Nathan W. Ho

So, I was driving recently (to pick up a pizza, if you’re curious), and I noticed a car in the other lane with a small sticker on the back that said:

Kill Tomorrow

“Kill what?!?”, I thought, “What in the world is that supposed to mean?”. The next thought I had was a question: Did the author of this sticker intend to be extra vague, or are their english skills just truly that pathetic? There are at least four completely different, potential meanings that I can see:

1. One potential meaning could be that they want people to hold off on fighting (”killing”) - kind of a “make peace today, kill later” pacifist type of message. However, if this is what the author is intending, it’s a rather vague way of saying it. I’d guess that less than 10% of readers would ever be able to puzzle out that meaning, if that’s what was intended…
2. Another potential meaning might be the old “kill time” type of meaning - where the sticker is mean to exhort people to use up all the time they have? Again, it’s a stretch to match this meaning to that phrase…
3. The next potential meaning that I can see is a bit morbid - and that is to end one’s life. “Kill Tomorrow” as in a person preventing tomorrow from happening for themselves. I find that to be a rather odd message to advertise, so I’m going to guess that’s not it…
4. The last potential meaning that I can come up with is just a literal “kill tomorrow” - some kind of statement about stopping or preventing the literal “tomorrow” from occurring? Of course, it’s impossible for us to stop time - so that really dones’t make much sense either…?

So what am I left with? Only the surety that either this sticker was meant to be vague on purpose, as some sort of inside joke or statement - or is yet further proof positive that this generation has truly pathetic skills with their own native language…

I guess you’ll have to decide for yourself

Addendum: I had a friend recently note that perhaps “Tomorrow” is the name of a person, and that the sticker represented a personal vendetta - to which I say: if so, then the person truly is a moron for advertising their intent to commit a crime…

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