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Do people leave political notes on your car?

Do people leave you notes

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The only note I ever received said I'd parked illegally. Never the less, I had parked. I call that a success, illegally or not. I have a low bar in that regard. I did, a few years back, have a bumper sticker that declared "My other care is a piece of ****, too." I call that truth in advertising. It's the only bumper sticker I've ever had, and the car truly was a piece of ****. I used to drive wonderful cars. Now I don't give a damn. It's just more fun to drive junk. Never a dull moment.
 
Wiseone said:
What you think I'd respect this guy more? Or at all?

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No. I hate political bumper stickers, all of them. Its an insult to the complexity of the issues.
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On a Prius, no less. Talk about reinforcing stereotypes...

I have one sticker, and it is political in nature. It was telling people to vote no on the anti-gay marriage amendment in 2012. The only person who ever said anything about it was my gay friend at work, but all he said was "Nice vote no sticker."
 
cpgrad08 said:
So I work as an full time optician as I go to school for my BA. I have a some political bumper stickers on my car. At least once a week I have some leaving a noteor my car being keyed up because they disagree with me. So I was wondering does this happen to anyone else on the forum and if so what do you do. Attach below are pictures of my bumper stickers and the note on my car from today.

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Your bumper stickers make quite a statement. They say, "I don't care about the resale value of my car."
 
Cardinal said:
Your bumper stickers make quite a statement. They say, "I don't care about the resale value of my car."
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I don't I plan to run into the ground and sell it for scarp.
 
Kal'Stang said:
I love reading bumper stickers at red lights and stop signs. Most of them are hilarious, even the political ones. But I don't have any myself. I don't want to waste money on them when that money could go towards food or some other needed thing.
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My favorite is "War is not the Answer." I'm like, what's the question? If it's "How do you make a delicious turkey sandwich?" then it's true, war is definitely not the answer. But if it's "How do you kill large numbers of people and cause a gigantic humanitarian crisis?" then you have to admit war is the answer.
 
Jerry said:
I have veteran plates on my car and one day last year I found a note saying "thank you for your service", but thats it. I don't have bumper stickers.
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You're out of the service now right? The reason I ask is that I see a lot of these kind of license plates on Ft. Campbell and I think to myself, "yeah you're a veteran, but so is everyone here why do you feel the need to get special plates?" Just seems silly to get them if you live/work on a military base.
 
Cardinal said:
My favorite is "War is not the Answer." I'm like, what's the question? If it's "How do you make a delicious turkey sandwich?" then it's true, war is definitely not the answer. But if it's "How do you kill large numbers of people and cause a gigantic humanitarian crisis?" then you have to admit war is the answer.
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Or you made a turkey sandwich with some bad turkey.
 
Wiseone said:
You're out of the service now right? The reason I ask is that I see a lot of these kind of license plates on Ft. Campbell and I think to myself, "yeah you're a veteran, but so is everyone here why do you feel the need to get special plates?" Just seems silly to get them if you live/work on a military base.
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One advantage to that: it saves a little money, because they have no annual fees, at least where I live. I have a retired USAF plate on my truck and it is free.
 
I think it's funny that someone would assume you hate poor people and then basically curse you out and say then tell you to go to hell. So much for being some kind of morally upstanding doctor that somehow cares for others but can't rationally react to disagreeing opinions.

I've never had political bumper stickers on my car. I only have a sticker as an alumni of my bachelors program, my parking decal and a bumper sticker for my current school.
 
I do not have any stickers on my car.

No plans to change that, either.

Still, that guy seems off a bit...none of your stickers proclaim any desire to stop helping the poor.
 
I've never understood people's desire to air their political views on their vehicle.
 
Wiseone said:
Can I ask you when you were applying these bumper stickers did you know or perhaps even intend that it might rile some people up who read them?
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Of course he did. Why do you think he is bragging to us about the note? He loved every minute of it. :duel I'm an obnoxious a**hole myself. I would have loved to get a note like that. It would have made my year.
 
Phys251 said:
It would be interesting to see the results to this poll question:

"Was cpgrad08 'asking for it' to get that note? (Yes/No)"

Not trying to insinuate anything. (And if you think I am, then you're being way too sensitive.) Just curious. Oh and FWIW, my vote would have been No.
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Yes. of course he was asking for it. He got it and it made him very happy. Now he needs a George Bush bumper sticker that says, "I pissed you off Jack A**: Mission Accomplished".
 
Fiddytree said:
Eyesore, aren't they?
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Painful. If one self-identifies with a candidate or party so deeply that they want that candidate's logo with them wherever they go, so everyone can see "hey, there goes a Romney/Obama supporter" ... well, they generally sound like someone I wouldn't want to be around. Kinda like that one guy at the end of the bar yammering about politics to anyone within earshot, while the rest of the patrons congregate at the other end of the bar desperately avoiding eye contact with him.
 
The only thing sadder than putting political bumper stickers that aren't funny on your car is getting so upset by a ****ing bumper sticker than you feel the need to leave an angry note.
 
cpgrad08 said:
So I work as an full time optician as I go to school for my BA. I have a some political bumper stickers on my car. At least once a week I have some leaving a noteor my car being keyed up because they disagree with me. So I was wondering does this happen to anyone else on the forum and if so what do you do. Attach below are pictures of my bumper stickers and the note on my car from today.

