Move your @#$ stroller!
I know this is well-covered ground, but I need to get this out:
All right, Park Slope moms. It's time you remember that you share this neighborhood and its SIDEWALKS with other people. There's no reason for you to block up the whole sidewalk while you dig around for little Beckett's binky or fetch little Willa some organic Cheerios.
Why can't you just pull over and get the hell out of the way? Why does the likelihood that you'll take your sweetass time to move actually rise with the number of people that are trying to get around you? Why do you need to stop and have a conversation with another stroller-pusher headed the opposite direction right in the middle of the sidewalk?! It's damn rude, and I'm pretty sure you'd start squawking if I sat my fat ass down on the sidewalk while you were trying to pass. So what is your problem?
If you're reading this and getting all worked up...take a Xanax, breathe, and remember a couple of things before you start furiously banging out your indignant reply: (1) I realize that this doesn't apply to ALL Slope moms, so if you're one of the respectful few that mindfully shares the sidewalks....thank you, please go about your day. (2) Yes, I have young kids. We walk. We use the stroller. I know it's hard. But we all have somewhere to be and we're trying to get around you. It's not your kids. It's you. Yes, you. You know who you are.
Share the sidewalks.
All right, Park Slope moms. It's time you remember that you share this neighborhood and its SIDEWALKS with other people. There's no reason for you to block up the whole sidewalk while you dig around for little Beckett's binky or fetch little Willa some organic Cheerios.
Why can't you just pull over and get the hell out of the way? Why does the likelihood that you'll take your sweetass time to move actually rise with the number of people that are trying to get around you? Why do you need to stop and have a conversation with another stroller-pusher headed the opposite direction right in the middle of the sidewalk?! It's damn rude, and I'm pretty sure you'd start squawking if I sat my fat ass down on the sidewalk while you were trying to pass. So what is your problem?
If you're reading this and getting all worked up...take a Xanax, breathe, and remember a couple of things before you start furiously banging out your indignant reply: (1) I realize that this doesn't apply to ALL Slope moms, so if you're one of the respectful few that mindfully shares the sidewalks....thank you, please go about your day. (2) Yes, I have young kids. We walk. We use the stroller. I know it's hard. But we all have somewhere to be and we're trying to get around you. It's not your kids. It's you. Yes, you. You know who you are.
Share the sidewalks.
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i usually just walk around them, myself.
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I hear Shrek, aka a troll, lives in PS nowadays
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My only problem is those selfish people who have side-by-side dual carriage strollers - you know, those Humvees of the toddler set.. I almost got hit by a bus because I had to step off the sidewalk to get out of one's way. But I won't do that again. I'd much rather step on a baby than get hit by a bus.
As far as regular strollers or double strollers that are front and back, not side- by side, they are fine and reasonable. After all, babies are like miniature disabled people and are entitled to get around and need the wheels. But there's no validation for the existence of side-by-side strollers just because some hyper-sensitive yuppie mom is afraid if they put one in front of the other, the one in back will grow up with a complex or something.
These people might as well carry as sign that says F#$K You All, I'm Better Than You! You simply can't live in a city of 8 million and be so selfish as to push those down sidewalks and in stores. As far as I'm concerned, those side-by-side strollers belong on the roads and highways. -
Subject: Re: Move your @#$ stroller!
floorwalker13 wrote:
Who's the one who needs a Xanax? Why don't you wash it down with some Egg Nog and have a Merry F-in Christmas? xoxo
If you're reading this and getting all worked up...take a Xanax, breathe, and remember a couple of things before you start furiously banging out your indignant reply -
i'm fascinated by the OP's observation that this behavior is limited to mothers. i would have thought fathers would have roughly the same rate of insensitive stroller-driving, but perhaps there is some part of boys' gym that deals with these issues in advance.
as for front-and-back strollers, good old kensingtonmom (a poster we lost when these boards began to require registration) made a compelling argument about how difficult they were to maneuver on the busted-up sidewalks of brooklyn (as opposed to the malls they were designed for). having had trouble with the much shorter lever that is a single stroller, i can see her point.
it's a pity y'all didn't air these grievances at festivus. -
On Saturday while walking on 7th Ave, I watched a man with a double-wide stroller get completely tangled up with a bicycle that was locked to a pole. While trying to extract the stroller, he took down the bike with a large crash and then tried walking away. I said "Don't tell me you're just going to leave that there......." and he said "mind your own business". Asshole!
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As far as I'm concerned, those side-by-side strollers belong on the roads and highways.
Perhaps in front of speeding semi's. I doubt that the careening Land Rovers with texting parents and howling ankle biters would take out one of their own. -
what's next...complaining about people in wheelchairs taking up the sidewalk?
