Dear Santa Blogs:
I took your advice last year, and sent my niece a number of highly collectible postcards featuring cheerful Santa Clauses. I received, the following Groundhog’s Day, a quite charming thank you email, saying she appreciated the thought, and would of course treasure these valuable artifacts, but that she was getting a little old for Santa Claus, and old enough to be considering driving lessons. So thanks for your successful suggestions last year, but what can we do about her this year?
GLAD SHE’S GROWING UP
Dear MATURE CONTENT:
Oh, they do grow up so quickly, don’t they? One day they’re teething on a blue plastic doughnut and the next they’re swearing off doughnuts because all those carbs will keep them from fitting into their blue plastic prom dress. How does a poor rich uncle keep up?
Fortunately, I can see what she’s hinting at and YES, there are a lot of collectible post cards with cars on them. For decades, the manufacturers knew their wares could be shown off by that method, getting people’s mouths to water at the elegant new styles and colors.
At the same time, car collectors realized that postcards were an excellent way to show off their classics.
As well as some of the more unusual vintage items in their collection.
Imagining your niece as a driver suggests another avenue (so to speak) of collection: the admonitory, or warning, postcard about the dangers of careless driving.
Distractions have been a feature of motorizing since the term “motorist” was invented, and the postcard cartoonists have not been shy about alerting us to the dangers of not keeping our eyes and mind on the road.
And, as discussed several times hereintofore, they have also not hesitated to discuss the distractions of simply parking.
So you will find a vast variety of automotive humor and/or information on postcards. A goodly selection of these is bound to cause loud cries of surprise from your niece, as well as a warm and grateful post-Christmas text.
I wish you all the best with your shopping (left it a little late again this year, haven’t you?) and hope the resulting Christmas is just joy on wheels.
Blogsy Babbles 