Back at work and grumbling already
Friday, August 24th, 2007 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanBack 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…
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…