Bumper wizdumb

[madamesilverspurs]

One of our local wingers drives a pickup that everyone recognizes. It's covered top to bottom, bumper to bumper, with bumper stickers. He never removes the old ones, just puts new ones on wherever he finds space; he passed me one day and I spotted a faded Reagan sticker peeking out from behind something more recent. Most of them are typical of stickers that are readily available, several are clearly homemade. As if playing to stereotype he's made sure that the truck sports a flag flying on each side, and there are gunracks in the rear window.

So yesterday he was parked in the Safeway lot, and as I walked by I noted that he'd added a new one. It was one of his homemade ones, and it read: "So how's that hopey changey thing working for you?"

Dumbass doesn't know that there's no g in workin'. . .

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[JuniperLea]

1. I like how they label themselves!

It makes it easy! The bumper stickers may as well say "I'm are a idiot!"

[GoCubsGo]

2. Someone needs to make a sticker that says that and put it on his truck

Then see how long it takes for him to notice it. It might be a while, considering the truck is plastered with stickers already. ;-)

[HopeHoops]

4. Put a "FOX News: When Facts Don't Matter" sticker on it.

I've got that one on the minivan and we get COUNTLESS positive comments on it - we're in a very red part of the state.

[muntrv]

3. My response to him: HOW'S THAT BUSH TAX CUT WORKIN' FOR YA?

[ThomWV]

5. Sweet! ... but on a serious note

I'm gonna give you 6 extra points for having the sweetest sense of humor seen this morning. Beautifully written too.

As I was reading it a picture popped right up in my mind. There is a similar truck hereabouts that I see often. The difference between the trucks is that every inch of my local one is that the stickers are not necessarily political, but they are in every case related to the military or war. There are all of the usual POW stickers, and of course the Bring Home the MIA's, but then there are others too, some with language so obscure they are suggestive of cult followings. There are flags and counter-flags (the stars and bars of the Confederacy), and of course, as you mention, not an inch of truck untouched.

Our guy has an old truck. I think its a Chevy, its not a full sized one, one of those S-10 compacts. The thing has a lot of rust, it smokes, and there is hand applied paint and body putty under many of those stickers. This is not a rich man's truck, or the truck of a man who ever was or ever will be.

Every time I see that truck I think, 'there is a crazy man'. And I do not mean that as a light statement. I think the guy is crazy. He's a special kind of crazy, he's utterly obsessed with that one thing - and it is war - and it does not take a medical degree to understand that something there is fundamentally wrong. And I feel sorry for the old man. And that's all I can say - I don't know any more and I haven't thought about it one inch deeper than that.