Having stickers (political or otherwise) on your vehicle.

[LuckyCharms]

It's everyone's right to have stickers on their vehicles, considering that we have freedom of speech in this country. But I guess that also means that we have to accept/anticipate potential reactions to those stickers.

I went to A LOT of Grateful Dead shows when in my 20's and 30's. I usually had one, or two at the max, small unobtrusive Grateful Dead stickers on the lower corners of my back window. I'm in New York State. I drove all over to see the shows. Michigan, Kentucky, Virginia. Maine, Pennsylvania...all over.

I removed my stickers when I realized I was getting unwanted attention from law enforcement for absolutely no reason. I would get cop cars tailing me for miles, and I got pulled over a few times and harassed for no reason, and never got a ticket or a warning. I finally realized it was because of my out of state plates, as well as the Dead stickers, so I removed the stickers, and the harassment went away. Fans used to call it "touring stealth".

This morning I had a doctor's appointment. Doctor is located at a large local hospital. As I was walking away from the hospital back to my car, I noticed this guy (white guy, 40's) who had just exited his truck, which he parked all fucked up-like diagonally in a parking space. I was a bit too far away to hear what was being said, but he was having a discussion with another guy (black guy, masked and in scrubs, walking toward the hospital, probably either a doctor or a nurse). Their discussion did not appear to be a friendly one.

The hospital employee walked away, and I kept walking toward the truck guy. As I got closer to him, I was trying not to look at him, but he was freaking staring at me and scowling. He was giving me the hairy eye ball...I could see him through my peripheral vision. so, I gave him the hairy eyeball back for about 10 seconds. The look on this guy's face...he was itching for a fight with ANYBODY.

After the stare down, I just broke out laughing and walked away while he continued to scowl at me.

Below is a picture of his truck. When I got to my car, I swung back around and snapped this pic, because he had since headed into the hospital.

I'm thinking on the way home...what in God's name would process a 40 to 50 year old man to put this shit on his personal vehicle? Wouldn't it just be easier to buy a rattle can of red Rustoleum spray paint and paint "I'M A HORRIBLE ASSHOLE" on the side of your truck?

I don't get it. I really don't understand this shit. As an aside, I'm relatively close to the PA border, so it's not unusual to see PA plates in my town.

[FakeNoose]

1. It figures - Pennsylvania plates

We have more than our share of stupid assholes here in Pennsylvania.

You were smart to laugh and avoid that guy. He probably has gunz in there too.

[whathehell]

44. Pennsylvania is a Blue State...The places

it usually "figures," is in the rural areas, but that's true fmainly for the rural area of MOST of the country, not just Pennsylvania.

[FakeNoose]

46. Pennsylvania is 50/50 - half Dem, half Repuke

Depending on the year, elections can go either way. Luckily for us, there are a lot of independent voters here and some can be convinced to vote blue when it really matters.

Several rural counties will always go red of course, and most of the metropolitan areas will always go blue. Isn't that true of just about every state in the US?

[Atticus]

52. Pennsylvania has Philadelphia on one end, Pittsburg on the other and---

Mississippi in between.

[whathehell]

58. Do you live in Pennsylvania?

The metro areas of both of those large cities lean blue .and the rest leans red, but calling the rest of Pennsylvania "Mississippi" is, I' d suggest, overstating it. Virtually all the states follow this pattern.

[rainin]

2. You blurred the license plate which is a courtesy he wouldn't have afforded you

you. These people are wired differently. Hate is wired and rage is cultivated by the media they consume imo

[lpbk2713]

3. That window is just begging to feel the business end of a hammer.

ME? Oh no. Of course not.

[magicarpet]

12. Bricks are good...

These macho meatheads just have to toss their weight around, crash into, and bully other people to prove bona fides of hyper masculinity.

[MineralMan]

4. Sucks to Be Him!

That's enough for me.

[usedtobedemgurl]

5. This is so weird....

On one hand, no drag queens, because children. On the other hand, kids can read this. It is fowl. But who cares about corrupting children, except them!

The first time I used the term “fuck,” it was written in the dust on the back of a moving van. I was pretty young, so I asked my Uncle what it meant. I was told it was a very bad word and I could get arrested for using it. I guess if I went some place and shouted it over and over, I may be arrested. I get it, he was trying to protect me.

The party of pedophiles has no moral ground here. They do not give a crap about anyone but themselves.

[deurbano]

34. The first time I saw that written was when I was about eight, in a school bathroom.

Another kid told me it was one of the "bad" words, and I didn't realize it actually had a meaning. Somehow, I concluded it must have been assigned to the "bad word" category at the Tower of Babylon!

