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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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cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 21:33

Don't start me on NCT mummies...

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usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 21:34

Anyway Tethers did they ever come for you Grin

ShirleyKnot · 10/09/2010 21:38

small hijack

TETHERS, USUALSUSPECTS

Yo! I hid the thread, and now I can't get back to it (I hid it in a fit of pique - oh check me out, how very bourgeois)

Anyway.

tethersend · 10/09/2010 21:40

No they didn't, usual. I'm quite put out. I'd baked a cake and everything.

scottishmummy · 10/09/2010 21:40

was it lanarkshire?i shop iceland online.love iceland.orange tans -nice.so all in all a stoatin day?

usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 21:41

yay! the 3 fucking morons reunited

tethersend · 10/09/2010 21:44

Like the three musketeers!

I think it died a bizarre death, Shirley.

thefirstmrsDeVere · 10/09/2010 21:47

You are right cupcakes

What a difference a vowel makes hey?

U to non U in one O.

Fuck knows what your delightful cousin would make of my Jaidon.

And yes his name is misspelt because his birth mother isnt much of a scholar.

Thats him marked for life then.

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 21:50

Oh, so you're getting shirty because you have a Jayden/Jaidon/Jaden/Jadon/Jaeden/the list goes on...

Don't come over all pedantic if you don't like being corrected. It makes you look silly. Just a tip. :)

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thefirstmrsDeVere · 10/09/2010 21:54

Patronising - much?

Shirty, winks etc.

I am sure that works on the cleaning lady but bothers me not.

I didnt name him. I am not even that keen on the name.

I cannot bear the dreadful name snobbery on this forum.

Its like an outlet for those who dont want to be seen as properly bigoted. I mean its only a laugh isnt it?

Yeah when a child is judged by a teacher before he has sat at his desk.

Silly, over sensitive ol me.

usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 21:54

Nice use of the passive aggressive smilie there cupcakes

ShirleyKnot · 10/09/2010 21:56

My last missive was very "oh you know not what you do"

and I hid it, before my glory was slagged off as some kind of peeeeedo nightmare

tethersend · 10/09/2010 21:57

Well said, mrsDeVere

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 21:57

More of a sarcastic smilie. I don't do passive aggressive. Someone is getting riled because some strangers on the internet don't like a name.

Hell, shall we all of us stop having opinions on stuff because sure as eggs is eggs there'll be someone to be upset by it?

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usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 22:00

ignore them with their Olivers and Graces

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 22:01

Right, so it's not ok for anyone to be judgey about Jaydens but it's good sport to be judgey about supposedly middle-class names?

The old MN double-standards at play again...

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tethersend · 10/09/2010 22:02

I think peeeedos were ok Shirley, it was just the hardworking immigrant benefit scum which weren't Wink

Unless they were peeeedos.

usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 22:02

Just redressing the balance [smile}

usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 22:03
Smile
tethersend · 10/09/2010 22:04

Try one of them sarcastic smilies usual... cupcakes gets them Smile

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 22:04

Doesn't bother me much. I couldn't give a fig if people I know in real life like my child's name or not, I care much less about whether some people on the internet like it.

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tethersend · 10/09/2010 22:04

I see you're ahead of me, amigo

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 22:07

Usual and Tethers, do you have a third who could come and help stir your cauldron up? There are usually three witches, right?

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tethersend · 10/09/2010 22:07
thefirstmrsDeVere · 10/09/2010 22:10

Its not about you not like a name. I dont like it much myself. I wouldnt have choosen it.

It much more than that.

Its the usual shorthand for chav/working class/common. That is what you are laughing at.

How dreadful the lower classes are with their silly made up names. The middle classes would never do that would they?

We do it cos we is thick and asperational and want to be like our idols Jade and Posh.

You name your children with much more lofty ideals.

The actual name is inconsequental, you could have been snotty about Brandon, Charmaine, or McKenna.

Its all a bit silly anyhow. My DS's old school was crammed with Olivas and Harrys, Graces and Olivers.
Not a boden wearing mummy to be seen in the playground.

Not only snobby then but misinformed. Do keep up with the latest chavvy trends if you insist on being judgemental. Wink