Bumper Stickers, and Why I Loathe Them
You know what I hate, I hate when people cover the back of their cars with bumper stickers. What I hate even more than that, is when the bumper stickers are dumb and not worth the time it takes to read them, let alone the risk I take in getting close enough to actually read them.
As we all know, bumper stickers can be very distracting. Not only because they ruin the clean look of a solid-colored car, but because we all wonder what they say and want to get close enough so that we can read them. This of course becomes a dangerous trend because it forces us maintain a balance between tailgating in order to read the sticker and avoiding a collision. Although, we get so close that if anyone were to hit us, we’d be screwed and inevitably hit them.
My favorite are the bumper stickers that are worthless to anyone other than the driver, such as ” I have an honor student at _____ Junior High School”. WHO CARES? If I wanted to know about your child’s academic excellence, I would ask. However, you’re the only one who actually cares; so why don’t you put the bumper sticker INSIDE the car so that you can read it and smile rather than outside where people endanger both their lives and the lives of others only to find that the sticker on the back of your car is nothing exciting.
Lastly, what’s the deal with people covering the entire back of their cars with them. Not only is this dangerous (because people like me want to read them all), but 9.7 times out of ten every single one is worthless, dumb, and not worth reading.
I will give props to the very few people who have had genuinely humorous bumper stickers that were worth reading, which are few and far between as well as still ugly.
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Oh my HELL, I think I love you. Nah, I don’t know you but sure…I love you.
I hate hate hate bumper stickers and think they are the tackiest thing on the planet. People spend all this money to get a really awesome car then taint it with bumper stickers? Meh!
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November 14th, 2008 at 8:11 pm -
Yea I never understood the bumper sticker phenomenon either, especially in quantity.
@Hilly- I’ve just begun using Google Reader myself, how does the Shared Items function work?
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JasonNovember 14th, 2008 at 10:42 pm -
I’m cool with bumper stickers as I only read them when I am stuck at the lights. I don’t have any on my car but would consider it if I had to hide some defect or other. I’ve seen some cars that are covered with them and the only reason I can think of for having so many is that they are holding the thing together.
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November 16th, 2008 at 11:05 pm -
Oh I hear ya on the bumper stickers! They just look ugly - and too, my most hated are the ones bragging about their kids. Great! Your kid is an honor student! Too bad you still drive like an idiot!
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November 17th, 2008 at 1:06 am -
+1 on that…plus half the time I see those stickers, there’s a 16 year old kid driving (like an idiot) making your point even more valid.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:25 am




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