an even better bumper sticker

in sloppy, hand cut, white stickers, pasted across the back window of a beat up old beige chevy impala:

TO THE POLICE: IF THIS CAR IS BEING DRIVEN BY ANYONE OTHER THAN AN OLD FAT WHITE GUY, IT'S BEEN JACKED AGAIN.

Vanity Plates

viewed on the back of a car recently, pulling out of a parking lot: URAWSM

this actually stunned me. took my breath away. I actually almost cried--which, amid exhaustion, financial stress and general malaise, is not a difficult thing to muster, but still. what a random act of kindness, to just put that out there to hundreds of strangers every day? URAWSM.

huh.

i am so used to seeing stickers spouting ugliness, spraying everyone with little drops of poison on the highway. stickers of cartoon characters peeing on rival car makes or schools/politicians/religions, all kinds of insults to the president, rainbowy declarations of sexual preference, claims that honor students are smarter than my kids, and dogs are smarter than honor students. opinions on abortion and war.

so URAWSM struck me as little bits of glitter from the good fairies, i suppose. and for a moment, i did actually believe it.

IAMAWSM.