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This family should have been booted off the bus....

124 replies

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 17:27

Feel free to flame my arse, I've only come on for a rant Grin...

Just got on bus at a busy shopping centre with DS (3). Saw that a young girl was getting on with her smaller child so I folded my buggy up and stowed it, thinking that if another buggy got on it would be a bit of a squeeze (and I feel bit Blush at getting on with a child the size of mine in a buggy anyway!) So went and sat with DS on my lap in the middle of the bus.

The young girl gets on and swings her buggy round and parks it so that it is taking up two buggy spaces (buggies are supposed to face into the aisle rather than side-on IYSWIM). THEN her mother and her sister get onto the bus and plonk their arses into the seats designated for elderly/less-able people with all their shopping bags blocking the walkway. Annoying enough but when another mum tried to get on the bus with her DD in a buggy, the pondlife wouldn't move their buggy over and the driver wouldn't let the poor mum on unless she folded her buggy Angry You'd think that one of the three causing the disruption would help her fold her buggy but no. Instead an elderly woman with a walking stick tries to help and tries to give up her disabled seat so that the mum could sit with the buggy and her DD. I helped her with the buggy in the end.

The whole time these people left the child they were with screaming in his buggy. For an entire 20 minute journey. Migraine-inducing screeches. Not one of them tried to pacify him. The mother and her sister were sitting texting and pouting whilst the granny was on her mobile. Could not wait for the journey to end.

Now here's why you'll want to flame me; the mum looked about sixteen, the granny looked about thirty, they had fake "ugg" boots on, they were all orange with badly-applied fake tan, they had Iceland bags and I could see all sorts of shite through the bags, the mother lit a fag up when she got off the bus. They need to be exterminated or forcibly sterilised.

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MrsLevinson · 10/09/2010 17:32

I don't like to be judgemental but you are right. They should have been booted off the bus if only for the orange fake tan. YANBU.

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 17:34

I was a bit Hmm about the bus driver being quite assertive about the other mum not getting on without folding her buggy, but not assertive to the idiots who've taken up two buggy spaces.

Mind you, I wouldn't have tackled them either. They were rough as anything. Grin

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whatkatydidathome · 10/09/2010 17:37

Would you have felt differently had the Ugg boots been real?

I agree about their behaviour but am not convinced that being able to afford real Ugg boots or appling a fake tan properly would excuse the behaviour - in fact am tempted to say that wearing any kind of Ugg boot - fake or otherwise - is sufficient to merit expulsion from the bus (or planet) :)

SauvignonBlanche · 10/09/2010 17:39

YANBU!

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 10/09/2010 17:39

YANBU Grin

prozacfairy · 10/09/2010 17:41

Would you have been less judgey if there was no fake tan, fake Uggs or iceland bags and instead they were all in head to toe Boden and had M and S bags? Hmm

YANBU they sound very selfish and should have been booted off if only for the fact that none of them tried to pacify the baby while it screamed it's little head off.

IME I find the younger mums alot more willing to help other mums (moving over to make room, folding buggies etc) than older mums or grannies with their GC- who hardly try to help squeeze you in.

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 17:43

Nah. I'd have been just as judgey if they were wearing Boden. I'd have put it down to their obvious middle-class sense of entitlement. Grin

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prozacfairy · 10/09/2010 17:46
Grin
cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 17:47

I judge everyone, me. I'm what Charlie Brooker refers to as "the sneering classes".

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tethersend · 10/09/2010 17:48

My, that's quite a leap- booted off the bus to forcibly sterilised in fewer than five paragraphs.

FranSanDisco · 10/09/2010 17:48

OMG you are so NBU. Fake Uggs - had they collapsed in on themselves?

usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 17:51

Buggy on the bus thread no 2345645 ..nice touch ,the iceland bags though

MadAboutQuavers · 10/09/2010 17:53

cupcakes YANBU.

This is precisely why there should be a licence for child-rearing. Grin.

And Ugg boot wearers should be shaken until their brain cell falls out.

madmn52 · 10/09/2010 17:53

YANBU - Should be able to round up all of these sociopaths and ship them off to an island. Sounds like the sub class of people that go into the salon next door to me to be tangoed and have uniform big square nails applied whilst blocking my driveway - as its about 12ft nearer the door for their poor little orange legs. Oh for a machine gun Angry

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 17:54

Because there are no repetitive threads on MN... Hmm

This is more about the fake Uggs and carrier bags stuffed full of MSG and hydrogenated chicken innards than the buggy tbh.

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madmn52 · 10/09/2010 17:57

Quick please let me in - theyre coming.

mumbar · 10/09/2010 17:58

I have fake uggs and have shopped in Iceland if ASDA don't have freezer stuff I want BUT I would have gagged pacified the child and moved over for the other buggy Grin

SleepyCaz · 10/09/2010 17:58

YANBU

I used to live in a 'deprived' part of town myself and saw this sort of thing all the time. Made me :( and Angry.

'Deprived' ... with their plasmas and their expensive B and H habits. Deprived, my arse!

Grin
sloanypony · 10/09/2010 18:00

Look posters can get as assy as they like about the ugg thing, real fake etc, what about if in Boden yada yada, but its worthy of mention because its so deliciously predictable and cliched.

OP, YANBU Grin

usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 18:01

I think common people on the bus threads are taking over from baby ear piercing tbh

Hai1988 · 10/09/2010 18:01

I can see that is very rude and wrong.

But did you have to mention there appearance or how old i dont really think it matters

Minxie1977 · 10/09/2010 18:01

Yanbu - extermination's the way forward, forcible sterilisation seems cruel Grin

madmn52 · 10/09/2010 18:04

Any chance we can get a bigger flame retardent tent - a few more suits maybe ?

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 18:05

It wouldn't take much shaking Quavers :)

There is the other issue of the child's name but I'm definitely not brave enough to say what it was :(

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AnnieLobeseder · 10/09/2010 18:07

I love a good judging, me!

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