because I have just seen everything! Is there anyone out there… has it already come… did I miss everything?
As a preface, I live in a moderately sized city in a very Bible-belty Red State. I’m sitting in traffic during lunch hour and I begin to pull along side a huge burgundy GMC Suburban. This thing is brand new, spotless, and tricked out with huge tires, custom chrome wheels and spinners… replete with the magnetic “support our troops” and “God Bless America” ribbons… No “W” sticker… puzzling.
As I’m pulling along side this Mammoth(and I use this term because I truly feel that they will someday be extinct…) I start thinking to myself…”Oh great… let’s just take a look at this W-worshipping soccer mom…”
So, I’m peering up(and I do mean WAY up) into driver’s side of this car as I pull even, and what do I see…?
Here sits a woman of very clearly middle-eastern descent dressed in a black burhka sans veil… there are also pictures of what appear to be her kids hanging in little frames from the rear view mirror as well as a handicapped parking permit! My cognitive dissonance was such that I got honked at for almost missing the light change…
Being a firm advocate for self examination, about a bazillion questions pop into my mind… I guess, what it all boils down to is, do I have a racist tendency that’s clearly showing, or do I need to be calling the FBI about suspicious behaviors…? Honestly, I think, at least for myself, that this is just a false question. The real explanation might be better summarized if Bono were to write it up as an additional verse for “Bullet the Blue Sky”… “Outside it’s America, Outside it’s America…”
This is so funny. You’re great. P.S. Ever see “Six Feet Under”?
Cool, those of us remaining get all their stuff.
This could be a matter of inoculation – the driver might feel that she had to festoon her vehicle with these superficial trinkets of patriotism to fend off any attacks on her actual patriotism that some might make due to her appearance.
In my neighborhood my cars are conspicuous by their lack of yellow ribbon magnets, though up to November 2nd we did have them placed right next to our Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers.
a lot of people put stuff like that on their cars and windows after 911, in an attempt to deflect Euranglo anger. I noticed a lot more people put Mexican flags on their cars, too, for the same reason. Not that anyone thinks Euranglos are crazy about Mexico, but for the benefit of those who might have some trouble distinguishing one ethnic group from another.
The children’s pictures might be there because she likes to have them there, or they might be there just in hopes that people will think twice before vandalizing the car, or her.
yeah well join the crowd that ain’t going LOL!!oops you already are part of our group…
will we need duct tape?
Okay, here’s where I admit that every time I see one of those damned ‘W’ stickers I have to fight the urge to totally ram into the person who is displaying said sticker.
The other day, on the freeway, I see this guy in one of those huge Suburbans (is it a red state thing?) with THREE Bush stickers, all lined up so nice and cute on his back glass. I resisted shooting him the finger, because, as we all know, that’s not nice. Not to mention the fact that I didn’t want to be shot. You never know these days.
Now, when I see a Kerry sticker (and I do still see them) I honk and wave at the driver. Last year, I got good responses from doing that, because people knew why I was honking, and they’d wave back. Now, people look at me like I’m nuts. Maybe I should quit honking and move on, huh? 😉
“Now, when I see a Kerry sticker (and I do still see them) I honk and wave at the driver. Last year, I got good responses from doing that, because people knew why I was honking, and they’d wave back. Now, people look at me like I’m nuts. Maybe I should quit honking and move on, huh? ;)”
Probably just shell shocked like so many of the rest of us. Keep smiling and waving, I do it sometimes too. People look at me like I’m nuts but then, I’m used to it.
Oh, God, I can’t wait. These people are enough to drive a saint to drink. Some evil person posted a horrid link yesterday to the Rapture Index, an actual website that tracks how close we’re getting to the End Times.
Current Rapture Index 149
Net Change +1
Updated Mar 28, 2005
I thought Jon Stewart was kidding, but there are“Left Behind Letters.” You’ve got to check out the “Rapture Ready News,”the “Who’s Who of Prophecy,” “Drug Remedies for Spiritual Problems,” and of course, the “Rapture Ready Store.” Really. ‘Cause nothing says I love you like a Rapture Ready mousepad.
Well, it can’t come soon enough for me. If there is a God, the Rapture will be accompanied by a giant flushing sound. And then, in the peaceful stillness that follows, God will speak; and She’ll say, “Can you hear me now?”