# Do you have family stickers on your car? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 7, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-family-stickers-on-your-car/531592 "2010-03-07T04:57:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-family-stickers-on-your-car/531592/41 "2010-03-16T19:36:01Z")
I just want to go on record here… If you have one of those Calvin and Hobbes stickers where he’s peeing on something (Ford, Chevy, whatever), I have just lost all respect for you, and assume your intelligence level is that of a six year old. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-family-stickers-on-your-car/531592/42 "2010-03-16T19:38:33Z")
We have a sticker on the SUV (wife’s car) “I Love my Family”. ---
**Author:** ![clnilsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@clnilsen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clnilsen)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-family-stickers-on-your-car/531592/43 "2010-03-16T19:44:12Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > Suburbanites and Mexicans. > Slightly less tacky than the vinyl sticker tombstones that some people have. God I hate those. Never saw them until we moved from Ohio to Florida. I do admit though where they all come from or when they started to become popular? ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-family-stickers-on-your-car/531592/44 "2010-03-16T20:20:55Z")
If I owned a Cadillac, I might be tempted to get a single mom sticker and 12 or so child stickers. Alternatively, it might be fun to have Dad, three moms, an nine kids. Just to mess with people. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_Doubt)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-family-stickers-on-your-car/531592/45 "2010-03-16T20:38:36Z")
A little off topic, but since someone mentioned the Christian fish, I’ve always wanted to get one of those and a Darwin fish facing the other way and making them kiss. Take what you want out of that! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-family-stickers-on-your-car/531592/46 "2010-03-16T21:01:27Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever seen these stickers, or the rear-window obituary. > [@Mrs.Cake](#): > > Alternatively, it might be fun to have Dad, three moms, an nine kids. Just to mess with people. Or alien, spouse alien, little aliens, dog, cat, and human child. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-family-stickers-on-your-car/531592/47 "2010-03-16T23:52:20Z")
I’ve always thought those stickers are like a menu for pedophiles. ---
**Author:** ![Apricot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Apricot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apricot)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-family-stickers-on-your-car/531592/48 "2010-03-16T23:57:43Z")
I am feeling a strong urge to get a single woman and 20 little cats for my back window. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-family-stickers-on-your-car/531592/49 "2010-03-17T00:00:25Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#): > > I’m in Calgary and I see them everywhere. Burlington, Ontario, see them everywhere. I love my family and I’m terribly proud of them, but why the hell would I want to put those stickers on my car? Who’re they supposed to impress? ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-family-stickers-on-your-car/531592/50 "2010-03-17T03:03:31Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > It strikes me as inherently unsafe. Too easy for a stranger to start a chat with little Johnny " . . . So how’s your sister Becky doing? And Crinkles the cat?" > > It makes it much easier for them to weasel their way in. Wasn’t there a recent \*Criminal Minds \*(or was it _Dexter_?) that did this? The kidnapper approached the kid and said his family had been in a car accident, and he knew all their names? ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-family-stickers-on-your-car/531592/51 "2010-03-18T01:07:35Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I’ve always thought those stickers are like a menu for pedophiles. Has there ever been an instance where a pedo hunted down a child because his/her name appeared on the sticker on the back of a car, or saw a stick figure family or honor roll sticker on a car? I hear this all the time, and I wonder if it’s actually happened. Really, this is starting to get ridiculous. Why not just keep your kids in the house 24/7, because, God forbid, what would happen if a pedo should pass your mini-van and _see_ your kids? ---
**Author:** ![Bloody\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bloody\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bloody_L)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-family-stickers-on-your-car/531592/52 "2010-03-19T15:18:17Z")
I always found those family style ‘flipflop’ and other familyesque bumper stickers really tacky. I do like bumper stickers, but not those types. We used to have a ‘What would Satan do?’ sticker on our car but some jerk scraped it off. ---
**Author:** ![Bloody\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bloody\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bloody_L)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-family-stickers-on-your-car/531592/53 "2010-03-19T15:26:58Z")
> [@aerie](#): > > Also fairly common here is the displaying of an ‘obituary’ of someone who died. Huge vinyl letters on the back windshield. > > In Loving Memory of: > Billy Bob Hicks > 1945-2010 > Insert some cheesy fake sentiment here: “gone but never forgotten” > Insert some cheesy cross or some such idolatry. > Insert some cherry-picked scripture. > > I really don’t get the mindset behind this one. There is a family around the corner for me that’s got one of these obituary decals with the name, the DOB-DOD, a scripture number, and a cross. The kid was like 24 when he died, according to the date. It also said he was murdered, which is kind of weird but I guess not that out of place in Memphis. ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-family-stickers-on-your-car/531592/54 "2010-03-19T20:12:25Z")
Victoria, BC here–I have seen a few of the family stickers, as far as I can remember all on those big people-mover type family vans. Not a fan of car stickers in general. I guess I’m more of an enjoy-my-anonymity kind of guy. I do have one sticker on the side window, though. [Maple Leaf Legacy Project.](http://www.mapleleaflegacy.ca/en/about_the_logo.php) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-family-stickers-on-your-car/531592.md?page=2)