The only car stickers I’m seeing around town are Bernie’s. Since that single Carson sticker I saw a few months ago, there’s been nothing but Bernie on the cars that do have stickers.
In St Louis, I’m not seeing any candidate – named stickers at all.
13 responses to “Sticker Culture”
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Sounds like you have a lot of misguided people in your university town.
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They just haven’t learned the lessons that the St Louis people have learned …
… such as how difficult it can be to water pressure blast an old political campaign sticker from your vehicle’s back bumper. 🙂
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Tell me about it, Jones!
In 1972 when I was a medical resident at a California Country Hospital, one of the medical students on my staff knew that I was a Republican, so he snuck out to the parking lot and put a McGOVERN sticker on my front bumper.
Fortunately, I was driving a ratty Chevy II at the time — but it took a LOT of Magic Marker ink to to obliterate that shame from my vehicle!
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Teenage rebellion comes late to some people. And I say that as someone who had this sticker earlier than anybody else. 🙂
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Burlington VT is full of Bernie bumper stickers, but there it is totally understandable…
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Here, too. We are a college town. Of course, we are also a well-to-do college town. Bernie would tax us to the gills in a flash. 🙂
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My favorite bumper sticker: “You body is a temple? Mine is an amusement park”. 🙂
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I avoid political bumper stickers because I don’t want my car vandalized. People don’t need to infer anything about me from my car except what they already infer from the make and its general condition.
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“People don’t need to infer anything about me from my car”
Good point! I don’t recommend instantly recognizable vanity license plates, either.
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What is it that everybody is so afraid of?
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Concerning stickers: Believe it or not, some people with strong emotional feelings about an issue (like an election, pro- or anti-abortion rights, etc.) will get angry enough when they see a parked car with a sticker that outrages them that they will bash the car or smash a window. (Take my word for it, it happens. I remember car windows being smashed back in the late 1960s because they had a small American flag detail on the rear window.)
Concerning instantly recognizable vanity plates: Suppose I speed a little bit every time I drive to work on Interstate XX, and maybe I drive past the same parked Highway Patrol car three times a week while I’m doing it. If I’m only speeding a little, the cop may think, “Okay, some dude in a Caddy going a little fast,” and not worry about it.
If my license plate reads “DREIDEL” in big letters, the cop may think, “That same bastard has gone speeding right by me three time this week — I’ll teach him.”
Get the not-so-paranoid idea?
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I’ve been hoping for two years that some angry Russian would deface my car for its pro-Ukrainian stickers but no such luck. And I already had the text of an angry post on the subject all planned out. 🙂
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And this is why a Rover P5B was the best car to have for a while …
Before the advent of number plate recognition systems and in-vehicle registration checks, if you dressed a certain way, you could pass for one of the Whitehall people driving around in one.
It’s the same principle as driving a Ford Crown Victoria in countries where they are preferred by the state police.
Anyway … stickers on a Rover P5B? Are you barking mad? 🙂
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