buggies are a nuisance

hedgehog2

Why do some parents with buggies just think its acceptable to clip peoples heels with their buggies,shove them out in front of your car/bicycle and when visiting restaurants just carelessly leace them by a door way creating a trip hazard.
Its like they think they have a right to be a menace with a pram.

AndonHandon

Yeah, jesus, the self-righteousness of the pram-pusher annoys me to no end. Especially being in Dublin city centre these days when it is so busy, the prams cause far more of a nuisance. People think they have priority when pushing a pram but as far as I'm concerned they have an obligation to yield to other pedestrians.

hedgehog2

No respect for other pedestrians and when you get those women who lunch with multible buggies in tow they jam up entrances and walkways without giving a toss.
There shoild be signage in place to kindly remind them they do not own the paths.

Kikin

Yeah

anncoates

I'm going to go out with the buggy now and make a special effort to do everything mentioned in the OP.

keithsfleet

I hate people that have sex and reproduce.

No consideration for anyone else

Marcus Halberstram

Don't you just love when they shove the thing out onto the road just expecting traffic to stop so they can cross.

SCOOP 64

I like it when 2 meet on the pavement and know it other , chatting way, and you have to walk out in the road to get round them.

end of the road

agree, however these days their not buggys but union pacific locomotives, well not far off being that size anyway, slap 1000 euro fines on the parents for stuff like pushing them out on the road, and make them pay parking charges

J. Marston

SCOOP 64 wrote: »

I like it when 2 meet on the pavement and know it other , chatting way, and you have to walk out in the road to get round them.

Talking buggies would scare the shít out of me.

ElvisChrist6

keithsfleet wrote: »

I hate people that have sex and reproduce.

No consideration for anyone else

It's nothing to do with the fact they have kids, they can shoot out spawn all they want, but some people with prams are really obnoxious with them - they use them like a fucking cowcatcher.

NuckingFacker

They don't bother me at all. Must be a pain having to manhandle one around all day and I doubt they're doing it just to annoy you op. What are you, 90?

Femme_Fatale

People can bring their kids out if they want. I extremely rarely encounter anyone who's inconsiderate with a buggy. Most are very apologetic and polite.

hedgehog2 wrote: »

when visiting restaurants just carelessly leace them by a door way creating a trip hazard.

Where else can they leave them?

Lapin

NuckingFacker wrote: »

They don't bother me at all. Must be a pain having to manhandle one around all day and I doubt they're doing it just to annoy you op. What are you, 90?

Doubt it.

A 90 year old would have more cop on than to use a nuisance like txt spk in the title of a thread about other nuisances.

chopper6

ElvisChrist6 wrote: »

It's nothing to do with the fact they have kids, they can shoot out spawn all they want, but some people with prams are really obnoxious with them - they use them like a fucking cowcatcher.

Agreed.

And the people who behave the most obnoxiously with buggies tend to be the sorts of people who squeeze out children to better afford a lifestyle of drinking and smoking.

Chara1001

I love it when cars park half on the road and half on the footpath so you have to push the buggy out on the road

Cienciano

It's not "people with buggies" that clip your heals. It's assholes. Plenty of people with buggies bring their kids around with no problems. And plenty of assholes without buggies stand in doorways chatting, stand side by side on the escalator, try and get into the lift before you're out, sit around on grafton street on a saturday listening to a buscar...

anncoates

Chara1001 wrote: »

I love it when cars park half on the road and half on the footpath so you have to push the buggy out on the road

That's what keys are for.

Insect Overlord

Marcus Halberstram wrote: »

Don't you just love when they shove the thing out onto the road just expecting traffic to stop so they can cross.

Isn't William St. just the greatest?

NuckingFacker

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

People can bring their kids out if they want. I extremely rarely encounter anyone who's inconsiderate with a buggy. Most are very apologetic and polite.

Where else can they leave them?

One of the things I find most refreshing about countries like spain and france is you can go into a restaurant and people with kids are welcome. Here it's like someone farted when a family comes in, kids are treated as a nuisance. They're kids ffs, they need buggying around for a bit, and high chairs, and they're noisy betimes - i.e full of life. I don't get the whinge tbh. Kids are gas and bring a bit of life to a place.

camel jockey

hedgehog2 wrote: »

Why do some parents with buggies just think its acceptable to clip peoples heels with their buggies,shove them out in front of your car/bicycle and when visiting restaurants just carelessly leace them by a door way creating a trip hazard.
Its like they think they have a right to be a menace with a pram.

