to want to ram people in the legs with my pushchair when going through automatic doors?

[IWantAChickAndADuck]

Surely I am not the only one that gets seriously fucked off with hoards of fit healthy people cramming through automatic doors, meaning I have to squeeze though with buggy + child + shopping when there is a push door right next to it that no one uses?!!?!

[AboardtheAxiom]

YANBU

How hard is it to open a door?!

[LowLevelWhingeing]

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean?

Are we not allowed to use automatic doors if we are 'fit and healthy'?

I don't get it.

[LowLevelWhingeing]

Oh I see, like in big shopping malls?

[IWantAChickAndADuck]

yes, but surley give consideration to those that would find it alot harder to hold open a push door?

[MavisEnderby]

Yanbu,even more annoying is when they deliberately squeeze past/step over in front of you as if you don't exist like someone did in front of dds wheelchair yesterday.

[aWitchForLifeNotJustHalloween]

you mean you are just wanting to do it and you have so far restrained yourself?

Run over their toes, mate - they soon learn not to use lazy-man's doors
I had the ancient Graco tandem that had a stopping distance similar to an 20-ton lorry, so you get in my way, I run over your toes. simple, eh?

[Saltire]

Well I sometimes find it hard to push open those heavy non automatic doors!

[LowLevelWhingeing]

yes, I see. If there was someone with a pram I would let them get through first, but if I had shopping in my hands I would also go for the automatic option.

[aWitchForLifeNotJustHalloween]

ps, must clarify, only ever able-bodied lazy teenagers, never little old ladies with heaps of shopping.

[IWantAChickAndADuck]

Poison - not when I've a bus to catch
Mavis - so frustrating!
Awitch - came close today, very close!

and lifts too...they just all pile in pretending they can't see you!! Grrr

[HarrumphingAndBosomAdjusting]

Lifts are terrible with a pushchair, as are trains, narrow pavements and often buses.
You are either treated with complete disdain, or as though you don't exist.
Normally, however, when people stop to help me get on trains etc they are teenage boys or young girls.
Which is pleasantly reassuring.

[Meglet]

yanbu. When I don't have the kids with me I use the push open doors and take the stairs. I get pathetically annoyed with it too.

[InMyLittleHead]

Well, I do hate it when people use pushchairs as weapons. But I always hold doors open for people with pushchairs, or help them carry the pushchair up stairs. See, I am a Nice Lady.

[SCARYspicemonster]

What really irritates me is the stream of people who keep coming and coming while you're waiting patiently for them to stop coming two abreast so you and your pushchair can make it through the door.

I am a fan of barging when getting off the tube and people start clambering on but I have to say I don't do it with a child in a pushchair. Using my DS as a battering ram makes me feel slightly queasy

[costagirl]

YANBU. I once wanted to kill people at the Tate Modern who kept hogging the lifts, with NO children with them, while those of us with pushchairs couldn't get in. There were frigging escalators they could have used.

Also want to ram old people who go out shopping on Saturdays and walk really slowly - they have all week to do it.

Tolerance is my middle name!

[Saltire]

They might have a hidden disability that makes them unable to use the dors that need pushed

[IWantAChickAndADuck]

stuff it...next time I will ram

[6feetundertheGroundhogs]

Worse are the manual doors where someone just sails through it, without so much as a backward glance and lets it just slam shut in front of you....

[RustyBear]

costagirl - have you ever considered that those old people who have the audacity to inconvenience you by walking slowly may only be able to go shopping on Saturday because that's the only day they can get a lift into town.

[costagirl]

yes, i was being facetious.

[RustyBear]

Yes, I know you were, costagirl, I just don't find ageism funny.

[costagirl]

Sorry Rusty, didn't really expect to be taken seriously. Didn't mean to upset anyone.

Tho was quite irate at Tate Modern.

[GhoulsAreLoud]

I spend so much of my time pushing a pushchair that I sometimes forget on the rare occasions I don't have DD with me and find myself using those doors, or worse, waiting for lifts instead of just going up the stairs.