[usedtobedemgurl]

49. You have better ideas than I did, when I found out. :) nt

[Genki Hikari]

54. First time I encountered it in any form was in third grade

I was raised mostly by my grandparents, born at that old turn of the century period (1890s-1900s). They didn't talk that way, and they didn't allow people to talk that way around them. My grandfather might let loose with some salty language when frustrated or after a few beers, but my grandmother would give him grief over it, always.

Anyway, our school had a terraced playground with these huge stone walls dividing each tier that some of the WPA or some such FDR agency funded. Someone had etched the f word into one of the stones where some of us liked to sit under a massive white oak tree's shade. I had never seen it before, but the kids who knew what it meant wouldn't touch it, and they would warn people who tried to sit there not to touch it, either.

I didn't really care about the word itself; what offended me was anyone scratching up one of those old stones. We had a campus that was celebrated far beyond our boonies for its design, and it disgusted me that anyone wouldn't be grateful for being able to attend such a beautiful school.

That's probably why I mentioned the defacement that evening over the dinner table, not knowing at all that my grandfather had been the contractor who built all of the campus' stone walls. He hadn't left the hard work solely to his workers, either, but helped lay down stones himself.

He was so ticked off at hearing what some idiot had done to one of "his" walls that he stopped eating, marched to the phone, and called the school superintendent to tell him he was cleaning up the mess, no, he wouldn't hear no, or anything about being paid, consider it done. Then he packed up some of his old masonry equipment and went right to the school. Next day when I went out there for recess, the stone looked like it had never been abused. He had even sanded down some of the neighboring stones, so that it wasn't obvious at all that one of them had to be a few centimeters shorter than it was before.

[deurbano]

57. That's a cool story!

[tavernier]

6. I have a 2 inch decal of Freddie Mercury

on the outer corner of my rear VW window.

Me and Mr. Fahrenheit ride together.

[LuckyCharms]

7. Nice!

I used to have a sticker that only Deadheads would understand.

"Bob Spit On Me"

I used to get a lot of honks and thumbs up for that one.

Bob Weir, rhythm guitarist and singer for the Dead, had a tendency to spray a lot of saliva when he sang. If you were up against the rail in front of Weir, you were going to get spit on.

Freddie Mercury...what a voice and what a performer.

[tavernier]

53. If you ever need to borrow a Freddie shirt, I have dozens, lol.

Last year there were quite a few tribute Queen groups playing within six hours of where I visit over the summer. I saw four of them. I spent weeks.in a Queen induced high. All of the Freddies were spot on and working so hard to give the audiences a great night.

I have never heard of the “Bob Spit On Me” secret Deadhead initiation sticker but I will honk if I ever do see it. “You’ll be lucky” was a Queen private joke but I’ve never seen it on a sticker.

[genxlib]

8. Speaking of ignorant assholes

It could be worse.

I found myself behind this jackass recently



I, for one, appreciate when people where a loser sign on their forehead so that I can avoid them.

[LuckyCharms]

10. Holy shit

[EYESORE 9001]

19. Don't you mean...

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!

[LuckyCharms]

20. THAT'S RIGHT, EYESORE 9001!

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!

[AllyCat]

29. Love your username!

[Initech]

21. Their obsession with JFK is fucking weird!

[genxlib]

23. No kidding

Q was always idiocy even when they stuck with the standard deep-state, government is evil BS.

It just got insane when they tried to resurrect a zombie Kennedy as part of the story.

As if the Kennedys would support Trump even if they were alive.

[Probatim]

38. Reminds me of the old Far Side cartoon...

How Nature Says "Do Not Touch".

[ShazzieB]

39. This enrages me!

Neither of those men deserves to have his memory desecrated in such a fashion. I can't even express how much that offends me.

On a more positive note, I have had a variety of different stickers on my various cars over the years. I had an Obama sticker on every car I drove between 2008 and 2016, then a Hillary sicker. Right now, I have one that says "Democrats 2020 (purchased in 2019) and a Biden/Harris sticker (purchased as soon as such were available after the 2020 convention).

I have also had stickers addressing various different issues, including LGBTQ rights, at one time or another. No one has ever given me any flak for any of this. I know we have Trumpers around here, but they keep a low profile and rarely get in anyone's face.

I have gotten only 2 direct comments in all those years, both of which were highly favorable. I find it interesting that both were from women (one college aged, one at least as old as me), and they took place in the parking lots of an Episcopal Church and a public library (both of which are places known to attract smart people ).

