“I Bet the Mom Even Showed Him” — Dads Get Roasted as They Try, and Fail, to Close a Stroller

If you want to see confusion, then just give a dad an open stroller and ask him to close it.

While this could very well be a grossly hyperbolic statement and not one restricted to just fathers, check out this post from a one-time stroller-hating dad who says that he saw the light and now loves the things.

However, it started from a place of disdain. And maybe for a lot of dads, that disdain can come from a place of vexation: i.e., not knowing how the f--- these things even work in the first place.

It's this confusion toward the mechanisms employed in many modern strollers that's become the subject of a viral TikTok uploaded by Jordan Flom (@jordanflomofficial). The video features multiple men trying, and failing miserably, to collapse a stroller shut.

The video begins with Jordan — from inside his car — watching and recording another man struggling to get a baby stroller in his own car.

"He can't get it collapsed," the TikToker says, narrating as he records the man's visible frustration with the baby-walking apparatus.

"He ain't gonna have a stroller left," a woman's voice can be heard next to Jordan as Jordan laughs.

The frustrated dad flips the stroller around as his exasperation mounts. The seat portion of the stroller ends up falling out. "Oh he dropped the seat," the woman notes.

"He must've been pushing the wrong button," Jordan says as they notice another gentleman approaching Stroller Dad. "This is like a joke, how many dads does it take ... I think it's that side button down there?" Jordan can be heard saying on camera as they see Stroller Dad and Helper Dad join forces to try and collapse the stroller in on itself.

"I thought it's on the side in the middle, like in the very middle," the woman says as they watch the two men continued to try and get the stroller shut. At one point in the clip, Stroller Dad walks into his vehicle, which one of the voyeurs acknowledges as him "checking on his baby."

"He's putting it back up, no, you keep it off," Jordan says, watching Stroller Dad affix the seat back to the stroller as he stands with his new helper, further assessing the stroller situation. It's at this point a third guy, who was jogging on by, approaches the two men.

Jordan and the woman have high hopes for this new entrant's ability to close the stroller: "Here he comes," one of them mutters in the car as they watch the men flip the contraption on its side. "Glad the baby ain't in it ... he'd have been round and around," the woman says, laughing.

"I think every dad in the world can relate to this feeling," Jordan says as they watch the three men lift the stroller up and then simultaneously attempt to press it shut, putting their bodies into the motions. Unfortunately, it doesn't snap close.

The clip then jump-cuts to the stroller turned over on its side again as the new entrant, the one who had been jogging, begins hovering around the snap button area where the controlling mechanism is that regulates the opening/closing of the stroller.

However, his hand then moves higher up the on one side of the stroller, seemingly away from this collapsing point, as Stroller Dad gets on his cell phone where he seems to be talking to someone. "I can guarantee it's his wife," the woman in the car states. They watch as the man holds out the phone so Helper Dad can hear whoever is speaking on the other end.

Finally, a woman ends up arriving to the gathering. She places one hand on the stroller and seemingly engages a mechanism built into the handle and then collapses it downwards until it folds in on itself.

"Did she do it one-handed?" Jordan asks.

"One-handed," the woman with Jordan states as they watch everyone begin to walk off in opposite directions. Helper Dad exchanges some words with Stroller Dad before the video ultimately closes out.

Numerous commenters remarked how "stressed" they were by the way the dads were handling the stroller, like this one person who wrote: "Dude that’s a Mockingbird stroller, those are EXPENSIVE."

Meanwhile, someone else thought that the stroller held up suspiciously well: "If this is an ad for how durable and strong this Mockingbird stroller is, it’s brilliant."