Why do people put bumper stickers on their car? To me the bumper sticker seems to be an outward expression of what you would want to say to someone if you could talk to them while driving. Thankfully, cars don’t come with a bull horn to express how each person feels. There are enough fists and birds to go around.
Some people cover the whole back of their car with bumper stickers. They have many views and options and they want to share them. I personally find it fun at a red light to see how many bumper stickers I can read before the light turns green again. Most people on the other hand usually just have a bumper sticker or possibly two (even three) without going overboard. But out of all the thousands of bumper stickers, views, and options, how do you decide what you want on the back of your car that expresses ‘you’? For many it is easy. The car is a mode of transportation so they add bumper stickers that express where they have been or what mountain they have climbed. Others express what nationality they are. When you live in the United States, and you are not from the United States your biggest identity may be that you are from another country. I think this shows a sense of pride of where a person is from, and they want to show it off.
Another common bumper sticker is the political bumper sticker that is supporting a certain candidate for election or a certain political view. Other common stickers include fishing, proud parents of honor roll students, and stickers honoring the military. I am originally from the Detroit area so I am particularly used to seeing miniature Calvin and Hobbes peeing on equally miniature Ford or Chevy symbols. Many of these stickers produce honor towards the United States, or a car company, or a hobby. Other stickers although they don’t produce honor they are added on for humor. These stickers, although sometimes ridiculous and funny, seem to make sense in my head. On the other hand, there are other bumper stickers that don’t make sense to me.
Many people like to express their political option, their humor, or their honor in something. For most people this is just with one bumper sticker on their car. What possesses people to put the most obscure bumper stickers on their car? If there is one thing to say about yourself, why that? Why would someone put a sticker stating that firewood should not be moved? Are they so compelled by bugs ruining trees that they need to protest it on their car? Where they traumatized by a bug incident where the whole forest that they live by was destroyed by a bug and now have to broadcast it to the world? Why not an overall environment sticker?
What about a Wall Drug sticker? Was someone so compelled by the billions of road signs saying Wall Drug that when they got to the store they had to buy a bumper sticker and put it on their car. Their whole identity of their car now is Wall Drug. That is the most important thing they want to express on their car – an over-publicized drug store. Although both of these examples are not as good as other examples I have seen on the road – they give a hint to the mindless expression of some people.
Some people cover the whole back of their car with bumper stickers. They have many views and options and they want to share them. I personally find it fun at a red light to see how many bumper stickers I can read before the light turns green again. Most people on the other hand usually just have a bumper sticker or possibly two (even three) without going overboard. But out of all the thousands of bumper stickers, views, and options, how do you decide what you want on the back of your car that expresses ‘you’? For many it is easy. The car is a mode of transportation so they add bumper stickers that express where they have been or what mountain they have climbed. Others express what nationality they are. When you live in the United States, and you are not from the United States your biggest identity may be that you are from another country. I think this shows a sense of pride of where a person is from, and they want to show it off.
Another common bumper sticker is the political bumper sticker that is supporting a certain candidate for election or a certain political view. Other common stickers include fishing, proud parents of honor roll students, and stickers honoring the military. I am originally from the Detroit area so I am particularly used to seeing miniature Calvin and Hobbes peeing on equally miniature Ford or Chevy symbols. Many of these stickers produce honor towards the United States, or a car company, or a hobby. Other stickers although they don’t produce honor they are added on for humor. These stickers, although sometimes ridiculous and funny, seem to make sense in my head. On the other hand, there are other bumper stickers that don’t make sense to me.
Many people like to express their political option, their humor, or their honor in something. For most people this is just with one bumper sticker on their car. What possesses people to put the most obscure bumper stickers on their car? If there is one thing to say about yourself, why that? Why would someone put a sticker stating that firewood should not be moved? Are they so compelled by bugs ruining trees that they need to protest it on their car? Where they traumatized by a bug incident where the whole forest that they live by was destroyed by a bug and now have to broadcast it to the world? Why not an overall environment sticker?
What about a Wall Drug sticker? Was someone so compelled by the billions of road signs saying Wall Drug that when they got to the store they had to buy a bumper sticker and put it on their car. Their whole identity of their car now is Wall Drug. That is the most important thing they want to express on their car – an over-publicized drug store. Although both of these examples are not as good as other examples I have seen on the road – they give a hint to the mindless expression of some people.
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