Vanity and the Carpool Lane

[weaktwos]

So, I got my stickers in the mail that will allow my Prius into the carpool lane with only one driver (me) in it.

I was surprised that there would be 4 stickers as opposed to one sticker in the rear of the vehicle. In fact, one sticker needs to go on each side of the car: front bumper, rear bumper, left rear quarterpanel, right rear quarter panel.

And it wouldn't be so bad if they weren't big stickers.

Here, I took a terrible photo of them. And yes, since I am in a hurry, I didn't take care to auto-focus, etc. The point is, these stickers are big.



It doesn't help that I don't really like placing stickers on my car. let alone my new car.

So now it comes to this. Carpool lane, or maintaining the integrity of my paint job. Crap.

Of course I'll pick the carpool lane. But I'll feign bitter tears of conflict as I place these bad boys on my beloved blue bleeding heartmobile.

Comments

[modeleccentric.livejournal.com]

Fear Not: When it comes time to remove said stickies, use a Heatgun to soften the adhesive so that the "Nyaah Nyahh, you inferiority complex driving Hummer in the wants to be fast lane who spends the monthly equivalent of a car payment on petrol..." tags come off with a minimum of Sutrm or Drang...

[modeleccentric.livejournal.com]

oops... Sturm.

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

Who has a heat gun?

[jenngbob.livejournal.com]

Yeah really. I have one for embossing stamps and one for hot glue. Somewhere in the piles of StuffInTheGarage...

[dangermouse74.livejournal.com]

used also for putting new blades on hockey stick shafts. but man i would nto want to put those huge ugly things on my car, i wouldn't put anything on the actual paint, the bumper or in the window is bad enough.

[modeleccentric.livejournal.com]

Different kinda heat gun- think Umptillion watt hair dryer.. Here: http://eastwood.resultspage.com/search?p=Q&ts=custom&w=Heat+Guns
I do believe like a high- pressure washer, heat guns have myriad uses. as far as who, maybe one of my relatives- you know us Messikans...One Uncle has an Auto Body Shop, another is a Cop, One's a Truck Driver, one drals in things that you need but The Government wishes you didn't know aout....When you need it , You'll have it....

[myasma.livejournal.com]

You realize, of course, that if you put those on the car, your dorkiness score will increase.

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

You don't say!? Boy, howdy! Those stickers are goin' on!

[jenngbob.livejournal.com]

Paintjob schmaintjob. You feign those tears, but I'll help (and even my low self-esteem allows I'll do it well) make you some custom geekitude to make you PROUD) compensate for any surface egofear. AnnieArtCar!

[tenebrosity.livejournal.com]

we have an '05 prius too! i absolutely love it. too bad the boy drives further than me so almost always has it instead of me. =P do you have the built in nav systems?

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

I sure did! I love it!

[brittadotcom.livejournal.com]

Get yourself some of those big flat magnets that sign stores use to make removable signs for cars, affix your stickers to the magnets, then just stick them to the car in the appropriate places while driving, then take them off whenever you want to...like when parking so they don't get stolen...?

Just a thought...I'm sure if the DMV/CHP hasn't thought of that yet to make some rule against it, they probably will soon. However, if the point is that they won't stop you because they see the big yellow signs on your car driving quickly past, how would they know they were only magnets?

(no, with all my craftiness I do NOT own a heat gun...never been into stamping enough for all that embossing powder, etc... ;)

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

Yes, but if I put them on magnets, someone is probably going to steal them. Oh well.

[brittadotcom.livejournal.com]

Well, that's why I also said to remove them when parked. Lock them in your glovebox, then just get them out to stick them on to drive back home. I agree I would NOT put any stickers on my Briata, especially after paying an arm & a leg for a custom paint job! The windows are one thing, but the car itself? Lame idea, which is unsurprising for DMV-related of course...

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey! You did indeed say that in the first paragraph. Wow, I'm all about the reading comprehension tonight...

That just might be a good idea. But then there's this forgetfulness streak I have.

An interesting notion, though. :-)

yes, BUT

[eyow.livejournal.com]

Your bumpers are likely made of plastic, so the magnet wouldn't stick to that unless you put something metal inside the bumper, and at that point, it really does seem like overkill.

[doccross.livejournal.com]

FOUR bigass stickers? I wonder what bureaucratic pinhead downtown thought that up.

[eyow.livejournal.com]

My own personal guess is that they had to make them big so that the nearsighted cops out there could see them, and NOT pull over Anne (and others like her).

[scrapdog.livejournal.com]

It might be easier to just go dig up a corpse from the graveyard to place in passenger's seat. Ask blush10ac, I'm sure she's done it...

[dangermouse74.livejournal.com]

or inflatable people, but they bust you here in NY for that.