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to hate car stickers saying 'Baby on Board'

260 replies

Dorothyredboots · 20/08/2010 16:02

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?

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Superfly · 20/08/2010 23:27

Why should anyone care? You do what you want - put what you like in your car/ home/ life and don't give a flying fart about what anyone else thinks.

It's the small-minded people of this world that keeps me kicking off against things and long may it continue. If they are sad enough to get riled by a sticker for fucks sake - what boring lives they must lead.

Onestonetogo · 20/08/2010 23:28

BusyMissIzzy, burn them now! Anything is better than net-curtains, even frosting-stickers.

harverina · 20/08/2010 23:29

YABU! I have a sign on my car. Not to be smug (although I am a very proud mummy), but in the hope that people who would normally drive up the arse of my car would think twice about it. No, they shouldnt be doing it anyway, but I'd hope that seeing the sign would give them a bit of a conscience and make them think twice about driving like an idiot. I dont think I'm being unreasonable at all by expecting people to be a bit more careful when there are babies around!

Superfly · 20/08/2010 23:29

sterrryerryoh sorry - that isn't meant to look like 'no-one cares' re your last post

sterrryerryoh · 20/08/2010 23:30

Haha - I got it, Superfly. I was going to respond to your post with a ?hell yeah?

BusyMissIzzy · 20/08/2010 23:31

Onestone It's technically a voile panel I think, not patterned Granny-style lace, if that makes any difference.

JjandtheBeanlovesUnicorns · 20/08/2010 23:46

YABU,

ffs its a little sign.

and actually it has made a huge difference to my dcs safety as i have commented on all what is it now 67 of these ruddy threads all saying the same.

me and dp are young 21 and 24 but he looks 20 apparently (he wishes), and not so much now but when we had a smaller, what was classed really as a young drivers first car, we had alot of aggression and bad driving aimed at us, including being rammed off the road by a bunch of twats in the same car as us, i was traumatised as was ds who was that side of the car.

we have since put a small triangle window sticker in the rear window with baby on board and a child on board on ds side, some prat drove by us saw me and dp and decided to race at traffic lights to where the road went from 2 lanes to one, he saw the sign and backed off and behaved. since upgrading to an estate its stopped the morons and the huge kiddicare sunshade sayes the same imo.

maybe it wasnt the signs i dont know but since having them i havent felt we have been put in danger for being young drivers who happen to have children on board.

it doesnt excuse bad driving, it doesnt mean we expect people to be extra safe, it means ''to all the twats around our age who want to race us, or play silly buggers, we dont, we have kids on board, leave us alone''

sorry if you dislike them but i see it as something to protect my children, and yes the princess on board, monkey on board, babe on board and so on are plain fucking pathetic and lame.

Spacehopper5 · 20/08/2010 23:46

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Onestonetogo · 20/08/2010 23:49

BusyMissIzzy, hold your fire! Voile panels are perfectly acceptable and are not remotely related to net curtains Smile

BusyMissIzzy · 20/08/2010 23:54

Well thank goodness for that :)

5DollarShake · 21/08/2010 04:03

I don't think they're smug or two fingers up to the infertile, or that they make a blind bit of difference to emergency services or other drivers.

I do think that any sort of car 'decor' is tacky in the extreme and freely judge those who have them as lacking in taste, whilst also acknowledging their right to advertise to all their lack of taste. Grin

ilovesprouts · 21/08/2010 04:22

its only sticker fgs yabu

flootshoot · 21/08/2010 07:09

wow this kicked off.... It always make me chuckle when people get so riled on here about posters ranting about minor things... I always though the point of AIBU was to rant about things we wouldn't bother harping on about in RL! Hence people will be going on and on about pointless things. Where's the fun in life without a good feckless rant?

I'm glad I don't drive though, it seems to have become rather a minefield! Grin

Supercherry · 21/08/2010 07:28

I am surprised that people think a 'baby on board' sign equates to a fertility boast. Do people really brag about being parents- that's bizarre to me? Are you sure you're not projecting?

