Signs O' The Times

Here are a couple o' signs I've encountered lately:

The first was posted up and down the street by my eight-year-old on Sunday. He theorized that our neighbors could thwart local teen hooligans by tp'ing their own houses in some strange preemptive move. And somehow we bought into this wacky idea. And so did a few of the parents of his friends. This morning it was easy to tell who on the block didn't fall for his crazy theory because their yards were nice and clean. That's right, no teen vandalism, just grade-schooler vandalism. Sanctioned vandalism. Vandalism benefiting from parental consent. We somehow thought that it would be smart to let our own kid tp our own house with our own toilet paper. This just proves that we're not getting enough sleep.

And here's a sign left on my windshield (while my car was parked at the train station) a few weeks ago:

Okay, yes, I still have my Kerry/Edwards sticker on my bumper. Maybe that makes me a loser, but at least I'm not so big a loser that I leave notes - typed notes - on other cars. Unknown Dude, why do you care what I have on my car? If the president needs nutcases like you putting little "urgent notices" on non-supporters' cars, then the White House is in worse shape than I thought. Here's an idea, from now on when you see my Kerry sticker imagine that it says "don't blame me, I voted for Kerry," because that's the message I want to convey. I would think that that was pretty obvious, but you Bush guys do seem to be a little slow on the uptake. Here's an even better idea - next time you see my pathetic KIA minivan in the PATCO parking lot think, "good lord, when is this guy going to clean all that bird crap off his pathetic KIA minivan?" Leaving a note for that I could understand. (Since I have no idea who put this note on my car, I responded by putting a Corzine for Governor sticker on the van before I left for work the next morning - right next to the Kerry sticker.)

Comments

[Paige]

Am I evil for laughing at the second sign?

[Donna]

Our property wasn't touched either. In fact, I didn't see any signs of Mischief Night at all throughout the town. Every night should be Mischief Night, I guess. Jess really enjoyed being an accomplice in the midget league TPing of your house. I'll send her there every year.
Love the TPing warning signs though. Thats too funny.

[howard]

As for the Kerry/Edwards reactionary, it's a shame there couldn't have been an actual conversation on that one. Or maybe you could type up your own sign for the aging Bush/Cheney stickers out there -- plenty of ammo for that... perhaps you could start by congratulating them for voting in the least popular president in most of our lifetimes.

[Karen]

I'd have preferred a typed note to what I got: Someone scraped my Kerry bumper sticker off my car at the mall a few months ago!

(For the record, I think it would be mathematically correct to say that Kerry also got more votes than any presidential candidate ever -- besides Dubya, if you go by the "official count." There are simply more people voting today than before, though perhaps not percentage-wise. Not sure about all this.)

[albert]

They left a typed note? Good god. Do they carry around a stack of them? What kind of a neurotic weirdo does that. In need of constatn reassurance that his/her guy won the election and that everything is Right in the world. The other guy - Gore - did get more votes than any presidential candidate ever as of 2000, including one W Bush.

As for pre-emptive TPing, it's all a sham! He's just honing his skills for when he's a mischievous teenager!

[sam]

This made me laugh so hard.

[Mark]

Karen - Yeah, and all those people who think Lincoln was such a great president should know that Bush got 60,174,702 more votes than Abe did. Stop celebrating the guy's birthday aready.

Donna and Albert - these kids are the future hooligans of the world. Just wait.

Howard - Harassing Bush supporters weakens troop morale. Haven't you been paying attention?

Paige - So not funny.

Sam - Okay, maybe it's kinda funny.

[Marisa]

Personally I wish I had never taken my Kerry/Edwards sticker off my car last fall after the carnage that was the election.