Another Bumper Sticker Story

Although I take fiendish delight in irking freepers and their ilk, my bumper stickers at present are not terribly inflammatory: I have an ABB, a “Regime Change Begins at Home,” and, of course my DU bumper sticker. Just your average, run-of-the-mill mildly political statements. Pretty tame stuff for the NY area.

Still, I am driving on a busy highway in western CT on Saturday with my daughter (10). I don’t *think* I’m driving like an idiot (I try not to, and I would admit it if I was), but some woman in a Ford Gargantua or somesuch pulls alongside me (I mention the make of the vehicle because it made it so much easier for her to look down at me in my puny little econo-car), gesticulating furiously, her mouth a rictus of invective. Now, I’m no good at lip-reading, but I think I had a good idea of what she was saying. Kate the Great concurred that the woman seemed to have some issue with the statements on my bumper stickers. So I do what I always do when someone disses my bumper stickers: I flash the peace sign. That should have been the end of it. I am no road warrior.

But you see…I couldn’t let it lie. When the road split a few miles on, I went left, and this woman went right. As we went our separate ways, I said to Caitlin, “Flash her the peace sign again.” People who’ve read my DU postings know that Kate needs no encouragement. And what happens? This yahoo flips my 10-year-old the bird!

Before we were able to laugh about it, we were aghast. If she had done it to me, it would have been one thing, because I admit I tried to provoke a reaction. But to flip off a little kid? Kate of course, wants to write *another* letter to Bush to let him know the caliber of his supporters. I can only imagine what would have happened had I still owned the car with the “Doing My Part to Piss Off the Religious Right” sticker.

Yeah, really makes me want to try to see the Republican perspective…but I just don’t think I could get my head that far up my…

And so sad. And then they have the nerve to say WE'RE the ones full of hate.

you know, looks like a fish skeleton with an X where the eye would be. I think most people would find it funny. It just looks cartoonish.

There are at least a half dozen dents on my trunk lid just behind where I have the fish applied. Nice Cristians. They turn the other cheek ... before they smack ya again.

send all conservatives to afghanistan!

Again, I hope the rapture does come soon, get this idiots off my damn planet so we can live in peace and kindness!

Kerry stickers!....3 in a row! I wish I had a camera with me.

Freep lady is typical, what a creep.

some ideas for some bumper stickers...maybe I should start a seperate thread...

anyway...I would put on a sticker but last time I did my car got keyed...

nothing more nothing less

and explain what that means to my 10-year-old and explain why it is funny?

I think bumper stickers like that are kind of like poking a bear with a sharp stick.

1984. Read it. Don't live it.

:)

That one's beyond the pale.

and underneath,

What will we tell the children?

although I steer clear of the a*hole part.

Incidentally, she wants to join DU! I told her to wait, 'cause the language is sometimes a little rough :7

Only dumber.

:-)

I have a nine-year old mini-van that I lovingly refer to as "The Big Blue Lemon." I'm free to put just about any bumperstick on it, as it is already virtually worthless. My only concern is having someone run me off the road while my kids are with me...

Horrible drivers to a person here in Phoenix. Guess some are horrible people too, not sure how one equates to the other.

To quote Curly? of 3 Stooges.

So pathetic of that woman... almost unimaginable... *almost*.

Good thing your daughter Kate is learning early what 'the other side' is most commonly represented by: small-minded, greedy, selfish, mean-spirited, ugly, hateful, fake-Christian bigots.

:)

to get that reaction. Kids do count on adults to be more mature than they are!

Buy some magnetic strip from the hardware store (Lowes is more progressive than Home Despot) and apply your bumper sticker to that. Then you can remove your sticker when you leave your car.

My last car was keyed. Can't imagine why...

Although my mischeivous co-workers delight in rearranging my magnets on days when I don't bother to remove them.

tape.

