Poll: Who has a college sticker on their car?

patient · February 16, 2006, 8:23pm

This thing did get absolutely hilarious. We all need to meet somewhere and exchange college decals. You know, like those pin exchanges they have at tournaments? Then I can drive around with cangel’s colleges on my car, and she can have mine, and so on and on. Actually, while we’re at it, let’s just exchange cars. Does anyone have a new Lexus? I don’t care what bumperstickers are on it, by the way.

P.S. Does anyone else think that the “ignore” function on the control panel is heaven-sent? :D

berurah · February 16, 2006, 8:24pm

momof3sons~
It simply says, “If all of my money weren’t going to Swarthmore, I might be able to afford a new car!” lol

We actually have an OLD 1980 Suburban, fondly termed “The Beast.” We bought it for $1700 when our son started driving. The bumper stickers are worth more than the vehicle, I think! ;)

~berurah

berurah · February 16, 2006, 8:26pm

patient~

AWESOME idea…I’ll go first. Who wants our above-referenced “BEAST?” It’s yours! I’ll take the Lexus!

~berurah

wifecamaromom · February 16, 2006, 8:29pm

I can solve this dilemma, if we all drive Corvette convertibles, we would have no rear window to worry about. Just another beautiful day with the top down!

Tookie · February 16, 2006, 8:32pm

Yes, I just got a new Lexus (hybrid, of course!). I had to get the hairdryer out to get the college decal off my Prius so I could trade it in. I don’t have a decal on the new Lexus BUT I do have the college license plate holder. Didn’t want to look like just any old Lexus. Not sure if I want to trade ya’ll for Berurah’s 1980 Suburban!!!

berurah · February 16, 2006, 8:34pm

awwwwww, but Tookie, it has so much CHARACTER!!! And look at the bright side, you never have to worry about the power windows or locks going out…lolololololol ~berurah

Katharos · February 16, 2006, 8:38pm

I am homeschooled, and my parents have a bumper sticker that reads “Proud parent of a homeschooled honor student” on their car. I love that.

We are waiting for the free University of Chicago sticker. I’ll be going there next year.

pebbles · February 16, 2006, 8:44pm

if, hypothetically, a certain disgruntled poster were to add me to their “ignore” list, would all their posts disappear from a thread? This is purely hypothetical, of course, no grown parent of a class of 2009 college student would EVER stoop that low.

Tookie · February 16, 2006, 8:53pm

Berurah, did you hear the one about the dumb blonde who traded in her Lexus for a 1980 Suburban so she could have a Duke decal???

Hey, I’m a blonde, but I ain’t THAT dumb!! LOL

eulenspiegel · February 16, 2006, 9:00pm

“I love the fact that it reads correctly in the rear view mirror”

But all agree that it’s OK if the sticker reads “TTT”

eulenspiegel · February 16, 2006, 9:02pm

“traded in her Lexus for a 1980 Suburban so she could have a Duke decal”

We once sold a junker for a good price, wondering how much extra we got for the Stanford and UC Berkeley decal set.

2331clk · February 16, 2006, 9:04pm

yeah, I did notice p2009 posts have been deleted from this thread.

Berurah, at least here in NJ if your vehicle is >25 years old it can qualify as a Classic car, with the QQ license plates and cheap insurance. There may be more qualifications I don’t know about and I don’t think you can drive it over 3000 miles a year or thereabouts.

Congratulations on your now “classic” Suburban!

yulsie · February 16, 2006, 9:12pm

Thank you, esteemed moderator!

Now I can trade in those beefed-up, airline quality, bumper sticker resistant barf bags for the plain old ziplock poop bags I carry around for the dawgs.

berurah · February 16, 2006, 9:19pm

tookie~

And here I had always pictured you as brunette! You stun me!

Now, what if I told you that there were TWO stickers on there…one clear decal that you can see as facing you in the rearview mirrow, and one that can do its appropriate boasting to the drivers of the cars behind? And we’ll even leave the fishin’ poles in it…Surely that’s worth consideration…pleeeeeeeaaaaaaaaassssssse?

And besides, didn’t you see what 2331clk said…it’s a CLASSIC!!! ;)

~berurah

berurah · February 16, 2006, 9:22pm

2331clk~

Thanks to you, I have a new appreciaton for “The Beast”!!! A CLASSIC, wow… ~berurah

maineparent · February 16, 2006, 10:35pm

Euelenspiegel,
TTT reads correctly with or without a mirror, yes?

My point was really just that, it isn’t about the school, it is about the pride and emptiness we feel with the kids gone… we love em, we miss em, we want them gone to be doing the whole college thing. After all they are adults. But we can leave little reminders around that prompt us to stop and think about our kids…or even get to talk about them if one of our friends sees it as we are dropping off a different kid…and asks about the kid who is away…
Stickers are good!

We had a bumper sticker…“Becky’s Diner, nothin finah” … that too went via trade-in…but we still go for great omelets, burgers etc…

eulenspiegel · February 16, 2006, 10:40pm

Hey, I agree with you. Nobody ever laughs at my jokes. What else reads correctly in the rear-view mirror?

pebbles · February 17, 2006, 3:07am

Uva

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weenie · February 17, 2006, 8:04am

I have stickers for my kids’ high school and Denison. (Trying to give Denison a little publicity!) Recently we were a LONG way from Denison on a highway and a car passed up beeping and waving - and they had a Denison sticker too. So that was fun.

Also have a bumper sticker that reads “What would Jesus bomb?” That one is feeling a little stale, and I get road-raged for it, so when I feel like it maybe I’ll try to get it off.

ctymomteacher · February 17, 2006, 8:26am

Ooooh, maineparent, you really struck the biggest nerve there. That emptiness. It’s pitiful, and the decals do help the tiniest bit by being a little bit of him still around.

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