My Family Stickers

You may have seen the My Family™ stickers in operation. They’re the silhouette stick figure decals people stick on their back car window that in theory serve as avatars for the typical conglomerate within the vehicle. Mum, dad, two kids, the dog. That sort of thing.

You do have to hand it to the creator. They’ve been heartily embraced by middle and lower-middle Australia and to me it seems as if every second family-type car has them on their window.

I wonder too how the stickers work when the family arrangement gets more complex? 

If there’s a separation does the dad sticker peel away easily? What about the boyfriend? Does he get stuck in dad’s place? What if mum decides she likes the ladies after-all and her new girlfriend moves in? If a family later blends with another do they simply add more kids to the line? How about polygamists? Is it Dad / Mum / Mum / Mum / Kid / Kid / Kid / Kid / Kid? They’re going to run out of fucking window.

Recently I was following a car with the stickers on. The My Family family was emblazoned, left to right, on the left side of the window and seemed on the surface a typical arrangement of Dad / Mum / Kid / Kid / Pet. 

Only they’d left their previous decal—a tramp stamp like butterfly decal— in the lower middle of the window.

So it fully looked like Mothra was coming for them...