In Defense of the Stroller Pushers

[The Tuna]

I just returned from 10 days of pushing a double stroller around the parks and the reason people are getting hit in the legs so often is because they are morons, plane and simple. I never realized how often people have their heads buried in their phones or are looking right and walking left. The next time any of us gets hit by a stroller, ask yourself what you were doing. I had one person, head buried in their phone walk straight into the front of the stroller. I saw them coming, stopped and put out my hand to stop him dropping onto my kids. This was a full grown adult. Another beauty was the guy looking right and walking left who fell over the front of my stroller which was once again still as I saw it coming.

Now my mom can be considered one of the terrorist stroller pushers but the only time she hit someone was intentionally. As we crossed the street before a parade people were blocking the walk way. This guy was asked to move by a CM twice and said he had nowhere to go...with no one behind him. so my mom ran over his leg. Life Lessons.

Even without the stroller the amount of people who can't manage to look where they are walking is unbelievable. IF we were to bury a shoulder into a few of them it might change things. Or maybe my bitterness comes from working in a college where no one has looked up from their screens in years, not even when crossing the road and not after 2-3 kids get hit each year. Natural Selection I believe they call it.

That was just my experience, but i generally pay attention to what I am doing. I did see some people rally car racing through crowds with their strollers and scooters, so yes there are some real winners. But I have to defend the generalizations as I could have hit many people if i hadn't stopped walking. By simply walking in straight line I could have hit probably a t least 2 people a day.

 

[G00fyDad]

 

[The Tuna]

HAHAHAHH. I think we as people need to look up once in a while. You can't even have a family dinner without someone reaching into their pockets.

 

[englanddg]

Can I schedule my stroller accident 45 days in advance using the MyDisneyExperience App?

 

[RandomPrincess]

Pushing a stroller in a crowded park is a nightmare! We went stoller-less as much as possible but with a 2 yo we needed it about 2/3-1/2 of the time. I think the main problem is people aren't used to strollers and looking down. Not going to lie I've bumped people by accident and I've been at a stop and had people walk straight into my stroller. Can't wait until we don't need one anymore. we aren't planning a trip for a few years so we should be stroller-less.

 

[The Tuna]

You can schedule it in advance, but it uses up one of your FP+s. Why waste it when you could get the brazilian tour group sing along and bud in line reservation.

I was actually thinking that I was now one of the stroller pusher people and was going to hit someone so I took extra care. But you forget how ignorant humanity is the moment you get into a group. It wasn't even busy when we were there except for the last two days. You would think people would let someone with a stroller and two sleeping kids or an old lady in a scooter get by, but they just rushed in front. Courtesy and chivalry are definitely dead.

 

[Sans Souci]

Um, no. I was at Epcot with just my son when this man and his bromance buddy kept hitting the back of my legs. I was queueing up for an adult beverage at Epcot when these two a$$ hats kept hitting me in the back of my legs, saying they wanted to "tap me" in front of my son. How classy. Apparently, they were two overjoyed new fathers whose wives let them have their balls back for the evening.

 

[The Tuna]

I think that's called being a couple of a$$e$. Drunken idiots don't need a stroller to ruin people's nights.

 

[hsisthebest]

Strollers are nothing now compared to scooters. 10+ years ago I would agree that strollers were out of hand. But now I'm glad we have a stroller- we can sort make a path through heavy crowds with several people following our "wake". But I'm very surprised how fast the scooters go, we were constantly yanking our kids out of the way of scooters speeding at us from behind. -And its people who never usually use scooters that are the worst, always bumping into things, can't corner at all, go backwards instead of forwards. I'd take a stroller crowd over scooter crowd any day!

 

[bethymouse]

Strollers, scooters, and "the lock"! Oh my!

