Few drivers are as tribal as Jeep drivers. When they pass each other on the road, Jeep code requires them to wave. It is called…the Jeep wave. Lately, some Jeep people have taken to leaving rubber ducks on the door handles of other Jeeps.
Some have turned ducking into a game by involving kids and neighbors or by matching the duck’s color to a given Jeep’s paint job. For many Jeep owners—or “Jeepers,” as some say—the duck ritual is a Jeep-world privilege, along with the meetups, off-road rallies, beach events and made-for-Jeep accessories. But there is debate about which Jeep models are considered duck-worthy. And there are never-duckers who find the little gifts wasteful.
Truman Trower, a 19-year-old film and television major at the Savannah College of Art and Design, has an orange 2012 Jeep Wrangler that has been ducked about 50 times, she says. She refuses to play along.
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Some have turned ducking into a game by involving kids and neighbors or by matching the duck’s color to a given Jeep’s paint job. For many Jeep owners—or “Jeepers,” as some say—the duck ritual is a Jeep-world privilege, along with the meetups, off-road rallies, beach events and made-for-Jeep accessories. But there is debate about which Jeep models are considered duck-worthy. And there are never-duckers who find the little gifts wasteful.
Truman Trower, a 19-year-old film and television major at the Savannah College of Art and Design, has an orange 2012 Jeep Wrangler that has been ducked about 50 times, she says. She refuses to play along.
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