Big white beatup pick up truck with a gun rack in the window

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

guy driving it was old, gray beard, denim overalls and no shirt underneath. No tailgate on the truck. Beer cans rolling around in the bed of it. Nothing unusual around here, except:

BIG. FAT. KERRY STICKER.

We gave each other a thumbs up.

I love this country.

Did I mention the NRA sticker on his bumper? He must be a real hit at meetings! ROFL!

[TaxDayCSC]

1. ROFLMGDBAOSTC!

nuff said

[mrbassman03]

2. rolling on the floor laughing my...???????

Explain...
(god damn bitchin' ass off smelling the cheese?)

[newyawker99]

34. Hi TaxDayCSC!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[RoyGBiv]

3. I'd party with that guy!

I used to hang with this guy who was a total redneck. He had a truck like that as well, always full of empty beer cans, with a stash of full ones under the seat somewhere. He spent more time fishing than working, had actually been too drunk to fish at one point, had the most severe "hick" accent, and came across as this total, ignorant slob when you saw him anywhere except work.

He was a math professor and a radical liberal.

I adore incongruent images. I think I've subconsciously cultivated this preppy image for that reason. When people who see me during the day see me out at socializing, they're just stunned.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

9. See my post below

I look very conservative and fit the "conservative" stereotype as far as my demographics go.

But I am FAR from being conservative, thank God. I have a brain and a heart.

[RoyGBiv]

18. One of my mottos ...

Always keep 'em guessing.

I prefer that people who ecounter me, especially those who don't know me well, never quite know what to think.

Hell, I almost made it onto a jury in which a death sentence could have been invoked. The lawyers never asked me any questions that forced me to betray my beliefs, which I thought was really odd no matter how I looked, but still. Prosecution just took one look at me I guess and thought, "Oh yeah, he'll fry 'im" while the defense apparently thought the opposite.

Guy copped a plea (not the trigger man), so the case never went anywhere. Would have been interesting to see if I made it through it.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

20. I've always hoped for that

I garauntee you the jury picker people would peg me as pro-death penalty. Not that I look mean, LOL! I just have to look and dress very professional in my job and have a too-expensive haircut and professional color and highlights (I am bragging because for years my hair looked like crap and for two yrs I've been very very happy with it).

Plus I'm mid-30s, suburban, white, a mom, etc.

They'd be in for a surprise. I'm staunchly anti DP.

[Longhorn]

39. You and I could be sisters!

In fact, could we please? My own sister is a freeper! ;)

[Hello_Kitty]

10. A friend of mine is a big Nebraska farm boy

Who owns a garage that specializes in American muscle cars. He's the biggest Bush-hating liberal democrat I've ever met. Just goes to show you...

[agates]

4. Cool

I had the opposite experience today. I was listening to AAR in my car while waiting in the pick up lane at the grocery store. I pulled up alongside a large SUV with B/C04, Thune, Dietrich, NRA, WWJD, and Right-to-Life bumper stickers. The driver, a young Mom with 4 kids, rolled her window down and asked me to turn my radio off. She said,"I don't want my kids to hear that filth!" I replied that I didn't want my kids to be subjected to her bumper stickers. Glare. Standoff. We both rolled our windows up and ignored each other after that.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

8. Hee hee

STANDOFF IN THE GROCERY STORE PICK UP LANE

FILM AT 11

[CAcyclist]

13. The grocery store pick-up lane?

What's that?

[agates]

21. Where you drive up to have your groceries loaded into your car nt

[Craig Roberts]

23. Wherever you are

you people must buy a whole buttload of groceries when you go to the grocery store.

I'm in California and have never heard of such a thing.

[CAcyclist]

37. Isn't this a waste of gas?

And a waste of parking space?

Ok, I am just going to affect a better than thou attitude because I just can't stand this.

I walk to the grocery store and carry my groceries home in cloth bags. You guys ought to try it sometime.

[Longhorn]

40. The nearest grocery store to me is five miles one way. I think I'll drive!

But thanks anyway!

(By the way, when my children lived at home, I shopped for a family of six so even if I lived close enough to walk, I couldn't carry all the groceries home, though when we lived in town a few blocks away, we often "borrowed" the shopping cart and then took it back!)

[sandnsea]

42. -40

You ought to try THAT sometime. The employees don't have to haul carts out into the cold, risk slipping on the ice, etc. It's a good deal if you live in cold country.

[Craig Roberts]

22. Yeah. What the heck is a "grocery store pick-up lane?"

You people have drive-through shopping or something?

[progressivebydesign]

24. we have it hear too.. you order online and pick it up! n/t

[Kimber Scott]

11. You're not serious? She actually asked you to turn your radio off?

Too bad you weren't playing Eminem's "Mosh."

[agates]

16. Yes, really

I was listening to the Al Franken show. Al was ranting about what's wrong with Bush. I doubt her preschool-age kids caught much of it :)

[Kimber Scott]

29. What country is this again? God, I'm getting so confused. Communist

China? Fascist Germany? Talibanistic Afghanistan? Oh, yeah, now I remember it's The Bushist States of America.

In any case, I'm sure her assholism taught her children a lot more than a few minutes of Al Franken did.

[flygal]

33. So she's allowed her freedom of expression but...

what an itch!!

[stepnw1f]

5. I'd Smoke Him Up (nt)

[cheshire]

6. Screw stereo typing.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

7. Right, exactly

and that's what this guy seems to be doing.

Or he is like me and just being himself.

