Honk. . . if you love Jesus!

Oh my! I have learned something quite interesting recently which I must share with my blogger fans. . .

I had been listening to part of a radio program hosted by Dr. Dean Edell--where he was talking about the types of people who put bumper stickers on their cars and what you can expect from them.

I was driving about, doing my morning errands while listening to this amazing declaration that the folks most likely to exhibit road rage, and the folks to watch out for, and would display the most erratic behavior on the road are the very folks who have all kinds of 'slogans' and words of wisdom and cute little 'honor student on board' signs all over their cars.

Apparently these cars with stickers on them are:

1) More likely to get into accidents

2) More likely to display road rage

3) More likely to be idiots

I have no idea how statistically accurate this observation by Dr. Edell was--but I was smiling to myself, thinking how in the world could a person with 'Peace in my lifetime' or 'Stop Obama Express' or 'I May Be Slow, But I'm Ahead Of You' on the back of their car make them more likely to have a problem then the rest of us driving 'unstickered' cars?

I was about to find out--because shortly thereafter Dr. Edell's thesis was put to the test. Let me set the scene for you:

I'm driving along in my clean, unblemished, 'no stickers whatsoever' car--when shooting out from the right lane--cutting into MY lane and missing my passenger side front bumper by mere inches, comes a rather beat up Honda Accord with some guy frantically honking his horn, sticking his hand out the driver's side window with his middle finger prominently displayed and yelling some salty phrases at the top of his lungs!

He kept right on shooting across--past my lane--into the left lane, nearly hitting a small Toyota truck, going at full speed with the same gesticulating, horn-honking and brusque language.

He nearly caused SEVERAL accidents as many of us were now slamming on our breaks, gasping in shock and honking horns as well!

But the BEST part was--the large 'Honk If You Love Jesus' bumper sticker on the back of his vehicle--along with two more precious gems: 'Jesus Is Coming, and Boy Is He Cheesed' and 'Don't Follow Me, Follow Jesus' (now that LAST one seemed to be VERY appropriate in the case of this crazy driver)

Needless to say, I was pretty shocked, perplexed, agitated and amused all at the same time!

Now I have yet ANOTHER THING to be wary of while driving along life's highways and byways--watching out for cars with bumper stickers!

I thought about putting a 'BEWARE OF CARS WITH BUMPER STICKERS' on the back of my own car--but that would sort of defeat the purpose and make me look oxymoronic.

I made sure as I kept to the speed limit on the drive back home to give the bumper-stickered cars a wide berth. . .

But I couldn't help reading them as they passed me by:

'Friends Don't Let Friends Drink Starbucks'

'Are You As Close To God As You Are My Bumper?'

'He Who Dies With The Most Toys Is Still Dead'

'I'm For Peace--Now Get Off My Tail!'

'Ted Kennedy's Car Has Killed More People Than My Gun'

'Don't Be A Girlyman'

'SUVs Are Tangible Evidence Of Evil' (of course this one was on the back of an SUV!)'

'Suburbia: Where They Tear Out The Trees & Then Name streets After Them'

and my personal favorite of the day. . . .

'Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate'


Thank goodness I made Dear Hubby remove his one and only bumper sticker AGES ago. . . (we even got rid of the car it was on!)

And no--you DON'T want to know what it said!