Letter: Slapping back on stroller response

Posted 3/9/23

It is no wonder that women continue to push their baby carriages foolishly and irresponsibly in traffic when a person like Anne Dicker defends them. 

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Letter: Slapping back on stroller response

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It is no wonder that women continue to push their baby carriages foolishly and irresponsibly in traffic when a person like Anne Dicker defends them. 

Dicker chooses to obfuscate rather than illuminate when she mischaracterizes my complaint about careless women pushing baby carriages on city streets. Drivers, like me, who care about the safety of infants in strollers display a “sense of reckless entitlement?” When we drive hands free under the speed limit on our own street (where I observed these women)?

Dicker states the law is clear about baby carriages and pedestrians having “the right-of-way at all times.” Yes, at crosswalks. You can’t drive an all-terrain vehicle, dirt bike, or dune buggy on city streets but you can push an infant in a stroller? Please.

My letter did not suggest or imply that drivers, as Dicker writes, have “a right to drive anywhere, any way, and at any speed.” But what takes the cake in Dicker’s argument, such as it is, is her remark that I, and drivers like me, are speed crazy and care more about getting to our destinations on time “than the life of someone who is not protected by a thousand pound cage.” 

I can only respond to such an outrageous and insulting accusation by quoting Big Daddy, the character for whom I am an understudy in the Walnut Street Theater’s production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof:”

“If you got to use that kind of language about a thing, it’s 90-proof bull an’ I’m not buyin’ any.”

Sam Gugino

Chestnut Hill