They stay on VERY well... and aren't permanent, and I can change them as I please.

i am so mad they want to pollute the best damn swimmin' hole in austin just so they can have another fucking store here

Would not let me merge and kept speeding up not to let me in.
Not very smart when I have a 10 year old Toyota truck and their driving some 40K car and sticker'd up with I love bush or some other crap.
Their little self centered world

living in a certified Red State, I avoid the brain damage of anti-Bush bumper stickers altogether; even though I live in (by far) the most liberal city in CO, we do head out into the mountains quite a bit.

That was the response I got to one of my bumper stickers.

On one of my former cars I had a Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican sticker and one day I'm driving along minding my own business when a car pulls up next to me. The passenger holds up a sign hastily scrawled on a piece of notebook paper.

"Clinton Sucks!"

I got a good laugh out of that one.

Another time someone left a note under my windshield wiper that said, "It looks like the Democrats took all your money." (The car was kind of a beater.

It was gratifying to see that people actually read my bumper stickers and cared enough to take the time to craft me a personal note expressing their sincere and heartfelt opposition to my politics. Guess I touched a nerve. :)

Yes, a part of me was quite gleeful at having pissed her off enough so that she would make an obscene gesture to a kid!

Come to think of it, she was probably mouthing some vitriol about Clinton. Figures.

you'd run right out and buy a Suburban like any other good American!

and if just I voted Republican that money would miraculously appear in my wallet so I could buy said vehicle.

i'm a pretty big guy, so when somebody pulls up along side of me, staring -- sometimes cussing, flipping the bird etc -- i just look at them which normally makes them immediately look forward and continue on their way. but some people like to carry on, so i have to punk them out which finally straightens them out. my wife then promptly follows up with a comment comparing me to a caveman, which keeps me from feeling too macho.

"If you're not completely appalled, then you haven't been paying attention". Sums things up quite nicely!
I also enjoy my 10 year old daughter's comments - they are often much more thoughtful than much of what is in the newspaper, and light years ahead of TV news.

People can be LUNATICS behind the wheel of a car, and I don't want to hear of some ticked-off SUV driver having at one of you. I just witnessed a perfectly insane incident Saturday (deranged driver honking at person trying to make a left turn, then going ballistic when a passer-by complained about the excessing honking). The combination of gasoline and a ton of glass, plastic and steel brings out the bad behavior parade. So if you can, TURN THE OTHER CHEEK.

Which is basically what Caitlin did.

If their Masters are allowed to continue on, this woman (or someone with this woman's full approval) will be coming to murder us Nazi-style, or Gulag us, Soviet-style.

Or perhaps it will be a new and unique form of Tyranny endemic to The Holy Amerikan Empire.

Whatever it will be...know this: This woman gave you a warning about what she and her friends would like to do if they didn't have to fear investigation/prosecution/conviction like the Klan in 1940s Alabama.

Know what these monsters are. Don't be caught like a German Jew in 1938 if their fantasies come to life.

I have two political stickers on my old Pathfinder - "I don't have to like Bush to Love My Country" and "If you not totally appalled you haven't been paying attention". (Thanks to two unemployed Democrats at www.seeyageorge.com).

After two stop light events and one mildly physical parking lot encounter I went to the local Coast-to-Coast and bought a nice axe handle. I feel better now.

I put a "Peace is Patriotic" sticker on my van, and the same day had an oaf in a pickup, pull up next to me and mouth, "F**k you, B***h!!"

I just looked back and raised my eyebrows. And sighed.

that used to be my car...along with a host of other oddities.

The anger in these people just cracks me up. And they are clueless about the irony of saying "F*** you" to someone who gives them the peace sign.

:eyes:

I was sitting at a light yesterday and another woman, probably in her early 60's was in a car next to me. She got my attention and rolled her window down, so I obliged her by doing the same. She asked what DU was and I told her it was the best political website on the internet. I then told her we're a community of like-minded individuals with one goal in mind and that is to make sure bush is no longer president after this year. She agreed with me and said she can't stand the son of a bitch. Just the mere mention of shrub's name had this woman seething. Made my day considering I'm in a very conservative part of Virginia. :D