Behaviour like this disappoints me.

Lapin

NuckingFacker wrote: »

One of the things I find most refreshing about countries like spain and france is you can go into a restaurant and people with kids are welcome. Here it's like someone farted when a family comes in, kids are treated as a nuisance. They're kids ffs, they need buggying around for a bit, and high chairs, and they're noisy betimes - i.e full of life. I don't get the whinge tbh. Kids are gas and bring a bit of life to a place.

I've been to many restaurants in France where kids are not welcome (some of them will at lunchtime), and many in Ireland where they are.

mfceiling

Get out of my f*cking way....i'm trying to get somewhere with my kids while you stand there with your "i don't have any children" head on you...

Archeron

Whatver happened to the word pushchair?

Toby Take a Bow

The only thing that annoys me is when two are placed on the path and you have to walk on the road.

But, really, it's not all that annoying and only happens very, very rarely.

Fr_Dougal

NuckingFacker wrote: »

One of the things I find most refreshing about countries like spain and france is you can go into a restaurant and people with kids are welcome. Here it's like someone farted when a family comes in, kids are treated as a nuisance. They're kids ffs, they need buggying around for a bit, and high chairs, and they're noisy betimes - i.e full of life. I don't get the whinge tbh. Kids are gas and bring a bit of life to a place.

Kids are like farts, you don't mind your own, but other peoples are unbearable.

Insect Overlord

Archeron wrote: »

Whatver happened to the word pushchair?

I prefer perambulator.

NuckingFacker

Insect Overlord wrote: »

I prefer perambulator.

I prefer "walk ya little git" tbh, but only in a superficial way..

Marcus Halberstram

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Isn't William St. just the greatest?

I wish I drove a steamroller

Chara1001

If you think buggies/ pushchairs/ prams/ perambulators are annoying- imagine not having them at all and all the kids were running free

monkeysnapper

I push my son around town in my apple candy , I even got a hooter put on it so I can just people know in advance I'm coming. I find it useful especially when I go into a shop where they have to open 2nd door, just so shop clerk can open door for me. My buggy has a umbrella on side tho that hits off people sometimes which can be annoying for others but I don't know how to take it off.

Neyite

Archeron wrote: »

Whatver happened to the word pushchair?

Since they started to resemble a lunar, eh, buggy.

Vincent Vega

bizarre. over 30 posts and nobody made the obvious "women drivers" post.

Wtf is an apple candy ???

AndonHandon

monkeysnapper wrote: »

I push my son around town in my apple candy , I even got a hooter put on it so I can just people know in advance I'm coming. I find it useful especially when I go into a shop where they have to open 2nd door, just so shop clerk can open door for me. My buggy has a umbrella on side tho that hits off people sometimes which can be annoying for others but I don't know how to take it off.

If I ever meet you I can take it off for you.

dodderangler

Did anyone read it as BUDGIES are a nuisance
Hate budgies. Think they're so great being blue and gold and constantly whistling.

thegreatgonzo

ElvisChrist6 wrote: »

It's nothing to do with the fact they have kids, they can shoot out spawn all they want, but some people with prams are really obnoxious with them - they use them like a fucking cowcatcher.

What's a cowcatcher?

MadsL

I really can't see why these people can't just leave their babies in the car when they go shopping. So inconsiderate. :rolleyes:

April O Neill II

hedgehog2 wrote: »

Why do some parents with buggies just think its acceptable to clip peoples heels with their buggies,shove them out in front of your car/bicycle and when visiting restaurants just carelessly leace them by a door way creating a trip hazard.
Its like they think they have a right to be a menace with a pram.

Buggies in themselves aren't a nuisance. The small minority of people who use them as a weapon are.

April O Neill II

anncoates wrote: »

I'm going to go out with the buggy now and make a special effort to do everything mentioned in the OP.

You'd just blend in, TBH.

