Crossing Over

No, I'm not talking John Edwards. It's time for another cartoon (parental discretion advised)! This time I will depict the pedestrian walking pattern I like to call "crossing over". This occurs when a single pedestrian walks towards you on your left (normal traffic pattern), but as they get closer to you they begin gravitating towards you. You stare in shock that someone would, for no reason, walk straight toward you and force you to move out of their way. This used to happen to me all of the time without the double stroller. It was irritating. But do it to a lady pushing a double stroller?

When we left for vacation, we were carrying all kinds of stuff while pushing the stroller. In the corridor from the parking garage to the airport, we were walking all the way on the right and there was one single person walking toward us all the way on the left. He began crossing over. John couldn't believe it. He acknowledged that I talk about this situation all the time, but never saw it to this extent for himself. We decided to play chicken. And, of course, we lost!

Here is how it went down while pushing a double stroller with a car seat strapped onto it, and carrying an additional carseat, two diaper bags, food for the kids, and pulling a Xlarge suitcase.




And of course: here is what we wanted to do!