HOV Lane Stickers: first use; and Bumper Sticker Poll

[drscott]

...returning via 101 from Stanford Hospital at 5:30 PM. Mountain View: same speed all lanes (about 15 mph). Thereafter HOV lane cleared up, but so did the others. Total time saved: 10 minutes at most. No dirty looks. Skipped going to the gym since it was too late.

Now I have to decide whether to decorate the silver Prius to express my gayitude. My old car had this rainbow strip on the bumper:

I was only harassed once because of it, in the countryside on the way to Monterey. But I'm thinking the rainbow does not work with metallic silver. How about the HRC logo:



People may have mixed feelings about their recent effectiveness, but it's a very common sight around here. Or we could have the rainbow flag itself:



Which still clashes, but so does the HRC logo. Then there's Lambda Legal's logo:



Subtle -- probably too subtle, since nobody recognizes it. Colors work, though. Then there are whimsical possibilities like the Gay Curling logo:


Or something nonsequiturish like:




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Comments and alternative ideas welcome. And of course I'd do the fish-with-wrench Evolve thingie if I were inclined to bother. Not that I'm going to pay any attention to what you folks think....

Comments

[urbear]

I like the HRC sticker, mostly for its simple aesthetics. The rest are all too busy.

I put an HRC sticker on the last car I leased, a Mercedes C230 coupe. There was a narrow window-like area on the back hatch that shaded from transparent to opaque; I put the sticker on the opaque section, figuring that it would be easy to get it off a glass surface when I turned the car in.

Big mistake. Three years later when I attempted to scrape it off off I realized that the "glass" was actually polycarbonate plastic, and I scratched the hell out of it removing the sticker. Couldn't be repaired, and a replacement panel would have cost well over $500. After a little thought I decided to slap a big American flag over the area and turn the car in as is, figuring that nobody would question my patriotism. And nobody did.

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

I'm kinda leaning toward the HRC logo for the same reason. Not too loud, not invisible, just right. And as for polycarbonate, you're making me wonder of part of my back window isn't that... and bravo on the American flag ploy.

[urbear]

The area in question on my car wasn't part of the window, it was a peek-a-boo thing under the edge of the hatch that improved the rear view to ease parking. Does the Pious Prius have something similar?

I doubt that the rear windshield itself is plastic (I suspect that government regulations would rule that out), but if it's not part of the actual windshield it's possible that it might be polycarbonate. You should be able to feel the difference.

"Honey, what are you doing?"

"Ummmm... palpating my car's rear end."

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly -- like a lower window below the high hatchback that lets you see the ground, about 4" tall and tinted. May well be plastic.