The Email Bumper Sticker

Instead of marking the rear bumper of your car with colorful (and freakishly impossible to remove) bumper stickers you've now decided to add your life's convictions, political status, and life changing advice to the end of your email.

If you don't know what I'm talking about it looks something like this...

Subject: Quick question
Hey Jeremy!
I thought I would find out if you were free to get together on Sunday night?
Let me know!
Thanks,
Bobby
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Robert Miller Wilson III
Executive Assistand to the Executive Assistant's Assistant
Pointless Job Inc.
1234 Random Street
Random City, MO 64138
ph: 816-816-8168
fx: 816-816-8167
robert.miller.wilson.III.pointless.job.inc@pointless.job.inc.com
crazybobby@hotmail.com
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"The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more He will bring to our mind other blessing. The more we are aware of to be grateful, the happier we become." Ezra Taft Benson

Do you see what I'm saying? Let's point out that the text of Bobby's email is shorter than the life quote he placed at the bottom.

Now, I don't know about you - but when I got Bobby's email I found that my life was beginning to change rapidly. This change, of course, began at first when I was following an Obama appointed clunker on which appeared this notice on the right. It was at that point, while paused at a red light that I decided my life of meanness would cease immediately and I would become a nice person. I didn't want to suck.

Well, the hits just came on coming. After getting Bobby's email and deciding that I just wanted to be happy and not sucky I got an email from another person and their quote just blew me away.

“Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we'll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we're not all still friends.”

Please keep in mind that their email said the following: "Hey! Just writing to say hi!" But after reading their email bumper sticker I burst into tears. It wasn't that they thought of me for a moment and thought they'd say hi - it was their bumper sticker. At that moment, yes, right there in that moment, my life completely changed.
No more being sucky! No more ungrateful unhappy me! I had my friends and I was a changed man.

Oh thank you email bumper sticker! Thank you for reaching out of your cyber world and touching my poor miserable existence.

Sigh...

Sniffle...

Hmmm...

Sniffle...

Now get out there and change lives - one email bumper sticker at a time.