Information Highway!

As I drove to and from Boston today, it had amazed me how many people put bumper stickers on their cars. I started to read some of them, to pass the time on the four hour drive down to Boston and I read everything from a person’s meat choice, pet selection, lifestyle preference, and religion and politics assortment. There was even one bumper sticker on the back of an old, seen better days Volvo that gave a relationship status or outcome, whichever way you chose to look at it, that read: “I got a divorce and all I got was this lousy bumper sticker.” As I was passing the car, I just had to look at the poor guy or girl that got stuck with just that stupid bumper sticker and obviously a bad attorney. It was a man, coffee in one hand, cigarette in his mouth, unshaven and a shirt that looked like he had slept in it the night before, and a look on his face of complete uncertainty, as if he was lost in the city in which he was driving through. I thought perhaps maybe the divorce was recent, and it was actually a look of “I just got screwed by the ex-wife and my lawyer.” Either way, I felt extremely bad for him and thought that maybe he was really a nice guy down deep, but definitely not anyone I would personally want to date, it’s obvious he still had issues.


So, I continued on my drive reading the wide range of information that people put out there about themselves like a blog on the highway, shouting out their wide range of choices, opinions, selections, and yes, their relationship statuses for everyone that cared to read them. I figured you could learn a lot by looking around you while driving on the highway and you can make a lot of assumptions, especially if the car does not belong to that person driving it. After all, that guy with the divorce sticker could have been driving the car he just bought from the person who did get the divorce, for his child going off to college and he just had not gotten home after a long shift at work yet. Whichever way you view the person’s you come across, it still is an open classroom to all of us on the information highway of life.