The Analog Kid has been busy pissing off the hippies. Something as simple as a "Peace Through Superior Firepower" bumper sticker was enough to set one off with hilarious results.

As she got to the car behind me, I saw her focus on the back of my truck and was waiting for a reaction.

I got more of a reaction than I was hoping for.

I saw the blank stare on her face turn into a scowl, which oddly enough, looked very natural on her face. She then walked up to my drivers door window and said "Excuse me."

Those folks that have met me know that I am nothing if not a gentleman and I proceeded to fold up my Shotgun News and ask if I could help her. She said that she was offended by the sticker and asked if I had any clue how stupid it was. I proceeded to tell her that in my opinion, it spoke a very simple truth in four words.

Apparently, she thought I would cede the point to her immediately because the look of shock on her face was as if I had hit her in the face with a two-by-four (which I hadn't).

She went into a rant about how violence creates violence, war is for people who don�t know how to negotiate (or some such BS) and I was waiting for the famous "You can't hug a child with nuclear arms" drivel, but it never arrived. It probably would have except that as she got a couple sentences into her rant, I started unfolding my Shotgun News and that really made her mad.

Her last line something like "And stupid stickers like that one and stupid people like you will never understand and that really pisses me off!" and it was at full volume, so that folks still sitting in their vehicles around us were able to take notice.

I calmly folded my my Shotgun News back up and asked if it made her pissed off enough to try and hit me.

She said, and I quote "No, because you probably have a gun with you right now."

So I replied "Isn't it sad that all of the psychobabble you keep in your head just lost an argument to a bumper sticker?"