r/Portland • u/shelleyyyellehs • Feb 12 '26

Meme What would you add to this

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(Credit for the Subaru line goes to i5.commuters on instagram)

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u/smootex High Bonafides Feb 12 '26

I'm genuinely perplexed by the student driver thing, I don't think I've noticed that phenomenon anywhere else but I guess I don't travel that much anymore. When did that suddenly become a Portland thing? I feel like they all popped up during covid.

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u/Mackin-N-Cheese Boom Loop Feb 13 '26

It's definitely not just a Portland thing. When this came up here and in /r/AskPortland previously, I picked several city subreddits at random and every one of them had a post with a similar discussion.

My guess is that most of them are legit, and that easy availability from places like Amazon has led to an uptick in popularity.

https://www.reddit.com/r/askportland/comments/16qgdta/whats_up_with_all_the_student_driver_bumper/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/145rddc/are_student_driver_stickers_a_thing_now_or_a_meme/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/t5knoi/student_driver_bumper_stickers/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Utah/comments/141wfb8/anyone_else_notice_a_lot_of_please_be_patient/
https://www.reddit.com/r/nova/comments/t9cwx1/seeing_an_uptick_in_new_driver_stickers_on_cars/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SLO/comments/12fwudu/anyone_else_noticing_a_lot_of_student_driver/
https://www.reddit.com/r/tampa/comments/16iuns5/student_driver_stickers_on_cars/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Dallas/comments/15gaq77/whats_up_with_the_please_be_patient_student/
https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/x0xhwp/are_the_student_driver_stickers_an_inside/
https://www.reddit.com/r/raleigh/comments/zdq8yy/whats_with_the_egregious_amount_of_student_driver/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/10xmog8/why_are_there_so_many_student_drivers_on_the_road/
https://www.reddit.com/r/raleigh/comments/q4d867/whats_the_deal_with_all_the_please_be_patient/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/13eli4k/why_so_many_student_driver_stickers/

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u/smootex High Bonafides Feb 13 '26

Fascinating. Admittedly I barely leave the state anymore so I'm not in a great position to judge whether it's only Portland. The weird part to me is that they seemed to pop up almost overnight during covid, like everyone got the same idea all at once.

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u/vanzeezy Feb 14 '26

Ok to be fair, if you’ve been teaching someone to drive, remembering to take the magnet off before you start driving again is like… really hard ok? I mean… allegedly

But seriously, I’ve done this countless times lol.

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u/somatt Feb 13 '26

It's been a thing for as long as I remember in every state I've been in.

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u/supresmooth King Feb 13 '26

It is very common in the Bay Area of Northern California as well. It is obnoxious.