Terrible bumper sticker on teen car

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe people are defending this as funny. Not at all funny. No way I would let my teen make a “joke” like this. I absolutely hate it when people say hurtful things and then say “oh, lighten up—you’re too tightly wound.” That is the perennial excuse of a-holes everywhere.

Dude dark humor like that got me through my cancer diagnosis. If you don’t like it that’s your problem. It everything is about you.

Yet you turned it about you in a flash.

Correct - because I’m not trying to censor anyone or make judgments about them if they enjoy something someone else doesn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I have a younger child who walks and bikes to school so I find it offensive. I hope the driver is never the cause of an accident. It’s not a good look.

Oh well.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I have a younger child who walks and bikes to school so I find it offensive. I hope the driver is never the cause of an accident. It’s not a good look.

You are wound really tight, aren't you? Relax. it's a joke.

OP here. I was hit by a teen driver when I was a child. I spent months in the hospital and had to be pinned back together. I have permanent scars from the accident. When you or a family member goes through something like that please let me know how funny you think it is. The slogan is in really poor taste given how much pedestrian fatalities have increased in recent years.

It’s
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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I have a younger child who walks and bikes to school so I find it offensive. I hope the driver is never the cause of an accident. It’s not a good look.

You are wound really tight, aren't you? Relax. it's a joke.

OP here. I was hit by a teen driver when I was a child. I spent months in the hospital and had to be pinned back together. I have permanent scars from the accident. When you or a family member goes through something like that please let me know how funny you think it is. The slogan is in really poor taste given how much pedestrian fatalities have increased in recent years.

Of course you were OP.

Yes, I was. I’m happy to answer any questions about it. I had a fractured femur and spent two months in traction, another eight weeks in a body cast, two months on crutches and another several months in PT learning how to walk again.

Here’s that attention you ordered.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I have a younger child who walks and bikes to school so I find it offensive. I hope the driver is never the cause of an accident. It’s not a good look.

You are wound really tight, aren't you? Relax. it's a joke.

OP here. I was hit by a teen driver when I was a child. I spent months in the hospital and had to be pinned back together. I have permanent scars from the accident. When you or a family member goes through something like that please let me know how funny you think it is. The slogan is in really poor taste given how much pedestrian fatalities have increased in recent years.

Of course you were OP.

Yes, I was. I’m happy to answer any questions about it. I had a fractured femur and spent two months in traction, another eight weeks in a body cast, two months on crutches and another several months in PT learning how to walk again.

Nobody will ask questions because nobody cares. Also, a freakin’ bumper sticker did not put you in a hospital. Stop trying to control speech. This is America.

The ironic thing about comments like this is that OP is engaging in speech. Somehow saying "I think this bumper sticker is gross" is trying to "control speech," but 3 pages of mocking OP for their opinion isn't.

Mocking OP isn’t controlling her speech either. Nobody stopped her from saying something stupid and then coming back repeatedly to troll for sympathy.

Plus, we aren’t the government, so “free speech” is irrelevant.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I have a younger child who walks and bikes to school so I find it offensive. I hope the driver is never the cause of an accident. It’s not a good look.

You are wound really tight, aren't you? Relax. it's a joke.

OP here. I was hit by a teen driver when I was a child. I spent months in the hospital and had to be pinned back together. I have permanent scars from the accident. When you or a family member goes through something like that please let me know how funny you think it is. The slogan is in really poor taste given how much pedestrian fatalities have increased in recent years.

Of course you were OP.

Yes, I was. I’m happy to answer any questions about it. I had a fractured femur and spent two months in traction, another eight weeks in a body cast, two months on crutches and another several months in PT learning how to walk again.

Nobody will ask questions because nobody cares. Also, a freakin’ bumper sticker did not put you in a hospital. Stop trying to control speech. This is America.

I’m not trying to control speech MAGA. I posted because I was flabbergasted that a parent would want a sticker like this on a teen driver’s car. Everyone knows that teen drivers have the highest rates of accidents. It’s dumb and insensitive and not a good look for the driver or the school. Everyday in America children are severely injured or killed by distracted drivers. Look up the stats.

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP.

I feel like a lot of these responses are really just one poster trolling the OP.

The bumper sticker is not at all funny.

No. Sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's terrible and uncivil. Dd11 has taken to child hating despite being one herself so it's a thing. She says little kids make her uncomfortable and they should go away. I don't understand at all and talked to her but dh said she was just going through some phase. I don't like anyone hating on kids (especially a kid!). I think they're just dealing with being awkward, angtsy and trying to act tough.

I think for an 11 year old it's about establishing boundaries between yourself and younger kids and making it clear that you're more grownup. It's basically drive by the natural insecurity of being still seen as a kid when you're growing up. It reminds me of the moronic anti-Barney stuff that was hilarious to middle schoolers when I was one; put up your screensaver where Barney dies and we know you're edgy and grownup.

I do expect a little better out of anyone old enough to drive. By that point you should be more secure in these things.

Why do you think it matters or anyone cares what you “expect?” If you don’t like it, don’t put it on your own car. Done.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I have a younger child who walks and bikes to school so I find it offensive. I hope the driver is never the cause of an accident. It’s not a good look.

You are wound really tight, aren't you? Relax. it's a joke.

OP here. I was hit by a teen driver when I was a child. I spent months in the hospital and had to be pinned back together. I have permanent scars from the accident. When you or a family member goes through something like that please let me know how funny you think it is. The slogan is in really poor taste given how much pedestrian fatalities have increased in recent years.

Of course you were OP.

Yes, I was. I’m happy to answer any questions about it. I had a fractured femur and spent two months in traction, another eight weeks in a body cast, two months on crutches and another several months in PT learning how to walk again.

OP's posts, a retrospective"

#1 - "Isn't this terrible? There was a pedestrian fatality recently."

[does not get the response she wants]

#2 - "I have a young child, so I find it offensive."

[still doesn't get the response she wants]

#3 - "I was hit be a teen driver when I was a kid!"

[still doesn't get the response she wants]

#4 - OP catalogs injuries she suffered as a child.

Verdict = troll.

Is this your kid or something? The fatality was on Kirby road in August. An older woman was hit in the crosswalk. The car was parked at the Chesterbrook shopping center which is very close to Vinson Hall where the pedestrian was killed. The school is a Catholic private in DC. Many kids walk to and from Chesterbrook and Longfellow in that area.

We know that. Did you think you were providing new information here?

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Anonymous wrote:The Rugby plane crash victims eating the dead was a totally isolated incident.

In the US, 20 people die every single day from being hit while walking. Countless more are severely injured.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184034017/us-pedestrian-deaths-high-traffic-car

WE KNOW. JFC.

It’s a bumper sticker. You don’t like it. Oh well. Please grow up and move on with your obviously hilariously privileged life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Relax. You sound fun.

In high school I had a bumper sticker of a black widow spider and it said “I devour my lovers” or something along those lines.

I had a Boys are Toys bumper sticker (I think from Spencer’s or something like that). My boyfriend hated it so much he went into the parking lot one day while I was at work and removed it. Which was honestly a favor. I cringe at that memory now.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I have a younger child who walks and bikes to school so I find it offensive. I hope the driver is never the cause of an accident. It’s not a good look.

You are wound really tight, aren't you? Relax. it's a joke.

OP here. I was hit by a teen driver when I was a child. I spent months in the hospital and had to be pinned back together. I have permanent scars from the accident. When you or a family member goes through something like that please let me know how funny you think it is. The slogan is in really poor taste given how much pedestrian fatalities have increased in recent years.

It isn't a threat, it is a joke. You being hit doesn't change that. He isn't coming after you or anyone else and isn't going to intentionally not break for a kid. In the words of Forest Gump, "$hit Happens."

I have friend that was in a plane crash. Dad pulled his Air Jordans out of the flight debris NTSB provided. Dad put one shoe in a glass display box and had a plaque made for the box that said "Michael Jordan Can Fly, You Can't"

Do you think my friend was offended? It was a joke and he proudly has it displayed on his mantel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bumper stickers are an advertisement for stupidity.

+1

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You aren't going to make a trashy person less trashy by pointing out their trashiness. Stop trying to convince them.

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I find the "Baby on Board" ones far more annoying. I recall a comedian making a joke along the lines of "Oh, OK. I WAS going to hit your car, but since you've got a baby in there, I'll just hit the other car instead."