Do bumper stickers affect the way you drive?

Taken from Thursday’s edition of The David Boze Show on 770 KTTH.

How do you react when you see a bumper sticker you disagree with on the road?

I find myself on my commutes, every once in a while I’ll see the bumper-sticker laden vehicle and I will drive real close to the car so that I can read it.

There’s a phenomenon – and I think this is largely with people on the left – where they feel compelled to rant so much that their bumper stickers have to have smaller font. They are like Mike Lowry political signs.

Mike Lowry is a former governor of the state of Washington, a liberal guy from Seattle, and on his yard signs he had a micro font. You could literally park the car, walk over to the yard sign and read his detailed plan for office, the full list of his positions were on the yard sign.

So I admit to driving closer to a vehicle to read their bumper sticker, but will I, or others around me, drive differently if we disagree with a bumper sticker message?

According to a new PEMCO survey we will. A survey of Northwest drivers found 21 percent say they behave more courteously to drivers with stickers they agree with. At the same time, 18 percent admit they react more rudely when they disagree with what the sticker says.

I admit, I’ll be tempted to act rudely. I see the bumper sticker that says something about the planet dying or some other such nonsense and I’ll think to myself, you’re driving an SUV with that sticker, should I really let you over? Inevitably, I’ll wave them through, but I do wonder if they would be willing to do the same for me.

How do you react to bumper stickers you disagree with?

Taken from Thursday’s edition of The David Boze Show on 770 KTTH.