Memorials in car windows?

[Daniel]

Shoes on wires has nothing to do with drug territory.

[hardknox00001]

This is a memorial of my younger, single life.........................

This was not on my car however, I'm crazy, not stupid................

[Smith]

Shoes on wires has nothing to do with drug territory.

Depends on where you are. I know for a fact in Humboldt Park Chicago it is a memorial to gang violence and drug territory.

[JAB]

Shoes on wires has nothing to do with drug territory.

It may have been 'co-opted' by the dealers but I remember seeing shoes hanging from wires like that way back in the '70s in very rural areas where the only likely drug was the occasional bottle of Jack Daniels (and maybe someone's home-grown pot patch.) I think it is just something silly that people - especially young people - do.

[monkeylizard]

There's a car in East Nashville near Fatherland Street that has the memorial decals in the back window, but it's made of the square stick on letters for boat registration or mailbox numbers. Now that's ghetto.

[kb4ns]

There's a car in East Nashville near Fatherland Street that has the memorial decals in the back window, but it's made of the square stick on letters for boat registration or mailbox numbers. Now that's ghetto.

[monkeylizard]

Oh...did I mention that some of the letters are crooked and the text lines don't line up centered? It's great. I'll try to get a picture of it some day.

[Guest Moody]

I don't know, but it seems tacky to me. I mean, really? Memorialized in vinyl letters on a 95 Escort? Really? That's the best you can do?

I feel the same way. In all honesty, a nice placemarker where the loved-one is buried, along with keeping their memory alive through family and friends is a good effort and very promising in regards to a loved-one lost.

I'm tired of seeing:

"RIP BROTHA HERNANDEZ T-RAY SLAIN 2004

YO BODY BE GONE BUT MEM'RY 4EVA!"

on the back of a 1986 Chevrolet full-size that has as much rust as paint, or something such as Arko mentioned - some complete piece of **** car that looks the part of a rolling junkyard.

I'm sorry, but that's not how you pay respect to people that you care about.

[Guest Moody]

There's a car in East Nashville near Fatherland Street that has the memorial decals in the back window, but it's made of the square stick on letters for boat registration or mailbox numbers. Now that's ghetto.

That just receives the "You didn't put ANY effort into this, did you?" award.

[The Average Joe]

I dislike memorial stickers because they are so faddish. Give it a few years and there'll be some other stupid trend that replaces this one.

I can see the sales pitch now.

The funeral director is describing the burial packages to the widow/widower...

"The Platinum package is the same as the Gold Package, except it comes with a roadside cross and window decal.....just sign here".

Also, it seems really cheap to me. When I die I hope my loved ones do more than stick a cheap piece of vinyl to their car that'll likely only stay on there a year or two at most.

Perhaps by the time I die, my family will be fortunate enough to be provided with a small treasure chest in which some of my ashes can be stored and place at the bottom of the kids' goldfish tank. Then, everytime the lid fills with air bubbles and the top lifts, it'll says, "R.I.P. Average Joe"...or maybe they'll just pimp out a Myspace page in my honor.....

[Guest Glock23ForMe]

When I was in highschool we had the "Memorials" on the back of car windows.

The best part about it was "RIP John Doe "Taken Before His Time" whenever this particular person OD'd on cocaine laying outta school.

Agreed... Trashy

[Guest slothful1]

I agree that these are tacky, and will look progressively worse as the car ages. I just don't get the point of putting your departed loved one on par with a 'NO FEAR' decal or Calvin peeing on a Chevy bowtie.