to think if you know your child gets sick on a bus. . .

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. . . you shouldn't take them on the bloody bus?!
I've just endured a 50 min bus ride sitting next to a poor little girl of about 4 sitting on her mums knee and vomiting into a carrier bag. Poor little thing was obviously very distressed!
A lady across the aisle said to the girls mum, "Aww, is she travel sick?" Mum replied, "Yeah, she always gets sick on the bus. I was going to get the train but couldn't be bothered walking to the station."
I was on the bus when she got on and the train station is a 5 min max walk from the bus stop where she got on.
AIBU to think she should have walked her lazy arse to the station to save putting her daughter through that?!

Yes, YABVU and must be a troll. How are people expected to get around? If you didn't like, it, you could have got up and given the mother her own seat which might have made it easier for her to tend to her DD. If they were on the bus for 50 mins, it rather undermines your contention that they could have walked for 5 mins.

Ok, for a start i am not a troll! I offered the mother my seat but she said no, DD would rather sit on my knee.
How are people expected to get around?! On the train, where her daughter wouldn't have been vomiting?!
I said walk for 5 mins to the train station, not walk 5 mins home!! so this line If they were on the bus for 50 mins, it rather undermines your contention that they could have walked for 5 mins. makes no sense.
Oh and it wasn't the fact that the poor thing was vomiting next to me, which i'll admit wasn't very nice, it was the fact that the mother wouldn't walk 5 mins to save her daughter feeling/being ill that i thought was U!

Oh well I must remember to never take DS in a car again then as he frequently pukes.

Maybe the train is more expensive as well.

The mum may have been fibbing about the travel sickness. She may have taken her DD out with a sick bug...........

Obviously if the bus/car/train etc is the only way for you to get around then of course, you have no other choice! But the mother said she couldn't be bothered which is what got my back up!

2BoysTooLoud might be right about a bug unfortunately, but I suspect it was probably due to trains being extortionately expensive

a 5 min walk extra is nothing compared to 50 mins with a vomiting child. She didn't want that over the walk she just didn't want to say the real reason

Yanbu. Quite apart from it being distressing for the little girl, what a horrible anti-social thing to do.

YANBU an even worse if it was a sickness bug I would have got off the bus and caught the next one as am a bit phobic about it.

yuk it would of made me sick too :(

That mother was out of order.

Yanbu

If she had had no other option then I'd say YABU. But if the train station is only a few minutes' walk then it was cruel of the mother to put her DD through that for no other reason than sheer laziness.

I used to get really travel sick on buses and in cars. I would feel nauseous for some time afterwards as well. It's not nice :(

The mother might have absolutely needed to go out and have had no childcare. When I was on my own I got into quite a few tricky situations due to not having any childcare. She might have needed to go out on the bus and have had to take her dd with her. The kid probably had a sickness bug, there's one going around atm and kids generally don't get sick on buses.