I was having a cup of coffee today reading the newspaper and waiting for my wife to finish her aerobics class. There was an obnoxious liberal in the cafe pontificating on the evils of the GOP and Bush. I live in the SF bay area so liberals predominate. Most of the patrons were nodding in agreement to what this idiot said. I could not wait to get out of there. This is what a conservative has to live with when you reside in an ultra liberal area. I am envious of you freepers who live in a conservative part of the country.
I had no bumper stickers and so I didn't have this particular problem. (My car was totaled by an 18-wheeler, with me in it. It's a long story, but everything's OK now.)
There's NO excuse for damaging someone's property like this.
I have several stickers on the back of my truck. One that has a Roman Dirge cartoon monkey that says: I like monkeys--just not this one (with an arrow pointing to the monkey). Several mountain biking/cycling stickers, the Misfits Skull, the Nine inch Nails Logo and one of those cut-out templates of a Rottweiler with "Got rottie?" underneath.
In October, I stuck one of those small oval W '04 stickers on the back, and after a few days, I noticed that there was some kind of weird "mass" drying on the "Got Rottie" sticker.
By weird mass, I mean some joker had walked past my car, hawked a clam on the back window. THEN, this brain trust had proceeded to 'smear' said clam in a mobeus strip pattern all over the Got Rottie? sticker. I can even take a photo of the streak marks (I never wash my car, I'm lazy).
Nothing like that has happened since. NOW, bear with me... I don't think I happened across a person who has a particular aversion to my dog breed of choice. No, I think some idiot with bad aim was attempting to spit on my dubya sticker and missed. The figure-eight streak mark is proof that it was spit and not a bird bomb. Someone had put a little elbow grease into it.
I finally took my Dubya sticker off (not wanting to incur any more liberal wrath to my truck). Cowardly, maybe, but I just don't want something worse to happen. The only sore loser rage I've encountered were a few college age punks driving aggressively on the highway -- tailgaiting, mouthing things, and then driving past me (with their Kerry Edwards stickers on their cars). I've got a toddler, and I never travel with the dog--so I don't want trouble.
ps. NICE Jason Isaac pics. He's the only reason I paid to watch Event Horizon!
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And Democrats have no idea why their base is walking away from them.
Chely Wright - Bumper Of My SUV
I've got a bright red sticker on the back of my car
Says United States Marines
And yesterday a lady in a mini-van held up a middle finger at me
Does she think she knows what I stand for
Or the things that I believe
Just by looking at a sticker for the US Marines
On The Bumper Of My SUV
See, my brother Chris, he's been in for more than 14 years now
Our dad was in the Navy during Vietnam
Did his duty then he got out
And my grandpa earned his purple heart
On the beach of Normandy
That's why I've got a sticker for the US Marines
On The Bumper Of SUV
But that doesn't mean that I want war
I'm not Republican or Democrat
But I've gone all around this crazy world
Just to try and better understand
Yes I do have questions
I get to ask them because I'm free
That's why I've got a sticker for the US Marines
On the Bumper Of My SUV
Cause I've been to Hiroshima
And I've been to the DMZ
I've walked on the sand in Baghdad
Still don't have all of the answers I need
But I guess I wanna know where she's been
Before she judges and gestures to me
Cause she don't like my sticker
For the US Marines
On the bumper of my SUV
So I hope that lady in her mini-van
Turns on her radio and hears this from me
As she picks up her kids from their private school
And drives home safely on our city streets
Or to the building where her church group meets
Yeah, that's why I've got a sticker for the US Marines
On the bumper of my SUV
Give the kid a bump on her website won't you?
It's for a good cause.
http://www.chely.com/bumperofmysuv.shtml
I can empathize. Many years ago, some misfit keyed the whole side of my car, a brand new Cutlass. It cost me over $900 to have the paint repaired. A month after the repair, someone keyed BOTH sides. I ended up leaving it like that . . .
At the time I was constantly on the road, so my chances of catching the misfit were essentially zero. No bumperstickers were ever placed on that car. To this day I don't know who did it or why it was done.
Have pity on the vandal I catch keying someone's car, because I sure won't . . .
CG..I'll give you my own personal story, FWIW.
I displayed my Ehrlich and Bush stickers proudly up to the date of the election. After that I took them off, the reason being I was reminded what Rush once said about RATs.
"RATs in power are funny..
RATs out of power are dangerous."
On November 3, these RATs became totally out of power and without hope of getting it back for 4 long years. They were more than dangerous, they became desperate and vindictive RATs.
Like I said, for what it's worth.
Bye the bye, I hope you catch 'em.