During the 80’s Wendy’s came out with bumper stickers with
their slogan “Where’s the Beef?” I saw a few that had been altered
by splicing two stickers together so it read “Where’s the beer?”
And recently I saw this:
“Hang up the damn phone and drive!”
I saw one like that the other day – only instead of using different religious symbols every letter was made out of a cross and instead of saying ‘coexist’ it said ‘believe’.
I saw one today - actually it wasn’t a bumper sticker but a sticker covering the entire back window of a Chevy pickup truck. (Which was being driven by a moron, apparently, not using turn signals, dodging in and out of freeway lanes, vacillating from high speed to below-speed-limit on the freeway) and it read:
TOYOTA: Brought to you by the same people who brought you Pearl Harbor.
I don’t know if anybody else would like this or not. I used to have vanity plates that read: Chze Joy. Choose Joy.
Seventy eleben years ago when I was first aspiring to be a writer I used to read Leslie Conger’s columns in either The Writer or Writer’s Digest magazine.
One month she talked about something really bad that had happened in her life, and said that she knew she had a choice as to how to react to it. And she chose joy.
That woman taught me a really important life lesson that I wish I’d learned at my mother’s knee.
We always have a choice. Try to choose the one that truly makes you happy.
When I was in high school, a kinda major road in my exurb area of Northwest Houston was undergoing a big expansion.
It’s name: FM 1960
FM stands for “Farm to Market” which were old roads that are sort of self explanatory. But they become larger roads, and this one had and was expanding. It impacted a lot of businesses that were located along it and a bumper sticker was available –
I (heart) 1960
Of course, many of the young men in the h.s. band with me cut and pasted them to put on various cases that:
I (heart) 69
Yes, it was heeeeeelarious. Yes. They got in trouble.