to not want to walk 2 miles from nursery in the dark

[Fibilou]

Or am I being pathetic ? DH is at work and says he hasn't got time to drop the car back but I really don't want to make the 4 mile round trip in the dark, 2 miles of which will be with a 9 month old baby in a sling

YABU

you're being pathetic, i'm afraid.

it's going to be dark like this and worse until spring, so you'll have to get used to it.

I can see where you're coming from, though - the first day I walked home from work when it was already dark outside freaked me out.

Is the power out? If so, do you have a torch? Why is it so dark?

this is the last week I have to walk - I go back to work next week and will have the car from next Monday (she only does one day a week)

YABU - I wouldn't fancy walking 4 miles in the dark and cold either, but why don't you just get the bus? Or a taxi if it's not a regular thing?

Are there street lights? If so I think possibly YABU, soz.

Try a sling where you can get baby on your back, much easier for walking as they get bigger.

well.... it doesn't sound like you have much choice does it! lol

um, it wouldn't bother me to do the distance, or to do it in the dark. but then I have no idea where you live and what it's like.

can you walk there and get a taxi back?

Tee

it's dark outside !

or can you get a taxi to your dh's work and pick the car up?

No, there is street lighting.

I am being pathetic, aren't I. I am just being irrational because I am worried about something happening to DD

Is it two miles through a forest, with wolves and houses made of sweets or is it along well lit pavements in a town? If it's the former, YANBU.

No, there's no bus to the nursery, it's along back streets and there is street lighting etc. I just don't want to go out in the cold and dark having been warm and snug in the house all day ! And no money for taxi

That's true !!

Yup, sorry you are being terribly pathetic. If you're too anxious to walk home with DD then get a taxi.

x posts. Just walk then, I'm with Riven. good free exercise.

Em, Fermina - I put to you, would you fancy embarking on a 4 mile walk now ? In the cold, dark and carrying a 25lb baby ?

I may be being a bit pathetic but terribly pathetic ?

Yeah, just walk you lazy wimp (in a nice way!)

Use a pushchair instead of a sling? Teach the 9 month old to walk?

I am starting to do that walk as well (although not tonight because DH is home today and he took the walk instead as we don't own a car) but I am looking forward to bundling up and getting my 16 month old and crunching through the leaves with the pushchair!

Well, yes I would actually. I'd find it infinitely preferable to what I need to do in the next hour or so. TBH I doubt I'm the only one on the thread who wouldn't gladly swap with you.

wouldn't would

Fibilou - I can't drive so often have to walk to and from places in the dark in all weathers. You won't melt

I wouldn't mind, I like walking.

but I would probably prefer a back-carrier to a sling.

and you can have a rest when you get there.

(and you could even take a flask of hot drink to sip on the way back)

don't forget your gloves and earmuffs, though, cos it's a bit nippy.

:)

Thanks for that helpful patronising little comment, Fermina, it makes me feel a lot more pathetic, as I expect was you holier than thou-er intention. I expect people in haiti and pakistan would gladly swap with me as well.