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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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chipshopchips · 10/09/2010 22:10

Anyway- what buggy spaces are these- there are only disabled spots on a bus Grin

ShirleyKnot · 10/09/2010 22:10

um, I have an Oliver.

I suppose that makes me a Irish hating bastard scumlord

Oh and cupcakes? I think you'll find that I am fucking moron number 3

usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 22:14

Sorry I like Oliver, Shirley Blush was being sarky [foot in mouth]

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 22:17

Erm, I am working-class. How can you jump to the conclusion that I am an Araminta just because I don't like Jayden as a name? I was rude about Brayden too, if you look.

I also loathe typical middle-class names. No-one is exempt from my scorn. I have scorn for all of you. No-one is left out!

chipshop on the buses here there is a disabled space then a raised seat thing then buggy space behind. Then there is the chav seat at the back where you can play Kanye West through your tinny mobile speakers at full volume.

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tethersend · 10/09/2010 22:17

For the love of god usual, do a smiley, do a smiley!

usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 22:17
Wink
thefirstmrsDeVere · 10/09/2010 22:17

usual was just being nice to me Shirley I dont think she meant Oliver was a horrible name.

Its NOT about the individual names [repeat, repeat, repeat till someone gets it].

I think we all know that.

ShirleyKnot · 10/09/2010 22:19

I am going to hunt you all down

ALL OF YOU

And go mental with a chainsaw/court order/FERRET

Be afraid.

Be very afraid

tethersend · 10/09/2010 22:20

Phew.

I won't have this band of fucking morons broken up. We've barely started.

usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 22:20

Get Tethers first ,shes been waiting for THE KNOCK AT THE DOOR

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 22:21

In the '80s, Wayne was the one, wasn't it? Much maligned Wayne. I wonder if Wayne will have a renaissance? It might become fashionable.

I doubt it though. It's farking orrible. The noise it makes when it comes out of your clacker, "Wayyyyyyyyyne" It sounds like a cat mewling for its owner to let it out for a cack.

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HalfTermHero · 10/09/2010 22:22

Op, yanbu. And this thread has given me a good giggle to boot!

Last week dh talked to a guy in a shop who had called his son 'kai-ston' . A mix of Kai and Royston! Grin

tethersend · 10/09/2010 22:23

And I've done a cake. Coconut.

usualsuspect · 10/09/2010 22:23

Has it a file in it?

ShirleyKnot · 10/09/2010 22:26

More coconuts kill people by hitting them on the head than something kills someone by something.

FACT

cupcakesandbunting · 10/09/2010 22:26

When I was preggers, DH and I used to joke that we were going to call DS "Dwavney" which is a mash-up of Dwayne, Wayne, Dave and Chesney.

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MadAboutQuavers · 10/09/2010 22:30

Names mean a lot though. They hint at so many unsaid things and carry a lot of weight, whether you agree with this prejudice or not, MrsDeVere.

tethersend · 10/09/2010 22:35

Those are terrifying statistics, Shirley.

There's no file in the cake, but there is a watch so I can tell when my time will come.

ShirleyKnot · 10/09/2010 22:39

oh, your time will come Tethers, you disgusting communist you.

Your time will come.

Marlie09 · 10/09/2010 23:47

Oh go on.....was it Rooney.......pls say it was Rooney :o

Marlie09 · 10/09/2010 23:49

Stupidly just realised only read 1st page before posting in my excitement (it's been a long day).

Wish it had been Rooney though ..lol!!!!

SirBoobAlot · 11/09/2010 08:38

I laugh at anyone who has given their child a silly name Tarquin is just as entertaining as Chardonnay.

BuzzingNoise · 11/09/2010 08:46

anyway, back to the bus situation. Yanbu. They sound vile. I don't get buses because of people that like. The orange fake tan might get on my clothes.

PuppyMonkey · 11/09/2010 08:53

I quite like some Ugg boots.

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