Are You Bonded with Your Car?

by Lesley Hazleton

Parade Magazine, October 4, 1998, Page 16

You've heard of male bonding, even of female bonding. But what about bonding with your wheels? Here are the telltale signs that you've bonded with your car:

• You buy fake animal-skin seat covers.
• You treat your first scratch as a major disaster.
• You wash and polish the car by hand once a week.
• You get a vanity plate.
• You put covers on the floor matts to keep them clean.
• You keep a mascot on the dashboard to 'protect' the car.
• You buy premium gasoline.
• You take photos of the car and send them to friends.
• You look back and smile when you walk away from the car.
• In the New Beetle, you actually use the bud vase.

  ---Lesley Hazleton

  Parade Magazine

  Retyped by Carl "Road Scholar" Morrison