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Open top cars

The vanity complex and screen goddess romantic (forever to be known as the SGR) in me do battle once again.

Now, I've also struggled with this in the past. I was renowned in high school and university for never being in a car with the window open. I am an air-conditioning girl all the way. Before you ask whether it had anything to do with breathing outside smog or air pollutants or anything like that, I'll just tell you that it is because I didn't want to mess up my hair. (hence, revealing a little of what I call my vanity complex) sigh. I can't help it.

The weird thing was, I also have this thing about open-top cars. Convertibles, VW Golfs, winding country roads hugging cliff tops, over looking the ocean. Bliss! You can see my dilemma though. I had to stop myself from writing "and the wind blowing through my hair" cos I would HATE the wind blowing through my hair. But it's oh so screen goddess like. I feel exactly like Bridget Jones does when she gets into the car on a way to a mini-break with Daniel Cleaver in Bridget Jones' Diary.

Well, the battle was raging again this morning. A friend stayed over last night because we were doing a bible study together (2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, actually) and caught the ferry into the city for work. To quote Kazzart, it was a crisp morning (read cold, windy, chilly, nippy etc - I like her word though!) We had sprinted onto the ferry and boy, was that heart rate up and that blood pumping. We decided to stand out on the bow of the Rivercat to enjoy the water views and the morning sun. As expected, the SGR in me wanted to stand on the rooftops and shout for joy! Prance down the street sloshing water around and tap-dancing! Run up and hug a thousand people! Grin from ear to ear and never stop! You get the picture. Well, after about 10 minutes, the vanity complex started grumbling...

V... your hair's getting all messed up
V... it's getting cold and your cheeks will turn an unbecoming veiny red
V... you didn't put enough sun screen on and you'll get an uneven winter tan
V... your lips will be chapped and then you won't be able to wear that nice glossy Estee Lauder lipstick cos you'll have to wear something moisturising underneath and the glossy one doesn't glide on well on top of that
V... buttoning up that shirt to create more of a barrier against the wind really wrecks the line of the outfit.

Thankfully, we did go back inside for the last 10 minutes or so of the trip, so I guess both the vanity complex and the SGR were satisfied for yet another day.