I theorize that this all began tragically with the demise of Dale Earnhardt, Sr. Suddenly, there were"3" stickers on the windows of vehicles everywhere. Then, just as suddenly there were 8's as a memorial to the living but grieving son who was also busy risking his life driving around in circles at 200 miles an hour...then it evolved and now the windshield is secondly only to the graveyard as a memorializin' locale.
I wouldn't feel right about offering up my feelings about any dearly departed person with a sticker on my car. I rarely wash my little Nissan. It's not a very holy place, as I drive in Atlanta traffic and yell profanity (often at SOB's with "In Loving Memory" stickers on their cars who cut me off), and I just wouldn't want me dear Grandmother, even in sticker memorial form, to be anywhere near me when I'm like that. I also consider the things the things that get yelled back at me! Not for the ears of anyone's dearly departed mother or grandmother...
Keep these feelings in your heart, or maybe on your sleeve--use a black ribbon or get a tattoo of your loved one's initials on one buttock or the other so I'll never see, but please, stop these stickers. Please? People are already doing enough to turn America's freeways into graveyards.
If you're considering this as part of your car decor and find that, for you, this is a must-- first, consider your car. Is that memorial sticker for your dead golfing buddy really going to look good on the back of that 85 olds Cutlass you've wrecked a couple of times now? Will others, with whom, I assume you wish to share your grief, going to be able to see it through the smoggy discharge of that olds tail pipe?
Also consider the relative location of your memorial sticker to the things you already have on display there-- of Calvin peeing on something, NRA membership stickers, your hoochie mama mudflaps, supporting stickers for ANY and all republican presidential candidates, and that "If the van's rockin' don't bother knockin" thing that's almost peeled off since you put it on back in '73.
I hope that, one day, we'll see...
In Loving Memory
In Loving Memory stickers
Dale, Sr to 2007
In Loving Memory stickers
Dale, Sr to 2007
May they rest in peace next to scratch n' sniffs and garbage pail kids in sticker heaven.
3 comments:
So like I wish I had made a sticker for "In Loving Memory of my former blog"
Yeah, I'm seeing more of these too. I saw a truck the other day in Woodstock that was obviously owned by an Iraq War vet. He had a sticker each for two of his buddies.
I guess their hearts are in the right place. But hear me now, I don't wish to end up on a window decal nor a bumper sticker upon my demise!
Um, can 1/2 you people with those blasted, "W - 04" or "W - The President", stickers actually SPELL 'republican'???
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