Finally08
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I must say this was interesting. Im sorry you had a few hit and runs....
My experience: At HS one day we were making our way down the street by 50's PTC. there was hardly anyone on the street and this guy just darted out in front of me pushing my mammoth double stroller with BOTH my kids in it. Well I hit him and he fell into my kids!!! He got up and told me to watch where I was going!! Thought my DH was gonna tie him around a tree!!!
I've had similar things happen. People who either run out in front of you, and a couple times we have had our stroller stepped OVER. Literally, someone on the side of us will cut over, partially hopping over the stroller while dd is in it and we are moving forward. She's been nearly kicked in the head by these idiots.
In Epcot last year we were in one of the countries quickly strolling through to get into a store because it was starting to rain. This much older couple was on a little walkway to my right and I could see them approaching the area I was going across and just kept watching, watching...I just knew they were going to step in front of me. They stopped and turned around to face the building they had exited and I thought I was ok, and right as I was even with them (within inches of them to my side) the old man wheeled around and started walking towards me before he ever even looked to see where he was going. His wife reached out and sorta grabbed his jacket and said something like "people will just run you over here!" to which I replied over my shoulder "and that's why you need to look before you step out into a pathway!"
No way they heard me though. I mumbled. And they were old.
So strollers aren't always the offenders...there's a lot of bad guest behavior towards people pushing them too.
Oh wait I can add a story where I was taken down by a stroller too, lol. Just this last trip I was getting ice cream at Ms. Pott's in Fantasyland. I paid at the counter and turned to walk away and fell sideways because someone had pushed their stroller RIGHT up behind me, then turned it sideways...so when I moved just a few inches, my legs hit it and I toppled. I almost dropped the ice cream in the glass souvenir cups I just bought. I started apologizing because my first concern was that I had partially squished a baby, but there wasn't one in there and the woman with the stroller never said a word and just looked at me like I had done something wrong. There was absolutely no way I could have even turned around and exited the line without her moving her stroller...so why in the world she was looking at me so crazy for falling over her stroller is beyond me.