Overhanging bushes, pavements and prams

pollypenny

ognum wrote: »

Oh dear OP, is this really the most important thing in your life to thinks about, a few overhanging bushes. I cny believe how petty some people are. There are many people in the world who have serious problems!

There's a very over-grown hedge near here, which has some lethal brambles just at eye-level for little ones coming out of the school up the road.

fluffnutter

I can't really imagine being annoyed by stuff whilst pushing the pram along the pavement either. I'd expect to have to negotiate the odd obstacle - after all, I'm the one pushing the awkward, cumbersome pram and getting in people's ways!

Do people really expect other people and inanimate objects like hedges and bushes to jump out of the way when they see a pram coming? Should the waters part like Moses and the red sea?

fluffnutter

pollypenny wrote: »

There's a very over-grown hedge near here, which has some lethal brambles just at eye-level for little ones coming out of the school up the road.

If one were feeling public-spirited, one could get out there with one's secateurs. If it bothered me, that's what I'd do.

thatgirlsam

fluffnutter wrote: »

If one were feeling public-spirited, one could get out there with one's secateurs. If it bothered me, that's what I'd do.

Don't come round here with your common sense!

Anyway.. I fell in brambles, ditches and all sorts when I was a kid. Back when parents didn't shoite themselves about everything!

mrcow

moneyhoney1 wrote: »

On another occasion I was walking with my baby and I came to an obstacle on the path. It was some thoughtless persons motorbike. I was able to go down the kerb but someone in a wheelchair would have had to turn round and find a drop kerb just to get by this sodding bike. I spat on the seat i was so outraged.

What a vile thing to do.

My only hope would be that you're not going to pass on your disgusting, crass habits to your children. Unfortunately it's not much of a hope. With a role model like that, they will probably grow up to be as revolting as it comes.

lostinrates

thatgirlsam wrote: »

Don't come round here with your common sense!

Anyway.. I fell in brambles, ditches and all sorts when I was a kid. Back when parents didn't shoite themselves about everything!

As a kid and an adult i have always been covered in scratches. I take a rather unusal perspective of not really careing about skin, but being very annoyed when clothes are ripped!:o

fluffnutter

thatgirlsam wrote: »

Anyway.. I fell in brambles, ditches and all sorts when I was a kid.

I recall spending entire summers in massive patches of stinging nettles. It can't have been comfortable but there wasn't much else to do in the 70s.

thatgirlsam

lostinrates wrote: »

As a kid and an adult i have always been covered in scratches. I take a rather unusal perspective of not really careing about skin, but being very annoyed when clothes are ripped!:o

I look like I've been in a fight with a cat when I've been gardening!

Thats because personally I like a tidy bush :cool:

But I won't start going around policing everyone elses gardens!

And if my kid gets scratched by a bush then I will tell them to look where they are going next time

thatgirlsam

fluffnutter wrote: »

I recall spending entire summers in massive patches of stinging nettles. It can't have been comfortable but there wasn't much else to do in the 70s.

:rotfl::rotfl:

I deliberatley pushed my little brother in the stingers once

We used to eat the chives growing in peoples gardens for fun. The good old 70's

fluffnutter

thatgirlsam wrote: »

And if my kid gets scratched by a bush then I will tell them to look where they are going next time

Madness! That's just crazy talk, woman! How on earth are your children ever going to learn about our litigious personal injury culture if you insist on teaching them responsibility??