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Other things that take up too much room on sidewalks:
Dogs that are ridiculously too big to live in the City
Golf Umbrellas
Granny Carts
Laundry Bags
People walking side by side
But I am sure that the OP has never owned a dog, carried an umbrella, done laundry, chatted with a friend, or carried home more than a bag of groceries. Seriously, is it that hard to just walk around someone? If this is your biggest grievance, you are truly the one living an entitled life. -
NYkittyNY wrote: Golf Umbrellas
I agree with you on those two. And if people have to use those umbrellas can you just tilt them a little when you have to pass by someone in a tight spot?NYkittyNY wrote: People walking side by side
I get such pedestrian rage near my job over this.
The few times I have encountered this each time I said excuse me, I usually get a quick oh sorry and they moved out of my way. Over here in the awesomeness that is PH
I have noticed lots of parents using those strollers where the older (larger) child is sitting up front and there is this lower section for the smaller child. It doesn't seem to be much larger than an average single stroller. -
I don't buy the argument that a front to back stroller is more difficult to maneuver than a side-by-side one. It just doesn’t make any logical sense. Whether the stroller is wide or narrow has nothing to do with how well it handles on a broken sidewalk. She needs better tires and and a wide stroller is not required for that. Besides, if that was the case, then all those people with only one child would be veering off the sidewalk.
If there is a real, honest, compelling need for someone to have these side-by-side strollers in a big city, then I'll change my tune, but I haven't heard one yet.
For the record, I believe parents of young children do deserve more consideration and priority in society than others. However, living in a big city requires concessions by everyone – no exceptions. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask them to concede these behemoths as one of the costs of living in this great city. -
Julius Orange wrote: I don't buy the argument that a front to back stroller is more difficult to maneuver than a side-by-side one. It just doesn’t make any logical sense. Whether the stroller is wide or narrow has nothing to do with how well it handles on a broken sidewalk. She needs better tires and and a wide stroller is not required for that.
Maybe a stroller made by Dyson?
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=dyson+vacuum&gbv=2&aq=1&oq=dyson&aqi=g10
(damn, I'm brilliant!) -
Subject: Re: Move your @#$ stroller!
floorwalker13 wrote: All right, Park Slope moms. <snip>
What a delightfully original post! I look forward to more reasonable, air-tight arguments! Park Slope mothers pushing strollers! My sides are splitting!
Before you know it, you'll be making hilarious jokes about the hippies at the Food Co-op! -
stacey wrote:
I get such pedestrian rage near my job over this.
[quote=NYkittyNY]People walking side by side
The latest super-annoying thing I've encountered: groups of people walking FOUR ACROSS. Come ON, folks. Four people side by side? Really? REALLY?!? For the love of God, just STOP.
RRRRRRRR. -
WTF!>!?! There are Hippies at the Co-OP!?! Whaaaat???
Modern civilization as we know it is falling apart before me. Next thing you know you'll be telling me that 22nd street is not South Slope! -
P.S. I am much much more inconvenienced and perturbed by people who let their 2-year-olds careen across 7th Avenue at 1 mile per hour and in unpredictable directions while looking at me, waiting for me to express how charmed I am, than by double strollers. Or dog walkers. Or single strollers. Or people with grocery carts. Or bicyclists on the sidewalk. Or oblivious texters who meander across the crosswalk without looking up. Wait, the last one is bad. And why don't bicyclists in Park Slope wear helmets? But that's for another thread.
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Mamacita wrote: WTF!>!?! There are Hippies at the Co-OP!?! Whaaaat???
Haha!!
Modern civilization as we know it is falling apart before me. Next thing you know you'll be telling me that 22nd street is not South Slope! -
physics:
a stroller is the type of lever on the left.
load = kids.
fulcrum = back wheels.
force = parent pushing down on handle to lift front wheels over edge of uneven pavement, curb w/o cut, etc.
lifting the load will get harder the longer the distance between the fulcrum and the load (since distance from fulcrum to force is fixed). this is what makes front-back strollers difficult on uneven terrain, although that difficulty is of course nothing compared to the strain we stroller-free people endure to walk around a wide stroller. -
that's all well and good, but I'm still working on a stroller that utilizes the Dyson ball technology, combined with the genius of the Silence of the Lambs upright cart.
http://www.horrormerch.com/toys/03042033.jpg
you gotta admit, it has potential.
....even if we don't put the kid in a straight jacket. -
I think the stroller stress is overplayed , what we really need to dismiss this childish obsession is a couple of drive by's, to really give everyone something to bitch about.
