I am curious about people who send messages out to the world on bumper stickers.  I have seen bumpers so covered with stickers that there wasn’t much bumper left.  The cars usually look as though the bumper stickers might be holding the bumper itself together!  I am afraid that someday I will be so busy reading the darn things that I will forget to stop and go crashing into the car ahead of me.  I wonder if the policeman who arrives at the scene will accept the excuse, “But officer, I was only trying to read all the messages the person in the other car had for me!”

This summer I came across a new one: “Forty isn’t old - if you’re a tree!” I have no idea what age the driver must have been, but I’d guess that he wasn’t happy about it.  As one who has a birthday coming up before too long the…