We interrupt your regularly scheduled blog with a public service announcement. Since I’ve moved to the burbs, I have noticed a strange phenomenon: little family portraits (consisting of stick figures) proudly displayed on the back any given momobile for all to see.

Aside from the fact that they are REALLY annoying, those stickers are a REALLY bad idea.

These moms obviously don’t watch Dexter. If they did, they would know that’s precisely how the Trinity Killer lured his victim away from the arcade. He said, I am officer so-and-so and your parents have been in an accident. My partner, officer so-and-so, already has your brother Timmy (a name which he learned from the back of the family van) and is taking him down to the station. Come with me. The kid goes along, no questions asked. It’s frightening.

Now, I am by no means a cop, FBI agent, or any other type of law enforcement officer. But displaying the name and birth order of each and every member of your family just seems downright irresponsible.

In some cases, the stickers even show the said family’s last name, like a banner that reads “The Miller Family” right across the top. YIKES! Furthermore, we really don’t care about the names of your dog, cat, fish and/or hamster.

Sing it with me, “The more you knoooooooooow!”

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