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Stickers Revisited

I wrote this at the bowling alley last night because of something I saw on the way there. You've seen them, too, the white oval stickers on cars, some vans, and more SUVs than you can shake a stick at. Back in the day, the oval white stickers with letters on them were rare. A guy in a golf league brought his Jag over from England with his other belongings in a big container on a ship. He had an ENG on a sticker.

Now, they are ubiquitous and not a clever imitation like they once were. Stupid. Some guy was trying to sell them with WHO on them at The Who concert in Chicago two summers ago.

There’s the one with HH and a red-and-white-striped lighthouse where the "I" should be – it’s quite common in these parts – a lot of people go down to Hilton Head. When we were there on a time-share-condo pitch by Marriott, in which the sales agent said that "our" kind of people went to Hilton Head, not like the "riff-raff" in Myrtle Beach, the light house was newly painted beige and rust. Strict color code, you know – keeps the riff-raff out. We won’t go back there; might try Myrtle Beach, though, with the other riff-raff.

I saw a sticker with OBX on it – Outer Banks down there in North Carolina, if it’s still there after hurricane season. I’ve seen KI several times – I think that’s Kiawah Island. We went there before children when nobody ever heard of the place and we walked everywhere, then we went back when the kids were small and we needed a car to get around. Now, they got stickers with KI on them.

PIB. No, not the soft drink, Mr. Pib. It stands for Put-in-Bay, near where a decisive battle on Lake Erie was fought against the British Navy in the War of 1812, except that few people go to Put-in-Bay to see the 300-foot tall Perry Monument. Most go to get hammered on the weekends in the summer at the bars on the island.

I saw a couple more of the oval white stickers in the last couple days, one with "M" on it and one with GVV on it. Those stump me.

I think that MB might stand for Myrtle Beach, but the guy getting out didn’t look like riff-raff who might go there. He looked more like "our" kind of person, the one who goes to Hilton Head Island. I didn’t notice. Maybe his other car is a Mercedes Benz.

I saw OU, which stands for Ohio University – I know because that’s what it said in small print, and MU, which was affixed to a bumper on a car with a bunch of Mount Union College stickers.

And then there was the definitive oval white sticker that, I think, says it all: DMB.

Posted by Bill at May 21, 2004 12:24 PM