An Idea whose Time has Come !!
Certainly the American Culture, and those foreign cultures who mimic us, have become very comfortable with individual "sharing" of personal information and emotion.
By "sharing," I mean that we don't mind expressing ourselves for the benefit of those who observe us. We do so vocally, along with the clothes we wear, and with our cars and the way we modify or decorate our cars. And with our blogs...
You're not going to believe this, but back before you were born, the only bumper stickers that exited were extolling National Parks. Now bumper stickers have become an important mode of communication, or at least of expression.
So the next step will be (ought to be) an area on the rear of the car that will display a message that can be changed, as desired, from a keyboard by the driver's seat. Safety concerns dictate that the keyboard system be disabled while the car is in gear. But anytime you get the transmission in park, you can change your message.
So if you're really cool, and want your coolness appreciated, every day before you leave for work you'd have to come up with a 'bloggette' for your car's display. The mind boggles at the thought of the American motoring public communicating with other motorists via snippets of conversation on the rear of their cars . . .
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Mine would be permanantly set at, "Back off asshole."
Only thing I don't like about the idea is the disabled keyboard when the car is moving. The time to communicate messages like the one from goldennib is in transit, at the moment of the other driver's transgression. How about one of those lighted moving-message machines with a lot of pre-programmed messages like "Who the fuck taught you to drive?" and "Outta my way, you jerk!" put in place by a push of the button?
Of course it wouldn't be long before the government got into the act and outlawed the whole game, but whoever creates the machine and gets it out there will make a few million $ the first week. The thing is to get out of the business before a law is passed. Let's do it!
I thought about this post today as I was driving home.
I want a universal hand sign for asshole that I can use while I'm driving. Is there such a thing? Can we make one up if there isn't?
How about if in your mind you decide that the "OK" sign, thumb and forefinger touching, making a circle, the other fingers pointing up, is your "asshole" sign. You can make the gesture to a driver, smile big at him/her, and have him/her smile back at you, as if in agreement with your assessment...
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