Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Car Window Decal Culture


With the passage of the years, us Angelenos notice the trends in car window decals come and go. These stickers lend a bit of humanity to our anonymous freeways. Years ago, motorists annoyed us with their "Baby on Board" signs. These were soon replaced with the ever-present decal of Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes) taking a leak. These too evolved. We soon saw Calvin urinating on the Ford symbol on the back windows of Chevy trucks. Then we saw Calvin pissing on "la Migra." Finally Calvin found faith and we saw him prostrating himself before a giant crucifix. Today's most popular stickers are the family decals. These friendly cartoon figures are a gentle reminder to the car behind you to please not honk at Carlos, Celia, Monique, Kharla, Karina, their dog Shirley, Vanessa, Angel and Tony.

5 Comments:

Anonymous court jester said...

And how much do you want to bet that "Carlos" has a valid license, current registration, and insurance?

11:31 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

fuck you court jester, you're racist; Carlos may not have car insurance but he clearly is outfucking you 10:1; oh, and this isn't his only car or family for that matter.

5:37 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did you ever wonder how Vanessa, Angel and Tony felt to find that they were after the dog in the family pecking order? T.E.

4:25 PM  
Anonymous elzed said...

"...but he clearly is outfucking you 10:1"--that's a problem with this "culture", thinking that fucking results in kids or that kids necessitate much fucking. For all I know this Carlos character has only fucked six times. Believe it or not, you can fuck A LOT and have no kids at all. Ask your local priest.

6:42 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

These family decals are open invitations to child predators. All they have to do is follow the van or suv home and they have all the names, approx. ages, and the name of the family dog to work with. How dumb are people anyway? The predator can call out a child's name and the child thinks it should know him. Sheesh. Dumb as dirt.

5:07 PM  

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