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Parallel Parking
Apr. 26th, 2005 11:44 pmIn leaving the office tonight I spotted the non-gay car again. It had been a while since I had seen it. It was parked near the parking garage doorway to the entrance to the habitrail that leads back to the building.
What it is a mid-eighties Toyota Corolla of undetermined color, for now it's sort of rusted/degraded to a strange, uneven tannish/brown. The interior is coming apart and I can't determine if the owner likes to keep the windows open, or if they are just stuck that way. No matter what, the holes in the fuselage probably do the work of the formerly functioning air conditioning.
The reason that this junker catches my eye is that in the center of the back bumper is a sticker of a familiar dark blue with the two yellow parallel rectangles. Yep, this vehicle has an HRC sticker on it, and the sticker isn't faded, and doesn't look like it was left over by some previous owner from the gay 90's. Normally I wouldn't make an issue of this, but we need this for the next paragraph. The sticker is centered, level, and relatively clean.
Clean except for an odd bit of script that has been added to it. The top rectangle has written in fine point pen "I'm Not" while the bottom bar features "GAY!"
The only time I've seen this vehicle has been late at night. I'm wondering if it actually belongs to one of the cleaning crew or one of the guys who works for the couple of restaurants in the area. I really don't see this belonging to an actual member of the family, but why?
For some reason tonight I decided to leave a note. Truly I don't know if the recipient could actually read it. Most of the cleaning crew only knows Spanish. Still, my not just asked the question, "If you're not gay, why wouldn't you remove the HRC sticker (the blue square with the equals sign) on the back of your car? The symbol does mean something to those of us who do live our lives out of the closet. -Michael"
Who knows if it will have any effect, and It's truly doubtful that I'll ever learn what the story is behind the defaced sticker. Still, I guess it's better than seeing the truck that has the god-guns-flag-family decal everyday. I think I know where he stands.
What it is a mid-eighties Toyota Corolla of undetermined color, for now it's sort of rusted/degraded to a strange, uneven tannish/brown. The interior is coming apart and I can't determine if the owner likes to keep the windows open, or if they are just stuck that way. No matter what, the holes in the fuselage probably do the work of the formerly functioning air conditioning.
The reason that this junker catches my eye is that in the center of the back bumper is a sticker of a familiar dark blue with the two yellow parallel rectangles. Yep, this vehicle has an HRC sticker on it, and the sticker isn't faded, and doesn't look like it was left over by some previous owner from the gay 90's. Normally I wouldn't make an issue of this, but we need this for the next paragraph. The sticker is centered, level, and relatively clean.
Clean except for an odd bit of script that has been added to it. The top rectangle has written in fine point pen "I'm Not" while the bottom bar features "GAY!"
The only time I've seen this vehicle has been late at night. I'm wondering if it actually belongs to one of the cleaning crew or one of the guys who works for the couple of restaurants in the area. I really don't see this belonging to an actual member of the family, but why?
For some reason tonight I decided to leave a note. Truly I don't know if the recipient could actually read it. Most of the cleaning crew only knows Spanish. Still, my not just asked the question, "If you're not gay, why wouldn't you remove the HRC sticker (the blue square with the equals sign) on the back of your car? The symbol does mean something to those of us who do live our lives out of the closet. -Michael"
Who knows if it will have any effect, and It's truly doubtful that I'll ever learn what the story is behind the defaced sticker. Still, I guess it's better than seeing the truck that has the god-guns-flag-family decal everyday. I think I know where he stands.
