to ask you about your best / funniest buggy drama

[Babycameearly]

Pinched the idea from another forum where a 'buggyless' lady was told to take the escalator by a Mum with a buggy because she thought she should have priority over the lift...

Was at the bus stop after a trip to the local supermarket. Bus pulled up but I'm only short and couldn't see if there were any other buggies onboard. I asked the driver if there was any room and he said 'there will be in a minute pet'...

He then yelled down the bus 'them 2 kids are big enough to walk and sit on the normal seats - one of you fold your buggy' to 2 Mums with (estimated) 4 year olds in buggies so that I could get on with my pram and 4 month old.

I was mortified and tried to say 'no, I'll wait for the next one (25 mins). Other Mums also looked hard as fook nails so I was a bit scared! There was a lot of huffing and puffing and they weren't impressed.

Best buggy saga please??

Once I got on the bus at the first stop to make sure I got a space. (two spaces, if no wheelchair user needs them) And indeed at the next stop there were many women with pushchairs waiting. One gets to the front of the crowd and gets on the bus. Meanwhile another gets on through the exit doors (not allowed!), and tries to park the buggy, but is shouted down by first woman and many others.

Bus driver yells at second woman to get off bus as she obviously hasn't swiped her ticket, and it probably would have been fine if first woman hadn't then punched second woman, 2nd woman's mate punched first woman, other pax tried pulling them apart, both toddlers in buggies screaming... thankfully ds slept through the lot!

i once went out with a few friends and their children in buggies, leaving DS at home with the grandparents. when leaving the playground, i automatically starting to push another woman's buggy away thinking it was mine. she looked and i was

Buggies are an emotive subject, ne c'est pas...?

I have two stories from the past year, as I was getting to grips with being a first-time Mum and how to subsequently negotiate public transport:

Got onto my bus one morning and we were the only pram on so were parked along the bus, rather than across it IYSWIM? At the next stop, a grandma got on with her DGD who must have been about eight. The grandma was dragging a toy buggy behind her. She made a VERY big kerfuffle about getting me to move up, so she could park the TOY pushchair in the space next to me and then very loudly ordered DGD to come and stand with it and look after her "babies". Poor child had already sloped off to the back of the bus to hide and was clearly cringing in shame as she was humiliated in front of a bus full of commuters!

More recently, my partner and I were returning home on the bus from a day out with our DS, who was six months at the time. We were the second pram to get on, so there NO space. None. At the next stop, two women with school-age children sitting in collapsible strollers got on and crammed themselves into the aisle, so no-one could get on or off. The bus driver refused to move until someone folded up a buggy. They flatly refused to acknowledge him or make eye contact with anyone, so myself and the other poor mother with a tinier baby than mine had to disassemble our prams, try and wrestle them into the luggage racks and find somewhere to sit with our babies, while they didn't even apologise and then GOT OFF AT THE NEXT STOP! The whole performance had taken almost twenty minutes.

Gah!

Parked DD in charity shop (not massive) a bit to the side out of the way while i looked at clothes, crazy old woman starts talking loudly at shop assistant about buggy, i thought it was in the way so apologised and started to move it. Old woman suddenly yells oh no you don't i saw it first i want it for my daughter, shop assistant desperately trying to explain it wasn't for sale and it had a baby in it :).
Old lady was not happy she wasn't getting her pushchair. lol

A front wheel came off my double Maclaren when it was loaded down with two DS and a pile of shopping. Somehow I managed to manoeuvre it through town to a hardware shop in a back street, where the assistant (who looked like a tiny version of Alice Cooper) reattached it, and only charged me 80p for the bolt :)

When dd1 was 2.5 the front wheel came off when dd was in it and it was loaded down with shopping. I folded it up and put it in the bin in the middle of town while explaining to dd that she had to be a big girl and walk to the train so we could get home. She was fine with it but we did get some funny stares when I plonked the buggy into a public litter bin.

I was going to see a friend with DD who was in a buggy at the time. Got to the train station and there are two big flights of stairs, no lifts. There were 4 policemen standing on the stairs, and they all stood in silence and watched me wrestle the buggy to the top. Once I was there I shouted down "cheers for that" they looked pretty shame faced.

Arseholes.

I had just left the house and pulled out the sun hood on DD's buggy. Out runs the most massive spider, which darts under the hood and sits itself just by DD's head! After a couple of minutes of psyching myself up, managed to get DD out of the buggy without upsetting her, all the while talking in a exaggeratedly calm voice as I don't want her to develop my irrational fear of spiders. The bugger was then removed after several attempts of increasingly manic shaking. God knows what the neighbours thought I was up to!

Fab thread

My buggy disaster was when i had to get a bus to hospital. Lolloping drunk gets on, proceeds to stand despite there being many seats right next to my buggy which happened to be in carseat mode, so chassis and carseat, with handle up. relevant

route to hospital involves a hill with a tight bend... As we go round the bend said drunk looses battle with gravity goes flying backwards... An grabs my buggy!!literally 2 hands in the handle save yourself grab! Over goes the buggy onto two wheels, i grabbed the other side but a bit too late... 4 week old ds on side in buggy..

I had a section so was rather delicate still but managed with help to right the buggy... Ds wailing!

In the mean time the bus driver has stopped bus an he and two other gents have this man by the shoulders.. They help me off bus and march him straight to security! Bus driver gives name but apologises that he has to go back and drive the bus, the other two men then help me to my apt and wait with me until DP arrived from work having driven like a mad man

DS was fine, man was charged And had lovely letter from bus driver (as id written to thank him) just wish i could of thanked the others.

Coincidentally that was the day I vowed to Learn to drive so can thankfully say unlikely to have to do such a beastly trip again!