In general the vast majority of Iowans are decent people. When you see this stuff happening more frequently here you can just imagine how often this happens in other places where people aren't quite so nice.
"In Loving Memory"
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In general the vast majority of Iowans are decent people. When you see this stuff happening more frequently here you can just imagine how often this happens in other places where people aren't quite so nice.
True everyone does, but this sticker thing is a fairly new phenomenon. People did get along just fine after a death for centuries before this fad was recently invented.
People are gonna do what they are gonna do - I prefer when people keep their grieving private and with those close to or who actually KNEW the person lost. However, I completely understand there are those that need to make it public to everyone, just wish they'd find a less tacky way of doing it publicly than a $5 sticker on the back of a beat down car. To people who are following that car and don't know the person who died it is just a daily reminder when stopped at a light "hey, just remember we all will die! - have a nice day"
I don't ever want to see any of my family members doing it, that is for sure. I'm glad mine all went to college so I don't ever have to worry about it.
In California I see these on the back of $80,000 vehicles too. They are everywhere.
My wife and I just had this conversation last weekend while on the interstate...I pleaded to her to never, ever put one of those dang stickers in the window if I die...she would never do that anyway.
I always thought that the reasoning for those is that when a person inherits money from a deceased individual, a lot of times, they buy a vehicle with it...therefore, they are saying, "This rusted out Nissan is in memory of Joe Dirt"...
I agree with the OP too. It's tacky.
Also, the above. I am totally going to do that when I get a will set up. Ha. Not that anyone in my family would do such a DUMB thing. But still, just to be safe...
new idea -we can have small "in loving memory" stickers for deceased pets. Just think of the line of stickers the stick figure family can have on the back of cars...
It amazes me how many people with the Baby on Board stickers drive like a*******.
I had someone the other day who drove about 3 inches off my back bumper for a few blocks. They eventually passed me and at the next stop light I saw they had a bumper sticker that read "if you can read this get off my ***".
One of my other favorites is the American Flag bumper stickers that have "These colors don't run" but the sticker has almost faded to white.
I had someone the other day who drove about 3 inches off my back bumper for a few blocks. They eventually passed me and at the next stop light I saw they had a bumper sticker that read "if you can read this get off my ***".
One of my other favorites is the American Flag bumper stickers that have "These colors don't run" but the sticker has almost faded to white.
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What about the prayer ribbon stickers/magnets for sports teams and other irrelevant crap?
Drives me nuts when I see a prayer ribbon with something like, "Chiefs" on it...granted the Chiefs need all the help they can get but c'mon man...
Drives me nuts when I see a prayer ribbon with something like, "Chiefs" on it...granted the Chiefs need all the help they can get but c'mon man...
Saw one of those "family" stickers the other day.
Said "You have your family, I have mine" and then 4 or 5 stickers of various rifles and pistols.
Said "You have your family, I have mine" and then 4 or 5 stickers of various rifles and pistols.
This had to have occurred in Omaha - home of the worst a-holes to ever get behind the wheel.
I've never known any group to have as much obsession with anything as much as gun owners have with their guns.
Can I talk about a fun social observation I have been making, or will it get this thread cave bound?
