Being SDU - Wheels

"Get a car, and the girls will come flocking to you like bees to honey" my army friend was telling me the secret to get attached while eating snake one day.

His logic that girls are only attracted to the guys with wheels because they get to travel for free and need not joust around with sweating bodies and screaming kids for seating space by taking public transport.

By now you may think that I am rewriting Janice Wong's "Want a girlfriend? Get a nice car" article. Let me emphasise. This is NOT a rewrite. Think of it as an... add-on.

With that, lets continue.

Women are materialistic. Ok, not all of them.

But the point is, if they are single, they will prefer a man with wheels than one without.

Why? Refer to sentence two for that matter.

If you don't have a car, don't expect a fair courting chance.

Ok, so you have a car, but its a Nissan Sunny.

Sure she may consider letting you drive her around, when all the Mercedez and BMWs drivers aren't available.

Even I agree with Janice Wong that a man with an expensive car is more socially desirable.

Everyone wants to sit in a more expensive car.

Think Mercerdez Cab vs. Toyota Cab. Which would you prefer?

To further enforce that view, I asked starrfish, a female friend of mine on her take on this subject.

She too said that men with wheels are a convenience. It also shows that they are rich and successful.

She added that women dating men with expensive cars is for the sake of being glamourous. If the she is spotted by her friends hanging out with a guy with an expensive car, they will start to get envious or jealous or both and the visious cycle begins.

Comparing.

But being the realistic girl she was, she knows that maintaining a car ain't cheap. The owners may look suave and all that but at the end of the day, they still need to pay road tax, petrol (erratic rates), parking, etc etc.

She concluded that her man need not own a stylo milo shiny car. A cheap or second hand car will do, for convenience sake. To be able to ferry around old folks is good enough. How heart warming.

As an ending note, I shall quote Janice Wong quoting talk-host Oprah Winfrey in her "Want a girlfriend? Get a nice car" article.

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you need is someone who'll take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.