I have this really awesome stroller that I won. It rides smoothly, looks sleek and even has an adjustable height handle which I totally adore. Yeah, it could use more basket space but that’s really the only complaint Ive got about the thing. My second favorite part (i say second favorite because the adjustable handle truly rules my Amazonian world)? I love how easily this thing collapses. You can even fold it down with a baby on your hip! Well, if you REMEMBER how to fold it down.
You see, while I LOVE this stroller, I usually am rocking the double stroller so it’s sometimes weeks before I bust the Mutsy back out. Yesterday I had an appointment with only Boden in tow. Things went swimmingly until it was time to leave and then I could not remember how to fold the damn thing down.
After several phone calls, beastly screams and a failed attempt at tying it to my bumper, Jenni found an online animation on how to collapse it and helped a hapless gal out. Of course, this was not before my skirt blew up over my head and a crowd of onlookers gathered to gawk
*yes, I was wearing granny panties and yes, I may have quite possibly maybe sort of over airbrushed my thighs*
**and yes, I totally need an eyebrow wax**
What are all the green spirals? Is it a big sheet covering the bodies of the onlookers?
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Christ, I think I would have left it there!
Oh dear….I was excited about a stroller idea for my own Amazonian self (and giant of a hubby as well….he’s 6′4 and I’m almost 6′) but with difficult folding-ness? I forget how to work things way too easily….
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fidget Reply:
April 28th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
if you plan on using it all regular like, you won’t have a problem at all really. you pull a lever and then a yank handle to fully collapse it
Mrs Soup Reply:
April 28th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Oh, okay. That is good to know!! \o/
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Oh my gosh, this is too funny. Very similar situation here in the mall parking lot the other day- including my skirt blowing up. I still didn’t get my stroller in right and finally got the trunk door to close on it. I wish I could airbrush my thighs, too.
Steph
I thought the spirals are grass? No? Nice to know there is another verifiable Amazon out there beside me.
the green spirals are grass kind of stuffs
When my youngest was an infant, I was in the Galleria in Houston. Met some friends for one of my first post-baby outings. When I got back to the (huge, dark and scary) parking garage, I couldn’t figure out how to get the baby carrier/car seat detached from the stroller. Talk about freaking out!
I guess your story is why our moms tell us to always wear clean undies! At least yours weren’t gross and holy! They weren’t, right??
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fidget Reply:
April 29th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
thank goodness no. i always wear non-holy undies with skirts. Ive learned my lesson the shamefully hard way
I use to leave mine all set up in the car because I couldn’t fold it up. Hey, I never said that I was smart.
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fidget Reply:
April 29th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
I tried jamming it into the car all set up but it was a no go, well it would have fit if I tied Boden to the roof rack but that somehow seemed vaguely irresponsible
Oh, I had a huge problem unfolding my stroller the first time I ventured out of the house with my new baby. I had always just let my husband do it, I mean it couldnt be that hard right? well of course I decided to take his little sister shopping at the mall without him. We probably spent 15 min in the parking lot wrestling with the dam thing in the the freezing windy cold before I just decided to carry the baby carrier into the mall (big mistake! those are heavy!) I had to have my hubby show me how to use it the next time we went out (turns out you have to twist the handle… who makes these things?!?!) I would have to say that was the moment that made me realize that I was a mom and didnt know what the hell I was doing! Your story brought the stroller hell memories back to me.
and that pic is hillarious!
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Please tell me that your skirt did not really blow up. That had to be embarrassing as hell. Oh my but oh the laughs. Wait, sorry, I didn’t mean that. LOL
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fidget Reply:
April 29th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
it really did. I put on quite a show. I think it would have been more embarrassing if I had not been so.angry. about having trouble with the stroller