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I could go on a similar rant about people with grocery carts in grocery aisles who are utterly unaware of everyone else around them and leave their cart in the middle of the aisle in order to walk 30 feet away to get something.
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Oh yes. I hear you, LG. That drives me insane, too. I mean, really, how hard is it to park your goddamn cart at the end of an aisle, out of people's way?
And houses, too, by the way. Aren't many houses built over the last twenty years substantially larger than previous generations' houses?
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Yes. There may be some movement toward building smaller houses, in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis. I don't have any statistics on it, but I read articles about it in the past few years.
Whatever happened to the Snuggli? I was a hippy chick and carried my son around in it all the time. It was great!
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I wouldn't mind being pushed around in a big stroller. Oh wait ... yes I would. Never mind.
Really? But then, you don't live here in Redneck City where everyone lugs their babies around in car seats, strollers, etc.People here have been known to buy bigger trucks to accommodate the car seats and strollers.
You're in the wrong thread Larry. LOL!
The threads do have a way of spilling over into each other.
Yes I've been called a spillover before.
Is that when you've had one to many beer?
See! You did it again. The thread for drunken typing is further down the discussion board. :)
I'm so lost. I forgot to drop breadcrumbs behind me.
LG is going to yell at us for getting off topic. Or she'll send us to the Ficus.
Well, it should make an interesting evening, though. I kind of like it when she yells at me.
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LG has suddenly turned into Nurse Ratched.
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The movie with Jack Nicholson is well worth seeing LG. Regarding strollers, I don't think we tend to get the really enormous ones around here because there's just too much foot traffic on the sidewalks. The Maclaren (sp?) seems to be the stroller everyone in my neighborhood uses. Is that considered big?
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Larry wrote: "Yes I've been called a spillover before."TWSS?
But do you have anything constructive to say about what she said?
Ummm...She said it, and then I nailed her?
Nails are used in construction, so...
Maybe that's a trend that's not here yet. I don't recall ever seeing any kids in strollers that were older than toddlers. I don't remember noticing people being "poor drivers," either.But while we're on the subject... I hate that one market near here has carts with a place for your kid and a little TV for your kid to watch while you're shopping. Actually I don't know if it's a TV or if it shows videos, but whatever. The notion that kids have to be entertained by something on a screen every second of their lives, instead of having to experience living in the real world, I think is a good way to rot the brain. What's growing up without sneaking something into the grocery cart while nobody's looking?
Oh, and I remember when people were putting their kids on leashes, which I found very distasteful.
Rebecca wrote: "The notion that kids have to be entertained by something on a screen every second of their lives, instead of having to experience living in the real world, I think is a good way to rot the brain."I feel the same way about the television commercial where one kid at the stoplight has to listen to his parents singing, while the one in the SUV next to him has a TV screen going. The kid in the station wagon is panicked because he doesn't have the cool entertainment system.
Fuck that. You're in a car (or stroller). Pay attention to the world around you. Heck, you might learn something.
Oh -- also...To my mind, it's an extension of the "divorced from the real world" attitude that has had people walking down the street wearing headphones or talking on the phone, pretty much since the invention of the Walkman.
I feel the same way about the television commercial where one kid at the stoplight has to listen to his parents singing, while the one in the SUV next to him has a TV screen going. The kid in the station wagon is panicked because he doesn't have the cool entertainment system.Fuck that. You're in a car (or stroller). Pay attention to the world around you. Heck, you might learn something.
Terrifying enough, Phil and I thought of the exact same commercial after reading Rebecca's post.
Yeah, actually I have a lot of good memories of singing in the car with my parents when I was a kid. I guess part of it is the whole implication that actual life isn't good enough. It needs to be avoided. The other part is that as someone who meditates, it's hard enough for me to try to get rid of pictures/memories/talking to myself, etc. and live in the present - and I have practice!
Rebecca wrote: "Oh, and I remember when people were putting their kids on leashes, which I found very distasteful."I remember looking out my front window one day and seeing a woman with a dog and a toddler walking down the street. The dog was running free and the child was on a leash.
My first stroller was a monster of a thing. It was just too much work carting that thing around, and it took up the entire trunk of my car. As soon as the baby could sit on his own without falling all over the place I downgraded to the smaller ones.
RA allow me to join you in the land of assholeians (or would that be assholeites?) some parents are damn inconsiderate with the fricking things. "oh, did i just run you down and slice the back of your ankles up? heehee, my bad. oh, would you mind picking jr.'s bottle up while you're standing there bleeding all over the floor?"LG i wholeheartedly agree with you about the shopping carts, also!!! here in hicksville the older generation uses saturday as their weekly trip to 'go visitin''. they'll stand side by side in the aisle, chit chatting and when you politely say 'excuse me', they'll both turn and look at you like you're some kind of cretin then continue their conversation. i continue saying 'excuse me'........still trying to be polite, mind you......but getting louder and and a bit ruder each time i have to repeat myself. this is 'assholeian' on my part, but once, i was REALLY not in the mood for it. so after repeating myself at least a dozen times, only to have them look back at me a few times, then completely ignore me, i pushed my cart thisclose to their backsides and in a very loud, deep, rude and demanding voice simply said "MOVE!!!!!". their eyes widened and one of them actually said, in indignation, "WELL. the very nerve". i just laughed and said, "made you move. now y'all have a nice day, ladies.". the entire store is full of clusters of these old biddies and their husbands doing that same thing. it is maddening!! i have been known to move those carts that are left sitting in the middle of the aisle while their owners meander on down the aisle.
I pushed a double stroller for years and by the time the twins grew out of it, it was trashed. I joyfully burned the fucking thing in my fire pit in the summer of 2004. I hated it with a passion.
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Now, I have nothing against strollers, I used them myself, except:
1. When people try to take strollers places that cause everyone else to have to struggle to get around the goddamn strollers.
2. When people drive strollers like fucking idiots.
3. When people have strollers bigger than smart cars.
To those people I say, "Fie, the fact you have children doesn't mean you can inconvenience everyone else in the area. Assholes. Carry your kid in a backpack or something."
I know that sounds harsh. And maybe I should be more...what's the word...empathetic for people trying to maneuver a stroller in tight circumstances. And I can kind of understand bigger kids staying in strollers if they're going to be doing a shitload of moving in one day. But...people...get smaller strollers. And don't drive them like assholes. And be sensitive to the people around you. I'll try to be sensitive to you.
I know I sound like an asshole here. I can live with that.