To think my child should have priority on the bus

[maypole1]

Just got home from the doctors when I got on the bus their were top buggies one with a baby baby and the other with a 4 or 5 year old I asked the lady if should would fold her pram down as she had a child who could clearly walk and my choked is clearly in a wheelchair she told be to fuck the he'll off

The bus driver told her to fold it up or get off the bus, she folded it up I then get a verse on that she was their first, I should have waited for the next but

I told her wheelchairs have priority and that her child was old enough to not be in the pram and didn't seem disturbed by having to sit in the seat next to her I got more abuse I told her her that she should be ashamed and that she wouldn't swap with me to have this dedicated so ace on the bus she then replied my daughters I'll to she has a bad cold

I not really a soft centred person but I was in tears when I got off

How can people think they trip a disabled child

She should have let you have the space

but its up to her if she uses a buggy or not

maypole There is a special place in hell reserved for selfish people like that.

You should ALWAYS fold a buggy for a wheelchair user, I don't care if your child is 4 years or 4 days old.

A wheelchair should ALWAYS have priority.

For 1 you CHOOSE to use a buggy, you don't choose to use a wheelchair.

Secondly almost all buggies fold, an awful lot of wheelchairs dont and not all wheelchair users would be safe sitting on a seat unsupported etc.

altinkum - re-read the OP.

The woman had no qualms telling the OP to 'fuck the hell off' along with further abuse, and was also happy to inform the OP that her child 'had a cold'.

Does this sound to you like the sort of person who'd be in any way reticent to shout out about her child's SN or disability from the rooftop?? Quite prepared to screech like a fishwife, turn the air blue with foul language and pull in the sympathy card for her child's 'bad cold', but ooh, suddenly come over all coy and shy about mentioning a disability.

We're not talking about a theoretical situation here, where yes, there might well be an unseen disability, we're talking about something which actually happened; something that anyone with a bit of nous would read as completely unreasonable on the part of the other woman.

The OP was NOT being unreasonable.

"the OP made the very first assumption that because he was a older child in a buggy that he could just use a seat"

If he was unable to use a seat, surely he would not have been in a bog standard buggy?

Hmm my child has an SN buggy and however much fuss it would cause for me to move him and fold down his buggy, I still would.

Because I can, and they can't.

Sadly you will come across selfish people-you always do.YANBU.