This isn’t so much a bitch as it is a “What is the deal?”
I have a stroller I use especially for public transit – one that when folded, bends in on itself and has a shoulder strap for carrying. Each time I am waiting for the bus, I remove my baby and fold it up. When I get on the bus, I choose a single-seat spot (I can always find one because of where I get on), sit my baby on my lap and pull the stroller ALL THE WAY IN so that it’s between my legs-COMPLETELY, TOTALLY out of the way of people (as are my legs; I am small), yet these people getting on after me STILL feel the need to reach out and grasp the handle as if it were part of the bus.
I’m not losing any sleep over it, just wondering why people feel the need to reach out of their way to grasp the handle all over it when it’s not necessary; it’s a personal belonging. If it was in your way, different story of course, but it isn’t. —McVities
This article appears in Jul 22-28, 2010.
yeah, good for you, but then there are the semi trailor sized ones, that cancel yours out, go figure.
hmmm do you say wash your hands alot and check that your stoves turned off multiple times? just say’n 🙂
Slap their hands away. It doesn’t matter what someone else has done (using behemoth strollers or whatever), it is your property. They have no right to touch it.
Too bad you’d be using the stroller once you’re off the bus, or I’d suggest putting something like jam on the handle so these grabbers get sticky fingers. *G*
Why not strap the kid to your back like a piece of backpacking luggage?
I have a tiny umbrella stroller, too, and i fold mine. You know what pisses ME off? I do all this…then some stupid entitled bitchface gets on with her mini-SUV which is carting her 4 yr old…I hate that.
That said…touch my fucking stroller, and if im in a bad enough mood, the wheels will go over your baby toe, in an attempt to crunch it.
I would be spraying it with disinfectant right after. You dont know where their hands have been… ew.