Bumper Stickers

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My wife is that old-school kind of hippie that likes her bumper stickers. (Mind you, she is also an Army Vet. 4 years active and 10 in reserves; a Spanish linguist and was basically a spy serving in Honduras and Panama during the Noriega years in the mid-1980's; She's got Top Secret clearance and reported directly to NSA).

But I digress... the point is she has very milquetoast - yet progressive - bumper stickers on her Subaru. Things like "Coexist"; "Kindness Matters"; a "Peace" symbol; and "If you can read this thank a teacher" (she's a retired teacher too). But that's it. There are no Obama or Biden stickers, no "Fuck Trump" stickers... nothing inflammatory at all. She's got a small one that says "Imagine" with a small likeness of John Lennon.

However, she is a target in the eyes of Maga. I just saw a comment the other day on social media casting aspersions and denigrating folks who have a "coexist" bumper sticker... as if that is a "bad" thing. As if that is a "sign" of "the enemy". I told her: "Please, no more bumper stickers; don't be that guy with a gazillion stickers all over the backside as if that's the only thing holding the car together - like duck tape." I told her it puts a target on her back.

And as things regress to a less developed state, Maga will only "key" her car; or purposefully back into it in the parking lot with their big-ass trucks; slit the tires; mark through the bumper-stickers with a sharpie with foul language (which has happened already).

Do they have no more decency than that? Has it all gone down the tubes?

Thoughts on "publicizing" one's progressiveness?
 
It definitely goes both ways. I don't advertise my conservatism by having bumper stickers on my cars nor do I even place yard signs in my yard during election season. This x1000 for putting a Trump or MAGA sticker out there. There are just too many crazies in this day and time.

Having said that, seeing hippie stickers on a Subaru always brings a smile to my face.
 
Tu esposa...que buena onda!!

My favorite but long gone from my possession: "Live Music Is Better."

Tell your wife she ought to have this one -- my all time favorite one in Spanish -- she, having driven the roads in Central America will understand (which I also had many years ago): "No voy bolo, esquivo hoyos"

I have one bumper sticker on my car and it has been there since probably 2009 -- It is a Carolina blue, white letters, square and reads: "W: The Coach."
 
I like seeing cars with lots of bumper stickers. I think its fun and often funny. I definitely get the concern about vandalism though. Really sucks that you have to worry about that (and already experienced it).

Also agree with what the poster above said. Your wife sounds like a pretty amazing person.
 
Thanks for the kind words about my wife. She is amazing and definitely a bad ass.
I’m a retired teacher too, but she could teach circles around me. Won teacher of the year at the High School once, nominated by students for a national award as well, and got it. I hate her 😜

I know I’m lucky.

I asked her before we got married, so “what did you do in the service back in the 80’s”.
She said “I can’t tell you”.
“WHY?”
“I’d have to kill you.”

She’s an old mountain gal from East Tenn who liked Spanish in High School and got a minor in it in college. Volunteered to go to the Army’s language school in San Francisco. Next thing you know she’s listening in on radio broadcasts and conversations in Central America intercepting coded messages.

But anyway, I opened up a small envelope and about 7-8 new bumper stickers fell out.
Damn it!
 
When I was 16 and about a month into having my driver’s license, I went into Spencer’s Gifts and bought a car bumper sticker that said, “Why Can’t I Be Rich Instead of Well-Hung?”

Luckily, even at that age, I had some rudimentary semblance of self-reflection, so it only took me a couple of days of driving around to realize what a douchebag it made me look like.

My feeling on bumper stickers: Never give some asshole a reason to damage your car.
 
20 years ago, on a match.com first-date, walking back from a restaurant to her car I saw her coexist sticker. I asked what the "i" represented and she said "ummm... russia?".
I wasn't sure if I was into her or not until that point, first dates can be tricky, but that instantly clarified my feelings.
 
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