WIBU to get off the bus?

[VinegarDrinker]

Very trivial, and I can't see what else I could've done tbh, but still feel bad.

Was on the bus, nearly home, after a LONG day out for a family birthday with DS who is nearly 2. After his normal bedtime (7.30ish). Despite 2 long train journeys and several bus journeys he was behaving pretty impeccably for an exhausted nearly-2 year old. I had given him a pack of mini biscuits to tide him over the last 10 minutes.

We stood up to get off the bus and literally as it stopped it jolted us forward a bit, emptying the remaining biscuits (maybe 8-10 + a couple of halves) on the floor of the bus by the door, as they opened.

I kicked as many as I could off as we got off and shouted an apology to the driver, but we did get some quite loud and pointed tutting and sighing.

I am normally the kind of person who wouldn't dream of littering but I don't know what else I could have done? Stayed on, missed our stop to kneel down and pick them up?

Oh Fanny you reminded me, poor DS having been holding it together really well,once he saw the bus drive off with his biscuits on it, broke down into full on end-of-the-world hysterical sobbing. Proper straw that broke the toddlers back stuff!

What an unhelpful and unkind woman on your bus!

Agent - nah, I'm pretty chilled and I'll have forgotten all about it tomorrow. Seriously

Tbh I only posted cause I was waiting for him to fall asleep, and bored! Don't worry about me. I did say it was trivial!

Vinegar

I can't help a bit of projection sometimes

This is why I won't travel on public transport - it's full of the public.

I was a bit lame there wasn't I?

This being AIBU I should insist you must be anxious if you've taken the time to post about it, then get a bit shitty when you tell me I'm wrong

Hah, we could try again if you like?

I could've done better too, not enough drip feeding for one. Maybe I need a backstory.

People piss on bus seats. A few biscuits on the floor is nothing.

Imagine those other passengers. Nothing better to do than tut over accidentally-spilled biscuits. You were not unreasonable at all.

Yanbu, much better to see the accidental spillage of biscuits than urine on seats as a pp has just said.
Don't give it another thought, sounds like the passengers were born moody

No, were you heck being unreasonable. Some people are judgy twunts on buses and have it in for people with children and prams on board. Ignore ignore ignore.

If you'd have crouched down to pick them up they would have tutted for holding the bus up, so you cannot win.

I don't go out littering willy nilly, but in that circumstance people need to get over themselves and stop tutting.

OP - please don't give it a second thought.

There's a big bunch of people who are paid to clean buses, and believe me, biscuits are the least of our worries.

You didn't smear a dirty nappy across seats/floor, piss or shit on the bus, change your sanpro (and leave it behind), spit, vomit, leave your underwear or used condoms, or any other actually nasty & disgusting thing behind for us to find.

Tell them to get a grip (if there is a next time)