Since having a baby, there's been lots of occasions where I've felt like people think I'm being very rude, and to be completely honest, I'm not, I'm just putting my child first.
Take yesterday for example - we arrived at a notoriously busy lift in St Davids 2 here in Cardiff, there was one middle-aged couple waiting too. As we arrived, the lift dinged. The other couple very quickly darted across in front of us, ensuring their place in the lift. Yes, they were there first, but was that polite? I was brought up to always let people who are older, or with prams, or in a wheelchair etc, go first, whether that's onto a bus, on a train, through a door or in a lift. It's simple manners. Yes I'm able bodied - but I've lost count of the amount of times at that specific lift, I've had countless people push in front of me, leaving me not able to get the pram in the lift, and I've been there waiting for 20 mins trying to get on a lift as no one would let me on - I ended up giving up on trying to get to those shops on the next level up.
I'll give you another example. When I'm walking down the road with the pushchair, I walk on the side of the pavement that's farthest from the road, so hugging the houses. I will not move out of the way if you're walking towards me. My child is the most important thing in my life and I will do everything I can to protect him - if that means putting someone's nose out of joint because I won't push him into the traffic, well so be it, or letting someone think I'm being rude, fine. Countless times recently I've encountered some very nasty looks from people who refused to move and in fairness, it's not their fault. Before having Squidge, it never would have crossed my mind to move to the outside of the pavement for a pram, but now I get it. Just last week I was walking home, and a couple were walking towards me with their dog, they walked single file hugging the wall to give me room to get past, which was nice, but again, that would be me pushing my child towards the traffic - not going to happen - as a result I received some disgusting looks for barely moving out of their way.
Am I the only one that does this? I certainly get out of the way of prams now when I'm out and about now that I've had a child myself.
Hopefully if you're reading this and have always wondered why people with prams might not move out of the way, you'll know it's not because we're being rude or arrogant, it's because we're trying to protect the most precious thing in our lives, our children.
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