 

[Magenta Panther]

I understand the necessity of strollers in some cases. But most of the time they're unnecessary four-wheeled annoyances and hazards used by lazy parents and their spoiled kids. Look at old pictures of Disneyland and WDW. How many strollers do you see in them? Damn few. However did kids and parents manage to navigate the parks back then without a kiddie wheelbarrow to chaffeur the kids around in? What has changed since then? It makes me sick to look at Fantasyland buried under a sea of strollers. So no sympathy from me, sorry. If your kid is too small to walk around WDW, wait until he/she is older before you visit the park. If he/she is too spoiled/lazy/fat/whatever to walk around the park without a stroller then SHAME ON YOU AS A PARENT. JMHO.

 

[draybook]

I have to hurry up because @The Mom has a habit of locking right as I hit the reply button.


The one time I had a lady run clean over my left leg I was walking with my head firmly looking forward as we crossed over from the hub into Tomorrowland. So you can scratch off one "idiot" from that list.

 

[luv]

Adults aren't always looking down when they walk, so sometimes they will bump into strollers.

Parents aren't always aware of how far out the stroller is, so sometimes they will hit ankles.

Very few people are purposefully bumping into anyone. I've been bumped by strollers a few times. If I look, the person always says they're sorry and it's a genuine apology. I don't really look anymore, because I am kind of used to it now. I know what it was.

 

[Megalodumb]

I am always careful when I walk around the parks pushing a stroller. If I see someone not paying attention, I always slow down, stop, or go around to avoid a collision or accident. Yet people still look at me funny due to the fact that I don't have a child.

 

[Sped2424]

I don't mind strollers and the people behind, that is if they are nice, usually I get people who power through crowds eating peoples heels along the way without a hint of remorse.

 

[Wilt Dasney]

I've most definitely had my legs bumped while walking straight ahead at a steady pace, on multiple occasions. I try to remember that this is among my most irritating life experiences, as opposed to being sentenced to a Soviet gulag, and move on considering myself among the winners of 2.3 million years of Sapiens evolution.

 

[marni1971]

Hmmmm...

 

[Nemo14]

I know a lot of adults do leave common sense behind when they enter the magical bubble, but I think all this NextGen crap hasn't helped either. If you have to keep checking your "Boy-am-I-Smart Phone to see what time you reserved the privilege of riding Journey Into Imagination (that you reserved 60 days ago) after dining at La Hacienda(which you reserved 6 months ago) you're probably not always going to see the brigade of strollers and scooters approaching.

 

[disneyfan56]

Strollers<shudder>

There are no forum-friendly words for how I feel about strollers in parks.

 

[wm49rs]

I just returned from 10 days of pushing a double stroller around the parks and the reason people are getting hit in the legs so often is because they are morons, plane and simple. I never realized how often people have their heads buried in their phones or are looking right and walking left. The next time any of us gets hit by a stroller, ask yourself what you were doing. I had one person, head buried in their phone walk straight into the front of the stroller. I saw them coming, stopped and put out my hand to stop him dropping onto my kids. This was a full grown adult. Another beauty was the guy looking right and walking left who fell over the front of my stroller which was once again still as I saw it coming.

Now my mom can be considered one of the terrorist stroller pushers but the only time she hit someone was intentionally. As we crossed the street before a parade people were blocking the walk way. This guy was asked to move by a CM twice and said he had nowhere to go...with no one behind him. so my mom ran over his leg. Life Lessons.

Even without the stroller the amount of people who can't manage to look where they are walking is unbelievable. IF we were to bury a shoulder into a few of them it might change things. Or maybe my bitterness comes from working in a college where no one has looked up from their screens in years, not even when crossing the road and not after 2-3 kids get hit each year. Natural Selection I believe they call it.

That was just my experience, but i generally pay attention to what I am doing. I did see some people rally car racing through crowds with their strollers and scooters, so yes there are some real winners. But I have to defend the generalizations as I could have hit many people if i hadn't stopped walking. By simply walking in straight line I could have hit probably a t least 2 people a day.

The fact that many strollers have reached the size of Nimitz-class carriers has nothing to do with the situation? Or the fact sometimes "morons" are piloting them as well? Good to know....