Won’t someone PLEASE think of the children!?
[thecoz] Old Weird Harold stole 5. THe 5th was for the back, so that he could have a Continental. [/thecoz]
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Target for yer double umbrella stroller.
Someplace called the Stroller Depot for a triple. Not cheap, tho.
We were at a festival last weekend and there were some people there with two HUGE strollers…I’m not sure how many kids were supposed to fit in them. They were sort of round, with a rounded safety bar on the front. I swear, they had like sixteen kids piled up. Stroller clown cars. We just stayed out of their way.
We used three strollers:
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Tiny umbrella style. Small, easily moved around, folds up and I could carry it on my shoulder. It was a slightly upgraded one with double tires in front and back that made it a bit more capable of handling uneven terrain (I took it to Yosemite). I would hang the baby backpack on the handles as well.
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Double stroller (front and back). We regularly shared duties with another couple and needed to haul their kid. There is no such thing as a good solution for two kids in a stroller. You can either go long or go wide - both are hard to manage and take up way too much room. Ours was long - and it was a pain to fold and put in the truck.
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Single uber stroller with the underseat carrying unit and the ability to let the kid go completely horizontal. Oversized, I agree. This was the unit for days when we would be strolling and the little one would be ready for a nap. It also worked well as a way to pack in blankets when cold - you can’t do that in a small umbrella stroller. Finally, the hauling capacity underneath was nice for my wife if we were hitting the farmer’s market, etc. Those diaper backpacks can be a pain after awhile.
Head to Europe where you can still find prams if you want to see some big units.
With nanotechnology, we will soon be able to lubricate the smaller baby and stick it up the larger baby’s behind.
OK, well, I have twins. So I felt “entitled” to buy a two-seater.
Now, I could perhaps have just left the kids in the car instead of taking them into stores with me (see threads re: “Why Do Stupid Parents Let Their Kids Burn Up?”).
Or, I could have asked my husband to run all the errands (see threads re: “SAHMs Have it Too Easy”).
But that would have meant avoiding parks and other outings (see threads re: “Kids Today Are Too Fat and Watch Too Much TV”).
We had a Graco DuoGlider for a while, got it used for $75. It just barely exactly fit in the trunk of our Honda (see threads re: “Why do Soccer Moms Drive These Ridiculously Large Vehicles?”). But we needed it because little babies require the extra support provided by bigger baby strollers - those umbrella-type strollers don’t let them lay flat, which means their little heads wobble over and they can’t breathe. (“Stupid Parents Suffocated Their Kid!”).
Once the twins got a little older, I started using our other hand-me-down stroller on most outings. It was an umbrella-type side-by-side model with 3 working wheels (but hey, who’s counting) and I could actually fit things in the trunk along with it.
Except one day, I forgot I’d used the big behemouth instead. We’d gone to the zoo or something (“Let the Animals Run Free!”) and I’d used the DuoGlider because it had space for bottles (“Formula is The Devil!”) and left it in the trunk.
Imagine my surprise when the kids and I pulled up at O’Hare to retrieve my sister AND her luggage. Her rather large luggage.
Last time I saw that DuoGlider, it was parked under the sign at Gate K.
Not only do the SUV strollers block every path in sight but the attitude of entitlement that comes with it is unbearable! Get out of my way and I don’t care if I knock your ass down. That’s how I feel they think sometimes.
Now I guess it would be a little easier to take if the Moms would at least look at you and say something apologetic about blocking the whole damn walkway/aisle!
Heh heh.
Yes. It kind of looks like this:
And yes, it ran for that price. Ugh. And yes, she hates carrying it already.
And I bet your ass is still sore from that time you wandered into an Oneida factory outlet.
I miss the days when we use to use the wheelbarrow to cart the spawn around in.
I don’t have much problem with whatever parents choose to transport their children, but at least learn to manoever the damned thing. If you choose to spend the extra $$$ to have a “Jeep” branded baby hauler, that is your choice. I personally think the extra $$$ would be better off in a college fund, but that’s just my opinion. But if you do have a baby carriage larger than some third world countries, and have deliberately chosen not to learn how to use it in a safe manner, do not glare at me when I push the damned thing off of my damaged foot or away from my bleeding ankles.
A couple of ladies around here have jogging strollers. I’m not sure how useful they would be for anything other than jogging, but it’s fun seeing a grinning, giggling baby breeze by!
I don’t think I’m a “yuppie-fueled entitlement mother-whore” especially since I’m a guy, but I use one of these. I have twins, so I need something that will hold two kids, and the Chariot is a multi-use vehicle – I can hitch it to my bike to ride to the store, then convert it into a stroller to go inside. Although as the kids are getting older I find myself just parking the whole rig outside the store and putting the kids in a shopping cart while we’re inside. Anyway, the thing is exactly the same width as a wheelchair (it will fit anywhere thats ADA compliant) so its not too huge, and I am very considerate of others when I am using it, so I’m going to assume you’re not talking about me. Plus my mother bought it for us (and she set up a college fund too!)
This one is still the size of a jogging stroller, but it has room for two kids.
http://www.joggingstroller.com/Phil-and-Teds-SP-Doubles-Kit.pro
There are some times when you know the mom is figuring that she’s never coming back to that store with a stoller - the baby and her don’t fit in the aisles. But she’s there now.
As long as the stroller is smaller than a wheelchair, it should be reasonably accomidated.
I absolutely love my jogging stroller! I use it for running, but whenever I can, I use it for any outing that might involve some walking. In my experience, they’re much easier to get around than the gigantic Cadillac of a travel system my mom insisted on buying me.
For what it’s worth, though, that Cadillac sure came in handy on days when my son refused to sleep unless he was moving. I hate the enormous size, but that thing was like a bed on wheels. I was always really careful not to inconvenience others with it, though some parents practically use their strollers as battering rams.
I really want to organize some of these young guys in the community. When they see mothers blocking the sidewalk and knocking stuff over in the aisles, man, just start brickin’ em, for real – start bricking these SUV strollers, man, guerrilla style.
Can anyone link to an example of a huge SUV stroller? I’m not a mom and don’t know anyone with a stroller and I’m curious as hell now.
They’re only babies…
Stones will do.