What does the different colors of loofah mean or represent
 

When I drive around on my golf cart I see people with these different colored loofahs on their respective golf carts and even their cars. After seeing quite a few I am wandering if they have special meaning.

Loofah?
 

What's your definition of loofah? To me, it's a kind of sponge.

Yes it looks like a sponge that you use in your bathtub to lather your soap up with.

People use them to spot their vehicles in parking lots. I know there are people that try to make them some symbol that they aren't. The color means that's the color they chose or had available.

I have heard it indicates what type of LGBTQ they are or if they are swingers and so on which is probably just another Villages myth.

Boomer as rumor-controller — or washer woman ;)
 

Oh my! Oh deah! Oh deah! I hope that rumor that went around here a decade or so ago is not back.

First, I will tell you what those loofahs really mean. AND THEN I will tell you what used to be said — but only if you promise not to believe that scandalous rumor:

Those loofahs are truly and merely to indicate where the car is parked.

I don’t have a loofah on my car. But as the owner of a white car with Florida plates, I can tell you that not paying perfect attention to where I had parked has caused me to end up pushing my grocery cart aimlessly through Publix parking lot, while trying to look confident — like I know whereinthehell I parked that Honda.

BUT somehow, somewhere, a long time ago, a rumor was started that said those loofah’d cars belonged to swingers, swappers, a key-party group. Not true. I have NEVER once seen anything unseemly in the backseats of those cars.

That salacious loofah rumor went around about the same time as the one that said to never wear red shoes while sitting at an outside bar in TV or people would think you were a hooker. (That rumor was so long ago that Brownwood had not even been built yet and LSL City Fire had a different name.)

All righty then, now, I have cleared all that up. Aren’t you glad you asked. :)

It probably is just a myth.

If it is a MYTH then why do the people with the Different Color Loofahs always blow thru Traffic Lights and why do every single one of them have a Smile On Their Face Like The Cat That Just Ate The Canary?

Each color means something, the question is What is the Code? Does Red or Blue or Green mean anything? Somebody had to know!

Most people would need to be extricated by the Jaws Of Life if they tried to do in the backseat what their memory reminds them of what they could once do. Forgetting where your car is can also be solved by using the unlock mechanism on your keyring.

Come on give us the code!! Someone has it.

I heard the dark color Loofah is a Weight Watchers Signal cause it reminds the driver of Milk Chocolate! :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

I use a loofah color combo that indicates that I was born with a tooth, have the same number of Tour de France wins as Lance Armstrong, do not like soft boiled eggs, occasionally use a foot wedge, and belong to a group dedicated to translating Shakespeare into Ebonics.

I thought they were people coming back from the swimming pool.
But wife swapping clubs sounds better, and more exiting.
Quite a lot of pink ones around as well!

Well if the loofas don't mean swappers/swingers/whatever then it begs the question.....??

There’s a solution for finding your vehicle without loofahs. Download the App called “anchor point” Let’s you store your location when you park.

The answer to which is How to find your car.
I wish my car had a loofah-able roof rack. I never accept Publix's offer to take my groceries out because I can never remember where I parked.

So, where do the girls with the red shoes hangout? Inquiring minds want to know.

Hilarious! TY 😆

Conspiracy theorist!

And what you said is exactly the truth. So when I park my white van with Florida tags on it, I line up the aisle I park in with whatever part of the building is straight ahead. Helps keep me sharp!!

I guess when get older and have nothing better to do, you make up stories and then you forget you made it up and believe it.

I remember 30 years ago when people put fake bananas on their antenna's to find their cars in the parking lots.


Can you imagine what Conspiracy theorists could dream up about that??




:ohdear:

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Not LGBTQ
 

As Co-Chair of our local LGBTQ+ Village Club, I can assure you that these colorful scrubbies on Village cars mean nothing to us.

Dear folks who don't live here or aren't here now visiting.

