to hate car stickers saying 'Baby on Board'

[Dorothyredboots]

Sorry but they drive me mad. I drive carefully all the time so I'm not going to take special care if there is a baby in the car in front of me. Or are they alerting me to the fact that the person in front of me is likely to drive erractically as they are a parent and therefore have much more important things on their mind than driving safely? Or are they, as I suspect, just a way of saying 'Hey look what I made...'? And don't get me started on the ones that say 'Princess on Board'. They don't even make me laugh.
Anyone else want to put them in Room 101?

thats what the firemen call them LITR.

i was responding to tantes post when i said about car seats being missed. and they can be if a car is crumpled to pieces.

they would take the car apart anyway to look for passengers.

Omg YummyMummy1208 - "My partner drives like a lunatic when hes in his work van - alone - but when he has his family in the car he's a lot slower. hence the sign. "

Are you for real?!
Firstly i'm so reassured to think that if i'm out driving in the day time, when your partner is probably in his work van, that he'll be driving like lunatic. FFS. Let's hope he doesn't drive like a lunatic in my direction - i haven't even got one of these signs in my car so he won't realise there could be my precious children on board and maybe modify his driving accordingly - obviously it's fine to drive like a lunatic if it's just me in the car (if i don't merit a special sticker then obviously i'm not that special and nobody needs to drive safely around me)

Secondly - he drives slowly in your family car because you've got a sticker? I think the idea is that other people see the sticker and drive more considerately. If he only drives like a non-lunatic because you've got the sticker then you've really got problems.

However - here's a crazy idea - how about if we all just drive properly/carefully/considerately all the time? No matter whether the car in front has a sticker saying 'little princess on board' or not. I have no more desire to cause a crash and injure the mother or father of a child than i do to injure a child themselves. The sticker makes no difference to me.

At least your post gives further weight to my theory that you don't have to be a fool to have one of these stickers but the chances are that if you are a fool then you will have one.

"Enough Said!!!"

Bitchy, yummymummy.

I used to have a sign in my home window to alert emergency services that we had cats in the house Don't expect anyone to risk their life for my pets but if they were in there and could have a look might be nice. Think the baby ones in cars are horrible. And even if once relevant not so now. Don't use a sign, put your kid in a carseat.

I'm disgusted at yummymummy. Actually disgusting is putting it mildly and it's EXACTLY the attitude that makes me hate these damned signs.

So - it's ok for your husband to drive like an eejit when it's putting OTHER people's lives at risk? But you stick a magic "WOOO HOOO I'VE SPROGGED" sticker in your back window (obscuring the view of part of the road) and it's therefore immediately imperative that the entire planet backs off and drives at 2mph for the safety of your children... how hypocritical when you take pride in bragging how recklessly your hubby drives when he hasn't got the family-wagon.

Of course the lives of other people's children... and indeed, and I know this is a shocking idea here, the lives of those without children don't matter at all - but YOU'VE GOT A STICKER!!!

You DO realize hubby is happily driving up the exhaust pipe of everyone else with the magic stickers in their car windows don't you?

There's a car around here with so many of these in their back and side windows (plus the fluffy dice of two variations off the rearview mirror) they wouldn't see the back end of a bus without having to squint around the visual crap for it.

I agree, emptyshell.

Yummymummy's partner sounds like a selfish idiot (that's me watching my language!). Perhaps he should have a sticker stating so in the back of his van, so we can all keep well away?

hate them. Used to particularly hate the smugness of them during infertile years, before DS finally came along. And my sister lost a pregnancy very late and used to say she felt like getting one saying 'baby not on board'...

Also particularly hate the idea that somehow it is ok to drive any less safely just because there isn't a baby on board....

So a car seat could be missed but not a 4 inch sticker that's attached to a surface which is designed to shatter into hundreds of tiny pieces?

and yep YummyMummy WTF?? It's ok to drive unsafely as long as your own kids aren't on board????

I've seen a few hundred crashed cars. Many so were badly mangled that there's no chance that you'd see a 4 inch sticker on them.

The emergency services will check for casualties,including children, sticker or no sticker.It's what they're trained to do.

