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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 by admin
Renya Xydis, hairstylist
What was your first car? The first car I had was a $200 rust bucket. It was a Ford Falcon. It was my brother-in-law’s old, old rusty car and we just drove it all around Australia. It went to Queensland, Melbourne, Bourke, just to go away with friends and stuff like that, Seven Mile Beach and everywhere. We had fun in it. We had it just before it was about to get its rego again and it wouldn’t have gotten rego, so after about eight months it had to go. It had to die.
What are you driving now? The Lexus RX 400, the hybrid. I love it. It’s environmentally friendly, so we’re all happy about that. I drive a lot - back and forth to work - and I do a lot of photo shoots, so I’m driving everywhere. I used to put petrol in my car weekly and with the hybrid I only put it in every 31/2 weeks, so it’s economically amazing. It makes you want to drive slower. You don’t really want to drive fast in this car because you’re just wasting the petrol.
What’s your ideal car? Exactly what I have now because I’m a mother of two kids and I’m a freelance editorial stylist, which means I go to photo shoots and I have to do their hair wherever I am. You don’t go to one location every day. You could be down at the Royal National Park doing a shoot with three models or you could be at a studio doing a shoot with one model. It’s like my office as well. In the back of the car I have all my wigs, my hairpieces and my blow dryers. It’s also great for family days when all of us fit in the car together, which is great.
What’s your favourite bumper sticker? I’m not a really big bumper sticker girl but I love it when I see the one that says, ‘Drive Slow, I’m Pregnant’ and a man’s driving the car. I think that’s quite funny.
What’s your pet road peeve? Drivers who cut in front of you, when they don’t put their blinkers on. There’s lots of things. I could go on and on and on - people that drive fast around schools and when there’s no respect on the road and you could actually hurt someone, that’s not cool.
source:smh