to wonder just how much vaginal discharge, urine and possibly poo I am sitting in while sat on the bus??

[PussinJimmyChoos]

Took DS on the bus yesterday....was quite busy and there were some skanky smelly types on....

Obviously, I wasn't sat in their seats, but at some point, I will be sitting in a seat previously occupied by a skank...

And, it led me to ponder as to what I'm actually sitting IN everytime I sit on the bus...and its not just skanks really, I'm sure there are quite clean looking people that may have too much drippage in the downstairs department and don't wear pant liners or men that don't shake post wee...

Why can't buses have wipe clean seats????

My DH gets the bus and when he gets home from work I hate it when he sits on my DS's bed with his suit still on as I know where he has just been sitting. I don't mind anywhere else in the house, but on the bed where my DS might put his head while he is sleeping......

Or is it just me being OTT!

I do not allow my DH to lay on our bed wearing 'outside clothes'. He now knows better than to come home and throw himself on the bed (at least when I'm around) fully clothed after he's been out all day. I've seen people picking their noses and wiping it on the handles and seats on the tube, one women threw up on the seat. I even unwittingly sat next to a syringe on the bus once!

OK, thinking that the transfer of bus-germs via clothes into houses is getting a bit bonkers... Not sure how I'd react if my DP told me to change because I'd been sitting on a (shock horror) bus.

coolfoonz don't be rude.

Puss don't think about it. If you think about something like that too much you wouldn't do much.

I once saw a mother scolding her daughter for wetting herself on the bus. She then moved them both two rows back, and didnt say a word when later a couple boarding the bus sat down where they have been before.

Poor guy put his fingers to his nose and said 'I think its just water'. From the look on his face he wasn't very convinced though.

I've now actually reached the crying point from laughing so much - but I couldn't stop myself continuing to read. Especially Hecate's vision of bare-bottomed people slithering around on the seats. Thnk I'll have to go and lie down now (not in my street clothes)

eeeewwwwwwwwwww at this thread!

I'm still learning to drive so I regularly take the bus and I must admit; there are some right er...characters!

Good job I wasn't reading this thread on a bus cos I would have wet myself,look out the window or walk if it worries you so much or you'l give your child hangups.

You need a Mac PIJC a long one. Think flasher mac to protect your derriere.

I was at IKEA in Milton Keynes at the outside play bit. DS was playing at the bottom of the climby bit (it has a steering wheel thing) and DD was climbing the stairs. A girl went up to the top of the slide but wasn't coming down, and we suddenly saw liquid come down from the top. Her parents picked her up and buggered off. She'd pissed all over the top and we naturally assumed they had gone to get some tissue or a mop etc.

Oh no, they had just buggered off.

Me and another mum whipped out baby wipes and napkins and cleared it up. Some people are gross.

Genius! PMSL

www.kudocities.com/cities/london/conversations/how-gross-are-the-seats-on-the-tube

I have sat on some fairly smelly buses and wondered the same thing YANBU. I would be more worried about someone not properly attending to their period then about random discharge though..although eurh on both accounts really.

I know a skint student who cleans buses, they only pick up trash and do the floors seats aren't cleaned as a general rule....

That said I can't imagine too much comes through clothes.

Gosh! How did I manage to commute daily in London, using Tubes, trains and buses, for 20y - and never caught herpes, never got pregnant, never picked up any creepycrawly bugs.? Wow, I must be so lucky!

Was on a train yesterday with dd and we had a table seat; at one point she needed a feed so I got her latched on and only then noticed that the edge of the table near her little head was all smeared with finger-wipe marks of dried blood < boak>

I do sometimes clean my hands and ds's hands with a wipe after getting off a bus -- not often but sometimes it's really sticky and horrible, or wee-fragranced, and I just feel ick unless I do something to counter it. Is almost certainly pointless though as a babywipe ain't gonna do much.