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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Elias Visontay

I was quick to ignore parental guidance, but when dad told me to take cheese off my car I should have listened

My best advice quote: Don't leave cheese on the hood of your car
‘Having clocked up more kilometres on the literal and metaphorical odometer, parents know a thing or two about car maintenance.’ Composite: Getty Images

“Take that bloody cheese off already,” my dad would bark at me. Oh how I should have listened.

It all started one spring weeknight in 2020. I had just caught a film with friends. I was in my metallic blue Mazda 2 parked in front of the Randwick Ritz cinema, about to pull out, when a red P-plated hatchback full of mulleted, rowdy youths pulled up beside me.

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