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  • No, YOU'RE rude!

    This happened while I was food shopping in the supermarket. In the middle of the main aisle, four mothers with their giant Volkswagon Beetle sized buggies were standing around chatting, completely blocking the gangway. Now, the only way to get to the rest of the supermarket is thru this aisle. So I first try being polite and saying, "Excuse me, can I please get past?" They ignored me, I repeated myself and they ignored me again, their conversation on who's child was better obviously more important.

    So I barged thru the middle of the group with my trolley. As I got to the other side, one of the mothers shouted, "How rude can you get?" I turned round and replied, "Lady, I'm not the one blocking the entire aisle cuz I want to have a pointless mother's meeting" and walked off to continue my shopping as all four mothers glared at me.
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    This sort of behavior is why I have a hatred of strollers. Obviously I don't hate the physical item, I hate the entitlement that often comes with it. And the bigger the stroller the worse it is, generally. I didn't go to the local fair this year, but it comes out SUPER BAD there. And the part that drives me up the wall is these people blocking everything and everyone... Don't even have the kid in the stroller. So it's not like they're trying to let the kid see something, it's just taking up all the space because it's holding all of their earthly possessions. Oh yeah, those carts that grocery stores have with the plastic race cars attached are probably the worst thing to happen to shopping carts, ever. You know how hard I get glared at if I don't dive out of the way when a person is pushing it directly at me?

    (I do apologize to all normal parents who use strollers and have basic courtesy, it's not you I'm irritated with.)
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    • #3
      I've let loose at a woman once who pushed her pram out in front of me without even looking.
      Copped the typical, "Watch where you're going!"
      So I responded with, "That's great advice for someone who judged pushed their kid into harm's way without paying attention" and stalked off

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      • #4
        I DO hate strollers, because most of them these days are the size of freakin' Cadillacs, and people act like they're entitled to take up the entire store/corridor/sidewalk/whatever just because they have one. I have seen sooo many strollers packed with purchases while the kid walks (usually looking tired and grumpy, too!). We have joked about buying a stroller just so we can load it up with stuff we've bought.

        Way too many people bring these things to places where there is barely room for people to walk through, let alone a gigantic stroller.
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        • #5
          More than once, I've walked up to a group spread out across my route (either out on the street or in a store) and said "you know, if you just turned a little bit this way you could block the entire path properly!"
          This was one of those times where my mouth says "have a nice day" but my brain says "go step on a Lego". - RegisterAce
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          • #6
            Once I was standing well away from the path at a Renn Faire, looking up at a fireworks display when a woman shoved her stroller right into me, causing me to lose my balance and also my grip on my mead filled pewter mug. Which landed on her kid.

            Cue much drama starting. Kid started screaming and the idiot pushing the stroller started yelling. I tried to kill her baby, how dare I not watch where I was going.?!?! Along with some modern slurs, not the accepted ones used at Faire.

            When she threw my beautiful mug at me (missing very badly), I was more concerned about the damage to the mug than I was about getting knocked down (very good mead, btw. I didn't even notice how badly I was bruised until I got home and ungarbed).

            Security guards got involved, witnesses all said that she had just been shoving her stroller through everyone without caring.

            Guards cheerfully walked her out and later on, someone from the mead stand gave me a free icky old plastic cup full of very good mead and took my mug to a smith to be fixed. (The clear piece on the bottom had been cracked causing the mug to leak.)

            The smith repaired my mug for only 5 gold pieces (OK, green pieces) and did a masterful job.

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            • #7
              I always hate giant buggies partly cuz they're pointless and partly cuz the people pushing them are usually the most entitled idiots you could ever meet. I say they are pointless cuz a) a regular umbrella buggy will do just as well and b) nine times out of ten, the buggy is carrying a child who is certainly big enough to walk. Yes, sometimes kids are disabled and need to ride, but most of the time, they're in the buggy cuz the mother can't be bothered to make them walk or is too impatient to slow down so that they can. This is one of the reasons why so many kids are obese.
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