I was told of an amusing story today.
Because our district is very small and roads are fews, we tend to drive past the same cars often, learn to recognize a person from their cars and if you are extra observant, you’d even know a household’s changes or latest additions.
This was how I, or rather my husband, noticed that a certain household in my neighbourhood recently sported a swanky new car in their garage.
When I commented on this to my family, I was told that this car was acquired to give the owner a more respectable standing.
Apparently, because he drove a modest car before this, he had trouble convincing certain people that he belongs to a very important committee – which is perhaps because most of the other committees came in with not only expensive cars but were probably chauffeured.
It doesn’t matter that he has the documents to prove his membership because his very ordinary and relatively cheap car obviously tell these group of people that he could not be someone in such important position.
In short, cheap car = no money = NOBODY!
Lucky for this man, he was able to get himself a car that equates his standing and command the respect that he deserves.
But isn’t it sad that some of us would quickly judge a person’s social standing based on his material possessions – his car, clothes, watches and etc.
Don’t they know that some of those who drive prestigious cars like BMWs have more red than black in their accounts and some that drive simple cars like Madzas have very long numbers in their accounts?
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