Thursday, November 20, 2008

snap judgement bumper stickers


Some may say I am an agressive driver. Impatient perhaps. Either way...I often lose my cool with other drivers when I am on the road with them. I noticed today that I make snap judgements about people, their driving skills, their competence, etc. but that can all quickly change if they have certain bumper stickers on their car.

For instance- this morning, I was driving to Cool Springs for a 7 am meeting (yikes!). My coffee hadn't kicked in yet so I was going on yesterday's coffee. I hopped on I-65 and as soon as I started speeding up....as you should when you are on the on ramp....some slow poke pulled over right in front of me, causing me to put my brakes on, something I hate to do lately since I am never sure if they are going to work or not! I was fuming, "how dare you pull over in front of me...just let me get past you then you can come over!" until I got close enough to read his bumper sticker that said... "READ YOUR BIBLE...it's the best instruction manual". Immediately I felt bad for thinking ill of the other driver. I kindly tapped my breaks and slowed down, and allowed the steam to quickly escape my head and suddenly pleasant thoughts appeared of the other driver. How kind of him that he would put that bumper sticker on his car! I wondered how many people have picked up their Bible and actually started reading it after seeing his sticker? Do bumper stickers really do any good? Do people read them? I surely did, and instead of driving by and giving him an evil look (somehow a scene of Cruelle DeVille pops into my head when I think of myself driving by with an evil look on my face...)I kindly drove past with a smile on my face. I am sure that same sticker gives other people the complete oppostie opinion that it gave me. Just like I can be turned off by certain political bumper stickers as well.

So tell me- do you have bumper stickers? What do you think of other peoples? Whats the best or funniest one you have ever seen?

1 comments:

Candace said...

I'm not a fan of bumper stickers as far as my car goes, but I do enjoy reading other people's. One I have always found funny is "As long as there are tests, there will always be prayer in school" hehehe such truth