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AIBU when out with my pushchair

262 replies

NotForSale · 17/02/2017 06:37

To want to ram it into the ankles of anyone in front of me who walks really slow/ stops/ or cuts across me?

OP posts:
dustarr73 · 17/02/2017 09:38

Op should have put lighthearted in the thread.Some people on this thread think you are serious.She is only messing.She wouldnt really do it.

ToastyFingers · 17/02/2017 09:40

Yabu is suppose but oh god I know what you mean!

I live in what seems to be an unique combination of retirement village and tourist town.

There are a lot of elderly people (which is fine, obviously, and makes for a very low crime rate too) so everything moves sooooo slowly. There's always a slow moving queue in the supermarket or pharmacy and it takes ages to get anywhere with the buggy.

Then, from April-October my sleepy home town is flooded with tourists. The families are lovely, but it's mainly groups of 'lads' on a jolly or similar.
I laughed out loud at I'm glad of the tourists too. Their money keeps my town looking good in reality, their money keeps the holiday camp, the fairground and the cheap 'can of fosters for 1.50' type pubs going, but actually, the extortionately high council tax we all pay keeps the town looking nice.

Eeesh, sorry, rant over.

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 17/02/2017 09:40

OAPs in shops at 10.00 am is totally reasonable though.

You could argue that people who aren't at work that day (whether they are retired, they don't work or they have a day off) shouldn't clutter up the shops and towns between 8-9 am and 12-2 pm but that would be totally unreasonable (and another thread entirely) Grin

AwaywiththePixies27 · 17/02/2017 09:43

Fenella I had the most randomest dream last night that I was in labour with my third. Given my youngest is 8 soon and ive been single five years its not for me so maybe it's a good omen for you that lo will make an appearance this side of the week Smile

Funnyface1 · 17/02/2017 09:45

I think the point is that some people are really inconsiderate to prams and wheelchairs and it's frustrating. I was with my dh and he was in a wheelchair temporarily after an accident. A lady followed us into the lift and because there wasn't really room for her she rested all her shopping bags on dh's legs!!!

AliceThrewTheFookingGlass · 17/02/2017 09:46

This really pisses me off too.

I have actually accidentally rammed into a man's ankle before and almost sent him flying. We was in a shopping centre and he went from walking very quickly in front of me to stopping and taking a step back to look in a window. I didn't expect it and I just ploughed straight into him Blush

AwaywiththePixies27 · 17/02/2017 09:46

dentytown get your Dad to say "ello soldier" to the ones that land in his lap.

They'll move pronto Wink

5moreminutes · 17/02/2017 09:47

It's the pavement parkers who should be the source of your wrath as others have said. I used to live near a train station and Monday to Friday the pavements of our long cul-de-sac were all blocked by commuters cars (while the station car park stood empty as it was pay and display) - the road was dangerous to cross even for agile people on foot, especially anyone not especially tall, as they impeded visibility, and there wasn't room on the pavement for a single buggy let alone a wheelchair - buggies and wheelchair users had to proceed down the middle of the road Angry The police came out occasionally and ticketed but it didn't put he commuters off parking over the pavement instead of paying for the car park.

AwaywiththePixies27 · 17/02/2017 09:47

But that was clearly an accident Alice you didn't deliberately ram into him because he was going too slow.

MaidOfStars · 17/02/2017 09:47

Where do runners fit into this? Everyone's far too slow for me, buggy or not, ambling along, glued to phones, randomly tracking into my path.

Last week, I ran into the back of a woman, who decided to sidestep right to where I had deviated my path to pass her safely. Not even a cursory look over her shoulder before she changed direction and it was really too late for me too avoid her. Phone out, no idea of her surroundings, and a baby in a sling in her front, FFS. I was mortified but couldn't have prevented it. I managed to grab her so she didn't stumble/fall, but honestly, when you've got a baby on board, is it too much to ask someone to be attentive to others?

