No more Menstrual-Mobile

I was in a record shop about a year ago with the VegHusband, spending more money on dusty old Devo and Clash records (and he probably bought a Ramones record too... Oh, how I despise The Ramones). I was getting bored and wandered over to the glass counter where they have fun buttons and stickers and stuff... WHOA! Did I just see a car window sticker for The Cramps? And was it really hot pink? Hmm... Maybe there is a god. Or just a record store owner with awesome taste. So of course I bought it and slapped that hot baby on the back of my Vue Hybrid the second I got home.

If you don't know who The Cramps are, they are this amazing punk/ rock-a-billy band that look like glam-ghouls and have a fetish for wonderful mid-century horror movies. My favorite album by them is "Songs the Lord Tought Us". Hee hee. The best song is "TV Set" which features the line: "I'll cut your head off and put it in my TV set/I'll use your eyeballs for dials on my TV set." Brilliant. Listen to it. You'll thank me later. (Another brilliant song from a different album: "Bikini Girls with Machine Guns." Need I say more?) When I drove around with this on my car, I felt like everyone I'd pass would spot it and think, "Now there's a chick with awesome taste. I'm not really sure who The Cramps are, but I'm sure they are an obscure punk/rockabilly band with an incredible sense of humor, hence, the driver of that car must be equally amazing."

Hmm... that probably wasn't the reaction I was getting for a year. Last weekend I went to visit the mom and pop, and as I was loading up the car, Mom said, "Pop asked me why you have a sticker about cramps on your car." I said sarcastically, "Because it's the Menstrual-Mobile. I have to advertise." Kissed the mom and pop goodbye, and got in the car with VegHusband. I mentioned pop's question to VegHusband, and he said, "I'm sure a lot of people think that. There are like four people in the world who know who The Cramps are, and we are two of them." Huh. Really. So I've been driving around for a year, letting people think I was so proud of my menstruation I had to advertise. Damn. Not that I'm not proud of being a woman, but I'm not one to attend Moon Meetings and rejoice in not being able to wear my jeans for a week. Nor was I extremely embarassed at the thought of people thinking that, because I had to let the 2 other Cramps fans out there just how cool I am. But you know what? I think I was kind of waiting for an excuse to take it down, so I could replace it with one that I had been itching to buy for quite some time. Of course, VegHusband was not opposed to converting the Menstrual-Mobile.


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