The following blog contains a rant.
This isn't aimed at anyone in particular or to make anyone else upset or mad in the process. So, if you're one of the people I am ranting about, don't take it personally...
...or do....
Today we went to Kohl's to get Andy some fancy new duds. Well, not really. We had to return a belt and he needed some new khakis. I had to go and supervise to make sure that he was getting the right pair of pants. You know, wifely duties.
I never take my double stroller in, the thing weighs a good amount and its a little hard to maneuver in and out of the aisles in that department store. So, I usually grab one with one kid seat in the front, or the one with two. I can fit all three off my kids in the one with two seats in the front, and I can put Delilah in the carseat on the basket in the back. It's awesome. It's the only place I can do this. So, when we went there today, Andy grabbed Delilah in the car seat because she fell asleep on the way there and we didn't want to take her out of the seat to wake her up. I had the other two girls and we were ready to get a stroller inside. There were none. No biggie. We went to the other side. There was one, but it only had a singular basket on it, and you can't put the car seat on it. So, Andy proceeded to carry Delilah, in the car seat, around the store. Delilah now weighs 19 lbs. Then there's the weight of the car seat. It starts to weigh you down after a while.
We started at the back of the store, where I had to return a belt. We made our way back up to the front of the store, and I checked again for a stroller. I watched a woman walk away with a stroller that had the baby carrier on the front ( specifically made for car seats ) She looked at me, and then Andy, and continued to walk away with the stroller. Maybe she was taking it to someone else who had a baby? ( I was trying to be optimistic about the whole thing. Andy hates it when I get into confrontations with people when he's around. Like when I get crappy with the people in the drive-thru. If I saw Thank You and they don't say anything back I get pissed and tell them that they need to say THANK YOU to customers. It makes him uncomfortable when I tell people they aren't doing their job. ) Anyways! -- The lady walked away with the baby carrying stroller. I walked to the other side of the cash stand again and found a stroller. Hazah! Andy was able to put Delilah above the basket and Georgia was able to sit in the stroller. Ellie is better about sticking right next to us than Georgia is. She has a leash because of it. Not the point, though.
We passed several people in Kohl's pushing a stroller/basket/whatever they're called, and none of them had children with them. The lady who took the one with the car seat holder - she did not have a baby to put in it, and I saw her pushing it around dangling clothes off of it. I saw that and I could feel the vein in my forehead starting to throb. But I didn't say anything. It's a little my fault. I could have taken my stroller into the store. I could have. But Kohl's offers strollers for people with children. They also offer hand held bags for people to place items into. These are for the people who do not have children. It drives me batshit crazy to see parents toting around children because there are no strollers available, due to the people who do NOT have kids pushing them around dangling clothes from them. It's all well and good for them to use the strollers when there are a large number of them still available. For the lady who saw me and my husband with three children, one of them in a car seat -- shame on you. You're lucky my husband was with me or you would have gotten an ear full. I'd say its right up there with parking in a handicapped stall and not being handicapped. You're using someone else's advantage for your own and not considering the fact that you are creating an imposition for someone else. Okay, maybe I am over reacting a bit? Am I? Yes, I have three kids and it's rough for me to tote them all around, but am I wrong that the lady should have given up the stroller when she saw that there was a baby being carried around and she didn't need it for that reason?
It's called courtesy, people. I'm going to teach it to my children.
Like opening doors and holding them for people.
Once I was going into Gordmans, pregnant as could be, holding Ellenore... I was walking behind a couple and the lady let the door slam in my face. She saw me. She commented on my daughter in the parking lot before making her way into the store.
Andy wasn't with me that day. I proceeded to tell her how rude she was.
But that's neither here nor there. Common courtesy. I'm going to teach it to my kids. Because I go batshit crazy when people don't have it, and I don't want someone to think they've grown up with their mother not teaching them to be kind to other people.
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