in hating MASSIVE buggies?

[Smurfgirl]

I am sure when I have a baby I will have a massive buggy and look back on this and judge myself.

But at the moment I am SICK to death of being barged out of the way by people with huge buggies, or people with buggies walking next to each other so there is no room to get past on the pavement, or not being able to get to a bit of the shop because a huge buggy is there blocking the way. I asked someone to move their buggy today (politely) in a small shop and she tutted at me. Grrr.

hell i didnt see that!maybe smurfgirl has mahooosive buggy now and wheels it with attitude

I traded my massive travel system for a neat Maclaren quest which can actually fit in shops and in the boot.
Big buggies feel a bit sturdier though.

Have only read OP, but I can't help feeling this is another one of those threads where people single out parents because they're an easy target.

I have a Maclaren, a 'sensible'-sized buggy. I hate large buggies (though the all-terrain ones are damned useful if you want to burn off your preg fat by running...). However, all the things the OP was whingeing about I have seen done by people without buggies.

So it seems to me that it's not buggies that are the problem, it's people getting in your way. Which, frankly, is just life, innit?

Smurfgirl, I am at your claim to be fed up with being "barged" out of the way by people's buggies - do they actually ram into you, or are you using a little artistic exaggeration here?

If someone tuts at you because you politely ask them to move their buggy, it's not the having of the large buggy that's the problem, it's the person's attitude. And if someone's in front of you and blocking your way (with or without a buggy), just learn to say "excuse me". It's really not that hard.

So, yes, YABU. Because you're clearly just in a whingey mood.

I suspect parents who have big unnecessary prams and block pavements and shop doorways with them are the sort of people who even without the prams would block pavements and shop doorways. Like SpeedyGonzalez says, it's the attitude not the pram. Though big buggies do drive my mum mad - she owns a shop and has had to have the door fixed numerous times because of juggernaut-sized prams being rammed through and breaking bits of the wood off.

I had a big vintage Silver Cross at one point. When I bought it, pre-baby, I thought I was the bees knees, with my stylish hawt pram all big and shiny and spokey-wheeled.

Anyway, it drove me mad after about two weeks, let alone anybody else. Couldn't do anything with it if I intended to be anywhere near a shop at any point in the day. Sold it on eBay and bought a nippy little thing that could be taken out in public without the risk of it flinging old ladies into the gutter or crushing small children under its chassis.