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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.

OP posts:
Minxie1977 · 10/09/2010 18:09

That's just teasing cupcakes Angry You can't get us all on board the judgey-mobile (should that be judgey-bus?) and not divulge the best bits!!

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 18:09

Judging is the eighth deadly sin, according to MN.

I love being naughty though so I don't care!

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MrsvWoolf · 10/09/2010 18:10

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Minxie1977 · 10/09/2010 18:11

TELL!!!!!!!!!!!

SleepyCaz · 10/09/2010 18:11

TELL US!! Grin

We'll only guess if you don't ..........

SauvignonBlanche · 10/09/2010 18:14

Please tell us!

usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 18:14

Was it Jayden by any chance?

SleepyCaz · 10/09/2010 18:14

Princess?? Grin

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 18:16

"Kenzie"

Or "KENZOOOOOIE" if you have a thick midlands accent...

-runs off with burned bum cheeks-

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LittleMissHissyFit · 10/09/2010 18:16

reason number 456,975 why I don't do busses.

Grin

tell us the name.... what does it begin with????

SauvignonBlanche · 10/09/2010 18:17

Give us a clue!

puddlepuss · 10/09/2010 18:18

I wear fake ugg boots and I love them Shock but I would have been so judgey seeing these people. And I would have come home and MNed about them. And then I would have told dh, probably phoned my mum to tell her too and then told anyone I saw in the next few days. YANBU

SleepyCaz · 10/09/2010 18:21

Justice??

MadAboutQuavers · 10/09/2010 18:22

Tiffany?

Chardonnay?

Shanice?

LeShawna?

Smile
CharlottesClan · 10/09/2010 18:23

oh you have to tell us now. :o

destiny?? bailee? g&t? :o

LynetteScavo · 10/09/2010 18:24

Junior?

puddlepuss · 10/09/2010 18:25

Kenzie?? Wasn't that the kid's name on My Family? Or was it Kenzo? Chavtastic!

MrsChemist · 10/09/2010 18:26

With a buggy in sideways, you can still fit in another buggy.

Unless someone has sat their Iceland shopping arse in the other foldable seat, of course.

thefirstmrsDeVere · 10/09/2010 18:26

They sound simply ghastly.

Public transport is such a bore.

Its so utterly draining when one is in town and is forced to mix with these people.

One shudders, one really does.

SecretNutellaFix · 10/09/2010 18:26

She already did.

The name was Kenzie.

SleepyCaz · 10/09/2010 18:28

Kenzie is grim. You are even less unreasonable now!

SauvignonBlanche · 10/09/2010 18:29

My Family was Kenzo

Minxie1977 · 10/09/2010 18:29

Oh dear - I feel an attack of the daleks coming on!

Northernlurker · 10/09/2010 18:31

Kenzie can be short for Mackenzie - I think that's quite sweet and certainly in Scotland at least wouldn't get you condemned as 'common'.

That aside - the problem here is not the fake ugg boots or the tan or the smoking. It's their rude, selfish and anti-social behaviour. Hurrah for you and the nice old lady though.

whomovedmychocolate · 10/09/2010 18:38

Well if you do insist on catching buses what do you expect?

Does the queen ever take a bus? (Well there are queens on the night bus to be sure but HRH probably never pressed her derriere into the sweaty seats of the number 92)

Buses attract chavs like fruitflies to your chablis.

YANBU btw. But buses....yes well it's a private space in some people's minds - like cars - people get up to all sorts of bizarre shit when they think no-one is looking and it's easy to slip into the mental state that you are contained and away from others and thus invisible.

They probably thought they were still at Gala Grin

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