2002-08-09 9:32 a.m.

Custom license plates and frames: set sails for the sea of funny, easily�understood jokes.

I went to Kaiser last week to get an eye exam. In the parking lot, I saw this lovely, orange VW Beetle with a pumpkin�themed license plate. Oh, I get it. Hahaha. It is funny because the car is the color of a pumpkin! Hahaha! That is a funny joke! Of course, I like pumpkin jokes, too. A lot. So much so that�in the spirit of that special love between a brother and a sister or an uncle�I made a pumpkin�colored button that says LET'S PUMP KIN.

It took me quite a while to figure out what to write. What do you say to someone you don't know and probably will never meet? I wanted to be nice, and I wanted them to like the button. I probably should have written, "I am nice. Please like this button."

I had to share my funny joke with this person. Judging by their subtle and clever car�license plate combination they were obviously in the professional funny pumpkin joke business. Maybe they would like mine, too? I happened to have my bag of buttons with me, so I wrote a note and left a button for them on their windshield. As I drove away, I hoped that they were offended like "haha, that is offensive" by the button and not offended in the "when I find that evil Justin jerk I am going to snap off his molars with pliers then jam sea urchins in his urethra" sort of way.


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