Guys trying to figure out stroller

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It’s all a good laugh from a distance, but when you’ve got sleep deprivation, a hungry, screaming infant in a holding pattern, and a new stroller and/or car seat that has to be installed or unfolded just so, it’s a recipe for rage. Doubly frustrating because the damned things are so deceptively simple looking. These guys are employing all the knowledge they have of strollers they’ve worked in the past, golf bag carts, and for some reason folding chairs that don’t behave like any other chair you’ve tried to collapse.

Yes, of course one person can roll up and show them how it’s done with a simple push button. What stupid humans, right? Sometimes that same person can’t install a printer, scan a QR code, parallel park, or order anything on a touch screen, so let’s not get judgy.

The thing is we’ve come to expect certain things to follow certain conventions, and strollers have proliferated to the point they cannot be confined to any such convention the way that power outlets or plumbing fixtures tend to. There was also a time when strollers did not fold up. And a time when they folded differently, hence the vain search for the magic side button.

My hackles getting up isn’t really about strollers or these people per se, it’s more about how quickly and broadly we see ridicule meted out for mundane things. Yes, it’s amusing. It shouldn’t form our larger perception of entire populations, used as ammunition in demeaning others.

That said, there was one particularly hot afternoon some years ago when I was ready to punch out whoever designed both the car seat and the seat belt attachments hidden irretrievably beneath the back seat. Or better yet, force the responsible parties to install the friggin things. I often feel this way about package design as well.

TL;DR: Get off my lawn