Truck nuts.

There have been some interesting free speech topics in the news as of late. Michael Smerconish touches upon several in his recent editorial, "Speaking of Free Speech," and of which I would like to highlight his last question:

"-Should testicles be banned from trucks?

Lug nuts may be legal, but "truck nuts" could earn you a $445 ticket and a protracted free-speech debate. A 65-year-old South Carolina woman is learning this the hard way.

Virginia Tice adorned her pickup truck with a red plastic ornament shaped like bull testicles. A man of the law asked her to remove the decoration hanging from the back of her vehicle. She didn't. He wrote her a ticket and eventually filed a suit claiming the knickknack was obscene.

Answer: She's probably got the right to display her ornament, like a bad bumper sticker. But consider this: If the story revolved around a golden vagina on the back of a Prius, would there be any debate?"

I hate these foul things. Frankly, even talking about these gives me the willies.  Sure, they may be novel, and may have even summoned a chuckle from me initially, but after having had the unfortunate experience of driving behind these vehicles on more than one occasion, you really can't not look at them.  They made me a bit uncomfortable as the freely swung back and forth. Why should someone else's humor be forced upon me? I slowly began to feel violated and imprisoned as I had nowhere else to look but forward, into the crotch of the truck ahead of me. Must I?  Really?

How do I explain these things to my 3 year old daughter (who, thankfully, cannot see over the dashboard just yet)?  I'm not sure I'm ready for her to know about truck sacs. And Smerconish is correct in his question-answer, as I don't want either myself or my children to experience having to stare into a car va-jayjay equally so.