Sign Sign Everywhere A Sign

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

While the Five Man Electrical Band may have had issues with some signsin their day, they could not possibly have envisioned how it is now.  Everywhere you look there are billboard signs, scrolling electronic signs, LED signs, the classic yellow flashing arrow signs and every other kind of distracting sign along your way while you are supposed to be looking at the road.  But (and you may be shocked to know this) I am OK with that.  What I really think has gotten out of hand is...bumper stickers.

You see, with most advertising signs, the job is just to get your business noticed.  With bumper stickers, anything goes!  There are all kind of stickers for rock bands, favorite bars, favorite NASCAR drivers (or NASCAR drivers that you don't particularly like), etc.  Now I will say this, they have (at times) provided some entertainment while I am stuck at a traffic light.  Others though are quite offensive and probably even illegal in certain states.

I do think there are way too many though touting that the driver's son or daughter is an honor student at some school.  Perhaps I am just upset that when I made the honor roll 20 years ago, there weren't any bumper stickers like that for my mom to show off with.

I did see one sticker that really made me think.  It may have even changed my outlook on life.  The bumper sticker simply said, "Humpty Dumpty was pushed."  I mean, I never questioned the story really and here is this competing theory on what really happened.  They should make a movie about this - Humpty Dumpty, The Untold Story.

They could even use bumper stickers to advertise.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon