# I love it when my wife hasn't noticed I slammed the bus a few more inches - meaning? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 7, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533 "2020-08-07T21:50:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/1 "2020-08-07T21:50:10Z")
There’s a t-shirt getting repeatedly advertised to me. The slogan on the shirt reads: _I love it when my wife hasn’t noticed I slammed the bus a few more inches_. The design is the words _I love_ and _my wife_ are in big print and the rest is in very small print so from a distance it looks like the message is _I love my wife_. I get that part. But I don’t understand what the overall message means when you read it. I’ve googled and all I can find is that slamming the bus means lowering the suspension on a VW van. Is that supposed to be something wives get annoyed by and husbands have to hide from them? Is that even something that’s done often enough to create a market for a t-shirt? Or is there some other slang meaning for this phrase that I’m not aware of? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/2 "2020-08-07T22:12:55Z")
No idea whatsoever. Right now most of the hits go to a t-shirt from a firm called Redbubble, so it can’t be very widespread. But playing with Google, I found earlier versions that said “[slammed the bug](https://twitter.com/lackingceremony/status/953525245561810944/photo/1)” and “[slammed the car](https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/I-LOVE-it-when-MY-WIFE-hasn-t-noticed-i-slammed-the-car-a-few-more-inches-by-Freeride/15415997.NL9AC).” I guess Redbubble found the variation that sold best and now sticks to it. All the variants are VW-oriented. Some gearhead talk, I suppose, that went viral because it was so weird. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/3 "2020-08-07T22:27:12Z")
Redbubble is a print on demand website, so it might be a very niche market that the design was originally intended for. As for why you’re seeing the ads, who knows why the software algorithm spit out that particular design for you… ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/4 "2020-08-07T22:28:51Z")
It means “I love it when my wife hasn’t noticed I lowered the suspension on the VW bus a few more inches”. Slamming = lowering the suspension. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/5 "2020-08-08T00:34:32Z")
Is lowering your car’s suspension something that wives get annoyed about? ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/6 "2020-08-08T00:59:44Z")
Maybe if she’s married to a grown-ass man driving a VW bus in 2020. ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/7 "2020-08-08T05:15:36Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Is lowering your car’s suspension something that wives get annoyed about? I think it falls under the category “Husband’s hobby he spends all weekend every weekend working on - thus neglecting wife, the kids, his other household responsibilities, etc. And for something really dumb (in the wife’s mind).” ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/8 "2020-08-08T17:55:59Z")
There’s an old PJ O’Rourke joke about fat people having sex that involves bus horn noises and slamming together, but I can’t tell it without getting a warning, probably. Anyway, I doubt that’s the riff’s reference. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/9 "2020-08-09T04:44:29Z")
I have a thrift shop tee that says “Leave freely anywhere” with a bicycle graphic. Another says “Sol de Marino”. Nobody ever accused a Bangladeshi sweat shop of language mastery. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/10 "2020-08-09T14:03:17Z")
Our first night in Kyoto my kid and I snuck out and wandered the street markets. Even at midnight they were hawking t-shirts with random English phrases. I bought a couple of shirts that just listed things like: HIPPOPOTAMUS GIRAFFE TOASTEROVEN PEACEFUL Oh, and they must have gotten a container ship full of extra shirts from some North Dakota screenprinter. Lots of “Ezra L. Koon Junior High • Field Hockey Semi-Final Champs • 1978 • GO CRUSADING CRICKETS!” (that one had student “art” of a tractor blocking the front doors of the school). ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/11 "2020-08-09T16:40:14Z")
It’s a sexual reference. Non-Missionary. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/12 "2020-08-09T16:58:16Z")
No, it’s not. As linked above, it’s an algorithmic fill-in-the blank shirt design targeting guys that are in to car modification, to the annoyance of their wives. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/13 "2020-08-09T23:52:47Z")
Just use the rock n roll lyric understanding guideline: If you don’t know what it means, it’s about sex. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/14 "2020-08-10T00:02:22Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Our first night in Kyoto my kid and I snuck out and wandered the street markets. Even at midnight they were hawking t-shirts with random English phrases. I bought a couple of shirts that just listed things like: > > HIPPOPOTAMUS > GIRAFFE > TOASTEROVEN > PEACEFU Walking around Tokyo Disneyland it was a little disconcerting to see teenage girls in t-shirts with “SLUT” or “HOOKER” or “HUSTLER” ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/15 "2020-08-10T00:13:48Z")
For real and all his rides seat no more than 2, even the VW bus it’s dangerous as hell Selling the Bus 🤮 ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/16 "2020-08-10T00:26:28Z")
> [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > As linked above, it’s an algorithmic fill-in-the blank shirt design targeting guys that are in to car modification, to the annoyance of their wives. This. Weirdly specific t-shirts targeted to niche interests are a big thing now. [There is a subreddit devoted to them](https://www.reddit.com/r/TargetedShirts/). ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/17 "2020-08-10T00:57:35Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > If you don’t know what it means, it’s about sex. I was really hoping this was a new sex thang. It gave me hope, because at my age, that’s all the farther I can slam that bus… ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/18 "2020-08-10T02:06:20Z")
> [@erysichthon](#): > > This. Weirdly specific t-shirts targeted to niche interests are a big thing now. [There is a subreddit devoted to them](https://www.reddit.com/r/TargetedShirts/). Thanks for this. I am just about to wet myself looking at the best examples. And now that I’ve said this, I’ll bet soon I’ll be recommended a T-shirt about me wetting myself. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/19 "2020-08-10T02:53:12Z")
I was thinking maybe it was a line from a song or movie that I was unfamiliar with but apparently not. (A couple of weeks ago, I was seeing ads for t-shirts that said “Thicc thighs save lives” which is from a song I had never heard of until I looked it up.) It seems like this is one of those cases where a cigar is just a cigar. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533/20 "2020-08-10T03:00:31Z")
> **[Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar Sigmund Freud by laundryfactory](https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/3254357-sometimes-a-cigar-is-just-a-cigar-sigmund-freud)** > > Sigmund Freud was the founder of psychoanalysis. This psychologist / psychiatrist claims that 'Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar'. A funny t-shirt gift for smoking cigar smokers. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-it-when-my-wife-hasnt-noticed-i-slammed-the-bus-a-few-more-inches-meaning/917533.md?page=2)