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Don't trust your dh with a brand new buggy

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princesspeahead · 07/02/2005 22:42

I bought a lovely brand new Mclaren buggy - bright red - really nice - about 2 weeks ago.
Last weekend my dh took my dd and ds2 to a christening in London while I stayed at home with ill and feverish ds1. Slung the buggy over his shoulder (did I mention it had a very useful shoulder strap?) and off he went.
Today I said to him "can you get that buggy out of the back of your car for me?" "I haven't got a buggy in the car." "Yes, you do, you took it to London last weekend".

Anyway turns out the idiot took ds out of the buggy, put him in the car, and drove off. Leaving said buggy on the pavement.

I'd never even pushed the bloody thing!

Hope it has a nice new home, wherever it is.

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princesspeahead · 07/02/2005 23:15

6.8 kg as opposed to the triumph 5kg. quite a big difference. hmmmm

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sparklymieow · 07/02/2005 23:15

very nice, do it!

jennifersofia · 07/02/2005 23:16

Can you loan your dh out? I would love for someone to leave my pram somewhere so I would have to buy a new one! (Apart from the inconvenience of not having one, and the annoyance of never having pushed your new one...)

ja9 · 07/02/2005 23:17

it is very light and a dream to push. only got it today tho.

folds down reasonably small - about 1 and 1/2 times as wide as a folded maclaren. dead easy to foold up too. there are pics on net somewhere of it folded with dimensions.

slow typing as am feeding ds!

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princesspeahead · 07/02/2005 23:17

anytime you want to borrow him, jennifersofia, he is all yours... have him NOW if you like

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princesspeahead · 07/02/2005 23:19

ooooh, thank you ja9.

right, well I will testdrive as many bright red and pretty buggies as I can in half an hour, make my considered decision, and report back! Will it be the triumph? Will it be the micralite? Tune in, same time, same place, tomorrow for the next installment.....

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ja9 · 07/02/2005 23:20

folded

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princesspeahead · 07/02/2005 23:24

hmmm. looks quite small. ds2 is about 18mths but very long - the height of a 2 yr old. wonder if it will be comfortable for him?

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HunkerMunker · 07/02/2005 23:26

Will think of you tomorrow, zooming round pushing different buggies PPH

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princesspeahead · 07/02/2005 23:28

quite looking forward to it now, actually. thank you all!

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princesspeahead · 08/02/2005 07:41

My life has now entered the twilight zone.
I said to my nanny this morning "you know that new buggy...." and she said "yes I know, its in my car, sorry" !!!!!!

So it appears he did bring it back from London intact, she put it in her car and has left it there. So WHY was he so convinced he had left it on a pavement in London?

And do I tell him or just pretend I've gone out and bought the same one again (bearing in mind I may have SLIGHTLY milked how useless and hopeless etc he was last night)?

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WideWebWitch · 08/02/2005 07:49

Ha ha pph at twilight zone! Does your dh do many drugs ? Get a new one for each car anyway I say.

LIZS · 08/02/2005 07:59

Can't you just say you replaced it with an identical one anyway !!

emmatmg · 08/02/2005 09:03

OMG.....you must take up the opportunity to buy a new one.

Buy it, and so soon as you have it out of the shop push it through some puddles/mud, then when Dh find out the nanny has older new one he can't tell you to return the newer new one.

Never admit to knowing she had before you hit the shops.......could she be bought with bribery to keep shhtum(have no idea if that spelt right)? and extra fiver or something

Mmmmmmm un-necessary(sp? again) buggy shopping......can life get any better?!?!?!?

JanH · 08/02/2005 09:12

My DH left TWO buggies - one (cheap and second-hand but in really good nick) in the car park at the supermarket, and the other - practically brand-new Maclaren like pph's - in a playground when he carried DS2 back to the car despite having pushed him there.

MEN!!!

motherinferior · 08/02/2005 09:16

Don't retract! Anything but that!

ernest · 08/02/2005 10:11

so you haven't got it yet? Surely the perfect opportunity to get another, different one. I've been drooling over the quinny zap , mainly becasue I reckon you'd be able to take it on the plane as hand luggage - note great carrying bag. Ours is always put in hold & we always have to wait ages to get it back at other end, usually having to carry 1 or 2 kids, acres of coats & goodness knows what else.

Or the marco sky , perfect for chucking 2 in instead of dawdling

LIZS · 08/02/2005 10:37

ernest, I saw someone with one of those the other week and tried (and failed) to clock the brand. Had to do a double take as it was so compact for a double. Mmm, Quinny Zapp would be seriously tempting in pph's circumstances ...

JanH · 08/02/2005 10:39

Where do the rear child's legs go?

Marina · 08/02/2005 11:00

oh, pph! What a saga. What an eejit he is!

crunchie · 08/02/2005 11:41

Wow those buggies look fab, almost worth having another baby!!

PPH simply becasue your dh is a twit you deserve a new buggy. One for the nanny and one for you. I know we only had one and sometimes that nanny took it home and we had to collect ours at a weekend. Defineatly buy another one!!

Fimbo · 08/02/2005 11:52

My dh has never "lost" a buggy so far, but my bug bear is the fact that he always manages to twist the straps and to get the hood of my Quest and the footmuff covered in mud.

KBear · 08/02/2005 11:52

ahem, confessions of a stressed mother....

I left my (expensive) 3-wheeler pram on the pavement once, outside the nursery. Strapped children in the car, waved cheerily to a friend, drove off.

An hour later the nursery leader called me and said "have you got a grey 3-wheeler" "yes" "do you know where it is" "yes in my car" "no it isn't, it's in my car"! How embarrassing.

Thankfully a passerby took it into the nursery where they were closing up and it had one of Dd's paintings in it so they knew it was mine.

ernest · 08/02/2005 11:54

maybe I could "accidentally" leave mine on a pavement to justify getting a new one.....?

you've got me thinking now

COD · 08/02/2005 11:57

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