I have made up my mind that I don't ever want to live in a place where I'd have to be afraid to have stuff like that on my car. Those who don't have this freedom have my heartfelt sympathy.

[Genki Hikari]

55. JFK would have stomped that...thing...into a mud puddle

Bad back and all.

[Hotler]

9. For safety, I reccommend removing anything that says or labels you as a democrat or liberal

from your cars and yards. And it's best to keep a low profile around the fascist. Don't give them a chance to get in your face. These fuckers are itching to use guns on us. All it will take is nod and a wink from a DeSantis or the orange one, maybe even a Bobert.....

[LuckyCharms]

11. I agree.

Shame it has to be that way, but that's the world we're living in.

[magicarpet]

17. We ain't seen nothing yet.

Just wait until the Fascists come to the full realization that the Nazi jamboree has been fully rejected. And society intends to move beyond their hatred, meanness, and narrow minded thinking laced with violence.

[Xavier Breath]

13. That's why we avoid the stickers

and the yard signs. Leading up to the 2020 election my wife asked if we should put up a sign. I told her it would only invite the kind of attention we do not want, so we didn't. We're in a purple/blue county, but in our area I'd bet it's 2-1 MAGATs at least. The only sign I have on my car is sports-related, so I may get the occasional 'thumbs up' or 'down' in the Kroger parking lot, but so far no one has brandished a gun or threatened violence.

[Initech]

25. Yes, I live across the street from a MAGA Q nutcase.

Definitely don't want to give anything away that says how much I hate Loser 45. We get along OK as long as politics aren't brought up.

[ShazzieB]

42. It depends on where you live, imo.

As I said in another reply, I've had Democratic/liberal stickers on my car for years and have had no problems. If I was going to take a road trip to someplace heavily red, I would not feel safe with these stickers, but around here, I do. Different places are... different.

[teach1st]

15. No political displays on my car, but always a Dead sticker

I have affixed a small SYF Grateful Dead decal to the rear windows of all of my cars for thirty years. Most around my part of Florida don't know what it is; many think it's some sort of a biker thing.

No political messages for me, though. Road rage around here is bad enough.

[LuckyCharms]

22. .

[MLAA]

16. My first thought on reading the and fuck you if you voted for Biden sticker was to tell him:

Dude, nobody and I mean nobody who voted for Biden would ever fuck you.

[LuckyCharms]

18. You should have seen the guy.

He was not fuckable. He wore his charming personality on his face.

[multigraincracker]

24. I have a John Lennon, Imagine sticker on my van.

No one ever messed with it or said anything. I've been thinking of having it painted on the end of my barn.

[Prairie_Seagull]

26. Decal probably bought from tfg.

Incidentally, I knew a guy who had seen the Dead 280 times. He seemed fine. I know they were not unaccompanied "trips".

[brewens]

27. I drove around Idaho during the "W" administration with a "Somewhere in Texas a Village is

Missing it's Idiot" sticker in my back window. I got laughs and thumbs ups, but never any shit about it. I think right-wingers didn't get it. I'm also a big kind of mean looking dude, so that might have helped.

[Martin68]

28. During the Bush administration I was driving through town and noticed some dirty looks being

directed my way by a couple of young guys in a car behind me. Before I knew it, they were passing me and angrily giving me the finger. It took me a while to remember I had a very little sticker on the back of my car that identified the GOP as the "Grand Oil Party." LOL.

[johnnyplankton]

30. At least he knows Biden won :)

[Traildogbob]

31. Hurry up Covid.

It’s a buffet out there for you. All you can eat lung tissue. At least it’s not a brain eating amoeba. GQP would be safe as fuck.
These people love Jesus, or the white one they have created. But let’s not upset children with vulger books. (How do the dumb fucks know what is within a book?)

[GoneOffShore]

32. Think of him as a squid -

[hibbing]

33. Always a truck, surprised no III sticker n/t

[OnionPatch]

35. I see these here in rural VA and also big flags and signs like these on people's homes.

And I always wonder why in the world someone would want to alienate a third or half of their neighbors by telling them to fuck themselves, not to mention displaying such vulgar words where children see them. I'm willing to bet they'll be sitting in church this Sunday morning.

[Genki Hikari]

56. We had something like three of those morons

One had a massive TP 2020 sign on the house, and the some smaller ones about the stolen election.

Another had the stupid Gadsden and TP 2020 flags on a giant pole outside his house. Lit up at night with floodlights, even.

And yet another rw idiot liked to parade around with an F Biden flag and one of those huge traitor-blackened US flags attached to his F-350.

