Back at work and grumbling already

[caddyman]

Back in the office and I’m wondering if I made a mistake; maybe I should have stayed off another day and made sure that’d properly recuperated. The sinuses on the left side of my face are sore again after a night’s sleep; they are nowhere near as bad as they were and my left eye no longer feels as if it is a cube, but I am pouring with sweat and it’s frankly not that hot. Still, I shall have to lump it, now for the day.

Come the revolution, there is a new sector of society that is on notice that it will be put against the wall at the first opportunity. I speak, since you ask so nicely, of young mothers who use their babies and pushchairs as battering rams and offensive weapons. I am happy enough to extend the usual courtesies to them, including helping carry the pushchair down steps and that sort of thing. I don’t mind walking a few yards round them as they take up additional space on the pavement. Any number of things I can live with and make allowances for.

The ones that will not survive the revolution are the women who weave along the pavement aimlessly, making it impossible for anyone behind to pass them. The ones who speed up and slow down for no immediately apparent reason; those who are walking behind you with a pushchair who suddenly speed up and overtake on (in this instance) your left and then cut across your path to go right, whilst remaining resolutely mute.

There should be pushchair and pram tests, both practical and theoretical just as there are for learning to drive. Unless you pass these you should not be allowed out in charge of a wheeled baby-carrier.

Damn it, they should extend the same respect they expect from others.

Come the revolution…

Comments

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

Can I offer up the ones who go two-abreast taking up the whole pavement and then approach looking you challengingly in the eye? I tend to politely move to one side...on the wall side of the pavement, so there is clearly not enough room for them both but I am being helpful. HA.

Come the revolution

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

...and don't forget the brigades that amble down the pavement two or three abreast.

To be honest (and moderately fair) I find this rule also applies to clusters of commuters and tourists with their trunks (the size of VW Beetles) on wheels - there's a constant air of "Me first, don't give a stuff about anyone else".
What's wrong with people? Why can't they accept that there are fellow pedestrians who don't want to smear themselves against a wall simply because a group coming in the opposite direction want to walk side-by-side?

Listen you screwheads, here is a man who will not take it anymore...one of these days a real rain's gonna come

[agentinfinity.livejournal.com]

I've found myself regularly coming close to getting mowed down by pushchairs, including in shops. I have vowed to buy one of those (handily much cheaper) small fold-away pushchairs wot fits neatly in the luggage compartment of a bus and isn't modelled on a Hummer. The idea that someone imagines they have an actually right to push a double pushchair through a small supermarket - for example - just boggles the mind.

I put this down to the sad uprise in selfish-twattery that is rife in our society, the same that means no one ever lets you pass on a pavement and people push infront in queues if you haven't limpetted yourself to the person in front.

Grrr. Now I've made myself cross.