There's no 'baby in room' sticker is there? We'd all be screwed in the event of a fire if the emergency services relied on stickers placed on our windows to tell them exactly who is in the house.

My sister is a firefighter and she says its bollocks about the baby on board signs. The presence of a dirty great child seat generally provides cause for alarm though.

They're basically just two smug fingers up to the single and infertile. Vile. Although I'm fairly sure my OHs mother will buy us one of the damn things once bump is born next month. Eurgh.

I?ve got one - I was excited when finding out we were having our child, and bought lots of things that we never really needed, and many we have never used. But I do have ours up in the car, because I like it! I?m not a ?chav? nor and ?idiot?, I just like it, and didn?t realise that this choice might potentially upset so many people
And it?s not ?2 smug fingers up to the single and infertile? - it?s nothing to do with anyone else, surely? I just like it?

I think a few people here have chips on their shoulders! Don't you think it's a little bit over the top to call them smug and vile, or fertility boasts?

I have one, but only because I'd heard that they are useful in the event of an accident, really I have better things to do with my time than taunt people with signs on the car, I have a real live baby that I could do that with should I feel inclined to "stick two smug fingers up to the single and infertile"...talk about overthinking things!

girlwithsparklyhair, if you have better things to do with your time, why open this thread, read it and comment on it? You're as guilty as us sign-sneerers are! :)

If people really wanted to use these signs for information they take them down whenthere was no baby in the car

I'd like a "slightly batty lady who signals the way she intends to turn, will brake for rabitts, dogs, cats, children and red lights and who obeys the speed limit so stop tailgating sign" please

?Slightly batty lady? sign is an EXCELLENT idea!

girlwithsparklyhair how utterly vile to take delight in bragging that you have a baby over the infertile. You'll never have to know that pain and grief - but hey ho... it's perfectly ok to take potshots at those who do/did. I specifically didn't mention the two fingers at the infertile aspect of them in my post - but yes, for all the times I've coped with infertility and miscarriage - they've felt like that to me as well... now I'm pregnant (assuming it sticks) they're still a pet hate of mine anyway.

Some real charmers on here that typify lots of the sort of people who like these stickers today.

Sickening. Just shows what some of you think of those who can't join your precious mummys club.

I don't like them either, although it did occur to me to get one recently. I think they might be a useful warning to other drivers that this driver had the potential to drive erratically due to the presence of two unreasonable, screaming children!

They are incredibly naff. Crap, total crap. People must not have enough shite to spend their money on. But if it makes you happy, then they are harmless enough I suppose.

Sorry, empty, calm down, I specifically said that that WASN'T the reason I bought the sign!Dear me.

"really useful in case of accident" always makes me grimace.

In the event of an accident so severe that you cannot easily see that a child is on board, neither the rear view mirror or pretty stupid little sticker are likely to be intact.

Bless! YummyMummy, and I suppose that if your white van lunatic driver DP rams into our cars, we would only have ourselves to blame for not having the sticker...In the meantime, it is really touching to know that he cares about HIS family's safety.

Dorothy, YANBU.

They are completely pointless. The emergency services are trained to search the back seat of every vehicle involved in an accident. It is completely irrelevant whether there is a sticker in the window or not. They are a boast about having a child, nothing more. My personal pet hates are the "grandchild on board" and "mum-to-be on board". Hate the boasting aspects of it, and also the implication anyway that a baby is somehow more important than any other passenger - if there's no baby in the car, other people are OK to drive like tossers? Think I'll get a sign made up that says "no baby on board, feel free to RAM me".

empty shell - please don?t think that people who have the stickers in their cars are ?bragging? over the infertile. My having a sticker in my car window is just a silly way of celebrating my son - I loved being able to buy stuff like that, and it certainly wasn?t/isn?t an indictment on other people. Really - nothing could have been further from my mind! I had no idea that this was such an emotive subject and such a contentious choice.

Why is everyone getting so irritated?

They are just stickers fgs.

I don't have the any sticker in our car but I couldn't care less if people had them or not.

To those of you who say they are boasting about fertility, that is a bit too harsh. Why not just say the same about parents with pushchairs as well?