Gots Me Some Wheels

I never realised that there's a distinction between prams and buggies. To my rather blokey way of thinking, these are mechanisms designed to allow comfortable perambulation with a child without the unecessary step of carrying them. While providing room for impulse purchases from PC World or Games Workshop.

But no, it's more complex than this and I was chastised for not knowing the difference. Having leapt to the Internet to find out what marks each one aside, my usual scan through Wikipedia told me they're exactly the same thing. This leads me to believe that women have their own wiki somewhere with alternate definitions and aren't sharing this out to anyone equipped with testicles; which would explain why we get it so wrong so often.

We bought this particular pram from Phil & Teds and it appears to do everything needed, and even has a few nifty tricks in the form of multiple positions for varying stages of a small person's development. Five clicks and it's perfect for a newborn, four clicks it's in place for a child under one and so on. Reasonably sure that if I do the catches in the right order it will turn into either a a Chevrolet Camaro or fingers crossed ... Megan Fox. Or perhaps the bitey robot lady from the sequel.

The "Sport" monicker associated to the product is a little cringeworthy however. Short of a Saturday Night Live style spoof Parent Olympics event with an obstacle course, I can't see any real reason this should be considered a sport version. In fact, the gentleman on the product page displaying an abundance of enthusiasm for his pram seems a little too overjoyed for my liking, to the point of suspicion.