Waiting for us in our bedroom was a Maxi-Cosi Cabrio seat. Yeah, I hear your jealous whistles.
Sorry?
Oh. Well, it's a seat to go with the Quinny Zapp. I can see by your eyes you're impressed now.
What's that? Oh come off it! You can't seriously expect me to believe you don't know. Are you honestly telling me that you don't know the whole push chair market inside out? Chinny reckon. Itchy beard.
Sorry..? Well that's different. I don't mind explaining for those without children. It's your pathetic attempt to confuse me that I was refusing to humour.
Okay, well look, there's a million and one different pushchairs, buggys, strollers and prams out there. It's not like when we were kids. They're all deeply space age. In fact, they are probably developed from backwards-engineered technology scrounged from downed alien craft in Area 51.
It would be impossible for most human beings to make a completely rational choice about these things, because they're all so weird and fantastic looking that they're virtually impossible to judge by pure aesthetics. K___ had read a couple of magazine articles that played the pushchair competition off against each other on various criteria such as 'Are the parents likely to compare it to a Transformers robot?', 'Number of bits that do things' (as with audio-visual equipment, more moving bits, knobs and buttons is always best) and 'Will you require a second mortgage for this buggy?'. She had narrowed it down to two, both by Quinny; the Buzz and the Zapp.
After that it was a case of seeing new parents out with their kids in the street and conducting inpromptu interviews what they thought. In the end, we decided that the wheels of the Quinny Buzz look too wide to get through the average door. We liked the idea of going through doors. The Zapp it was.
The Zapp is quite cool in a number of ways. Firstly, hey - space age, Area 51 stylings.
You could go for all sorts of day-glo colours but we went for black. This is because K___ and I both wear a lot of black. (I mainly wear lots of black because of what I look like when I try wearing other colours. K___ wears black because she knows something about fashion.)
Slightly more importantly is the bits they've nicked from the Transformers. The basic unit is a push chair. Add a Maxi-Cosi Cabrio, strip out the chair part and you've got a pram. Want to go somewhere in the car? Just lift off the Cabrio and attach it straight onto the car base in the back of your car, and off you go. Leave the bit with the wheels on behind and Dad can go and play golf.
Well, he could if he wasn't completely shit at golf.
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