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From: reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: net.kids,ba.general
Subject: Re: "Child in car" signs
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 03:33:49 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 03:33:49 1985
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Summary: 

I had just assumed that a sign saying "child in car" was the same sort of
warning as "student driver"--letting me know that I should be alert for the
driver of the car doing something quite erratic when the child pulls the
glasses off the driver's face or throws a doll that lands wedged under the
brake pedal, or starts a tantrum that causes the driver to take his eyes off
the road.

On the other hand, I most frequently see these signs on the back of Volvo
station wagons, which makes the signs somewhat redundant, because I am 
already very afraid of the kind of driver who would buy a Volvo station
wagon; the knowledge that the driver may at any moment veer suddenly to
the edge of the road to get out to re-buckle the child's seat belt
and wash orange juice from the inside of the windshield does not make me any
more afraid than I already am.
-- 
	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
	Stanford	reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA