As seen on I-5

I’ve never been one to hide what I think. In the case of my vehicles, I tend to just post it on the back of the vehicle. Not in a “crazy” way, since most of them are subtle statements for insiders.

Like this

I do tend to be a little more upfront with my Jeep. I worry less about people vandalizing it than I do my truck. I do still have to spend an unfortunate amount of time in King County, after all.

Normally, my stickers like the one on the lower left get me the finger. I have had a small number of people attempt to berate me at an intersection. Also, I once had a guy berate me while traveling at highway speeds. I don’t have power windows, so ignoring him was easy.

I have also had one other guy try and merge with me while he was staring me in the face at freeway speeds. I knew to watch out for him because when I passed him a moment before I saw that his little truck had a sticker calling TEA Party members racists, homophobes and murders.

However, last week, I had something rare happen. I was driving the Jeep and as I was being passed on the right by a white Ford Escape it paused. I looked over to see two men and a woman looking at me. The driver was giving me a thumbs up, the woman in the passenger seat and the other man in the rear passenger side seat were both waving and smiling.

Shocked and amazed at the positive attention, all I could whip up at that particular moment was a head bob and a lifting of the fingers off the steering wheels.

As they passed I noticed a couple of very nice stickers about the Constitution on their rear bumper.

If you know these folks or, by an even more extraordinary chance ARE these folks, my apologies for my slight reply. Get in touch and I’ll buy you a beer.