I know what year your car was......

Posted by patgreen On 2011/11/16 17:29:29

I suppose we have all had experiences where someone came up trying to start a conversation with that time tested gambit "What year is your car?" It's part of owning an old car, right?

I usually turn it around and ask what year you think it is?

This where it gets weird. The vast majority will guess 1955. Why 55? Why do 55s reach out from the grave like this? What happened in 1955 that causes this egregious blunder?

Oddly, very few people guess any other year, for whatever reason.