Sticky situation
Just this Saturday I was working on an event on London, had all my photo gear in a case that I bought last year. When I bought it, the missus suggested I put stickers on it, as a way of customising it - "why not", I thought. So it now has a variety of stickers on it ranging from a Crank Bros logo (cycle components), I Love NY (bought the case there so why not), Scottish flag, sticker from a website I do some work for, Photographers for Obama sticker (wife is from US and voted for him) etc.

Now, I don't get up to London that often these days so in the evening, after work was done, I'd planned to meet some friends who were going to the football in the afternoon - I used to go to matches with them but hardly ever get up there now. Then I had a thought. I could ask my mate Steve to go to the club shop and get me a sticker with the club badge to put on my case.

And when I met my friends in the pub, Steve smiled and gave me a packet of not one but twenty stickers, all about an inch square, with various designs of the club crest etc - and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM has my first name printed underneath.

Now starting the sticker collection in the first place may qualify as childish - I'm on my mid-40s - but I do have limits, and if any of the ones Steve gave me are going to make it onto the case, I'll have to get the scissors out and snip the name off. As for Steve, he isn't going to see 50 again, and really should know better FFS.
(Capo, Mon 21 Sep 2009, 14:20, 1 reply)

Stickers
You're never too old for them.

Mate of mine worked on a Marmite production line over summer, and as a result has thousands of jar stickers along with much merchandise. He has many items completely coated in the things.
( Rookie You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel, Mon 21 Sep 2009, 16:21, closed)