptych of ironies, many dads say that they buy a convertible to “enjoy the good weather” – c’mon, we do live in Britain…
Image by culture.culte via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car insurance, convertible
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posted by Fuse @ 6:18 AM 
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