I think people look at my van and me and get a bit thrown off, too. Purple Heart license plates (husband's), A&M former student stickers (highly conservative school) then a BIG OL' TEXAS DEMOCRAT sticker and a Kerry sticker.

I dress very conservatively and fit all the supposed demographics of a bush voter.

But I'm a radical liberal! Always have been!

Sometimes I feel like I really confuse the shit out of people, but it's just because they live by stereotypes.

[Hello_Kitty]

12. Well, I'm a feminine girl who wears dresses, heels, and pearls

And my 'Veteran for Kerry' button everywhere I go. The Bushies don't know what to say to that.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

14. BWA!

Classic! I love tearing down stereotypes!

[billyoc]

48. This campaign has done more to *remove* stereotypes

than to reinforce them IMO. I'm hearing stories of acres and acres of Kerry/Edwards signs all over these supposedly "red" states. I think maybe, just *maybe* people really are getting smarter as time goes by. Acting more in their own self-interests, at least, rather than just toeing the party line. :)

[wellstone_democrat]

43. Me? I wear pearls.

I understand that my students have grouped me with the vast majority of "safe" profs. here at my conservative U. I dress for the job I have (and the upbringing I got in another region). Suit and mom's pearls! (flat shoes though because I like comfort and hate makeup!) still, its the stereotyping others do.

I look like someone's mother. In fact I am someone's mother. But, I'm a wild ass liberal!!!!! Always have been, always will be.

[Lugnut]

26. Agreed.

I wear my Dale Earnhardt t-shirt while I'm driving my car that has Kerry/Edwards stickers on it. Go figure. :)

[DianeG5385]

52. Go Dale! Number 8 in the back window,

American Flag 9/11 sticker front window, Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker!!!!! They scared the bejeeezzsus out of Dale when he semi-endorsed Kerry, so now he's a kinda repub. Suuuuure.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

15. Also I mentioned this on DU another time

but one of my favorite bumper stickers I ever saw around here read "REDNECK DEMOCRAT."

Had a Kerry sticker next to it. I laughed out loud!

[grace0418]

47. I saw the opposite kind of sticker on someone's

minivan. Well, two stickers next to each other. The first was an American flag with a peace symbol in the blue field where the stars normally are. The second was a B/C04 sticker. Talk about incongruous.

[Firespirit]

17. What is the * sticker with a white letter W on a black background?

I saw three of those things today alone. That is a Repub sticker, isn't it?? I think there is some text underneath the W but I couldn't get close enough to read it -- the vehicles were going 80-85 in a 70 mph zone. Does anyone know what it says?

All I can say is, I don't like the things. Something very fascist-looking about them.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

19. Some * stickers

are really tiny. There's one that has a leeeetle white W on a navy blue background and it is a pretty little sticker. I could just barely tell it was a W but couldn't read the tiny print underneath. Finally I saw one on a parked car and it had the word "women" in even tinier letters under the white W.

What are they embarrassed of?

[Straight Shooter]

25. That's the "Cult of W" sticker

beWare the Cult of W

[liberalpress]

36. True story..

..at least some of theose stickers say "W" and underneath "The President." I saw one the other day that turned the "W" upside down to an "M" and underneath... "Tee Moron."

Classic!

[Reciprocity]

27. Thanks ya’ll for posting . I needed the laughs.

[Johnny 99]

28. Hell yes

That's exactly the kind of person who, 60 years ago, would've been a partisan Democrat. We need them back.

[onager]

30. Ha! Great thread. People often mistake me for a Repub...

I still have a thick Southern accent, am a former Marine, former SoB (Southern Baptist), a gun owner, and just look like a Bubba, I guess.

And also currently an atheist who despises TV sports and is more likely to be curled with a book by Richard Dawkins or some damn furrin movie you have to read as you watch.

When I start ranting about politics, people's eyes literally bug out.
When they ask why I'm not a Repub, I usually guess it's because my Mama didn't drop me on my head.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

31. LOL thank god she didn't

[nonconformist]

35. LOL! Great response! nt

[wellstone_democrat]

LOL---nice final line

n/t

[Reciprocity]

38. Kick

[flygal]

32. In Texas?!! Kewl.

[karlrschneider]

41. Shit. I HAVE to buy stock in a keyboard manufacturing company!

:D

[shrdlu]

44. My people! God bless 'em....

[Maestro]

45. Actually I am seeing

more and more Kerry stickers around here in Dallas. We dems might not take the state back but if Frost and Morrison win their seats I'll be happy. Then it will be time to keep Kerry in office and get Gov. Goodhair out!

[hansolsen]

46. NRA members (vs NRA bigshots) are much more progressive than

conventional wisdom would suggest. Certainly gun owners, hunters, and owners of old pickup trucks will all vote in the majority for John Kerry, IMO.

[Weembo]

51. Ain't that the truth?!

I want an environment around so I can hunt with my grandkids.

[melody]

49. he'd have fun with my good, ol' boy southern liberal Dem relatives n/t

[Weembo]

50. Amen

I am an attorney (read: the guys * hates) in Houston. In order to fire for effect, and hang everyone up, I have my "Bubbas Against W," "Republicans for Kerry," "100 Club" (our Houston support group for slain law enforcement agents), and Texas hunters "Stop Poaching" stickers on my quite large SUV. I bought, and have given away, over 100 such Kerry stickers to people who stop beside me in Houston traffic and ask for one.

The other day, I got a dent in the side of the car as a "W" asswipe decided to cut me off. I wouldn't yield, and we had a fender bender. He got out, steaming and cursing, but I'm not a small guy, and he very quietly exchanged information with me. I told him that it was nice to see losers support losers. God I love this country.