Dawndonnaagain · 17/02/2017 09:51

I have 20 year old twins. One is a wheelchair user. The other has a disability too, it means that whilst she looks absolutely fine, every step she takes is akin to walking on hot coals, this is followed by the fact that the impact of each step causes pain all the way up to her hips. Far as I'm concerned there are a load of selfish, thoughtless fuckers on here. Think about someone other than yourselves sometime. That person going slowly in the supermarket may be trying to eek out the time they're allowed out. The person in front of the door way may have just had a flashback, the slow person in a shopping mall may be trying to control their anxiety. Try a little kindness now and then, it's far easier than constant frustration at the world getting in your way.

AwaywiththePixies27 · 17/02/2017 09:51

5moreminutes My Mum lives in a similar set up. The layby is intended for the residents (about four or five blocks of flats). There's a railway station across the road and the same thing, no one uses it and uses the layby instead because its free. Then you have all the others parking on pavements when there's no room left and you couldn't even get a mouse through the gaps on some days. Never mind a small toddler/ person / pram / wheelchair. Everyone still ignores the new giant bright yellow "wheel clamping in operation" sign.

NotYoda · 17/02/2017 09:56

Away

Seems some of them do Grin

If you read the rest of my posts you'll see i was joking

Peace and Love

AwaywiththePixies27 · 17/02/2017 09:59

It's too early for peace and love. I haven't had my cuppa yet. Grin

AwaywiththePixies27 · 17/02/2017 10:02

MaidOfStars I just look on at you with jealousy admiration.

Then troll you all in real life in the summer when I sit on warm grassy river banks scoffing my face with pork pies whilst you all run by and look on at me and the DCs wistfully. Wink

SpringerS · 17/02/2017 10:02

The worst I experienced was when DS was a few weeks old and I walked past a street where a pro-life rally was being held. A lot of the participants had moved on to the street that they hadn't booked for the rally as I guess they wanted passers-by to see them and were taking up huge sections of the whole path. So anyone trying to get past had to step onto the busy road every few feet. I wasn't used to pushing a buggy so at first I automatically started to go on the road to pass them but when a truck trundled past very close to me and the pram I suddenly realised how dangerous it was and decided to stay on the pavement and insist the groups make room for me to pass them on the pavement. After a few polite 'excuse mes' were ignored I lost the rag a bit and started loudly pointing out that if they were so pro-life they might want to stop endangering the actual live baby they were forcing off the pavement.

Champers4Pampers · 17/02/2017 10:04

YABU but I fully sympathise with your rage.

GinIsIn · 17/02/2017 10:07

AwayWithThePixies oooh I will take all the omens I can get - thanking you muchly! Grin

Chloe84 · 17/02/2017 10:55

Two women rammed a pushchair into my elderly, disabled mother. When she worked up the courage to ask them why they did it, they said it was because 'she was walking too slowly'.

I don't give a fuck if you're joking, OP. This thread is disgusting and shame on you for starting it.

I've reported.

AwaywiththePixies27 · 17/02/2017 11:02

Chloe84 that's awful your poor mum

Hope she's okay now. Flowers

GinIsIn · 17/02/2017 11:07

There was an elderly man killed in M&S at Christmas a few years back too by someone ramming him with their pushchair because they felt he was too slow. It made him fall and hit his head on a shelf, and he died pretty much outright.

ZackyVengeance · 17/02/2017 11:07

yanbu
it gives me the rage when out with dc and their wheelchair....but we have a hooter on it

JacquelineChan · 17/02/2017 11:09

I used to get pram rage too. What about this scenario :

you are in a shop and walking down the aisle with your pram/buggy. There is somebody browsing the shelf down that aisle , you can both see there would not be room for you to pass. At this point you are walking towards the browser.
Browser looks up , acknowledges buggy , but stays put.
10 seconds later you arrive at browser, browser looks up - surprised ! you say excuse me please , browser moves to the side.

I often wondered what they were thinking 'here comes a lady with a pram walking towards me, I will stay here as the pram might disappear or magically get smaller once they approach''

CaraAspen · 17/02/2017 11:12

I take it this is meant to be lighthearted?

I find the entitled female parents very annoying indeed and wish they would not push their ludicrously big pram things towards other people or come too close to others who are walking - as they wish - in front of them. It's as if they imagine they are special and the crowd should part for them. Well no, you ain't special. Surprise.

JacquelineChan · 17/02/2017 11:14

Happy Friday Cara Grin