Baltimore Bumper Sticker, $5 and most of it goes to charity. . . No, really.

Baltimore Bumper Sticker, $5 and most of it goes to charity. . . No, really.

A waitress at a diner saw my bumper sticker and asked what it meant: “Baltimore, You Have No Idea.” I told her it was the title of my play, but that it could mean a lot of things. I’ve heard the expression in so many forms and used in so many contexts that it’s impossible to be specific. It means what you want it to mean. Some people utter the phrase to declare exclusive knowledge of something: “You have no idea how bad that place smelled.” Some…