if you are pushing your buggy or pram

[MrsFogi]

in the park and I smile at you as I push my pram whilst on my morning walk would you please smile back? I know you can see me if we are the only people in the vicinity and pass next to one another and it makes the morning much more pleasant than if you pretend you haven't seen me. Btw I'm not pulling some crazy big smile, just a small smile to acknowledge that you have a lovely dd or ds in your buggy too.

well said.

i agree!
big cheesy smile to you

yep, me too.

And when I stop and pull my buggy over to one side with my toddler on the reins pulling me to go, on a narrow street / shopping aisle or whatever, and let you pass before me (even though I have no obligation to and could easily run you down with my buggy) can you at least acknowledge it with a small 'thankyou'

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Do you all live "dawn souf"?

Where I live eveybody is much more friendly

I usually say hello and smile.

People think they know you then and smile back and say hello.

Dog walkers usually v friendly though. Shame about the black-gummed, hair-shedding, stinky, drooling menaces they're walking though

most people usually grannies just stare straight ahead with me cos im a young 19 year old mum but addmitted i look about 12 and it gets on my nerves but i smile and show how proud i am to be a mummy!!

i did one have a grow with a granny on a bus wen she muttered to her friend "just kids having kids" so i had to give her an answer back with "and how old was you wen u had you children?" she never uttered another word for the rest of the journey lol RESULT

but id like to recieve a big big

I do fletchaarr
v.rude people round here actually.
no-ne ever holds doors open for me either when I am struggling to get through with a pushchair. In fact, they'll barge past me

go

Yes down South in the big smoke. It only seems to be grandparents who smile back and it's getting on my nerves. If you are under 60 and smile back I promise not to leap into your path and ask you to befriend me, I'm just smiling .

oh my wew tell me bout it fingerwoman lol
and people in busy shops look at you as if to say "cant you make that pram dissapear?"

I always smile

i was in a shop at xmas wiv a sign that said you break it and you pay for it but they had stacked things so close that i did knock summing and break it and told them i ll pay for it when you move this stock far enough apart so that a pram or wheelchair can get thru, they said dont worry bout it and have a happy xmas thru gritted teeth

Do I live in a polite enclave of London then? I smile and chat to people and have doors held open for the pushchair, help getting down steps at the Tube station etc. Am always extremely grateful and say, "Thank you. How very kind of you", which seems to really please people and presumably will encourage them to do the same for others.

Actually, only once ever had a mean comment and it was from an older lady on a bus, who was sitting in the seats by the wheelchair/ buggy space. I got on the bus with the buggy and she proclaimed, "Well I'm not moving. These seats are for the ELDERLY." Sez I, "Are you speaking to me madam? There's plenty of room for all of us, there wouldn't be any need for you to move and I wouldn't ask you to." Whereupon another older woman said, "Wouldn't bloody hurt you to move. Look you could sit in that seat there and let that lovely young mother sit beside her baby." Cue women arguing. I was completely morto, but it was nice of the other lady to stick up for me I suppose.

Also mortifying, but lovely when someone shouted into the train carriage before I had DD2, "Look, there's a pregnant lady trying to get on. Can you make space so that someone can give her a seat?"

lmao at the last comment make sum space lol id be morto too!! still i cudnt help laughing at it

please dont think im laughting AT you.

igglepiggles - I hate it when people assume you are a "kid" when you are young and with a pram. Personally I waited longer but My Mum was 17 and she is the best Mum ever. We are so lucky to have her! Her and my Dad are in their early 50s now and having a great time, both got good jobs, no Kids to worry about (well most of the time ) and plenty of time to go on Holiday etc

Most of the Older generation had their babies at your age or only slightly older so the should not Judge.

Mrspogi - I always smile at people, one couple in particular I have been smiling at and saying hello to for 16m now - after a few weeks I thought "rude people" and thought about ignoring them. I decided to make it my Personal mission to get a respone finally the other day she caved and smiled at me. He glared at her and stomped ahead of her! Poor Woman

It is suprising when a stranger says hello or good morning or greets you with a smile ,it can lift your spirits.

I'm really surprised at this. I live daan saaf and, in the three weeks since I had dd it takes me three times as long to do any shopping because of people stopping to talk to me and ask how old she is etc. I'm a typical unfriendly southener and hate it! But babies seem to make people want to talk.

ahh but that's because you have a newborn sarahjct! you just wait til she's 6 months old and then no-one will want to know lol

just thought it could freaky woman with fake baby doll