The alternative is ,stay in your own neighborhood,rather then keep resurrecting this tired thread -
Wow - you fuck ups need to move out of the city ASAP if you get aggravated over people hogging sidewalks :roll:
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On the sidewalk, there are much better things to worry about than strollers, especially because, as other people have noted, you can just swallow your righteous indignation and go around. Still, I have to say that I've encountered some very aggravating stroller behavior in tightly-constricted stores like Back to the Land. On the other hand, in the same places I've encountered plenty of aggravating behavior that had nothing to do with strollers.
Again, if you want to live in NYC, you have to let these things go. I'm always amazed by how so many people have lived here for years or for their entire lives and still get worked up about these little things. I don't know how anyone can live like that. It's not life-or-death (except for the person above who almost got run down by a bus), just mild rudeness, so let it go. How to Be Happy in Life, Lesson 1. -
Please stop breeding. Thank you.
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It is obvious to me after reading hundreds of pages of Homeland Security material over the past ten years that the next 9/11-style attack on the United States will clearly be a squad of 20 baby carriages marching in formation through Seventh Avenue in Park Slope. It seems to me that all of the problems people are now having with baby carriages are just dress rehearsals for the final suicide attack. Brooklynites, whenever you see a baby carriage hogging the sidewalk, arm yourself and prepare for the worst! And if you want to escape this problem and drown your sorrows, go to any nearby bar (but not the Double Windsor before 5 p.m.).[/code]
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Wow. I'm with the original poster. If I am carrying a 50 pound bag of laundry and clearly having trouble getting it down the street and you are walking towards me with a stroller with a baby in it - GET THE EF OUT OF MY WAY!!!!! Just because you have a baby doesn't mean the entire world revolves around you. You just have a baby. That's it. Nothing about you makes you special. GET THE EF OUT OF MY WAY!!!!! Thank you.
This also goes to people walking dogs on a retractable leash when the owner is on the far left side of the street and the dog is on the far right side of the street. This goes to the teenagers who walk 4 people side by side and won't give up the sidewalk to anyone else.
Oh, and by the way...you don't actually need to get out of my way. I will simply continue to bodycheck when you refuse to move. I move for 9 out of 10 people - the 10th person get slammed and hopefully knocked to the ground. And when that person sits there with "What the heck just happened" plastered all over their face (which I have seen when I bodycheck someone), perhaps that person will GET THE EF OUT OF SOMEONE'S WAY the next time. -
Give me a break. I pushed my twins all over Park Slope in a stroller like this. The military HumV of strollers.
I was very conscientious of how big it was and so were all there other care givers I would meet.
But I am sure that I did block the sidewalk. I was sure because people who needed to pass said "excuse me" or "pardon me" and I apologized and moved aside.
I never thought that my baby was more important than their right to freely move on the sidewalk. Also, no one ever body checked me because I was in their way. -
andypants wrote: Wow. I'm with the original poster. If I am carrying a 50 pound bag of laundry and clearly having trouble getting it down the street and you are walking towards me with a stroller with a baby in it - GET THE EF OUT OF MY WAY!!!!! Just because you have a baby doesn't mean the entire world revolves around you. You just have a baby. That's it. Nothing about you makes you special. GET THE EF OUT OF MY WAY!!!!! Thank you.
Apparently the only people who are special are the ones who carry 50 lb bags of laundry down the street. Everyone should get out of the way of the guy with the 20 pairs of streaked undies. He rules the sidewalk. Hilarious. -
andypants wrote: Wow. I'm with the original poster. If I am carrying a 50 pound bag of laundry and clearly having trouble getting it down the street and you are walking towards me with a stroller with a baby in it - GET THE EF OUT OF MY WAY!!!!! Just because you have a baby doesn't mean the entire world revolves around you. You just have a baby. That's it. Nothing about you makes you special. GET THE EF OUT OF MY WAY!!!!! Thank you.
WTF carries a 50 lb bag of laundry down the street anyway? Get it delivered or get a granny cart. Oh, and if you "body checked" me because I didn't get out of your way quick enough, you would be getting a hell of a lot more than "what the heck just happened" look,
This also goes to people walking dogs on a retractable leash when the owner is on the far left side of the street and the dog is on the far right side of the street. This goes to the teenagers who walk 4 people side by side and won't give up the sidewalk to anyone else.
Oh, and by the way...you don't actually need to get out of my way. I will simply continue to bodycheck when you refuse to move. I move for 9 out of 10 people - the 10th person get slammed and hopefully knocked to the ground. And when that person sits there with "What the heck just happened" plastered all over their face (which I have seen when I bodycheck someone), perhaps that person will GET THE EF OUT OF SOMEONE'S WAY the next time. -
I can't say I mind strollers, I just want one of my inventions to make me rich
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