Comments on: Right On

By: Thud

Thud — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:07:22 +0000

My car says “Your skill in reading has increased by 1 point.”

By: writtenwyrdd

writtenwyrdd — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:37:51 +0000

I avoid political bumper stickers, but as I am Pagan, I cannot resist those thumb-your-nose-at-the-Religious-Right stickers. However, the only one on the new car is “I had a life but my job ate it.” I was working 70- to 80-hour weeks for a while there and it got to me.

By: Sarah Prineas

Sarah Prineas — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:26:53 +0000

Karen, having almost rear-ended other cars trying to read their bumper stickers, I can sympathize with your trepidation!!

E, I am willing to take that risk!!

Misty, that’s a wretched experience, and I do worry about it a little. I used to have a Human Rights Campaign sticker on my car (you know, the yellow equal sign on the blue background?), and once came back to find my car with mud thrown across it, and suspected that was why.

Around here–I live in Iowa City–it’s usually fairly safe to show one’s political leanings because the city is both political and tolerant, mostly.

By: Misty Massey

Misty Massey — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:42:39 +0000

Around here, it’s not a good idea to show your politics so obviously. Several years ago, I had a sticker on my car that said, “Well behaved women rarely make history.” One day while parked in the grocery store, someone decided to let me know their opinion by putting a local fudamentalist church sticker over my “Woman” sticker.
The other day I had to peel a Clemson sticker off my husband’s car window, slapped there by some enthusiastic football fan who’d apparently noticed the ancient University of South Carolina sticker on the bumper.

The last thing I need is someone deciding to comment on my politics in the same fashion. I’d be scraping stickers off my car until the end of time.

By: --E

--E — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:27:27 +0000

I confess, my folks instilled in me a fear of bumperstickers. “You never know what the politics of the state trooper will be. Don’t give him an excuse not to let you off with a warning.”

Even if it’s not political, a cop may be anti-geek or something. I feel very daring that I have the parking permit for my chiropractor on my bumper. What if the trooper is anti-chiropractic?

By: Karen Wester Newton

Karen Wester Newton — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:38:50 +0000

I actually don’t like to put political bumper stickers on my car, mostly because I have some nice but politically conservative neighbors and I really don’t want to start any bumper sticker wars.

I also think the type on some bumper stickers is just too small! I would be afraid people would read end me trying to read the bumper sticker.