Awww Nic! That sounds totally wretched. I can relate to being put into foul moods by crowds... I've been this way ever since having mt DD 11.5 years ago! LOL For some reason crowds didn't bother me before having children but now they mostly do. I think it started when taking her out as a newborn and realising that there were all these perils like smokers holding their cigarettes right at her level as she lay in her pram... even when she was was old enough to toddle along beside us smokers would almost poke their fags into her face.... people are just so unobservant! Also as a pram driver I am highly vigilant not to run into people but it's hard when they walk right infront of you then stop suddenly... totally forgetting that you are there... then you get people who refuse to budge on the footpath (despite having lots of room) and force you to swerve around them despite being laden with shopping and dealing with a crying child etc etc. It's like they resent you for taking up too much room. I so didn't laugh at a recent episode of The GlassHouse (I think) which they seemed to devote half the program to putting down pram users...saying how they clogged up their favourite cafes etc.

Got Niall with me now... gotta do this one fingered... better come back later... Congratulations CeeCee!!!!