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To think eyelashes on cars are just creepy?

79 replies

MakeGlutenFreeHay · 22/06/2013 08:22

Why do people do this? It just looks peculiar and freaks me our a bit. Someone near us has actually scratched them into the paintwork around the headlights - they are already rusting.

No, people - stop it!

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FunnyLittleFrog · 22/06/2013 09:15

Have a friend in her 40s with car eyelashes. I have not commented.

Eyesunderarock · 22/06/2013 09:17

I know enough women in their 40s that dress like they are in their 20s, I see it as a similar issue.

Birdsgottafly · 22/06/2013 09:19

Comment all you want, Funny.

I am in my 40's, if i could afford two cars, i would have a little car with eyelashes and bird/butterfly/heart stickers on, i could not use it for work, hence needing two cars.

I have said this before, but she (the car), who would be called something ending in "ie" (Sophie, Masie etc), would be my weekend hunni.

Yes, really.

Eyesunderarock · 22/06/2013 09:21

Grin Good on you BGF.
What harm is it doing to anyone?

Birdsgottafly · 22/06/2013 09:23

Disclaimer, i don't dress like i am in my 20's, although when i turned 40, no-one knocked on my door and gave me a list of Do's and Don'ts, unless i was out and they forgot to post them.

I wake up every morning forgetting to tell myself that i am now to old to have any likes/hobbies/interests/fantasies etc.

NeverBeenToMe · 22/06/2013 09:23

Nelly Grin

LOVE the bollocks. Am so going to put some on EXH's car although a cock might be more appropriate

NeverBeenToMe · 22/06/2013 09:24

Oops Nella not Nelly !

ParadiseChick · 22/06/2013 09:59

Way to go bgf!

I drive a pick up for the majority of the week, I'm tempted to go for eyelashes and fairy dust!

MakeGlutenFreeHay · 22/06/2013 10:09

Nice to have posters from the other side of the tracks. I will admit to having had a tiny purple ribenaberry car that would probably have loved a good set o' lashes. Maybe I'm just jealous that I no longer have a car to dress up....

Still creep me out though, sorry Grin.

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FruOla · 22/06/2013 10:12

The other day I saw a car with a 'nodding dog' on the back shelf. Both the car and the dog were absolutely ancient Grin

AKAK81 · 22/06/2013 10:15

Totally an idiot warning system. You see them and get as far away from the car as possible.

ParadiseChick · 22/06/2013 10:16

They are both still going strong though FruOla Grin

hermioneweasley · 22/06/2013 10:19

I was wondering about this the other day. What message are you trying to send with the eyelashes and "fairy dust"? What does it mean that strangers who can't even see you in your car need to know how hyper feminine you are?

Haven't seen th balls for cars. They are just gross. Hope it doesn't catch n here.

Eyesunderarock · 22/06/2013 10:24

'Totally an idiot warning system'

I tend to find this more useful as an idiot warning system

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ThisReallyIsNotSPNopeNotAtAll · 22/06/2013 10:24

I saw a car with the play boy bunny and a name underneath on the passenger door.

Its still better then the boy racer cars with the bright green alloys/rims and go faster stripes Grin

FruOla · 22/06/2013 10:38

Yes, Paradise. The car 'lives' in a road close to me, which I walk down frequently. Barely a day goes by without the owner doing some tinkering to the car - but it was only the other day I noticed the nodding dog Grin

ShakingSultana · 22/06/2013 10:41

For a very long time I thought that they were to scare pigeons away Blush I didn't realise they were eyelashes until quite recently!

FruOla · 22/06/2013 10:48

Shaking!

quoteunquote · 22/06/2013 10:50

I hate people who put plastic tat on their cars, flags, eyelashes , red noses,

every single day as I walk around the rural lanes I find this crap on the verges and in the hedgerows,

I asume it the same thick twonks who chuck litter from their cars as they speed through beautiful countryside.

They must hate planet earth, hate nature, hate the UK and hate themselves, and are incredible stupid, worthless twonks, incapable of joined up thinking.

no wonder it creeps people out.

MamaChubbyLegs · 22/06/2013 11:11

Eyelashes are a bit silly. Worse are the cars in which every seat and steering wheel are covered with tacky pink fake fur. There was a lady down my road who did this. Also, her wheels were pink.

Each to their own, I suppose!

I recently saw a car in which the back shelf was completely covered completely in a whole pack of nodding dogs Grin.

It was beautiful my kind of car hypnotic Grin

MamaChubbyLegs · 22/06/2013 11:12

It was so completely covered I had to say "completely" twice Blush

MakeGlutenFreeHay · 22/06/2013 11:18

quote I'm trying to work out your position on these.... Grin

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quoteunquote · 22/06/2013 11:58
Grin

My colleagues, family and friends never mention these things as it sets me off for ages on a rant,

so thanks MakeGlutenFreeHay for giving the opportunity,

my local garage staff hide the offending items under the counter when I pull up, I know as they tell me, and put them back if it is DH in the vehicle rather than me,

one last bit,

I assume these twonks sit at home chucking all food packaging on the floor around them, they seem to love the look.

and breath.

MakeGlutenFreeHay · 22/06/2013 12:03

Rant away! I love a good rant....

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SoupDragon · 22/06/2013 12:10

I had a car behind me yesterday, it was one of those bubble shaped cars. Anyway....
it was bright red.
With black spots.
And eyelashes.