Thursday 5 May 2011

Baby On Board

Have you ever wondered about those yellow BABY ON BOARD signs parents hang in their car window? Or a sticker on their trunk? As if, when you are flying down the road, drunk and stoned, using a finger to guide your vehicle at warp speeds; and you finally lose that last shred of control and careen toward that ill fated baby cradle on wheels when... it dawns on you that you are about to kill a baby. Flash forward to the pearly gates and St. Peter (or whoever it is who gets to do that sort of thing) asks you... "Did you not see the sign on the car that said there was a baby on board??"... to which you reply, "Yeah, I saw it. And screw it, I hit it anyway."

I've come up with a great idea for a sticker that would augment those silly, redundant signs that give parents a way to feel their child is much safer than it actually is... a simple penciled drawing of a baby seat sitting on the edge of a pirate's plank with a sword held by a gnarled hand extending it's length in preparation to help it that last few inches to it's new watery home. The satisfaction of sticking one beside every "BABY ON BOARD" sign I see would be significantly satisfying.