Baby battleships

Has anyone seen the size of prams these days?

When Cicero was a wee lad growing up among the Pictish tribes to the north prams were small and compact which folded up into something not much bigger than a folding umbrella.

But having returned from a wee trip to Londinium, a place Cicero used to haunt but has now withdrawn from conurbations of any shape and size, Cicero observed that today prams have taken on the size of cruise liners with the turning circle of an oil laden supertanker. 

When did it become de rigeur to purchase one of these monstrosities? What happened to the type of pram Cicero used to have? 

With prams the size of jumbo jets and people toting trolley dolly briefcases the pavements of our towns and cities are fast becoming dangerous places for anyone without wheels of some sort. Pavement space is rapidly becoming a premium for pedestrians who choose to walk along on their own without some truck and trailer approach to their perambulations.

And then there are the buses. For reasons that escape Cicero vast sums of public money, in other words our money, have been poured into our bus network in a fit of taxpayer largesse to ensure that these leviathans for infants can get on and off with ease and to facilitate their ability to block the aisles of said omnibuses. 

Has anyone else noticed that the ease with which we make it for these beasts to get on and off the omnibuses is in indirect proportion to the size and manoeuvrability of sprogs’ perambulators?

Sis felix. Et sis fortunatus.