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I’m tired of politely asking you people who walk too slow, or who just stop for no reason, to please move so I can get by. It’s extremely annoying and frustrating.
—Wants To Walk
This article appears in Mar 19-25, 2009.
33 Comments
No shit. Its why I keep my visits to once/month. Which is fine for meats but means I run out of Zucchini bread early and also have to re-stock veggies from the Supersobeys at some point.
I think all of the buskers should be kept outside.
i go to the market knowing it will be crowded and congested with some funky buskers. i dont expect to be able to zip through it. if you do, maybe you should refrain from going.
I see it as a necessary inconvenience. If the vendors I like had storefronts I’d go there. As soon as I get a freezer I’m buying a side of beef and side of lamb and calling it a year.
Sometimes my intolerance gets the best of me and I almost resort to my hands and knees. I figure it’s worth it in the end though – like Cranky said, a necessary inconvenience.
I’m with john on this one, OP.
You dont walk into a crowded area willingly and then complain about all the people there. Well, you can but you just look and sound like a twit.
Saying “excuse me” is a lot easier than saying, “fuck sakes people are stupid!”
Grow a spine, say,”Excuse me, please.”, and move past them, cheerfully leading with an elbow or shoulder if necessary… If you don’t get upset, it’s not a problem. If you just want the food, maybe you should get involved w/ that food co-op that sells there… I buy all our beef by the side, straight from the farmer, for a fraction of the premium prices paid by market shoppers. Go in w/ a few people, or do some canning if you have no freezer.
I always do what BSB said except put a hand on the shoulder. Simple, but it works every time.
Depending on my mood, I’ll either do a quick in and out or my usual sit and have a coffee enjoy some people watching while being mindful to stay out of the traffic flow. Purchase my locally grown produce and be off. What annoyed me today was the giant fucking baby stroller. I just think it’s common sense not to bring that thru there prime time. It will be better next year when they open up the new market with more space.
i must have been there the same time you were. giant ass stroller right up through the place. crowded ith people i can take…massive child conveyence, not so much. get a child backpack
john I agree with you, but some ppl like myself, work in the building…and trying to get around ppl can be pretty annoying and bothersome
also, it’s a necessary inconvenience that there isn’t much space, considering there’s tons of vendors…but it doesn’t mean ppl should just stand in the middle of what little walking space there is and then gab…or stand in doorways…so many ppl stand in the doorway to the bakery…get your shit and get out imo…I think some ppl forget that building is a place of business
OK, I really must say something here, at risk of disclosing too many personal details, I had one of those double sxs twin strollers for my twins, and now I wonder if people thought that I was just purposefully inconveniencing them by taking my children out in public? LOL! Twins and other multi siblings are a fact of life, and boo-fucking-hoo to those idjits who can’t step aside to let a fandamily pass…
And, dh says tell John to fuck off while yer at it… This is why he stays home when I go there…
Invest in a 9V cattle prod.
This is why I love doing some of my shopping at Walmart past midnight. It’s dead and I can get a lot of what I need quickly.
BSB, i dont think it is your mission to inconvenience …but it does. is it really a good idea to take that giant double stroller into the market? really?
i feel sorry for some of these toddlers getting dragged through the market as well, jammed between strangers who arent paying attention. BSB, whoever dh is, have him look after your brood and leave the stroller home.
We all go on here about how bad it is to coddle your child, but look at all the adults who expect to be coddled as well- what kind of example are we giving to kids? Now it’s un-PC to take a double stroller to the market, to allow your dogs to bark in the park, to take an elevator if you’re able bodied, to stand on the escalator, to take your kids to the grocery store at peak shopping times, to smoke on the sidwewalk, to drive your car, to have to say “Excuse me” to a group of people in the market who are in your way. No wonder people are so angry nowadays- we’re obsessed with the idea that our rights as individuals are constantly being violated. Here’s a newflash to all these adult whiners; Most of the time LIFE is annoying! Suck it up!!
i think you are confusing coddling with consideration. as adults we expect other adults to act with some common sense. i dont think expecting a mom to leave the winnebago sized stroller at home is looking to be accomodated. smoking on the sidewalk is fine as long as its not near doorways imo. dogs barking is a fact of life as long as its not continual. and so on.
all most people on here ask is that other human beings use their brains a little. for the most part i see people looking for equal treatment without input from special interest groups.
I agree with john. You hit the nail on the head.
My sxs double stroller was 30″ wide. Is it my fault if you’re too lazy to take a simple little step to the side so that we can pass? Maybe you should use your brain and consider the fact that children and their parents have a right to public space too, expecting me to leave my kids at home, because your ass is annoyed, is just unreasonable. I don’t just look for equal treatment for me and mine, I insist on it. When kids don’t get out enough, it’s them who suffer for it, not us parents. If they’re going to be happy and functional adults someday, they need to get out there and learn all about how to deal with arseholes like you w/o getting too upset…
you mean too upset like you, who is calling me an areshole…are you teaching your kids thats its proper to call people names? and no BSB you are not looking for equal treatment, you are in fact looking for special treatment because of that stroller and kids.
no matter what you say or what names you call me…thats the way it is.
I don’t know how you can find that enjoyable, manuvering that thing in a jammed packed place like that. If it were me, I would go first thing in the morning, teaching my children consideration while enjoying some manuverability.
