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in HATING 'little person on board' signs in car's rear windows?

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DANCESwithnewlytannedlegs · 10/05/2007 14:21

I've just been driving behind a seicento with a tiny back window with TWO of these notices in What is the thinking..."Oh, well having these in my back window will stop people from ramming into me (more likely to if you ask me) OR I know, in order to show how much I love my children I'll limit the rear view vision in my car thus making it far more likely that I'll have a crash with my 'tiny people' in the car. OH PURLEASE....

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peachygirl · 11/05/2007 18:34

I know, I know, but DH doesn't drive and I had a bad crash last year aand It's a long drive to my parents

CorrieDale · 11/05/2007 18:33

My neighbours have a 'grandchild on board', which I thought was pretty bad until the 'Beware - grandparent driving' arrived. Nice people, but sheeesh!

MrMariella · 11/05/2007 18:26

peachy - have you thought that one through?

the very last thing one reads whilst ton-ing it down the motorway is someone's car signs..........

peachygirl · 11/05/2007 18:18

I dislike them too, but I do have one I do only put it up when I am on the motorway though.

Especially dislike the princess ones

bilblio · 11/05/2007 18:14

Loath them! I keep trying to think of something catchier than "Human on board, I don't want to die, so if you're going to crash please aim for someone else".

As for the person who said that when they see them they would give the person more room because their child might be distracting them. I'm sorry but any driver could be distracted by anything, inside or outside the car. You should be giving them enough room anyway!

SparklyGothKat - we have the "disabled passenger on board please leave 8ft for my wheelchair" sign on the work van. Unfortunately people tend to ignore them too. Maybe if there were less "baby on board" signs around people might start paying attention to the ones like ours which are actually useful.

MrMariella · 11/05/2007 17:46

I've seen that done!

DeviousDaffodil · 11/05/2007 17:20

' Babe on Board' complete with playboy decals, furry pink steering wheel covers, and furrry pink dice.
Why not just paint 'Trollop' on teh bonnet and be done with it?

Furrymummy · 11/05/2007 16:57

Saw a classic one on my way home. "Stud on board", he was driving some barried up clio. Purlease, methinks someone is compensating for something

DeviousDaffodil · 11/05/2007 16:53

I saw one today ' Princess twins on board, with child's names'.
I nearly threw up all over the car like that woman on Little Britain.

booge · 11/05/2007 16:50

MorningPaper! How bizarre I was just about to post that I had seen one with "Show Cats on Board". Loopy!

ntsmum · 11/05/2007 16:40

Ooh I hate those stickers. My DH & I use 'baby on boarders' as a derogatory term to describe naff parents!!

MrsTittleMouse · 11/05/2007 16:27

Oh God, my Mum has one of the "grandchild" ones. She's promised not to use it when I'm anywhere near. I hope she'll forget about it.
Mind you, all of my (and my Dad's) pleas not to be too smug about my DD are falling on deaf ears. I'm sure that she must be foisting pictures on someone who's TTC without realising, just from the statistics.

hoxtonchick · 11/05/2007 16:16

i saw a grandchild on board sticker the other day. vom.

MrsTittleMouse · 11/05/2007 16:13

When I was trying to conceive and we were having massive fertility problems I HATED them. We were really luck and now we have a gorgeous DD (6 months) and..... I STILL hate them!
Agree with MissGolightly, they're either patronising to mums or smug smug smug.

Cloudhopper · 11/05/2007 11:33

fruitful - LOL at giving one to your dh - 'little person on board'. No wonder he wasn't thrilled.

They are just a complete lack of understanding of how other people work. They do tell you something about the person driving the car, don't they?

Mind you, not as bad as personalised number plates - as someone famous (name escapes me) once put it: "Guaranteed sign of an arsehole"

fluffyanimal · 11/05/2007 11:25

By which I mean, the signs annoy him even more than they annoy me, not that they annoy him more than I annoy him.

fluffyanimal · 11/05/2007 11:24

Oi noonar, my dh drives an escort and he's not nasty!

But he would be more likely to ram someone with a sign than someone without, as they annoy him even more than me.

TheBlonde · 10/05/2007 20:01

I saw a Volvo today with one of those signs, it said "Old Git on board"

nickytwotimes · 10/05/2007 19:55

now that i would have!

puffling · 10/05/2007 19:54

I despise them. However bro in law made us an identical one that says 'diminutive being present.' I like that one.

nickytwotimes · 10/05/2007 19:53

i don't like them either. i think they are a bit "showy-offy". ooohhh, look, i'm fertile!

or am i just an old cynic?

FirstAtForty · 10/05/2007 19:51

I LOATHE them.

To my own great disgust my car sported offensive sunshades for a while - during last year's hot summer they came free with an order from Kiddicare with 'Little People on Board' emblazened upon them. I turned them upside down to try and offset the embarrasment but I don't expect anyone was fooled. But my lovely father in law came to the rescue by carefully taping over the offending message with masking tape, hurrah.

corblimeymadam · 10/05/2007 19:33

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MrMariella · 10/05/2007 19:10

if these sensitive types here get annoyed by them, how would white-van-man be anticipated to react??

MrMariella · 10/05/2007 19:10

if these sensitive types here get annoyed by them, how would white-van-man be anticipated to react??