Baby on Board Signs
You know I can't help but recall a Simpson's episode where Homer is in a Barber Shop Quartet called the B Sharps and needed a new song for his new album. He decides upon the phrase "Baby On Board" From the very sign we are speaking of here. It was a good episode and it reminds me that mostly everyone is on the band wagon with these "Baby on Board" signs.
No body but the idiot who bought the sign likes them. If you asked the baby it would say "No!". What I don't get is how a Fad that is really insulting and Narcissistic like that can get started. Did all of these people drink the same contaminated water? Maybe they are worried about their Babies On Board because they were once dropped on their heads when they were babies. Whatever it is they all suffer from the same delusion that they and their babies are unique in some way and that since they ask we will be more careful around their precious bundle of fragility.
Now as far as the sign itself is concerned it was on almost every cheap little rice burning gas miser of a car when it made it's first debut in the early 90's. It's back and the drivers have changed but the car hasn't. I think they give them out at the dealer with the car to the young couple with their precious baby. Now it sounds like the fad has corporate backing and you know with a fad as inconsiderate as this one that may be true.
Another possibility that has occurred to me is it's the age of the mother in question. Most of the women who drive cars with such a label look as though they are not yet out of their teens the same with the boyfriend/husband. Maybe it's just their warped little perspective from having a child so young and from having just learned the bare minimum in how to drive a car.
That's it I got it! The owner is a New Driver. Who is also a New Mom and is the kind of person ditsy enough to buy a sign that is today's equivalent to the "Kick Me, Please!" sign of our day. I know I was glad to see them almost all at once vanish from cars in the mid to late 90's but I don't know what it was that made them suddenly disappear. Something has brought them back. They are back because I've seen them. Possibly they'll disappear again. Remember it's really "Kick Me" not "Baby On Board". Or maybe it should be "Slap Me-HARD!" How about "His/Her Highness is on Board"? Anything would be better than the original. I do know one thing these young parents didn't think this thing through or they would have realized that todays "Baby on Board" sign is the equivalent of yesterday's Scarlet Letter and will get you ostracized just as quickly.
