To be sick to fucking death of people assuming my daughter was an accident???

[Neuroticnatty]

There's 11 months between my 2 children and I am so fucking dick of people assuming we weren't careful or she must have been unwanted because there's only a small gap.
I actually had an old lady on the bus last week say to me " oh bless you, you're just one of the unlucky ones I guess, did you consider abortion? Having 2 so close together must be a living hell "
Ummm...no.
But having to sit next to such an ignorant bitch is.

Ah,thanks for the geography lesson! Thought they would miles (and lots of stops)away. You live and learn!

Ah,thanks for the geography lesson! Thought they would miles (and lots of stops)away. You live and learn!

I once got told by an old man on the bus that I would go to hell because of my tattoos (which apparently make me a Satanist) there were no children involved though.

Well, there's 11 months difference between me and my brother so I guess I should be glad I'm here at all !

Actually, I get 4 buses a day when I'm working and I could write a book about some of the characters I have met.

It's rare that anybody is nasty though - they're usually just quite eccentric.

I've never seen an argument about prams or somebody using the wheelchair space.

Maybe I need to be on at a different time of the day.

They are, annalovesmrbates, actually. You are right. I was just idling my day away, really.

I believe you op. i used to get the bus with DS1 a lot and once one charming elderly passenger demanded I move him out of the buggy spot (on an otherwise empty bus) and when I said I wouldn't as I was entitled to have him there as no other passengers were onboard she actually pushed against the pram do hard it fell over onto me! I actually wrote to the local paper about it because it was the last straw for me an very rude old people on buses. I never Get the bus now with ds2 in his buggy.

I do the school run on the bus every day. The old women chat to me about when they had babies. One old bitch even cuddles ds and sings him to sleep. And I wap my boobs out regularly and they just smile and continue chatting. Honestly, it's hard bloody work dealing with it.

OP I've taken South London buses a couple thousand times. Like Nooka, I don't like this 'oh well of course it's South London', I have never had anyone be arsey with me or say anything rude. Sure sometimes things kick off between others, obviously 3 am saturday night is raucous, but maybe I was just lucky because honestly I never had words with anyone.

Not saying it didn't happen but please leave South London out of it!

Honestly travel on the bus in my area and you will see all sorts - driver frequently just drives up to the police station and tells fighting/drunk passengers to get off - if refuse he goes in to police. So I do believe many of the bus stories, however when I lived where I did before had never seen anything like that.

Anyway do have to say OP has a few high profile threads for a newbie and some were at intro thread yesterday.

So I am on the fence.

God I lived in SE London for tears as far as I am concerned the buses are one of the reasons I moved!

Oh well Southeast London is a totally different kettle of fish

giraffes we had a bus driver just get up and say "sorry, i've had enough" one day a few weeks ago.

He then left us all sat on the bus with no driver

We had to wait for the next bus to come to the bus stop. The driver of that bus then used his radio to get us a new driver.

FairToMiddlin That happened to me once too. Mind you, it was years ago and it was the school bus :o

Gosh when I lived in SE London I knew some very interesting characters - the woman who wore her pet ferrets around her neck, and the man who would go into the bank at least once a week to say that he had the deeds to the bank and he was a cousin of the queen so he was the boss and we had to call him "Sir". Public transport is, erm, challenging!

ShowOfHands, you wap your boobs out? what just in general like, to show the old ladies? Maybe you should name change to ShowOfBoobs!

I knew you were new otherwise you would know that there are no bonkers or rude people on buses, they are all on the internet.

You post is like written by me. Difference between my DD's is 11mnths. I get a lot "o that's close...hm hm tat must have been unexpected...etc"
I would never comment on people in such a way....such a bad manors.....

you=your

tat=that ....dear me,you can tell from my writing how it makes me creazy

" oh bless you, you're just one of the unlucky ones I guess, did you consider abortion? Having 2 so close together must be a living hell "

Answer: "I never considered an abortion, but I think your mother should have"

Doesn't anyone else think that "Old Bitch" is a vile reference to an old woman?

It does seem gratuitously offensive, particularly in view of the fact that the "old bitch" in question has merely cuddled a child to sleep, presumably with the mother's permission. Obviously, if the child is being cuddled against her will or the mother objects then that is very wrong but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Or SOH might have been being snarky for emphasis?

FGS SoH was being sarcastic.