BSB … I don’t think many people would have an issue with stepping aside for you to pass so long as their was room. My main concern is with ME being able to pass YOU when you are taking up an entire aisle so that your twins can have a market experience they won’t even remember. I agree with John.
If I decide to brave the market, I do go very early to avoid the crowds, and to get the best produce, honestly, it’s only sensible. BUT, I DO have as much of a right to go later as anyone else. It, in case you don’t know, takes way longer to get ready to go anywhere with children, sometimes families are not on time and it has FUCK-ALL to do w/ you and your ire.
But thanks anyways for the great parenting tips #@%$,
“while enjoying some maneuverability” Bwahahahah! As if.
I can’t speak for you hellakitty, (and vice-versa, hmmm?), but personally, I can remember being a 1-2y/o out in public with my parents. Back then on Saturday mornings, we’d go to the fish shop on the waterfront, (now NS Crystal), among other places…
I’m sorry if other people’s parents didn’t take them out to, “get socialized”, not my fault or problem tho…
30″ fyi, is about the size of an average doorway, if there’s no room for you to move your ignorant ass aside, maybe it’s the ass that’s too big, not the stroller. Usually just turning sideways will suffice…
Suck it up, have some common courtesy and step aside people, kids exist and they deserve to be treated like thinking, feeling beings too.
And yes, John, I did teach my children to stand up for themselves, shove proper up your arse, and bad language is all relative to your roots, buddy. We in particular, are descended from sea captains and pirates, so fuck the ‘Queen’s English’, so to speak.
It should also be said that:
MOST people here in the maritimes are at least polite, if not overly helpful, when it comes to being out in public avec children… I thank those folks for their wonderful courtesy and consideration a thousand times over. They know who they are. <3
I am very much pro-child and pro-family. I don’t have any children myself, but I enjoy them and don’t mind going out of my way to accomodate them and their handlers. But I can’t imagine that it would be anything but stressful for a small child engulfed in the crush of strangers at a place like the Farmer’s Market. I really don’t think anyone is doing their children a favour by subjecting them to that.
However, you do indeed have the right to do so, if that is your choice. I also have the right to pay for $200 worth of groceries with small change at five o’clock on friday afternoon. Just because you can does not mean that you should.
Speak for yourself, BSB. There are some of us here who were born of immigrants from countries that wouldn’t even begin to know what the ocean looks like. Those people are lucky to be educated enough to speak the “Queen’s English”. That aside, the market is cramped enough without people stopping in the middle of aisle. If it’s 30″, that’s 2.5 feet wide. That’s fucking massive in a small space, where people are generally shoulder to shoulder. I avoid that place at all costs anyways. It’s full of snotty, self-important assholes, gawking over over-priced jams and carrots.
I totally agree with Brunswick Street Baby.
I’d like to add, that if we all raised our kids to know it’s normal to go to farmer’s markets and not normal to go to Walmart or McDonalds, then the world would be a MUCH better place.
On Saturdays, I see most parents down there with slings, but if you have two that can’t walk yet, then really there’s no choice but to use a stroller.
BSB don’t assume we don’t have courtesy or that our assess are fat. I was just simply stating my annoyance not ire. I am always curtious and polite and I don’t have a fat ass so yes, your welcome a thousand times over. Nobody is saying you don’t have rights to be out prime time, some of us just think it’s a common sense thing. God help us if a fire breaks out in there and the strollers are everywhere. We likely won’t have this issue when the market moves. In the mean time I will still be just “annoyed” but also polite, helpful and curtious.
well im glad to see your children will learn to swear like sailors at an early age BSB. bravo.
Step aside? Some of those things take up the space of 3 normal sized people! And you’re going to navigate through a mob filling spaces between vendors who in some cases are only separated by enough space to acommodate 5-6 people uncomfortably.
Get a grip, lady.
Heh, I have rights too. My right to stand in your way and not move (much of an asshole I’ll be) will surely bring some twisted amusement to me.
I’m all for being considerate too, John and agree there is a difference between consideration and coddling, but I think that expecting someone who has twins and wants to go the market to leave the double stroller at home is really overboard. Think of it this way- if there weren’t so many people milling about, blocking the aisles while stopping to chat with friends, the double stroller would have no problem getting through. So who to blame- the parent with the double stroller who’s just trying to enjoy what we all should be able to, or the people who insist on walking three abreast so that nobody can pass? I’ve never had a problem with someone with a big stroller trying to get past me saying a friendly “Excuse me” as they manouver past- I’ll happily smile and step aside for them without thinking about my rights having been violated or how “innapropriate” it is for the double stroller to be there on a busy day. Of course if someone says their ‘excuse me’ with an attitude, or doesn’r say it at all and runs over my toe as they pass, as if I was supposed to have psychic abilities and anticipate the stroller coming before I even saw it, this I have a problem with. This is inconsiderate behavior- not what you suggest.
The market is a weekly pleasureable event for some people, is it really such a big deal that someone brings a large stroller to this event?
When you put things in perspective, how much of your life has been inconvenienced by this?
Let’s hope the new market opens on time and is as big a success as anticipated.
“you people who walk too slow, or who just stop for no reason”
It’s called browsing! Go earlier or perhaps go walk somewhere else
they haven’t moved this yet? wasn’t it supposed to be going to pier 21 or 23 or some other random number?
sounds like it may work out a lot of the kinks we’re seeing here.