Saturday, September 17, 2011

Vanity Plate Holder WTF


Vanity Plate Holder Fail

Whoever decided
Vanity plate holders like
“Caution, putting on makeup”
Were even remotely appropriate
Ought to be shot on sight

5/30/11
Form: thought bubble

                I wrote this little poem/thought on a recent road trip and it still manages to make me squick a little. It puts me in mind of bumper stickers announcing that the driver of the car in front of you will slam on their brakes if you don’t get off their ass. I find things like that to be both funny and offensive. I wonder, though, if the person with this vanity plate holder, or that type of bumper sticker I mentioned, were to get into an accident, would they be held at fault? If someone rear ended someone with the bumper sticker, then, wouldn’t the fact that they announced it proclaim their intent? Wouldn’t any claim they make then be considered insurance fraud? As for the little chica putting on makeup, if she smashes into someone, or drifts into another lane, she already has her proclamation of guilt by distraction.
                Perhaps I am being overly judgmental, but seriously, what the fuck are these people thinking? Why can’t they just put the usual kind of offensive bumper stickers on their car, like, “My other car is a broomstick,” or the fucking Jesus fish?

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