It’s All in the Details
I don’t know about you, but in my neck of the woods, you cannot drive anywhere without seeing those stick-figure family decals on cars. They always look the same to me, those decals. There is never any variety, just your standard woman with a badly drawn dress, boy with baseball cap, little girl with pigtails, all so truly yawn-inducing.
Unbeknownst to many, there are plenty of opportunities to be a bit more, descriptive, if you will. After all, this is the MySpace and Twitter era, where your penchant for collecting Troll Dolls and what you ate for breakfast are considered news-worthy. I think the least we can do is put some creative stickers on the backs of our cars.
So if you really want to entertain the people who are stuck behind you in traffic, these are for you.
Are you a less-than-skilled cyclist and don’t care who knows it?
Want to let everyone in on your electric socket fetish?
Do you have a big crybaby in the family and don’t mind branding them for life?
Feel like flaunting the size of your hose?
Got a rabbit vicious enough for a starring role in a Monty Python film?
This one you can just slap on the car in between contractions.
And lastly, who doesn’t have a clown or two in the family?
I like those. Dysfunctional family stickers are so much more representative of the real family unit; there’s a reason they call it “nuclear.” For GWB “nucular.”
Am I the only one who sees a Baby On Board sticker in a car that there is no baby in and feels cheated somehow?
Hmm, I don’t think those figures have made it to the east coast yet. Either that or I haven’t been paying attention.
I don’t see many of those stickers on the east coast either. But they’re kinda cute. I’d stick one if I could find one with our family’s makeup.
I love your figures. I cringe whenever I see the real things. Granted, if you’re driving a mini-van, you’re already telling the world you have kids. But if they’re on a different type of vehicle, honestly, aren’t you just advertising to pedophiles everywhere: please follow me home and grab my kids?
They’ve made it to the east coast, at least the section of the east coast where I live. They even sell the stickers in Target. I would guess that half the cars in our preschool lot have them…
Looking at the number of children in that sticker, I’m thinking they would be popular in areas with high concentrations of Catholics and Mormons.