Baby on Board

those car signs piss me off

what is the point. are we all supposed to drive at 2km/hr cos you have a stupid sign on your car?? does it excuse you for driving like a retard? shouldnt YOU be the one driving more carefully since the baby is in YOUR car.

i saw a car once that had the same colour/shape sign but it read, "Stupid yellow sign on board". I would love to get me one of those.

 

I think it was suppose to make ppl think to be more cautious. When driving truck I hate to see ppl with little kids in the car. People seem to forget they are driving and want to turn around in the car to deal with the kids. I have been there to see them die from doing that, killing the car load and the truck they turned into (one hand on the wheel, they turn around and the wheel goes the opposite direction) and killed the truck driver who was willing to kill himself to avoid hurting them. I have had one that almost turned into me but thank whatever I had a bad feeling and started backing off just as she did the turn-around and turn into my lane. Had I not started backing off she would have connected with my fender and tire up front. 80,000 pound Peterbuilt makes a terrible mess of a hatchback car load of family.

 

Baby on board
How I've adored
That sign on my car's windowpane.
Bounce in my step,
Loaded with pep,
'Cause I'm drivin' in the carpool lane.
Call me a square,
Friend I don't care,
'Cause that little yellow sign can't be ignored.
I'm telling you it's mighty nice.
Each trip's a trip to paridise
With my baby on board.

 

it irks me.

maybe cos i think its the person driving the car with the kids responsibility.

 

Yeah, those signs are silly.

Though I keep telling my boyfriend that I want a sign "Princess on Board" for our car.

 

I remember those..

I also remember seeing a car with a number of like signs in the windows reading "Driver on board" and "Who care who is on board".

I had a good chuckle.

 

this is one of the many things that annoys, even downright angers me no end, to see the private passenger automobile continuing to be promoted and kept as the primary means of even long distance transportation.

this and things like alcohaul by the glass being sold in place where the only way to get back from is by someone having to drive, the lack of mobility for people CAN'T drive, or reall really shouldn't.

the way it coerces the vast majority into indenturing themselves on the pretense of a fantasy of freedom.

the contribution of combustion based propulsion to global climate chainge.

the contribution of roadbuilding and the real estate it preempts, to the loss and degridation of natural habitat.

the nonvolentaryness resaulting from the inadiquacy of public transportation do in large part to people having a hard time imagining comfort and convenience in any other context.

and yes, this gets back to people forgetting where they are and what they are doing when driving, and how deadly serious the need for them not to.

and even the unhealthy unnaturalness of HAVING to stay that focused on one thing for that long as it takes to drive safely from anywhere to anywhere.

it isn't just mothers with cars full of kids with no one else in the car to have to look after them while at the same time trying to drive, both of which being full time occupations that just CANNOT safely be multitasked.

and it is the responsibility of EVERYone driving to do so 'defensively', and not just demand or expect everyone else to do so, who, may also, for reasons known only to each themselves, not be able to.

yes, everyone else is also everyone's responsibility on the road, but so is everyone their own also, and signs like that do seem to suggest, those who display them, fail to comprehend the latter part of that.

(the only REAL solution to any of that, would be for not everyone, or better yet, not anyone, to ever HAVE to, drive. REAL solutions of course, being beyond the pale of a dominant society that romantacizes and rewards aggressiveness)

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i never even thought of it like that. i just thought it was proud parents bragging up the fact that they have a baby, sort of like the "proud parent of an honor student at some shitty elementary school" bumper stickers

 

Yeah, that's what I always thought too.

Status symbol.

 

Personally, although I've never had one of those on my vehicle, I can understand why some parents chose to put them on (especially the parents on their first baby)

Let's face it, *some* people drive like raving lunatics. Children are absolutely precious cargo. I'll say one thing, if someone rams their car into mine with my three children on board, they're going to be dealing with the wrath of this mother bear.

That being said, I feel that the Baby on Board signs are meant to make other drivers a little more cautious, as Yank previously stated, that's all.

*giggles* And yet, you never know, once you have a car full of little ones yourself, you might be changing your tune.

 

Meh I never notice those signs until I pass the vehicle. They usually drive worse than me. Although I used to have a sign like those except it said I see dumb people. A friend of mine stole it from me. haha

 

The worst sign of all is the "If you lived here.. you'd be home now".. those signs make absolutely no fucking sense at all.. sorry sorta off topic. but this thread made me think how dumb those signs are

 

One should drive carefully no matter who is on board anyway.

 

Mine would say "asshole on board" or "surfboard on board".

 

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Haha ^


Everyone I've ever known who's had a baby on board sign annoyed me and I can't imagine ever getting one. Ugh.

 

Those signs are so 1988.

 

Actually, theres a lot of ppl who drive around not caring trying to pass you and taking "chances" while their driving or riding your bumper, speeding,.

I dont know how many times ive had a car almost side hit us trying to get around going 30 miles over the speed limit, and im inside freaking out that we will get in a wreck because of a careless driver, when i have my little son in the car.

I once was 7 months pregnant and some assholes were trying to run me off the road, i wish i had a sign in the back that said PREGNANT WOMAN DRIVING!
my friend was driving and she was 8 months pregnant and some girls thought they would start some shit with her, drove to the side of her car and they were yelling at her etc, finally she just got out of her car looked at them, and said, you want to kick my ass???? they saw she was really pregnant, and then got back in thier car and drove away feeling like total peices of shit.

 

I ♠ my dog
I ♣ my kids

 

Whenever I see one of those signs I allways picture a couple college kids drivin down the road.....when all of the sudden they loose control and start sliding all over the road. Just when they are about to slam into the side of a car, everything freezes all matrix style and one of the guys says, "Woah man don't hit that car! Look there's a baby on board." Then he changes direction in mid-skid at the last second and hits the car with a drunk middle aged man driving.