Over on Noodlepie blogging evangelist Graham Holliday is musing on how the working practices of print journalists are being turned on their head. He points to Comment is Free as allowing a conversation to evolve between writer and reader. All good stuff. But what on earth has this got to do with twins, triplets or more? Well Graham's post put me in mind of a CiF piece from a mother who'd bemoaned the fact that she found it hard to get around with a buggy. It scared the pants off me, I can tell you.
People took time away from their working day or whatever else they were supposed to be doing that day to pour scorn on the poor woman for daring to believe she should be stepping outdoors with her child.Imagine - that was the strength of feeling when she only had one. Apparently, according to some, it's the gargantuan dimensions of the pushchair that offends. Here's a piece I wrote about getting from A to B when Emily and Melissa were still in a pushchair (and that's what they looked like, above.) I gave up on public transport altogether - while other mums put me to shame, saying where there's a will, there's a way. But seriously, that piece on CiF really put the wind up me. Naively perhaps, I never knew mums were so reviled. I know the childfree and loving it brigade have some vocal supporters but didn't realise they were that nasty with it.
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some folk can be quite shocking, had a guy vault over the girls double buggy once because he was 'in a rush'....i found that if people banged into it and didn't apologise, then announcing at the top of my voice 'oh no, i've forgotten to turn the arsehole magnet in the buggy off again' seemed to work.
Posted by: Ash | April 10, 2007 at 11:43 AM