OT - baby buggies

Next they'll be fitting NOS systems...........

Peter

Nappy overflow sensor?

cheers, clive

Same reason same people have a great big 4x4 and window signs that say "baby on board" - a form of status symbol

Noxious-oxides? Don't the babies come with those systems already installed!???

Darren

Angry Baby Sensor? Dummy Over-Heat Control? Screaming Infant Pacifying System?

Si

Ha, you just reminded me of something else I saw recently. I'm in the building society, and there's a mum with a kid in buggy and mum is talking to the manager.

Kid- "mummy"

Mum " Wait a minute darling", keeps talking to manager.

Kid "mummy" Mum keeps talking to manager.

Kid -insistent now " Mummy mummy mummy"

Mum keeps talking .

"MUMMY"

"Just a minute darling, I'm nearly finished"

even louder "MUMMY"

Mum- annoyed now -" Wait a minute" through clenched teeth.

Loudest voice yet- "MUMMMY MUMMMY MUMMY"

"All right all right, I'm coming now" Mum finishes talking to manager, starts pushing buggy towards the door.

"MUMMY I WET MYSELF"

Puddle where buggy used to be demonstrates the truth of this statement.

Steve

and dont forget the 2.9TI

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Worse, they're still too small for me to push comfortably.

Probably the 'Jane Powertrack 360'.

I was always dissatisfied with the brakes on our buggies - usually just a bar that pushed in between the plastic spokes.

And yes we did explore widely enough and to dodgy enough places that a decent and controllable brake would have been useful...

Whats even more scary is the ease at which women manage to unfold them.

With practice, anyone can do it.

I'm a whizz with our McLaren. They *look* complicated, but they're not[0]. With ours, you just pull the handle away from the wheels, and then press a foot lock thing in.

Collapsing is pretty much the same, but there's a safety interlock which means you can't collapse it with your urchin in it.

Pete.

[0] Having seen some of the excuses for parents on TV, they can't be too complicated, or they'd forget what they were doing halfway through it.

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Pah - these Health and Safety designs really take the fun out of life.

True. I was going to say with some of the little basdarlings round here that wouldn't be a safety feature, it would be a design flaw.

Steve

So you've tried then? And why can't you release the safety catch while they're in? (-:

Nah it's there for the Dad's when they get involved in the buying - bit like flash alloys and go faster badging on the car.

Ours does indeed have a front disc brake, castoring front wheel etc. but seriously, that front brake is a handy bit of kit going downhill.

Now, if I can just get a small spoiler from somwhere..........

Ian

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You already have a small spoiler, as you will discover as it grows up.

The catch just makes it harder to collapse.

Their torso is the *real* thing that stops it collapsing ;-)

Pete.

I've seen them too :) I've also seen one which is a tripod with the baby seat perched on the top ?

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That's the Martian version, innit?

it looked more like one of them things you use to do painting on