It's a buggy on the bus thread!

[CundtBake]

Earlier today I got on a bus with DS fast asleep in the buggy. The bus I get on has a large space allocated for pushchairs, and fits 4 normal sized ones. When the bus came I could see there were two women there already so assumed there was still space but asked the driver anyway and he said yes.

When I got on there was much huffing and puffing from one of the women about moving her buggy that she had parked side ways in the buggy space (if you see what I mean). The buggy was empty and she had her baby in a sling. I smiled and said thank you to her then parked up, not realising that her GIGANTIC buggy wouldn't fit back in.

It was bloody huge. As in it wouldn't fit in a space that could fit two average sized buggies. I tried to rearrange everything and help her out but she snapped that 'it won't fit' and stood in the aisle for the next few stops with a face on. Her and her friend didn't speak English but it was pretty clear from body language that they were bitching about me.

I pretended I hadn't noticed and braved it out, as I didn't feel I should have folded/got off the bus as my son was asleep and her baby wasn't even in the buggy. And her buggy was just unnecessarily huge!!

WIBU?

YANBU

yanbu,

what about the other buggy though? Couldn't you have gotten in beside that one?

If her baby was out the pram she should have collapsed.

And if there's no medical need for a huge buggy, and hike a regular public transport user then investing in a light weight stroller is a must IMO. Far easier all round

Hike? You're

Don't quite understand what you mean kinky?

There's a large gap for buggies, one buggy was at the end and other was the woman's sideways parked buggy. She moved so I parked against the other end and a big space was left for her in the middle.

yanbu she should have folded if baby was not in it

Yanbu she was just being ignorant and lazy. Why people can't just plan ahead and purchase a buggy suitable for their main mode of transport I'll never know

Phew was worried I would get flamed as technically she was there first.

Honestly I've never seen a buggy that huge!! The wheels were ginormous. Really don't know what would possess someone to buy it.

YANBU. If the buggy's empty, you have to expect to collapse it if space is tight on the bus. Them's the rules

Yanbu. And if she can't fold it, it shouldn't be on the bus if the baby isn't in it.

I can probably guess the buggy you saw and yes they are huge. She should have folded it, although I understand this make of buggy requires two people but she had a friend with her.

What one was it?

Yanbu she should have collapsed it BUT I find the comments about people should only have lightweight strollers on buses really unfair. I don't drive so get bus loads but live in the country and after getting off the bus need to walk across a field home. A lightweight stroller wouldn't cut it.

Also when I go to my parents I need to take my car seat as they pick me up from station so need the buggy that it goes on.

I do take the sling usually though when I can and obviously would collapse in circumstances described.

I jave a p&t explorer double, its huge but still fits in one space. Which one was it?

was it this one

:o Hacked

People really buy buggies that can't be folded by one person? Really?

My mum was hooting with laughter the other day about a couple of bugaboos jostling for space on the bus. "I used to get a coach built Silver Cross on the buses in the 70's - just squash it in behind the pole" she was telling them.

Oh yes odd.

I get the bus regularly with a buggy and, less often, trains. I'm apparently an oddity in that I fold my buggy if there isn't a child in it and have even woken a sleeping child when a wheelchair user needed the space.

PS I don't think bugaboos are particularly unreasonably large compared to some plastic and chrome monstrosities, btw.

YADNBU

I use a bus to get me to work and DS (12mo) to nursery. I always go out of my way to make room for other mothers. Until this week, we used the pushchair mode of the travel system - it's a 2mile walk if I can't get on the bus and frankly the ride is bone-judderingly brutal in the buggy I bought at the weekend.

I stand up if I am sitting next to the pushchair if someone else gets on, always readjust to take up as little space as possible (ie fold handle away, change position) and always ready to jump off the bus if needs be.

The lack of manners by some mothers is disgraceful. We're all in this together, goddammit - show a bit of courtesy!

I absolutely DREAD when I need to get a bus on my own with my mahoosive double Phil and teds! It's so big and heavy, and impossible to put down with the little baby pod thing on the bottom.

Im ready to one day unwittingly open a thread on mumsnet and it will be about me. I do however have impeccable manners and am a complete pushover so I doubt id cause to much of an issue

The problem here is the rude rude woman, not the massive buggy. They are sometimes a necessary evil :(

I would say Yanbu. Other baby wasn't in the buggy then it should be folded. The other woman was very rude.

I've seen this before, toddler not in buggy but small umbrella thing that was easy to fold, mother gets on bus with new born and had to fold her pushchair, the women with the toddler not even in the pushchair had her partner with her so could have just folded the thing.

The worst was a couple of months ago, I was waiting at the bus stop and a women with her mother in a wheelchair arrived, she said to her mum we won't be able to get on this one either.

I told her not to worry I'd fold mine, we had a chat and it turned out they'd not been able to get on the last 4 buses due to pushchairs. That's 2 and a half hours waiting.

Bus arrives , bloke already on refuses to fold so women in wheelchair is left at the bus stop again. Man gets off at the next stop, less than two minutes away

Some people are self centred dicks

I don't know what the make was but genuinely Hackeds picture isn't far off