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to be excited about witnessing my first pushchair related fight?

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entropygirl · 16/05/2012 23:41

I don't get out much...especially not on public transport...but today I lost my pram fight cherry and witnessed actual swearing

So who was U here?

On a crowed train and I am sitting with 3 other people in the fold down chairs next to a window labelled to indicate that bicycles may also be stored here.

At the next stop a man and woman in control of a pushchair with an approx 3 yo in the front and an approx 1 yo in the back get on. They stand in the seatless area by the doors.

Next stop, a few people get off allowing the woman to sit down near me, filling the fold down chair space once more. She puts the pushchair across in front of the luggage rack.

Next stop, everyone wants off except me and the family. Half way through disembarking the woman launches herself across the carriage and start hurling abuse. It would seem that another woman attempting to gain access to the luggage rack has touched the pushchair! The infringing woman is startled and squawks 'I'm not touching your baby, I would't touch your baby" and the woman with the pushchair tells her to "fuck off and not every fucking touch her fucking pushchair" etc etc and all but chases her off the train.

The woman with the pushchair spends the entire time to the next stop chuntering alternately about people with their "sewer" hands touching her pushchair and how in reality it the fault of everyone sitting on the fold down seats for causing the problem in the first place.

So a) is it actually U to move someone's pushchair to get your luggage off a train?
b) is it U to swear at someone who has done this and chase them off the train?
c) is it all my fault for sitting on the fold down seats?

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JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 17/05/2012 16:48

complex, it would be very different to move an adult in a wheelchair than to move a child in a buggy! It's not like you can converse with a baby and ask them if you can squeeze past, for one thing Grin

As an aside, I'm rather disappointed by that Porsche pushchair. Not that I'm in the market for one. It looks a bit lame, really.

baabaapinksheep · 17/05/2012 16:50

This reminds me of a time when DD1 was a baby, she was with my mum for the day so xp (when we were still together) and I took the opportunity to do a bit of child free shopping. We were browsing in a shop and a couple near us had the same buggy, so without really thinking, and being used to always pushing a buggy, xp starts to bring the buggy with us! Luckily he noticed within a few seconds, and apologised to the other parents, they must have thought he was a right weirdo!

entropygirl · 17/05/2012 16:53

baa whoa that really might have ended badly!

I think this coming down to it okayish as long as you don't have 'sewer hands'.

It occurs to me that I may have misheard this comment...not to put too fine a point on it, the woman was not speaking Queen's English.

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