I'm in a blue area of Y'allsville, in a deep blue part of that blue area. Our neighborhood is old school 70s with a long-entrenched social culture to match. So lots of people hanging out together at coffee klatsches and backyard barbecues and Saturday night card parties, like the old days. I don't do it, but plenty of my neighbors enjoy that about living here.

So all it took was the social butterflies actively shunning all three of the traitor thug families to get them to knock off the rah-rah hate displays. Shunning as in people refusing to talk to them anymore during walks around the neighborhood, and even disinviting them from various holiday parties after the 2020 election.

My husband works at the local grocery store, and overhead one of the traitor trash asking our neighborhood's queen bee (who just happens to be the local Democratic precinct chair) why everyone was treating them that way. She gave my husband a "dig this" wink, then told the idiot that their behavior had made the rest of us either angry, disgusted, uneasy or feel unwelcome. Or some combination of those. Anyone who made others in the neighborhood feel that way weren't very neighborly, so they wouldn't be treated like neighbors anymore until they started behaving right again.

Some of these older Southern ladies around here can be quite...persuasive, without ever raising their voices or lowering the sweetness level from a tooth decay standard. I never developed the knack for it, but I've always found it awe-inspiring when I witness it.

Because it works, at least around here. Within about three weeks, the treasonous crap ALL came down, and only a couple of r thugs even put up political signs last fall. Only "official" campaign yard signs, not too large or in-your-face, and never more than two.

[TlalocW]

36. If you're going to put political stickers on your vehicle

Go to a sign company and have them cut up their magnetic sign material into the size you need for your bumper stickers. Put the stickers on that and then the sign on your car. Then when you park, you can take them off and throw them in your car so it's not an easy target.

[japple]

37. I'm just surprised he didn't have a set of those fake testicles hanging from

the rear bumper.

[old as dirt]

59. Truck Nuts

[Warpy]

40. In the 1950s, my dad drove around the country for a living

as a regional sales manager for a big corporation. He'd never allow anything political on the car, something I didn't understand at the time. In the 60s, he started to fly, instead, but still refused stickers. I was a kid who was disgusted by the 1964 choice between Johnson and Goldwater, so I found a sticker that said "Vote Johnwater." He put that one on.

That was the year I was bored and frustrated by a US "history" class that was meant to turn out obedient and patriotic worker bees. We ere assigned an essay on the election, so I submitted a big pen and ink copy of the eagle on the back of paper money, clothespin on its beak. The teacher was unimpressed, but my dad framed it and kept that thing on the wall above his desk until his death in 2006.

So you're not the only one to avoid stickers, and for the same reason as my dad. The only stickers I've had here in NM (which was pale blue when I moved here and bluer still when we got 100% paper ballots) were "Warning! Boston Driver" and "Spinning because knitting wasn't weird enough."

[IronLionZion]

41. I never felt the need to advertise my political views

but I'm sure this guy will get into a fight with someone somewhere. PA is good for that. Rural areas of any state can be MAGA, even NY state. I like vacationing in the finger lakes and saw plenty of "unmask our children" and Trump signs in 2020. I went to Vermont last September and saw less of that nonsense.

[AltairIV]

43. An admission.

That particular political sticker seems, to me at least, to be a tacit admission that tfg actually legitimately lost the election. No wonder he's pissed, it only took him a year to figure that out. Also I hear ya about those Dead stickers.

[iluvtennis]

45. It's a cult. Cultists don't think. n/t

[LeftinOH]

47. If not for the plates, I'd have thought that's the truck in my neighborhood

which I often see. Exactly the same two stickers, also a big black pickup. Bunch of creeps.

[Emile]

48. Are there profanity laws anymore?

[Tree Lady]

50. My only sticker is a small one on

my back window that shows a girl in mediation pose and says Heavily Mediatated

Kind of a play on medicated.

and my back license plate cover says peace on top, namaste on bottom.

I figure if that bugs anyone they have problems.

[LeftInTX]

51. I avoid political stickers. Roads are already too dangerous. YMMV

[drmeow]

60. To me, it was a statement about

the toxicity and nastiness of the Republican party that (in about 1992) I stopped putting anything political on my cars for fear of the car getting keyed or something worse. Enough of them were Nazis even then that I was afraid of them! I had political cartoons on my grad school office door which were defaced and torn down and I was attacked. They have only gotten worse. I never put any store in whether there are signs for Democrats in people's yards or not cause I wouldn't feel safe doing that, either, in some neighborhoods. Tolerance vs intolerance - it is the strongest defining difference between the two parties.

Too many of them are just a waste of good air, food, water, shelter, etc.

[Mr.Bill]

61. I love it when

they self-identify.