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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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DuelingFanjo · 10/09/2010 19:17

"They need to be exterminated or forcibly sterilised."

Confused
usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 20:33

Maybe they were related to the park people cupcakes Wink

Myleetlepony · 10/09/2010 20:34

They were orange, they should have never been allowed on the bus in the first place. Grin

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 20:37

Is it Germany that insists that children are only given names from a government-approved names list?

I can see a case for it here...

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SirBoobAlot · 10/09/2010 20:45

I think there should be a scanning machine on the bus, and if you're too orange, you shouldn't be allowed on.

And why is it the majority of young mums pick cruel chav slightly tasteless names for their children? Makes the rest of us look bad

Very annoying if you go out of your way to make things easier for people, and they take the piss.

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 20:50

My husband got talking to a lady who was in charge of a child called Brayden just yesterday.

Brayden. I mean, really. It's a splice of Jayden (which isn't even a real name anyway) and Brad. It's terrible. Poor kid.

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MrsHypDip · 10/09/2010 21:00

Brayden sounds like something a donkey would say.....

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 21:02

It sounds like something that Vicki Pollard would say, in between drags of Lambert and Butler and swigs on MD 20/20.

"yerrrr but no but yerrrr but no but cos Brayden roight the dna test ain't come back an oy still dunno who ver dad is roight"

Eugh. Grin

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ShirleyKnot · 10/09/2010 21:02

I went to a place yesterday where all the women were over 60 and they were all wearing wet look leggings or lycra dresses which left nothing to the imagination.

I judged so hard that my judge fell out of my arse and ran around the pub screaming "NO. JUST STOP IT"

tethersend · 10/09/2010 21:05

Aerobics?

Fetish club?

SirBoobAlot · 10/09/2010 21:06

Shirley did you really need to share that? Really?

thefirstmrsDeVere · 10/09/2010 21:12

Jayden/Jaden/Jaden IS most certainly is a 'real' name.

It is Hebrew and means God has listened/answered/understood .

How can a name not be 'real' anyway? If someone is called it, it becomes a name.

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 21:19

Jadon is a real name. Jayden is not. Sorry but it's one of those awful "street-cred" names.

My cousin is a secondary school teacher and he said that on the first day of school after the 6 weeks, he runs down the register, scanning for any Jaydens. He's on his guard if there is one.

Obviously judginess is genetic Grin

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tethersend · 10/09/2010 21:20

I'm a secondary school teacher, and I couldn't disagree with your cousin more.

It's the Callums and Isaacs you've to watch out for.

SlightlyJaded · 10/09/2010 21:21

DH and I watched a doc recently about 'young mums' and of course the edit was done to create the most outrage amongst the 'sneering classes', but edit or no edit, there was an outstanding moment when this young mum of about 15 (whilst sat in the obligatory high rise tower block living room which was bare but for two peach squashy leather sofas and a gifuckingnormous flatscreen), announced to the camera that she wanted to call her daughter Ferrero Rocher - because she loved the chocolates, but didn't want her daughter to be teased so she was adapting it to Ferrero Rochelle. Genius!

SlightlyJaded · 10/09/2010 21:22

oh and by the way YANBU. Iceland bags or Fortnum and Mason bags, it's just fucking ignorant.

So there

usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 21:23

Of course the Ethels and Henrys are always perfectly behaved

SirBoobAlot · 10/09/2010 21:23

DS has a normal name. Ish. Grin

thefirstmrsDeVere · 10/09/2010 21:26

cupcakes I think you will find that the original spelling is Jaden

Your cousin is a disgrace.

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 21:27

Yes but the Ethels and Henrys are badly-behaved in a more acceptable way. They'll just stick out their bottom lip and sulk because they will only eat their beluga from a mother of pearl spoon. The Jaydens and Callums will brandish a knife at you for looking at 'em funny innit?

I'm winding you up, BTW, so wind your neck in ;)

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tethersend · 10/09/2010 21:28

The Ethels and Henrys are even worse, usual. You've to watch out for the superiority complex instilled in them by the parents.

SirBoobAlot · 10/09/2010 21:29

Wind Your Neck In - oh how I've missed that phrase! Good times...

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 21:30

Jadon the meronothite, mrsDeVere. Google it.

My cousin is a teacher, not a vicar. He's as prone to judging as the rest of all most of us.

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usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 21:31

I'm winding you up too ..sarcasm lost on you is it Grin

mrspear · 10/09/2010 21:32

Thank you to all of you on this thread; i have had silent tears tonight over my bloody [d]h and then i read this and i am now laughing very loudly. Thank you once again

Oh and those type of people are bloody awful but i'm quite lucky; where i live the teenage mums are lovely and much more friendly than the boden NCT mummies! (flame all you like!)