You know how there is a definite knack to traditional deckchairs. You have to pull out one bit, slot in the other bit and then sit down and relax...Well I had a similar issue yesterday. Bob was dropping me of at the Retail Park while he went to do his stint at the Hospice I took my Molly Trolley - I felt it would be easier to pull that than carry multiple grocery bags in the heat. It has been hanging, folded, on a hook in the Futility Room since we moved. I lifted it, still folded, out of the boot as he dropped me off outside Costa. I carried it up the escalator, bought a coffee and sat down. Then I tried to open the wheel/parking bar frame. It wouldn't work. One of the thinnest cross bars appeared bent. I struggled, turning it this way and that, I found a picture on the internet - but my trolley just would not comply. Not one but two kind women came over to help. .We took the bag off, turned the frame upside-down, checked it all carefully. We straightened the bent bar...We turned it on its side, looked at it from all angles. I finally got it to a point where I could put the bag on and the trolley leaned back like a drunken golf caddy. I thanked them for their efforts. We went our separate ways
It is meant to stand upright and stable. I struggled off to the super-market, hoping that my trolley would go into the Lathe Palace later for a full MOT (Mending Of Trolley) I am too hot for this hassle!!
As you would expect, Bob collected me [and shopping] and then when we got home, he determined the problem [it was faulty folding-up] and rapidly straightened everything out. He is Wheelie-Wonderful
Can he fix it? Yes, he can!
ReplyDeleteHow perplexing that was! I had a problem with my suitcase coming back from Dad's in Kent once. I had a trolley bag whose wheels were wearing a bit thin. As I walked through Westfield Stratford as I went from the International station to the regular one, it became impossible to drag. I finally realised, after an arduous slog, that one of the wheels had come out completely and I'd been trying to drag it on one wheel!
Oh Kezzie - what a struggle. Wheelie cases are great, but only if they run smoothly
DeleteI thought it was funny that two people came to help.
ReplyDeleteWell done Bob for sorting it out
Perhaps they thought I was a demented granny who needed help. Or maybe they like a challenge. So kind of them anyway!
DeleteHad similar problem with a pushchair the other day whilst loading up car from beach. I said to my dil 'how difficult can it be, I've been doing this job for decades?!', at which point she deftly fiddled about with a couple of handles and foot thingies and job done, Ninja-style! Good job I hadn't been on my own with energetic 2yr-old and waiting for a bus!
ReplyDeleteBaby buggies and car seats are equally complex, I agree
DeleteThat was very kind of those two people to try and help you! I'm glad Bob was able to straighten it out for you and fix the problem! :)
ReplyDeleteAll's well that ends well
DeleteIt's like the first time you meet any modern baby buggy, trying to get it unfolded and then folded away again is like something out of the Krypton Factor!!
ReplyDeleteWell done Bob for sorting it out.
Yes - these things can be a challenge. And one feels so stupid wrestling with them in a public place! The moral support of the other two women meant a lot.
DeleteThe first time a friend took her grandchild out in her pram, she had to go into a pram shop and ask how to put the raincover on! Glad that Bob could fix your trolley and it lives to shop another day. Catriona
ReplyDeleteThe baby gear has changed so much in the three decades since I had my babies!
DeleteGood for Bob getting the trolley in shape again. I have a trolley but don't use it much lately as I go to the town in the car, but I used to take it in the trunk and then wander round with it. Somehow the pandemic changed my routines. I don't want to part with it in case we one day live somewhere near shops.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I've kept mine
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