I would have thought that mums to be buy the signs genuinely thinking that they may encourage tailgaters to increase their distance. Surely, the realisation that there is a baby in the car in front would make a normal person think twice about driving up said cars arse?

Just my opinion anyway. I bought the signs with this logic in mind.

I don't understand why they are a source of such irritation to some.

sunshinerainbow · 21/08/2010 07:45

The thing is they are irrelevant anyway because most parents don't take them out of the car when the little cherubs are in nursery / grandma / babysitter.

I hate them and think they are pointless.

Supercherry · 21/08/2010 07:51

I think it's a bit Hmm to use the word 'hate' when referring to a sticker. That's a strong emotion towards an inaminate object. Issues methinks? Grin

bigstripeytiger · 21/08/2010 08:01

I dont like these stickers.

I think that it is pretty offensive to have a sticker in your car implying that you expect higher standards of driving from people because you have a baby in the car.
Isnt everyone entitled to have other people drive safely around them?

autodidact · 21/08/2010 08:05

They have always irritated me (mildly). My view is that they are pointless and make many non-parents think that all parents hold the views expressed so clearly by yummymummy1208 on this thread, namely that the child-free are less important and worthy of care than families with young children. One of my lovliest friends in the world ever, who does not have children, was saying something of the sort to me only a few days ago.

However, BusyMissIzzy and Sterryterryoh have made me remember that you cannot accurately impute someone's motives from the mere fact that they have a sticker on their car window and for every yummymummy1208 there are probably 10 lovely people who have them because they like them. Does anyone remember Homer Simpson's Baby on Board song?!

autodidact · 21/08/2010 08:06
Triphid · 21/08/2010 08:16

But what can the vile "Mum to Be on Board" signs possibly be trying to say other than 'I'm so fertile'?

Superfly · 21/08/2010 08:18

The reasons why I have a Baby On Board sign:

I am letting the world know how fertile I am.
I am sticking two fingers up at those who do not have children.
I am prone to driving dangerously because i have small children in the car who are distracting me.
I want people to know that I am and my car load are far more important than those behind me, in front of me or beside me on the road.
I am a chav.

As you can see, utter bollocks.

I have a sticker because I just do. No other reason. No great philosophising behind my decision - it is there because I want it to be.
End of.

Onestonetogo · 21/08/2010 08:35

Superfly, saying "end of"= chav. Sorry, etc Wink

Psammead · 21/08/2010 08:36

Triphid Maybe it's just a 'I am so excited because my life is about to change in a huge way and I want to shout it from the rooftops' kind of thing.

The cynicism here is unbelievable! I don't have any stickers in my car but I don't see how people can be offended by them! Unless they say 'Fuck you, I hope you and your whole family die a slow and painful death' or something.

What I don't like is stickers which tell you children's names, like this . I don't find them offensive, but I think it's a bit silly to advertise your children's names to the world. I wouldn't like it if someone advertised mine!

ReshapeWhileDamp · 21/08/2010 08:39

I suppose the 'Mum-to be on Board' signs are ostensibly intended to warn drivers to be careful (while mowing down everyone else, clearly Hmm) and to alert emergency services, etc. But as pretty much everyone else has pointed out, this is bollox and doesn't work in practice anyway!

My MIL took it as a personal affront that I didn't have a Mum 2 B sign on my car last pregnancy. Hmm She said 'But don't you want to announce it to the world?'. So she, at least, thinks they're about boasting!

I think a small, peel-off sticker saying in a serious font, 'baby on board' might just be allowable to alert emergency services (if they really take notice of them). Anything else is cheap and tacky and naff, and obscures your rear view. And falls off in an accident.

The Little Princess ones just serve to advertise your IQ, as far as I'm concerned.

Superfly · 21/08/2010 08:47

Onestonetogo How have you worked that one out. Do you have a certificate or something in Chav Studies? What is a Chav? How do you make a decision about someones background based on their choice of words?

My understanding of the word 'Chav' is a lot different from other people on here - maybe because I know the correct orientation of the word because of my background.

Fucking End Of.