Baby on Board Stickers

[MeetyouatMidnight]

Why do they irrationally annoy me? Is it anyone else?

Sigh. This has been clarified time and time again. EMRs will ALWAYS check the car for babies/other passengers.

Jesus. Just hand in your licence!!

No really. Why do you need to advertise your religion on your car?

Infertile woman? How nasty.

Yes, I prefer “no baby on board, feel free to ram”

It used to mainly be infertile women

What a pile of absolute bollocks.

???

Am I missing something. Why would i be more likely to park next to someone with a car seat?

When I was still teaching the school's Union rep had a bumper sticker 'If you can read this, thank a teacher'. We encourage every reprobate in the school to go up to him and ask 'What does your bumper sticker say?' The good old days. when you were allowed a bit of fun at work!

I don't know what you mean by 'invented', they were in Germany long before they were in the UK, early '70s.

In the States I've seen window decoration and bumper stickers announcing the driver to be the parent of a clever child, things like 'My son is an Honor Student at Whatever High School', I never knew the point, did they expect everyone to wave and give them a thumbs up as they drove by?

Or it's telling the world 'Guess what bedtime activity we've invented', Guinness Book of Records must be on standby.

😂

If you drive along the parked cars (perpendicular or angled spaces) you see just the rear side of them. If some of them have the sticker and you have a choice from multiple places, you can decide to not park next to someone with high probability of a car seat in.

“Infertile women”

Yes, because those useless, childless ones have nothing better to do than become annoyed about stuff. 🤔 and now “even” the superior fertile ones have cottoned on….

Aren’t you something else @LemonPeonies

@feelingalittlehorse Yes actually the threads were women saying things like some comments on this thread such as "announcing you have working ovaries " and my favourite "congratulations you can breed". On enquiring further it transpired these women were in fact infertile. So your point is?

The point is, those comments were tongue in cheek. Your comment was below the belt.

Can we have a link please?

Very interested to hear more regarding these further enquiries.

I think sisterhood has gone right out the window @LemonPeonies

It's hardly frothing at the mouth to laugh at one of life's silly little things on a reasonably light hearted thread with other people who equally think it's silly.

When it comes down to it the BOB signs suggest:

• the person driving the car seems to think that a twee sign is going to make random drivers suddenly super carefully because the baby in the car in front is much more precious than any other driver/passenger (in reality the baby is no more objectively special the occupants of another car who are all teens and adults going to the supermarket)
• the person driving has read something on social media and thinks that in the event of an accident rescue services aren't going to see a car seat and look for an infant unless they see a little sign in the window (which if the crash is severe enough to throw an infant from their car seat, a little stick on sign is probably long gone)
• the person driving believes their own driving is not to an adequate standard and is risky therefore others need to be warned to give more space (in which case what are they doing driving their baby around if they think their baby's safety is dependent on other drivers giving more than the usual amount of safe room)
• the person driving, for some reason, feels the need to tell total strangers they have procreated (and most people won't care because they're not looking at cars thinking "I wonder if the driver of AG22 JGH has a baby, and if they do, are they in the vehicle".

People always find little quirks amusing and annoying.

I don't even think it is parents/grannies that buy tĥem
You are going to find out you are pregnant be sitting making a list of clothes, cot, buggies, sterilisers and a whole load of baby stuff then be 'must remember the baby on board sign'.

It is probably given as a knick knack gift possibly from other children along with the best grandpa mug.

@NewPinkJacket the comment about having working ovaries was made on this thread if you want to rtft and the breeding comment was on one of the many threads titled "AIBU being so pissed off with Baby on board signs", could have been a year or 2 ago I don't have time to search for it for a link. I remember questioning the pp about it and she didn't have a credible answer to why she felt hatred towards people announcing they could "breed" as she put it. I just think it's weird saying such shitty remarks.

Nope you have still lost me. I am happy parking next to any car.

Presumably in amongst all the cryptic messages, she simply means that with a car seat you're more likely to need to open your doors wide to take out/put in the car seat and therefore more likely to make contact with a neighbouring car.

I've searched through loads of them and I cannot for the life of me see how you think "It used to mainly be infertile women".

It was just the very odd comment, so you appear to be talking rubbish.