Two weeks ago somebody destroyed the back windshield of my car.

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It was parked next to a dumpster, and some jerk decided to grab a thick, ugly, pineapple-shaped glass trash vase and use it for some smashing. I couldn’t even really get mad about it. It was one of those random acts of vandalism and I was the evening’s karmic toilet. There must have been twenty other cars parked around mine, and I got the short stick. C'est la vie. But then I started wondering if maybe my car was targeted because of the Obama bumper sticker still affixed on the back. Maybe some drunk, racist asshole walked by my car, saw I was still rubbing his nose in defeat, and decided to wreck my stuff. It’s possible, but it seems so unlikely. Nobody’s going to get their windshield smashed, on Capitol Hill of all places, for having an Obama sticker on their car. Right?

I came out to my car yesterday to find this:

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Well shit. I guess this means my car is a target. Granted, this act of vandalism is minor and easily remedied, but it proves that my Obama bumper sticker has marked my car for intolerant acts. There’s still no way to know if my windshield got smashed because of it, but the probability just went way up. So does this mean I have to take my Obama sticker off my car in order to feel safe again? I can’t afford wasting hundreds more on another stupid repair - I’m the working poor. But I’m also not quite done reveling from November 4th yet. And even if I was, I want to take the sticker off when I’m ready, not because I’m worried it’s going to lead to more smashing. I don’t want to be a defeatist coward, but I’m so poor. Sigh.