Babies ‘R Us is helping you predict your baby’s future delinquent behavior by offering a onesie that proudly exclaims “Someday I’ll get trashed at prom.”
Perhaps this is for parents who did the same and that’s how little junior came to be.
Understandably, the internet is ablaze with outrage (but when isn’t it, though, really?) that the baby retailer would offer an outfit for a baby that makes light of underage drinking.
Babies ‘R Us seems to not be able to handle the heat and have since taken the outfit off of its Web site, but Wry Baby, the maker of the outfit, still has it available.
Wry Baby is infamous for their funny little messages on baby outfits, like “Someday I’ll have a hairy chest”, and shirts made especially for twins that say “Stop Copying Me!”
But some of their slogans, many believe, cross the line. Shirts with “Future Cougar” and one with a picture entitled “Calming Baby” featuring a mother loving her swaddled infant with a GOOD, and a baby hugging a bottle of liquor with a BAD. Wry Baby apparently likes their babies and alcohol combo.
Yeah, yeah, it’s just a shirt. Don’t like it, don’t by it. I actually think the Web site is pretty cute, but the drinking one is a little over the line for me.
Kids drink, especially at prom, and in no way, shape or form do I think that a baby wearing a gag shirt about teenage drinking is somehow going to send underage drinking stats through the roof, but I just don’t get it. It’s not funny. It’s just a stupid shirt, period. Why prom? Prom is more harmless than, say, “Someday I’ll get trashed and kill an entire family because I think I’m above the law” which is why some may giggle instead of gasp, but if you think your baby’s future substance abuse is funny, why not go whole hog and put them in a “Someday I’ll get trashed and sleep my best friend’s future wife the night before their wedding” or “Someday I’ll get trashed and end up impregnated by a rock star who will tape cab fare to my forehead”?
Wry Baby is a small niche company where you know what you are getting. Babies ‘R Us is a huge, mainstream corporation that chooses what outfits to stock and should know better. I’d be more impressed if they stood by the product and told everyone to lighten up instead of yanking the product after hearing public criticism. It just shows they didn’t think this one through.
Way to have high hopes for our children, Babies ‘R Us.
“Someday I’ll win a Nobel Peace prize.”
“Someday I’ll find a way to save someone’s life.”
“Someday I will learn that t-shirts with phrases that demean my character and compromise my integrity are a waste of money.”
I’m slapping those shirts on my future baby. I always thought “Pooparazzi” was cute, too.