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Which one's supposed to be the political note? The bumper stickers or the stupid little note someone wrote?

No - I don't make an ass out of myself in public.

If I had strong political beliefs I wanted to proclaim I'd have no problem putting them on bumper stickers, however. But yet - I've never seen something that grips me so. My bumper seems to favor skulls and skeletons.
 
cpgrad08 said:
So I work as an full time optician as I go to school for my BA. I have a some political bumper stickers on my car. At least once a week I have some leaving a noteor my car being keyed up because they disagree with me. So I was wondering does this happen to anyone else on the forum and if so what do you do. Attach below are pictures of my bumper stickers and the note on my car from today.

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Just so you know the first Lincoln quote you have is a widely distributed hoax. It actually comes from a Protestant minister Rev. William John Henry Boetcker who produced a pamphlet in 1916, it was recycled as a Lincoln quote with the dawn of the internet age and just keeps percolating around.
 
vasuderatorrent said:
Yes. of course he was asking for it. He got it and it made him very happy. Now he needs a George Bush bumper sticker that says, "I pissed you off Jack A**: Mission Accomplished".
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Wiseone said:
Well you'll have to deal with the consequences that provoking bumper stickers sometimes provoke people. I know it may be an injury to your ego to not drive around with your dearest political opinions for everyone to see, but most people don't respect that like of smugness
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And we likely know the political persuasion of those who damage property and are easily 'provoked'.
 
Wiseone said:
You're out of the service now right?
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No, still in, 2 more years to go if I don't re-up.

Wiseone said:
The reason I ask is that I see a lot of these kind of license plates on Ft. Campbell and I think to myself, "yeah you're a veteran, but so is everyone here why do you feel the need to get special plates?" Just seems silly to get them if you live/work on a military base.
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To identify myself to other veterans and share comrodery.

In so far as the vanity plates are concerned you're a veteran if you were honorably discharged after 5 minutes of service, but in truth you aren't a veteran until you complete at least 6 months on a combat zone. So, for all the servicemen you see on that base, only those deployed in combat are veterans, the rest are not no matter how honorable their service.

When people leave the service the the thing they miss most is the comrodery. Sporting service-related decoration of some kind is a way to stay connected to that. I identify myself as a veteran as an invitation for others to share their service with me and reconnect with that comrodery. I've made an effort to learn different units, operations, and major engagements so that I can make an intelligent comment when so approached, and I'm more enriched for it.
 
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My guess would be, He wrote the note himself just so he could start this thread.

Bumper stickers on paint, not a real smart thing to do.
 
Jerry said:
No, still in, 2 more years to go if I don't re-up.


To identify myself to other veterans and share comrodery.

In so far as the vanity plates are concerned you're a veteran if you were honorably discharged after 5 minutes of service, but in truth you aren't a veteran until you complete at least 6 months on a combat zone. So, for all the servicemen you see on that base, only those deployed in combat are veterans, the rest are not no matter how honorable their service.

When people leave the service the the thing they miss most is the comrodery. Sporting service-related decoration of some kind is a way to stay connected to that.
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So what does that make civilians in a combat zone? I have a sincere question as I have no clue as to wear that puts me or my friends from the sand box days. I am guessing SOL. I and more than a few of my fellow civilians have more combat time than a lot of combat vets. I suppose BOHICA yet again.

I am with you there on comradery thing. Brothers and sisters focused on a single purpose. I miss that sometimes. As a civilian from that situation there is nothing I am aware of except the occasional message from a friend that was with you then. I wonder if there is a bumper sticker?
 
PirateMk1 said:
So what does that make civilians in a combat zone?
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Civilians, and very well paid civilians, I might add.

PirateMk1 said:
I have a sincere question as I have no clue as to wear that puts me or my friends from the sand box days. I am guessing SOL. I and more than a few of my fellow civilians have more combat time than a lot of combat vets. I suppose BOHICA yet again.

I am with you there on comradery thing. Brothers and sisters focused on a single purpose. I miss that sometimes. As a civilian from that situation there is nothing I am aware of except the occasional message from a friend that was with you then. I wonder if there is a bumper sticker?
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If there isn't, there should be.
 
Jerry said:
Civilians, and very well paid civilians, I might add.


If there isn't, there should be.
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No we were not very well paid and EVERY penny we EARNED. The ONLY difference between what we made and what we could have stateside was the tax benefits on fed side and most states. I got taxed and hard in my state of California. Most guys made around 88,000 or so depending on what you did. Truck drivers and recovery drivers made on average about 80,000 maybe a bit more north depending on how much time was put in. We were paid essentially hourly straight rate with no overtime rate adjustment. To get 88,000 you needed to work a minimum of 84hr+ week with two weeks R&R a year. Typically 4200hrs a year for 50 weeks worked out to 21 dollars an hour which a driver could easily make in the states. I made a max of about 109000 as a convoy commander and I was routinely putting in 14+hrs a day and no R&R for the year. That's for running the equivalent of 2 companies of transports and personnel. Believe me when I say with the greatest sincerity I can muster Uncle Sam got a very very good bargain.

Oh well I shall stop side tracking the thread now.
 
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