Return to the Maple Syrup Festival

[james_davis_nicoll]

Or rather the stroller issue.

One of the most aggressively wielded strollers was empty. A number of FoFs encountered that woman and her giant, empty stroller during the Festival and at no point did it have kids in it. If I recall correctly (because I meant to post about this a while ago but forgot) there were also some other mysteriously childless strollers being plowed through crowds.

Hmmmm.

Just a fluke that several women got stuck handling strollers after they left their kids somewhere for a perfectly good reason that precluded leaving the stroller or were they actually using empty strollers as a tool to force their way through crowds? If the latter, has this method spread or is it peculiar to this region?

Comments

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

This is actually one reason I elected not to have kids. From what I've seen, at that age you can keep hold of a) one (or more) squirmy toddler(s) or b) the stroller. It is not physically possible to control both unless you are a highly-trained octopus.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

That's true in my experience. Or, as Samantha points out, Dad could be taking his son to the porta-potty.