Coffee Bar Bans Pushchairs.....

[Primal Scream]

Banning kids is a great idea, let's keep everyone out though that is likely to disturb our middle-class relaxation time. Old people, talk too loud and wear taupe. Young people, talk too loud, know it all and wear weird stuff. Lefties, talk too loud and are generally intolerant. Cyclists, talk too loud, take EPO, wear Lycra, smell...

Excuse me but I am old, a leftie, cycle and wear lycra and middle class boy am i f*&%#@

 

[Monsieur Remings]

It's not about pushchairs but the attitude 'behind the wheel.'

Okay, my pushchair is now fitted with Bontrager XR4s and I have 120mm of carbon fork travel, but I'm always polite and make the effort to move out of the way for other people. I understand the argument about the arrogance and indifference of some parents but I'd bet your bottom dollar they're mostly 4x4 drivers who can't drive either, with no regard for other people wherever they are. Not so much yummy mummys, as they are dippy, inconsiderate and/or downright arrogant twat rashes, worse still when Dad arrives with his iphone tablet.

Banning pushchairs is not on, it's blanket reaction and it would put my back up and I'm not unreasonable in regards to the effect I'm having on other people. Challenging crap attitudes and anti-social behaviour should, in contrast, always be on the agenda.

 

[slowmotion]

Actually, on the subject of buggies, there's a whole genre of blooming wankpanzers out there, driven badly...

coat

EDIT: Sorry, cross post with MR above

 

[Primal Scream]

MR An excellent post which just about says it all, you make a good point regarding mobile devices, in my job I get many calls a day and if i am in a cafe or coffee shop i go outside to take a call. Very embarrasing once as a member of staff folloewd me outside as she thought I was leaving without paying the bill

 

[Monsieur Remings]

Don't catch me wrong dudes, when me and the boy are out on the Hardpramtail, there's no messing, Mother Turf gets ripped up with the on-board Rockshoxx and there's no turning back bitches. The pram is sick as it gets and the trails get churned up large.

But after the wickedness, a Costa latte' is at hand, so I take me' helmet off, my boy takes off his Spesh' pads and nappy and as he reaches for The Guardian, we're polite as...

 

[Primal Scream]

With my boys we always seemed to end up in the cafe in Valentines park in Ilford, handy as you could sit outside and watch them in the play area.

 

[ufkacbln]

We use a sling mostly unless doing a big shop or something.

Using a sling to take out misbehaving kids and pushchair operators is a liitle extreme don't you think?

 

[ufkacbln]

OTT - I saw a pushchair in Fareham yesterday with a Hope M4 hydraulic brake on the front wheel!

 

[slowmotion]

Coming to a caff near you, soon.
http://www.kidkustoms.com/theRoddler.html

 

[Milo]

Using a sling to take out misbehaving kids and pushchair operators is a liitle extreme don't you think?

We have an ergo-carrier thing.

Ladies not included but it is very good. For taking out pushchair users and small children you need .22 minimum run of the mill slingshots will not cut it.

 

[Milo]

Milo , no offence meant, apologies for the sarcasm.

Apologies I misread.

 

[slowmotion]

We had a North American backpack/kid carrier. I think it was called the "ToughTraveller". I looked and felt like this.

 

[Norm]

I looked and felt like this.

No, you see I'm fairly sure that elephants would be banned from coffee shops and most other eating establishments.

 

[Lee_M]

this is a brilliant thread, split between those who think people with buggies should be able to do everything they want, and those who dont

personally I dont like badly behaved kids, or mothers who cant control them, and would cheerfully ban anyone with a buggy from anywhere where they take up too much space and get in other peoples way.

This is not the same as banning wheelchairs as some say, because children and buggies are a lifestyle choice, wheelchairs aren't.

 

[threebikesmcginty]