The next big "fissure" between parents and non-parents (second to, well, the fact that one group has kids and the other doesn't) is the ginormous strollers taking over the sidewalks, supermarkets and even our shops.

Today's Thursday Styles tackles the supersized stroller, manned by parents wielding their baby-on-wheels like an urban lawn mower, cutting down everything in their path — even if it's your Ferragamos.

Pricey, supersize baby strollers like the Bugaboo and the Silver Cross - nicknamed Hummers - have been derided as symbols of yuppie extravagance. (They cost upward of about $700.) But some critics now say that size is not the only problem. What's worse, they say, is the way some parents use them to bulldoze their way through public places.

Though if we could stand children (as we already mentioned this morning, we can't) and went through the trouble of birthing and raising them, you're damn sure we'd find a way to manipulate them to our advantage, even if it's using their stroller to bogart the sweater shelves at Bergdorf's.