<p>No, it’s not redneck humor, doubleplay. It’s satire. Just showing contempt for obnoxious, bragging parents who feel the need to announce their kid’s honor roll position to complete strangers stuck behind them on the road.</p>
<p>I like the “My Border Collie is Smarter than Your Honor Roll Kid” bumper sticker myself</p>
<p>It is kind of obnoxious to brag about your second grader being on the honor roll I guess. As if anyone else cares.</p>
<p>I remember when my kid was in elementary school and he came home one day with one of those bumper stickers in his report card packet. He was so proud! It was so uncomfortable, we didn’t know how to tell him “why” we didn’t want to put the sticker on our car. Fortunately, we never had and never will put stickers on our cars anyway. So we just said it was bad for the paint, and besides, we wanted to put it up on the refrigerator so WE could see it instead of the strangers driving behind us.</p>
<p>That’s a great solution. It would be tough for a little guy to understand that you were proud of him yet still didn’t want the darn thing on your car. </p>
<p>For some reason, the college window stickers don’t seem like bragging to me. Just school spirit. I saw a funny one a while back that said School of Hard Knocks.</p>
<p>In Uzbekistan, in the months prior to a wedding, the women of the bride’s family would elaborately embroider a “sheet” to be used on the couple’s wedding night. They are highly collectible and breathtakingly beautiful, and yes, there are often bloodstains on them.</p>
<p>We had one on a wall. Gorgeous. Till our 8-month-old Golden Retriever ate the bottom off it one night when everyone was asleep.</p>
<p>Have seen lots of car windows painted like this by students. Never the sort of thing described by OP, and our kids are involved in athletics.</p>
<p>once–and only once–as part of a caravan to a game, i let the cheerleaders write stuff on our car windows. it’s big around my area–and most people do in fact write stuff about their own kids–names, numbers, etc. </p>
<p>i would only allow the generic team spirit things…</p>
<p>i do, however, have two static cling decals on my window–one for each of my kids’ universities.</p>
<p>isn’t it unsafe to drive with all that stuff all over the windows? </p>
<p>I mean, I have known people to get tickets for having their parking stickers in bad places, and I got warned once for a sign I had in my window</p>
<p>Why is paint and writing all over the windows of a car driving on the freeway okay?</p>
<p>I find if my windows have bird poop on it, I find it difficult sometimes to see out my window, and that is why we wipe the poop off, so why don’t the cops do anything about cars with windows basically covered up with team spirit writing?</p>
<p>ps= if this were happening alot in my area, I would report the cars, because no way it is safe driving with your side and rear windows covered in writing</p>
<p>I would be worried about a car filled with excited kids, a distracted driver, who may themselves be a teen and windows covered with Go Team blocking views </p>
<p>and I would actually send a letter to the local team organizations staying the safety factor involved</p>
<p>I can bet you if that car was in an accident, with its windows covered in mascots and names, that even if the other driver was at fault, they could make the claim that the one driver couldn’t see properly, etc, and it could be true, and the insurance company would have a field day</p>
<p>Our summer swim league does the caravan thing the day of championships. It is a team spirit type thing. Everyone meets in the parking lot at 6:00 am to decorate the cars and than caravan to the big meet. All 12 teams do the same thing. The parking lot is full of <em>eat my bubbles</em>, <em>go sharks/marlins/barracudas</em> and so on. I’ve never thought of it as offensive, just fun for the kids. Our car is usually undecorated, because I just don’t care that much, but I think it is kind of fun to see what the other folks do.</p>
<p>but what about the safety issue, I am not referring to it being offsensive, but dangerous</p>
<p>I think it is more a suburban thing & my impression was- when the teams from out of town converge on a field to play all day at a tournament, it makes the car more visible in the parking lot for the kids that rode in the carpool.</p>
<p>Only saw it at rugby from the team from Olympia- but I think the Bellingham team had a big awning and banner.</p>
<p>I live in the suburbs in CA, and before that lived in the suburbs in NY, and have never seen this on either coast.</p>
<p>I have seen cars decorated to celebrate high school graduations, but that’s not what the OP is talking about, I think.</p>
<p>Never seen that here (Boston city and suburbs), although I have seen a couple of “My child was student of the week at X,Y, Z school” bumper stickers, which I think are odd enough.</p>
<p>It is a huge practice in Virginia. Never done it myself because I am too lazy, but never saw it as offensive. About 2 out of 3 cars also have an OBX sticker. It took us a long time to learn that stood for Outer Banks.</p>
<p>You see it on occasion here in our rural Ohio area - usually travelling softball teams have slogans, “Honk”, etc. on their vans. There is a special car window paint for this purpose, so I don’t think it’s dangerous. </p>
<p>It doesn’t bother me - I’m all for team spirit.</p>
<p>Sorry to get off subject a little, but I just read Post #25!!!
OMG!!!
Dizzymom, are you saying that you put a sheet up on your wall that someone LOST THEIR VIRGINITY ON???</p>
<p>We see the "decorated " vans/big suv’s here all the time. It’s not usually the local schools but rather the AAU “traveling” competition type teams which our area (southern suburb) seems to have a multitude of.</p>
<p>The car magnets are everywhere too. Every school PTA must sell them. I know the marching band at our h.s. sold them at football games last year.
Some cars/vans are ridiculous looking with their entire rear end covered in magnets from all their kids schools plus all their sports. They look like my refrigerator door.</p>
<p>It’s really a blast to drive up the Florida turnpike/I-75 on the morning of a UF Gators home football game. Car after car sporting GIANT door sized gator head magnets, flags fluttering off their antenna and out the windows. It’s like a freakin’ parade! But a LOT of fun!!</p>
<p>Warning, if you are traveling up these highways on fall Saturday mornings, check and make sure there is NOT a home game in Gainesville, or you will be in a massive traffic jam when you near the offramps to UF!</p>
<p>I live in the south and see a lot of these–decals with kids team/sport/school name and number. I think it’s fine if people want to do that, but I wouldn’t want people to know my kids names, etc. . I believe that the purpose of the yard signs (and possibly the sheet on the garage) is so the wrong yards don’t get “decorated” (TP’d, rolled, whatever you call it). Again, I’d worry about advertising to creeps. My daughter got a “Terrific Kid” award from Kiwanis–she really wanted me to put the bumper sticker on our van but I accidently “lost” it. I wouldn’t blame any parents who put these “honor student” (or whatever) stickers on their cars–they are ususally given out by elementary and middle schools and the kids ask their parents to put them on.
I don’t think the parents are necessarily trying to brag, but if your kid worked hard and asked you to put the sticker on, it would be hard to say no or “lose” it every time.</p>
<p>Sorry, I’m in the South (NC), and I’ve never seen this, either. I do see the “My kid is an honor roll student at- whatever school” bumper stickers, and in reaction to those, I guess-- there are other bumper stickers that say, “I have a terrific kid at such and such school.” We always laugh about it, because we had a neighbor once who talked about her “gifted” daughter all the time, and she would refer to her son as “not my academic one”-- right in front of both of them. So when we see the “I have a terrific kid” bumper stickers, instead of the “honor roll” bumper stickers, we always say . . . oops, that must not be their “academic one.” ;)</p>