Stairway etiquette

[bananiem]

When I take my dd to skating we go down a set of stairs. Usually at the same time the little kids (4-10 ish in age) have just gotten done and are coming up the stairs with their parents. These families will take up the entire stairway and let their kids go up the left hand side. They watch as we stop (because we'll push Johnny and Sally down the stairs if we don't) and their little one goes around us and NOT ONCE ALL YEAR has a parent said "Come on this side" or anything like it. Why don't parents teach their kids to go up the right side?
I was raised that you go down the right side and up the right side. Just like driving on the road. Is that wrong?

 

[tmt martins]

When I take my dd to skating we go down a set of stairs. Usually at the same time the little kids (4-10 ish in age) have just gotten done and are coming up the stairs with their parents. These families will take up the entire stairway and let their kids go up the left hand side. They watch as we stop (because we'll push Johnny and Sally down the stairs if we don't) and their little one goes around us and NOT ONCE ALL YEAR has a parent said "Come on this side" or anything like it. Why don't parents teach their kids to go up the right side?
I was raised that you go down the right side and up the right side. Just like driving on the road. Is that wrong?

Like others on the Dis are they from the UK you know they like the left side of the road

I really do here where your coming from and the parents would be the first ones wanting to fight or sue if you did somehow knock them down.
I would get an airhorn and blow it to let them know they were on the travel down lane

It just proves my point that it's becoming a ME WORLD .

 

[bananiem]

Like others on the Dis are they from the UK you know they like the left side of the road

I really do here where your coming from and the parents would be the first ones wanting to fight or sue if you did somehow knock them down.
I would get an airhorn and blow it to let them know they were on the travel down lane

Well, some of them are busy speaking other languages to their friends instead of watching their kids so maybe they come from somewhere that it's ok to get in people's way on the stairs?

 

[Tigger&Belle]

You live in the US, right? I would keep walking, slowly, and say, "careful, I don't want to knock you over" or "walk on the right". You can also smile sweetly. Of course I'd be thinking "idiot parents, teach your kids manners".

Good luck, though, because if it's been happening all year long it might take an act of Congress (or a 2 X 4 on the head) for them to get the idea.

 

[hercamore]

No, and someone's going to get hurt coming up the wrong side especially at a sports facility with all that sports equip everyone's carrying around.

It happens at other places, too, not just the Rec Center. The Public Library, for one.

 

[bananiem]

No, and someone's going to get hurt coming up the wrong side especially at a sports facility with all that sports equip everyone's carrying around.

It happens at other places, too, not just the Rec Center. The Public Library, for one.

It's amazing how fast they'll get out of the way if a high school guy is carrying his huge hockey bag and a stick down the stairs. Maybe my dd needs to start carrying her brother's bag.
I hadn't noticed it at the library. I was there today. I wanted to get Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen because I've never read it. It was gone.

 

[Rachie0507]

I have the same problem at DS's preschool, which is in the basement of a church. I am a daycare provider so I usually have a lot of kids with me. I've drilled it into their little heads to stay to the right, single-file. I just figure if I am teaching these kids early, maybe someday they will pass it on.

 

[bananiem]

I have the same problem at DS's preschool, which is in the basement of a church. I am a daycare provider so I usually have a lot of kids with me. I've drilled it into their little heads to stay to the right, single-file. I just figure if I am teaching these kids early, maybe someday they will pass it on.

Thank you!!!