Do you have any window stickers/bumper stickers on your vehicle?

[MMXcalibur]

I've got a Chiefs window sticker on the bottom left side of my back window and a Penguins window sticker on the other side of my Honda Accord.

What have ye?

[Demonpenz]

Originally Posted by RJ

I don't have any bumper stickers but I do have a Chiefs arrowhead insignia plate on the front end.

The thread reminded me of this article I had read last year.


http://www.wisebread.com/imagine-whi...s-in-your-face


Attention all drivers: the next time you’re out cruising the boulevard and the person in front of you has a bumper sticker that says, “Honk if you love…” you’d better think twice about hitting that horn. As reported in the Washington Post , a recent study has shown that the presence of bumper stickers is a good indication of how aggressive a driver can be and how likely their aggression will turn to road rage. It is believed that up to two-thirds of accidents on the road can somehow be attributed to aggressive driving

The study , out of Colorado State University, found that bumper stickers, window decals, and vanity plates are all good predictors of whether a driver will exhibit belligerent behavior in the form of honking, tailgating or even worse. The reason for this is because bumper stickers are a form territorial behavior, and by adorning one’s car with personal messages, a driver is in essence marking his or her territory.

Furthermore, the possibility of aggression seems proportional to the number of decorations on the car; the greater the number of decals, the greater the chance that any sort of provocation, however innocent it may be, will result in an angry response. While drivers of undecorated cars probably experience strong feelings just as often, they tend to keep it to themselves, while drivers who personalize their vehicles with visible markers are more likely to act out their feelings.

Interestingly, it didn’t seem to matter what the message was. Whether it said “Jesus Saves,” or “Gut Dear” made no difference, just the stickers themselves predicted territorial behavior.

When you get down to it, it seems like territorial behavior has been around for as long as humans, and for that matter all animals, have coexisted. Defending one’s territory ensured a safe and stable environment to raise a family and gather food, free from competition. While the constraints of human survival are not as stringent in the modern industrialized world, territory is still territory, and the need to defend it could very well be hard-wired in all of us.

According to the authors of the study, territory takes on three basic forms. There is personal territory, like one’s home or car, temporary territory, like a job workspace, and public territory, which would, of course, include streets and roads.

It may be perfectly reasonable for someone to defend their car or home, but problems arise when the lines between public and private space begin to blur, as is the case with road rage. In other words, when drivers begin acting as if they owned the roads, which believe it or not happens now and then, then everybody besides themselves (including you and I) becomes a hindrance and a bother.

So the next time that you feel the need to honk your horn or drive too closely to the minivan in front of you, it might not hurt to check the windows and bumper for any stickers, because even if the children were honor roll students at the local middle school, that will in no way predict the behavior of their mom or dad.

welp, thats the last time i honk

[ChiefJustice]

Originally Posted by Demonpenz

i don't even look close to bumper stickers, icons, or people anywhere. Everything everyone makes me want to punch people in the mouth

Just go and try and break two boards in your garage.Then the anger will cascade off of you like a waterfall of fail.

[RJ]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

While we're on this subject, what is up with the recent trend of people putting those stick figures representing their family and pets on their back windows? I really doubt that anyone gives a **** that you have two boys, one girl, a dog named Spot and a cat named Tabby.

Those are personalized? I thought it was just a universal symbol for soccer mom.

[OnTheWarpath15]

Just my university parking pass on the back window, lower left.

[Hydrae]

Originally Posted by ChiTown

Yes

I have my Son's Name & Number for his football team on our back window.

That, and I have KSU license plates.

I have always wondered about that. Not so much with teen males but teen females. Why would you want to advertise to every perv out there that you have a nubile young lady in your house? They even include the name. It just seems like a very unsafe practice for your child.

[1ChiefsDan]

Back window of my Tundra: upper left Obama sticker, upper right Chiefs season ticket holder sticker, on the tailgate a large Chiefs helmet decal.

I get a few people here in Denver who like to show me I'm #1 while driving around town
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[Fat Elvis]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

My buddy has a ballsack hanging from his trailor hitch

That is very classy. It makes me want to hang out with him almost (almost, but not quite) as much as my buddies that have Calvin urinating on something (anything, really...ex-wife, Ford, Chevy, terrorists, you name it...). Nothing says, "I'm interesting and fun to be around," than urinating cartoon characters.

[SDChiefs]

I have a rainbow bumper sticker that says "I love it when balls are in my face."

[Kylo Ren]

Originally Posted by KCtotheSB

I've got a Chiefs window sticker on the bottom left side of my back window and a Penguins window sticker on the other side of my Honda Accord.

What have ye?

Obama, YOU lie!

[Inspector]

I have a U.S. Navy sticker on one vehicle, a sticker for a band on another and nothing on the vehicle that my wife drives.

[1ChiefsDan]

saw one the other day on an Xtera that said My other ex is a bitch.

Made me chuckle
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[GoHuge]

I picked up a chrome Chiefs KC emblem that sticks on the paint. Didn't want to go with a red sticker on my black and chrome truck. It's only about 3" in diameter so it's fairly discreet. Put it about 4" below my tailgate latch. Actually looks kinda cool. Also have a black and chrome K-State license plate.

[cdcox]

Do you guys seriously not know what dingle balls are?

[sedated]

Originally Posted by SDChiefs

I have a rainbow bumper sticker that says "I love it when balls are in my face."

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by cdcox

Do you guys seriously not know what dingle balls are?

I didn't.

And after seeing that picture, I wish I still didn't.