WHERE ARE THE BABIES ON BOARD?

They seemed to have been replaced. It's been years since I've seen that dangling or swinging yellow notification on a car rear window. Some placed them on the side windows. Maybe to entertain said baby.

What was I to do when I spotted one? I always felt guilty because I didn't know how to drive any more carefully around a car with one of those designations. I probably slowed down somewhat, but in Arizona that can be a whole lot more dangerous than driving with the flow.

Well, thankfully they have gone the way of Beanie Babies, pet rocks, and Abba. Although this summer, my wife took our granddaughter to see Mama Mia in New York. Ugh. That deserves another. Ugh. So what has replaced the Baby on Boards is stick figures.

Actually, there a little more artistic than that. Bubble figures maybe. They too are placed on the rear window and they indicate your family size and sex of each child along with a pet or two. I'm glad our son doesn't display his wife, 4 children, him, their cat, their dog, their hermit crab or he wouldn't be able to see out the back window.

I'm just plain out of it. I don't even have a bumper sticker. That's not true. I just don't have it on my car. I figure it would be a lot of effort to remove. Plus, the guy I'm supporting, a liar and a thief according to his opponent's tv ads, won't need much help defeating the Pelosi/Obama backer incumbent running again him. So why bother.

Besides, I may just slow down for someone with a family tree on their back window and infuriate a driver who would vote against my guy. It's that kind of election with that kind of anger.

Maybe I'll start a new thing to put on my car. Fake bullet holes. That's already been done. Well, now that makes sense--give someone an idea to fire real bullets to match. Ok, how about a peace symbol, a picture of a puppy or kitten. No, I'm sure that would anger some. All I can come up with is a bumper sticker that is blank. I rejected a Sarah Lee one that says "Nobody Doesn't Like Sarah Lee," simply because English teachers and grammarians wouldn't approve of the double negative.