Bumper Stickers

You can tell a lot about a person from his/her car. Japanese or European car? What colour? How much that car cost? Of course it may be ways off from your first impression and subsequent analysis, but you can probably make an intelligent guess and you will probably be 70% right. 

People do a lot for their rides. Some wash and clean their cars every single day. Some decorate their cars with so many plush toys that they look like a mobile toy shop. There are people who plainly make it known what sports team they are fans of. Some have decals and stickers all over their cars that you wonder if they are actually able to see out their windshields.

Their favourite radio stations. The tertiary education institution they attended. Crappy one liners which are suppose to be funny or make a point. "If you can read this, you are too ****ing close!". If you feel you need to put things like these up, you might be driving too ****ing slow.

I drive a black Honda Jazz. I chose this car because 1) it was reasonably priced, 2) easy to drive and 3) has good fuel-consumption. And black because black sucks the least out of all other colours available for this car. And it won't stand out like Ferrari Red or lemony yellow.

I don't put any labels or decals up other than the Road Tax and HDB parking discs. The car is for transportation purposes. Not for naps, meal breaks, entertainment nor as one popular TV show has put it, coitus. 

I don't have plush toys and/or cushions. I don't like to tell people what sports team I root for or what radio stations I tune in to. I attended several schools and all of which don't give out stickers/decals for reasonable prices. $10 for Times New Romans in Bold?!? You gotta be kidding my windshields.

I drive, "free". But maybe a little too "free".

Although decorations like these may be pointless and in some cases, vision-impairing, they do commit the owner/driver to behave accordingly especially on the roads.

Imagine a sweet old lady driving a small pastel-coloured car with a decal that says, "Jesus saves!". Cut her lane and next you will hear incessant honking and from your rear-view, multiple high-beams and a hand gesture which will definitely not be a thumbs up.

Even if you don't own a car, you are not exempted from similar judgements. You are what you wear. Ring = Married. Cross = Christian. Flashy = Attention-seeking. And you can't hide behind your clothes like you can in the car, unless you wear a hood.

Coming back to the car, my point is one better behaves as one like to portray him/herself to others. Stop driving like your dad's name is Thomson. Or worse, PIE.