Whilst driving home from work Friday night, I turned the corner into my little part of Bristol (a vast sprawling council estate) to be met by the site of one of those new SUV stretch limo's parked on the side of the road complete with disco ball flashing and party revellers hanging out of the windows.
Years ago the sight of a stretch limo in this part of the country was met with curiosity. Which celebrity was visiting us. We wondered who was sat behind those blacked out windows looking out on us, the ordinary man out on the streets. How things have changed. Now it's common place to book one of these huge cars to take you to a hen night, 16 drunk women with skirts up to their knickers falling drunk from these mega machines outside various clubs.
But also schools round here seem to be adopting the American idea of a 'Prom' to finish school off with, complete with dress and yes of course everyone hires a stretch limo to take them there. Arrive in the style of the Chav or don't arrive at all. My very own daughter has reminded me everytime we see this car that she wants it for 'her' so called 'prom'.
There was a recent big palava in the local paper about who governs these things on the roads as they are quite often a nuisance with their patrons hanging drunk and shouting out windows (incase anyone has missed seeing them)
Now they are taking bookings for little kids parties in them. A trip to the zoo and back in your very own limo.
Now I don't object to a trip in a flash limo. But I think it would be better with a nice sexy man and a bottle of bubbly and I can assure you we won't have time for hanging out of windows!
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