Compensating?

    The other day I was on a one lane road behind a luxury SUV for a while.  Not so remarkable in the town that I was riding through.  But something about the car did catch my attention.  In a place of prominence on the rear window were four college stickers- Brown, Cornell, Princeton University and Columbia.  Very impressive.  But as I sat at the light I started to wonder...
     The placement of the stickers was interesting - straight up the middle. Big decals.  Occupying almost the entire center of the back window.  They had to obscure the driver's vision a bit but I guess a clear sight line isn't as important as making sure we know how fabulous her family is. And I started to think, "Boy, she must be low on self confidence to feel the need to shove that in our faces!"  (See that?  Our faces.  You weren't even there and you're lumped in with me judging total strangers AND making up cruel half-truths about them.  Geez!  I'm so disappointed in you...)
     Anyway, so WE sat there judging her  and wondering did she have four fabulous offspring?  Or two  wonderkids sprung from two brilliant parents?  And then I started feeling bad for her poor unrecognized child who went to a state school but who doesn't get to have a sticker...  I know I'm making her/him up but every thing can't be that perfect.   OR maybe they ARE all brilliant but have vestigial tails.  Awww, poor things.  No wonder she has to crow to the world about them.  To make up for their tails, webbed feet and extra nipples... Can't fault her for  that.  Any mother would do that...
     So, in the period of time I was traveling behind this car, I cycled through different mindsets.  Impressed, irked, sympathetic.  So the question is, who really has a problem here?  A confidence issue?  Possibly the lady with the stickers but probably the lady in the minivan behind her...