There aren't any Loofahs.

If there were they are to try to find your car in a crowded parking lot.

If you don't agree, get into your car right now and drive to the local grocery store and count Loofah's.

See? Nada. And they aren't for anything but trying to find your car put there by very uncool folks.

It is just another Villages myth. They are simply to help people find their car or golf cart in a parking lot.

The colors are simply preference or what they happened to grab off the shelf.

I am always astounded how outsiders believe all these ignorant rumors that get created by jealous people (mostky outside haters) and it’s shocking how people gossip all over the country about our community!!! Why don’t people have common sense that if it sounds totally rediculous, than how can it be true??? ... I never fell for any rumors about TV! Lots dumb people in our society! The hateful liar political forum is proof of the mass unintelligence!!! I try not to get angry about dumb humans anymore! 🤦*♀️

I’ve heard the same thing.. it’s a swinging thing...

Humm I believe differently I’ve talked to Managers at outside facilities that have confirmed that these things are still going on

Yes, SEX

I saw it online must be true

As you get older dementia sets in and your memory is not a sharp as it used to be. People use them to be able to find their car or golf cart easier. I'm still in my fifties and I'm thinking about buying one cuz you'd be surprised how many times I walked the parking lot looking for my car.

Probably all those loofahs are the reason the Villages is the STD capital of the world!!!! LOL! I guess everyone heard that one too.

Hmmm, and now I’m in a dilemma...

My problem is that recently I bought some cool red shoes because they match the color of my car.... and now I read this thread...

Good grief... :ohdear:

Sign me,

Not a hooker in Monarch Grove

:icon_wink: I heard guys that prefer craft beers, sport pink loofahs. Don't know if that's true. :shrug:

Seriously, I thought this thread was going to discuss treatment at spas....

Hi all,
We are renting a house next spring in the villages... The rental property comes with a four-person golf cart....

Do I need two loofahs for my golf cart?

Has anyone seen a LED color changing loofah?

Will urban myths of the villages ever go away?

Haha... But I do agree on the use of an phone app to put a pin in the map as to where your golf cart was last left.

I don't think it's just a rumor.

My cult leader has told me that it's true, so no amount of facts you may come up with proving otherwise...will ever change my mind.

I tried a few years ago, but let's do it again with 2018 data from the CDC and Florida Dept. of Health:

Chlamydia:

National rate: 539.9 cases/100K population
Florida rate: 499.0 cases/100K population
Sumter Co. rate: 186.6 cases/100K population

True chlamydia capital of the US----St. Louis , Mo. with 1283 cases/100K population

Gonorrhea:

National rate: 179.1 cases/100K population
Florida rate: 156.0 cases/100K population
Sumter Co. rate: 85.0 cases/100K population

True GC capital of the US----Montgomery Co., Alabama----563.0 cases/100K population

I couldn't find data specific to TV alone, but given the average age of the population vs. the surrounding areas, it is likely the rates in TV are even lower than Sumter Co. as a whole.

End of myth.

It's difficult to find a lot of statistics on The Villages because not many are actually kept. Stats are kept for Sumter County, Marion County, Lake County, Lady Lake, Wildwood and now Fruitland Park and other town that the Villages occupies but not for the Community Development District.

What are u going to do when everyone has one and u can’t remember the color of yours:bigbow:

Put a number on it.

[QUOTE=Boomer;1716472]I don’t have a loofah on my car. But as the owner of a white car with Florida plates, I can tell you that not paying perfect attention to where I had parked has caused me to end up pushing my grocery cart aimlessly through Publix parking lot, while trying to look confident — like I know whereinthehell I parked that Honda.

Next time try this:
Get out of your car and stand behind it. Take your phone w/camera and take a picture straight up the row of cars toward the strip mall or store and check it out before you exit the store The photo will show what store you are parked in front of. You won't lose your car again. Of course, periodically scrub/delete the pix from your phone

FredF