Though I will not put any on my cars, I like to read the bumper stickers on other vehicles. This morning I saw an SUV with 2 stickers on the back window, one on the left side that said:
Choose Life!
And one on the other that said:
Glock Pistols
Now, I know that those are not mutually exclusive nor are they hypocritical, but they did make me chuckle.
What bumper sticker combos have made you laugh/cry/think/run off the road and wipe out a village/etc.?
Using the one bump allowance, (AKA thread mulligan) 'cause there have to be some out there somewhere. Hell, make 'em up. I just want some chuckles.
Car/bumper sticker combo.
On a Mercedes: “Live simply so others may simply live.”
In Colorado I once saw a bumper sticker that said: “I Want Your Body”. Not an uncommon thing by itself, but the vehicle it was on, with three young men in it, was a (used) hearse.
Also on a hearse: sticker, “Last Ride,” and license plate, “URNEXT.”
Dunno if this was a joke, but I recall hearing or reading about someone who saw a “Honk if you love Jesus” bumper sicker, so they gave a little toot of the horn… and got flipped off in return. Altho, now that I think about it, maybe the bird was a dove of peace??
I saw a car with a faded PEACE sticker (the words, not the symbol) and a shiny new TRUMP sticker. Apparently the owner’s attitudes have “evolved.”
I also saw another car a couple weeks ago with a Sanders sticker and something I thought was really incongruous at the time. But I’ll be damned if I can remember what it was.
One of my all-time favorites was seen years ago. He and I apparently lived or worked not too far apart in Los Angeles since I saw his car fairly regularly for several months.
It was a ratty rusty station wagon that was 15-20 years old then. The back was full of random crap. You couldn’t quite tell if the owner lived in the car, was a packrat, or was a just a construction worker with lots of tools & materials. The car was filthy and one fender was a different color from the rest of the car. The driver was a very large guy to begin with who was way overweight & had a large scraggly gray beard to go with his large scraggly gray hair. Sorta like a nightmare Santa with syphilis, a heroin habit, and maybe a fixation about chainsaws.
The car had one sign neatly painted across the back window in about 4" letters:
You just gotta admire that guy’s attitude.
I always had a sneaking desire to encounter him someplace public like at a taco stand or something. Just to eavesdrop & find out whether he was clever, harmless scruffy clueless, or dangerous.
I moved away from the area before our paths crossed on foot. So I’ll never know. Just one of life’s mysteries.
It always makes me chuckle when I see a venerable SUV around my neighborhood that sports both Bush/Cheney and Obama/Biden bumper stickers. Was it a philosophical divide between spouses? Did they learn the error of their ways?
Now for something slightly different.
Back in the early seventies, when the Nixon regime was beginning to unravel, I plastered my car’s bumper with a popular sticker:
“Don’t Blame Me – I Voted For McGovern.”
Some months later we left the car at a trailhead parking area, backpacked into the Sierras for a week. When we finally got back, someone had taken umbrage at my sentiment; with a sharp metal object, the word “Don’t” had been obliterated. The sticker now read
“Blame Me – I Voted For McGovern.”
Of course the Republican (presumably) vandal’s feelings had been communicated, but the resulting message made no sense and (in my unbiased opinion) reflected a deficieny in brain function.
@stillownedbysetters
Probably the parents gave it to the kids.
I recently saw a very ratty late '90s car with the headliner falling down. The folks driving it looked like barely working poor. The car had a very faded Bush/Cheney 2000 sticker.
Odds are real good that car’s been bought and sold 4 times since the sticker was proudly attached by some long forgotten R voter to his shiny new car. Good bet the current owners didn’t vote for Romney. Nor will they vote for CruzTrumpKasich.
“Don’t make me come down there !!!” – God
That’s rich …
Branching out a bit to those stick figure family stickers, I saw a variation of this on a minivan the other day. (Hint: verbiage is “Making my family!”)
Saw a back window stick-on family the other day that had the usual Dad, Mom, & a couple kids. But instead of stick figures they were silhouettes of full people. Dad looked like a body builder: thick V-shaped torso, big arms. Mom had a nice rack & runner’s legs. Same motif with the kids.
Their motto: “We ate your skinny stick figure family.”
The stick figures one that I saw just had a man and a woman, but it was labeled “Me” and “Your Mom”
A mild one, but I liked a car I saw that had “Coexist” and “Oakland Raiders”
I saw one of those utility company type of trucks (except I think this one had some private company name on it), with the cherry-picker hoist in the back.
On the back bumper was a little sticker that said “ICHABOD”.
Just a few days ago, I saw a black PT Cruiser with bumper stickers scattered haphazardly all over the back. When I got closer, I saw that they were all for tattoo parlors. So, yeah, the tattoo artist and/or fan just throws imagery all over his car with no plan or sense of aesthetic. What a recommendation.
In my town, there is a car with a stick-figure family running in terror from a tyrannosaurus.
And then there is this:
a DeLorean with a “things are better with Coke” bumper sticker.
Out on the road today I saw a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.
This truly classy tire cover passed in front of me the other day. :rolleyes:
https://dreams2things.com/zencart/images/automotive/fckit.jpg
I hope you didn’t look back. You should never look back.