AIBU to be quietly pissed off with a woman taking up a buggy space with her "reborn" doll?

[VinegarDrinker]

First up, I fully accept that this woman may well have psychological issues. And there is NO WAY I would say anything out loud.

And people are welcome to whatever hobbies they enjoy, and if that involves buying big expensive travel systems for your doll then be my guest.

But taking up a buggy space on a busy bus/train? AIBU to think this is taking your hobby a tiny bit too far?

[garlicblocks]

MrsDV, has next door's "shed" been rented out to a reborn nursery??!

[IdaClair]

To be fair the doll pays the same fare as a real baby so should have just as much right to a space.

[IneedAsockamnesty]

Can anyone put a link up for the documentary your talking about I can't find it and every time I google my fake baby it directs me to a link on you tube saying it no longer exists

[soontobeburns]

Thanks ice and green I hope so too

[PimpMyHippo]

I don't think there's anything wrong with being quietly annoyed - if you'd been visibly tutting/eye-rolling or making nasty comments then that would be VU and mean, but you can't help feeling a bit irritated when someone's inconveniencing other people and if you're keeping it to yourself then you're not upsetting anyone by feeling that way, so there's no need to feel bad. Live and let live and whatnot...

[CruCru]

The thing about the documentary was that they edited it to make it look as though the grandmother had lost a child. When it turned out her daughter had moved abroad with her grandson, I rather lost some sympathy.

Agree re the luggage rack comment. Did anyone read the bit in Adrian Mole where he'd put one of those crying babies in a parcel back to the manufacturer and the post office lady went loopy when she heard the realistic crying from within?

[IneedAsockamnesty]

I just found and watched it. And I thought Harry had died as well. How unpleasant that she basically told her gs she had a new Harry.

[bringnbuy]

soon big hugs and wish you all the best. i really hope it happens for you xx

[Housemum]

I thought the same about the grandmother - I understand how these dolls help with loss, but when the grandson was happy to talk on Skype I know that doesn't mean she can cuddle him but she was clinging to him as a baby and as he is still alive she seems to be craving the baby more than him IYSWIM

The woman spending a fortune was odd - and when she threw a strop because her baby wasn't perfect it made me feel v uncomfortable as if she couldn't cope without physical perfection, and perhaps as well she'd chosen (I think she was choice rather than circumstances?) not to have a real potentially "imperfect" baby.

I need to be v careful when the girls take their dolls out - saw the horrified look on someone's face when I picked up Baby Born by the foot! Perhaps subconsciously I'm making sure people know I know they aren't real!

[Crawling]

I dont think she should be told to move it I feel quite sorry for her

[riskit4abiskit]

I'm intrigued by the dog and cat in pram stories. No pet of mine would put up with such indignities! Wouldn't they overheat?Wouldnt cat claws rip the linings? What if the cat escaped the pram and you were miles from home, how would it get back? Would you have to buy it a ticket? You couldn't take it in a shop, unless it was a guide dog, and then it woildnt be able to do much guiding would it, if it was in the pram?

Am probably overthinking this.

[SirBoobAlot]

Most annoying one was a woman with a small buggy on the bus... I looked into it as I parked my DS's next... Two fucking FERRETS were in there.

[aquashiv]

Ferrets brilliant do you think they had car seats also?

[SirBoobAlot]

MrsDV

[auldspinster]

A colleague told me about a lady who pushes her dogs around in a pram and fashions rain hats out of carrier bags for them. I did spot dogs in what looked like a pram, but on closer imspection it had paw prints and was a special doggy pram.

[5madthings]

You can get special doggy prams there is an elderly lady I see on the school run who has one and one of the big issue sellers in town has ferrets he keeps on leads. Most so queer as folk!

Lol at mrsdevere being mistaken for a crazy dog lady!

[Kiriwawa]

If there was only one empty seat on the bus and when you went to sit down, the person in the other seat told you their invisible friend was sitting there, would you sit there anyway?

What if they had an imaginary football team?

[VinegarDrinker]

Hah MrsDV "This sort of thing is just part of living in East London really* - you are very right. Dogs in buggies are definitely normal around here.

[riskit4abiskit]

Well dogs are one thing.....but ferrets?!

Dangerous IMO, if you leant over to look, they'd have your nose

Teeth like needles I tell you.

[pixwix]

I once met the man who held the world record for having the most number of ferrets down his trousers.

[LittleMissFantabulous]

There's a woman who lives near my old house who takes a classic silver cross coach built pram out everyday for a walk to the local post office. Thee is never anyone/thing in it. Creepy as hell:/

There's a couple who use the bus route I do who have two trollies. One for their shopping and one for their rat on a lead Yorkshire terrier. They've filled the trolley with a duvet and blankets to make a platform for the fog. They're odd.

[IneedAsockamnesty]

I once bumped into someone I used to be friends with, she was walking around marks and Spencer's with a dead dog in a carrier bag, clothes shopping ( her not the dead dog)

She didnt have a ferret

[garlicblocks]

pixwix, you've got the best claim to fame I think!

Not so sure it's 'creepy' to walk an empty pram in the mornings, or a dog/doll in a buggy. They are people's coping mechanisms, surely? Lots of mumsnetters do things I find a bit weird - banning shoes in houses, for one! - but if it makes you feel better and doesn't hurt anyone ...