h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

As we all know, there are the "working" class - "middle" class and "upper" class citizens in most societies.

SO! how do you determine whereabouts you live ?

s'easylook around your area.

most "working" class have cars
"middle" class have cars with at least 3 hubcaps on it
"upper" class have cars with four matching hubcaps

We have two cars, both with full sets of matching hubcaps.

Does this make us Royalty??

bows ans curtsies could well be your majesty (can't beat a bit of grovelling)

Arise, Sir Prof of H2G2!

We have a wide variety of automobiles in our road, from sunbleached pink Fiestas to new(ish) Jags. All the houses are the same, 3 bed terraces. Not sure a car determines your social status anymore.

You forgot the underclass.

Aren't they the ones that ride pushbikes?

... only if they can afford the patches for the inner tubes

I ride a bicycle with a wonky back wheel to work, and my car has three hubcaps. Only two of them match, though - the third has "Toyota" written on it, and my car is not a Toyota...

>> You forgot the underclass. <<

>> Aren't they the ones that ride pushbikes? <<

No, that's the middle class.

The underclass drive the cars of the working, middle and upper classes.

And the upper class drive cars that were built before "hubcaps" were invented.

RF

I have a very large vehicle...with front and rear doors and a farebox in front...

Ah yes, the chauffeur-driven vehicle. I have that too.

A stretch Mercedes and chauffeur, yes. (At least most German buses are built by Mercedes...)

Sometimes for me it's the Mercedes, sometimes it's the Volvo, but when I'm really slumming it the Renault's the thing.

I had a Rolls Canardley


err! rolls down hills and can hardly get back up 'em

I ride a bicycle with no hubcaps.

Ivan, "...but when I'm really slumming it the Renault's the thing. "

I had one of those, an R5 -- looked like a cross between a pregnant frog and a roller skate! Pretty much handled like one, too!

This is worse - it's a bus made by Renault. Dreadful seats, erratic suspension and brakes, and an exhaust that points onto the feet of anyone who's just gotten off the thing. (It must have been reconfigured from a left-hand drive model before it was sold in this right-hand drive country, but nobody thought to realign the exhaust...)

But yes, I've seen an R5. Such an improbable machine.

saw a hub cap on a roadsidethe cars owner must have been demoted at work and now on a smaller income