talk about road rage!

[LizaMarie]

Ok, so this wasn't a work encounter. It was a driving encounter. The reason I put it here is because the dude I am referring to is probably the customer service worker's worst nightmare. Moste Noble and Respected Mods will move if they disagree!

On to the story.


My fiance and I are on our way home from Connecticut after a weekend with my parents. He's driving my car, I am tired, really cranky, and more than a little homesick already. Now, for those of you who have not seen my car, aka all of you, I have a couple bumper stickers. One says "Republicans for Voldemort" the other is "Make Trade Fair"


anyway. We're doing 80 or so down the highway and I hear a muffled sort of shouting. I look up from my cranky trance and there is this apalling blue Corvette with red rims matching us in the other lane. The driver is looking over at us, red-faced and screaming, and while I can only make out a few words, the gist was very clear.

"...FUCKING....WHOLE WORLD....LIBERALS....HARRY POTTER....!!!!!!RAGERAGERAGE!!!!"

I look at fiance, who is equally stunned. My passenger side window doesn't roll down so I couldn't even shout back at him, not that shouting back at a guy who is trying to have an angry political debate while doing 80 is a very good idea. I mime to him that I cannot hear him. He speeds off. All I wanted to say was "Nice Corvette!"

Dumbstruck, ladies and gentleman; there has never been a more perfect example of how I felt afterwards.

Fiance thinks he was a Republican who liked Harry Potter and was really offended that I would equate his party with Voldemort. I think this dude is the perfect example of what's wrong with the world. In that he is willing to defend his beliefs through killing and maiming innocent bystanders on a highway over a stupid bumper sticker.

[XCashier]

Methinks Mr. Corvette needs to switch to decaf!

I saw the "Republicans for Voldemort" bumper sticker on a car near here. It made me LMAO!

[Kogarashi]

I'd have to say that while I don't exactly like or agree with the sentiments on the Voldemort sticker (being a Republican myself), it's also far from offensive--I've seen that sticker around here before (southern CT). I know I've seen bumper stickers that irritated me or offended me a lot more. Can't remember any of them, though. Must've blanked them from my memory.

Seriously, arguing about someone's bumper sticker choices at top speed on the highway? Way dumb.

[mariamousie1]

There's a car around the corner from where I live that I see all the time. It has a bumper sticker that says "Pro choice is no choice for the unborn". I completely agree, myself, but I can guess how that would make some people angry. I hope that person has never had a debate with a pro-choicer while rolling down the highway.

[Antisocial_Worker]

It's prime suck if you can't keep your cool when someone else's politics don't agree with yours. I live in a very liberal city, and every summer reliably, there will be at least one or two letters to the editor in the local paper from tourists vowing never to return because they came back to their cars after a day on the town to find that their W stickers were removed with paint scrapers or paint thinner, or bashed in with hammers.

[Gurndigarn]

Now, for those of you who have not seen my car, aka all of you, I have a couple bumper stickers. One says "Republicans for Voldemort"

>snip<

Fiance thinks he was a Republican who liked Harry Potter and was really offended that I would equate his party with Voldemort.

Well, if you gratuitously insult people, it's going to cause people to be upset. And while the sticker is funny, it is insulting, too.

80 MPH down the highway isn't the best time to argue politics, though.

[crazylegs]

find that their W stickers were removed with paint scrapers or paint thinner, or bashed in with hammers.

A what?

There is a time and a place for political debate, see headings called The Bar, and The Coffee Shop, rolling down the motorway at high speeds is not the sensible place for reasoned debate, oops my mistake, for most members of the public, 'sensible' and 'reasoned debate' are void and banned words in their vocab.

Stay Safe

[blas]

I will admit, bumper stickers like "Abortion is murder" and people who still insist on having their "Bush/Cheney 04" stickers really irritate me. But do I immediately cut that person off or try to chase them? No. I just keep on driving.

[Geek King]

It's prime suck if you can't keep your cool when someone else's politics don't agree with yours. I live in a very liberal city, and every summer reliably, there will be at least one or two letters to the editor in the local paper from tourists vowing never to return because they came back to their cars after a day on the town to find that their W stickers were removed with paint scrapers or paint thinner, or bashed in with hammers.

Gee, I hope none of the folks from one of the local factories up here got hit by mistake. They get parking decals that are white circles with a "W" in black on them, and they must be on the bumper (front or back). They did this for years before Bush was president, and haven't changed it, even though there are similar bumper stickers out there.

Getting pissed over a bumper sticker is pretty odd. Hell, getting pissed over politics in general is kida silly. I have a very socially liberal friend, and we argue politics all the time, but we're still friends.

[Becks]

It's prime suck if you can't keep your cool when someone else's politics don't agree with yours. I live in a very liberal city, and every summer reliably, there will be at least one or two letters to the editor in the local paper from tourists vowing never to return because they came back to their cars after a day on the town to find that their W stickers were removed with paint scrapers or paint thinner, or bashed in with hammers.

If that happened to my car, I doubt I'd come back. I don't think I'd write to the local paper, though.

[Broomjockey]

Bashed with hammers? I'd write to the newspaper, as that'd damaging my property, and that's way out of line. The paint thinner or scrapers? I'm not sure if I'd never be back, but I'd think long and hard about it, but I'd not write the paper either.

[protege]

That's exactly why the only stickers on my car, are my college ones. Too many idiots out there who can't handle that "their guy" lost the last election. That's *no* excuse to damage someone else's property because a disagreement over politics. The election was 3 years ago--get over it!

[Polenicus]

"I don't agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

That's a mangled quote from Voltaire, of course, but as far as freedom of expression goes, a bumper sticker is hardly worth controversy. It's your car, you can put whatever the hell you want on it that doesn't make it unsafe.

I've seen bumper stickers that make me laugh, that make me confused, and a few that I don't agree with. The worst I've done is ridiculed it to the other passenger in my car, or snorted, and then gone on my way. I've NEVER had a bumper sticker make me decide it was time for Mad Max: Road Politics.

Some people are rageaholics. I can bet you this guy sat behind you for a good 10, 15 minutes talking himself up into a towering inferno over that. When you're looking for an excuse to get mad, things like 'perspective' are inconvenient nuisances and easily discarded.

[protege]

Some people are rageaholics. I can bet you this guy sat behind you for a good 10, 15 minutes talking himself up into a towering inferno over that. When you're looking for an excuse to get mad, things like 'perspective' are inconvenient nuisances and easily discarded.

Nah, the Corvette driver is probably upset that he's not um, "equipped" like the rest of the male population

[jayel]

Never having read Harry Potter, and not associating myself with any political party in particular, could someone please explain the insult here?