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When I was in Amsterdam a couple years back, walking up a hilly street, I saw a lady with a stroller hanging out with her friends and chatting away while the st
by technothrasher 5y ago
When I was in Amsterdam a couple years back, walking up a hilly street, I saw a lady with a stroller hanging out with her friends and chatting away while the stroller with baby inside started to roll down the hill towards me. I grabbed the stroller and rolled it back up to her about six feet or so. She looked at me, looked at the stroller, then laughed briefly and went back to talking to her friends. I just kept walking and thought, “that was one of the strangest short interactions I’ve ever had with somebody.” I put it down to something culturally Dutch that I didn’t understand.
- vinni2 5y ago“ walking up a hilly street” in Amsterdam how funny
- technothrasher 5y agoOk, so it wasn't Lombard Street... Relatively hilly? Is that better?
- jtwaleson 5y agoThere are literally zero hills in Amsterdam. Some sloped surfaces maybe, but no hills.
- jschulenklopper 5y agoThe roads over some bridges across the canals in Amsterdam can be considered steep... but only for 10 meters :-)
- technothrasher 5y agoDang, I've been trying to find the street on Google street maps to see just how slopped it was, but it was too long ago now and I can't remember which street it was. The facts that it was near a pot cafe and a wooden shoe store really don't help.
- brnt 5y agoThere's a song that describes the bridges over the canals as Dutch mountains.
- jschulenklopper 5y agoClose, but not correct. The song _In the Dutch Mountains_ (by The Nits) refers to the dykes, not the bridges. By the explanation of the author, Henk Hofstede, the only Dutch mountains are the dykes (dams) and the only valleys the streets between the rows of houses.
- amenghra 5y agoNervous laugh perhaps? Or you crashed a movie set? You’ll never know.
- teaearlgraycold 5y ago“Why can’t we get a good shot of a stroller rolling dangerously down the street?!”
- JackFr 5y agoFunny - same thing happened to me late night at the train station in Chicago. https://youtu.be/QJpRSf4q-hI https://youtu.be/QJpRSf4q-hI