FizzleSticks

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April O Neill II

FizzleSticks wrote: »

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Worst I ever saw was when the Dublin Bus I was on turned a street corner and went to pull into the stop directly after. The bus nearly hit a woman who was STANDING IN THE ROAD WITH A BUGGY on the space where the bus was to pull in. Completely her fault, especially considering the bus had to turn a corner before pulling in and therefore had very little time to slam on the breaks. And she had the nerve to give the driver a bollocking!

But this isn't about parents, or buggies. This is about stupid parents who have buggies.

ElvisChrist6

thegreatgonzo wrote: »

What's a cowcatcher?

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb8j11q58L1r8yo2fo2_1280.jpg

LordSutch

A Papoose is the way to go . . . . .

Papoose > http://www.speedwellstar.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/18/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/b/a/bas5008-baby-mum.jpg

suicide_circus

NuckingFacker wrote: »

One of the things I find most refreshing about countries like spain and france is you can go into a restaurant and people with kids are welcome. Here it's like someone farted when a family comes in, kids are treated as a nuisance. They're kids ffs, they need buggying around for a bit, and high chairs, and they're noisy betimes - i.e full of life. I don't get the whinge tbh. Kids are gas and bring a bit of life to a place.

The difference is, in my experience, that kids in restaurants in Spain and France are pretty quiet and well behaved. If a kid acts up in an Irish restaurant, the parents generally abdicate any responsibility to deal with it, instead portraying them as "gas".

chopper6

You should see the aggresive buggy-pushing of the lovely people on their way to the drug treatment centre....they usually have another child clinging on for dear life,his feet a blur as he struggles to keep up.

Walking in front of moving cars? No problem...the driver would't dare run them over..they seem to use kids as props and occasionally diversions.

General General

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x81M3g3zjXc

AtomicHorror

Went to town with a buggy during the weekend. First time in Christmas shopping crowds. Started out polite, ended up being the guy with the buggy you all hate. I have no regrets, because it was that or stand waiting politely for people to let me through until the ****ing end of time.

chopper6

AtomicHorror wrote: »

Went to town with a buggy during the weekend. First time in Christmas shopping crowds. Started out polite, ended up being the guy with the buggy you all hate. I have no regrets, because it was that or stand waiting politely for people to let me through until the ****ing end of time.

You do know that guys should never push buggies right?


Plese dont tell me you wear one of those "papoose" things with the baby slung over your chest?

MadsL

chopper6 wrote: »

You do know that guys should never push buggies right?

What is the weather like at the minute in 1964?

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NuckingFacker wrote: »

One of the things I find most refreshing about countries like spain and france is you can go into a restaurant and people with kids are welcome. Here it's like someone farted when a family comes in, kids are treated as a nuisance. They're kids ffs, they need buggying around for a bit, and high chairs, and they're noisy betimes - i.e full of life. I don't get the whinge tbh. Kids are gas and bring a bit of life to a place.

No. Kids are only gas if they're yours. Do you really think other people in a restaurant think its cute to listen to your child scream or throw a tantrum? They might smile politely, but really they're probably thinking your child is a spoilt brat.

If I'm going out, and paying money to have something other than chicken nuggets and chips, I don't want to be stuck listening to what a doe eyed parent perceives to be a "gas" child.

I was out for lunch with my father a few months ago, both of us sitting having a private conversation when this little girl came over to our table and stood shouting "hiya!" at us. It was cute the first time, not so much any time after. Her mother was ordering take out at the counter and walked over to bring the child off. The child refused to go with its mother, so she left it there shouting at us trying to get our attention.

I find a lot of people with kids expect special treatment.

They'll be the ones who think they're more entitled to a car space, or their time in work is more precious, "I can't work Christmas Eve I have children", or weekends being "family time", its fine then for special treatment but they'll be the first to be whinging about it being discrimination if they don't get promotion or extra perks, because being unreliable because you have kids shouldnt be classed as being unreliable.

Then you have the idiot parents who have the pushchair, and just push it out onto the road, expecting people not to run over their precious child.

And yes, then you have the assholes using their pushchairs like the gardai might use a horse to disperse the crowds. If a shop is too small and has narrow aisles then they should do the non asshole thing and not push a monstrosity of a pushchair into the way of other people.

It's parents that turn me off kids. Kids themselves are fine