u/hedgehognpeonies

Sticker bombing: covering a surface with a dense and overlapping layer of stickers.

I finally managed to overcome my sticker anxiety/paralysis and stuck a bunch of stickers onto my laptop. The stickers generally have illustrations of animals coupled with snarky sayings on them (eg. This *is* my happy face). There is only a couple of stickers with expletives, either the F word or 💩. I usually use my laptop at cafes to study or do some work.

Recently I have shifted to study/work at areas where there are more young children around (think quiet fast food restaurants, ice cream parlours etc). I didn’t expect kids to take notice of the stickers on my laptop but realised there are more and more kids (usually primary school children) taking notice of the stickers on my laptop and even spending extended periods of time to look and read the stickers. A particularly embarrassing incident was a kid’s grandparent who didn’t speak or read English treating my laptop stickers as a learning tool and asking their grandchild to identify all the animals on the stickers.

Would I be the buttface if I don’t cover up my laptop stickers when using my laptop in areas where children are around? Context: this is a relatively conservative society where literacy rates are high. The language on the stickers are relatively easy for any primary school child to be able to read, though they would likely miss the snark behind the sayings.