To hate "baby on board" signs?

[Laindon]

Before I start, please no one try and spread bollocks about the energy services. Here's why:

1. So I don't have a sign, you're still not going to look for my child, even though I have car seat there?

1. Yes people say they're suppose to be removed when a child isn't present, however,

99% of people leave them on so that already raises a red flag.

To me, they just translate to "pretentious twat on board".
Don't even get me started on "princess on board". If I had a anger issues, I'd personally ram into the back of that car.

What's your take?

Ì have one. Don't know why but I liked putting it in the car for the first drive home with DD.

Think people who get wound up about it are quite sad.

I've been contemplating putting a sign on my Jag that says "my other car is a VW van"

Some of them are huge too, especially those tshirt-shaped ones. Your "Little Monkey" or whatever would be a lot safer if you didn't obstruct a quarter of your back-windscreen.

Sorry, not moving off the instant lights change to green, and sometimes indicating a second or two later than I would in perfect circumstances means I wasn't a safe driver?

Perhaps all new parents should stay at home until their babies sleep reliably, don't cry in the car, and they become as utterly perfect a driver as you are, then?

I call ds 'dude' as in 'come on dude' or 'put your shoes on dude'
But then again I call other people dude too

Stupid and tacky.

But I find so much to do with children stupid and tacky, that I'd be hard pressed to know where to start if I was going to get my knickers in a twist about all of it.

Can’t remember which comedian said it but he wanted to put a sign saying”Childless couple, feel free to smash into the back of us.”

maybe we should create some new ones

"irate mother looking for a parking space. fuck off"

"MNer on board. watch it bitch"

I saw one once that read "Adults on board ( we'd like to live too)"

*i may have the wording slightly wrong as it was a while ago

My opinion is that you must have something very sad going on in your life to have such anger about something that's a non issue. I hope you get some help soon

I don't get why people spend their money on them. Guess I'll be sorry if I have an accident and they leave my baby in the car because I don't have a sign in the back....

Why are people so defensive calling the OP "sad" and all the "you must be unhappy" - everyone gets irritated by trivial matters, just some post it on MN because it's an Internet forum about opinions and Sundays can be boring. Not everyone takes it so seriously

So 1990s.

I want one that says "stupid yellow sign on board".

I have one.

It's just the yellow/black diamond one, in the lower corner of the rear screen. I do not have anything else stuck on my windows at all.

I drive a car which seems to instill the urge in other drivers (mostly male) to race me out of lights/junctions, race me up the road, drive up my arse coming out of a stand still, tail-gate me and race me round roundabouts and generally try to engage me in driving competitions all the bloody time.

I put the B on B notice up in the hope that just one or two of these fucking idiots see it, think 'mum and baby' and switch off the macho thing and leave me be. When i have my baby in the car i do not want you driving up my arse and i will not be racing you into town!

(i know it's the car because it doesn't happen to me when i'm driving my DH or DDs car).

what car is it?
[nosey]

I have one of these. I'll admit I'm not sure why, but I do, even though DD is now two...

I also asked my wedding guests to contribute money to my honeymoon.

I am the enemy!!!!

I despise baby on board signs. But I take more offence by the post on the first page whinging about mums sitting in the back seat with the baby. I have an 8 month old who screams bloody murder in the car, I'm talking blood curdling howls, which is painful to listen to and very distracting for the driver. If there are two of us in the car, one will usually sit in the back and try to distract/entertain her to stop or at least minimise the screaming. It's not because we can't bear to be parted from our pfb for five minutes. I suspect we're not alone.

It was me harpy
What happens when there's only one driver? Many babies go through phases of hating the car and if left alone, particularly rear facing, will zone out and self settle.

Yanbu. It makes me think they're a bit dim. Because other drivers aren't going to think 'oh right, I was actually about to drive like a knob and chance a crash, but now I see your nasty yellow foam tat I'll drive responsibly'.
Far worse than baby, princess or prince are ones that say 'babe on board' or 'diva on board'. And it's nearly always some sweaty munter.

seriously no way will my 10 mo self settle in a car. She will scream and scream until she is sick and/or choking. She's been like this since 6 months. She has to have someone in the back with her to try and settle her, it would be dangerous otherwise. I don't drive so I'm always with her any time we go out in DP's car.

seriouslyffs zone out and self settle? Hahahahahaha.

Feel free to accompany us on a three hour journey to see my relatives in the Midlands any time

You don't need your hearing to be intact, right? Your smuggery about how children behave in cars certainly won't be.

seriously I'm another one who sits in the back with my 10 month old on long journeys. After half an hour on his own he will begin screaming and it's not good for the driver to listen to while they are concentrating on driving. To make the journey easier and more pleasant for everyone I just sit in the back with him if we will be in the car for more than half an hour. So shoot me.

OP YANBU. There's something irritating and smug about them, and the emergency services urban myth that gets spread around grinds my gears. As if paramedics would respond to an accident and just assume the people in the front were the only passengers in the car of course they would check the whole vehicle. It's part of their job!

YAsoNBU. We went through years of infertility treatment (eventually successful, but we don't have a BoB sign - no-one drives a Touran for pleasure, right?) The 'grandchild on board' or (boak) 'grandbaby on board' ones used to give me the urge to write on them with marker pen 'woo hoo, you're fertile and so is your offspring...thanks for letting me know!'

They are pointless tat. Like so much of the stuff people buy for babies.

No purpose.

I don't hate them, but I feel similarly about them to those stupid eyelashes on headlights.