People are being incredibly selfish

[SummersMumma]

Today my neighbour who is shielding asked me (who is isolating) to post some letters for her. Myself and my 6 year old daughter collected the letters to make the 1 min walk to the post box and back. My daughter took her dolls pram with her. She is about 3ft tall max. I say this just in case someone suggests there was logic behind this.
On our way back from the post box. An adult DOG walker forced my HUMAN child to walk in the road to accommodate themself and their dog on the pavement and maintain a 2M distance from us. I did try to speak to her but given that she was on her phone with her ear phones in she either didn't hear or ignored me.
This is the first time we have stepped outside our door in over 14 days and after that selfish behaviour I think I am happy to stay in.
People should be ashamed.

Toddlers are unpredictable, they dont understand the concept of social distancing so they should either be in a sling/pram or not taken out.

Nonsense. You can hold a toddler’s hand you know. And they need to walk and exercise as much as the next person, if not more. I suggest when your DC is a toddler you try and keep them cooped up in the house all day everyday for a while and see how sane you all still are by the end of it...

I've noticed that people seem scared to acknowledge you. To me when someone moves to let you pass a nod and a smile is approrpiate, whether it's me who's moved or me acknowledging someone else. People seem scared to make eye contact.

I also think some of what OP describes is just people out for a walk in a little world of their own rather than deliberate rudeness.

I've noticed that people seem scared to acknowledge you. To me when someone moves to let you pass a nod and a smile is approrpiate, whether it's me who's moved or me acknowledging someone else. People seem scared to make eye contact.

I've noticed this too - to be fair, it's really unnatural to move away from someone but then also be friendly, so I think people revert to the most familiar 'mode' of moving away from people, which is ignoring them in a bit of a fearful way.

You’re over reacting and it sounds like you ( and your HUMAN child) probably need to get out more and take exercise and get fresh air and some perspective.
On the plus side there was probably no traffic right?

@LisaSimpsonsbff fraid not, if someone hit my dog with a stick, they'd get the same treatment. No fantasising required.

Wow, people are really looking for opportunities to get annoyed aren't they? Is this really a thread about who moved out the way on the pavement first?

Why did you let her wave you into the road?

There are always people like that, but maybe it would be healthier if we all acknowledged that at least 80% of people are doing the right thing, like yourself, OP, doing a kindness for your neighbour.

Ah yes. The 'dogs are more important than people' are out.

Ffs. Everyone needs to show consideration and social distancing. Dogs on a lead, children holding hands or close to parents. Nobody (dog or person) should be charging around and up to others.

Vulnerable people take priority on a pavement. Including small children. Nobody should hog it though (unless the pavement is as wide as the person/buggy/mobility scooter etc).

Fwiw I would be furious if my child hit a dog with a stick and would apologise then educate my child. If an adult hit my child in retaliation with a stick, I would report it to the police.

But the vast majority of people aren't. Focus on that instead, you will feel infinitely better.

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tilder

To be fair, my old dog would have been more important to ME. My babies died and my love was passed to her. I can’t help how I felt about her. She saved me. Don’t FFS me for that.

I wouldn’t hit a child back if it hit my dog but I would tear such a strip off the group of people (child and adults) that they would think twice before acting like that again.

The child who threw a firework at me was bloody lucky I was smart enough to run than throw it back in their direction. Tempted though I was, it would have made me just as bad.

I don’t hold much stock in kids sometimes.

But I am thankful for those, like you, who teach them not to hurt animals. If they respect animals they also respect people.

I can’t get further than the doll’s pram. Did you take it back into the house after wheeling it along a public pavement where people might have coughed and sneezed?

There’s some unbelievably selfish idiots around yes. We were forced down a steep grass embankment with the pram last week by a mother and teenage daughter who indicated we should get out of the way for them.

And this afternoon my neighbours are having another BBQ with their kids and kids partners! 6 of them in the garden now!

I'm disappointed that you clarified that you have a HUMAN child and not a DOG or CAT because until you'd mentioned it I was picturing a two legged KITTEN pushing its little pram and it was a rather charming image.

This really made me laugh.

Yes I did take the dolls pram back to our house where I wiped its wheels and then carried it through the house to her Summer house in the garden where her outdoor toys are kept.
Do you bring your shoes indoors?

I had to walk out into an A road which was quite busy this morning because someone had parked fully on the path and had their window down while chatting to someone who was standing in the doorway of a house. Normally I’d have squeezed through the narrow gap left but it wasn’t safe to do so.

I think you are over thinking this. These are strange times and I realise things tend to play on your mind more than they usually would. But the roads are so quiet at the moment, I have no problem with my children walking on them, just step briefly into the road to go around people.

Shoes in the house? You’ll be accusing us of having toilet brushes next.

How very, very dare you

@Willow2017
@LisaSimpsonsbff

Why is that ridiculous? I just mean kids little enough not to understand the 2m rule. What is wrong with using a pram/sling/reins? That way they get fresh air and a change of scenery but cant run towards people and break the distancing rules.

@Pinkblueberry

Nobody has the right to break the 2m rule just because their toddler is bored and frustrated. If they're not old enough to understand they need to stay well away from others, they should be in a pram or a sling. Toddlers can spread covid as well, why should other people just have to tolerate it?

I am only talking about situations where people are forced to walk past each other at close quarters eg pavements, narrower paths in the park etc..

I’m a runner, I’ve always given way to literally every other type of pavement user, but now will happily run in road / stop etc to give way. The entitlement of others is spectacular though. Families 4 abreast on the pavement, couples meandering across paths, kids on bikes / scooters with no clue! If everyone was just aware and thought about how best to maintain 2metres it would all be a lot easier. I don’t think it matters who moved into the road in your occasion op, would be nice if she’d acknowledged though.

That's bad very bad, and I would have told them to get to fuck before making my child walk on the road....

@Willow2017 when did I say anything about toddlers being allowed to break the 2m rule? Are you replying to someone else’s post?

Why is that ridiculous? I just mean kids little enough not to understand the 2m rule. What is wrong with using a pram/sling/reins?

What’s wrong with holding a toddlers hand? I used to walk to the shop with my toddler holding my hand, I didn’t need a pram/sling/reins for that, I didn’t just let him dart off into the road