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not to feel even slightly guilty

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bakedpotato · 27/03/2007 21:59

about ripping a hole in a stranger's nasty jacket -- if anything, getting a bit of a kick out of it?

I got on a very full bus with 2 DCs this pm. Most people moved aside, with varying degrees of grace, to let me get the buggy down the aisle. Not one lady. She left her bag in the way so I thought, sod you, madam, and rammed the buggy into it, and past it like a Sherman tank and as we went by, I heard this satisfying rriiiiiippppp and realised somehow her apparel had snagged the buggy. She kept looking from me to the tear, daggers, but I was too busy discussing spring blossom with DD to notice.

I am not wrong, am I?

OP posts:
PANNtsdown · 27/03/2007 23:16

Didn't think of getting thelicenceplate actually- dp has just said similar to me and am feeling a bit embarrassed that i didn't

VeniVidiVickiQV · 27/03/2007 23:17

Agree soapy, actually.

handlemecarefully · 27/03/2007 23:17

...I am reluctantly agreeing with Soapbox, on hearing about this it does sound all rather unpleasant and unnecessary?

totaleclipse · 27/03/2007 23:20

Did she notice that you wanted to get past?

did she realise her bag was in the way?

sorry, what you did was uncalled for.

shirleymac · 27/03/2007 23:22

Hey folks! I'm brand new here & just thought I'd add my ten pence worth. I think I'd have been embarassed at actually ripping her jacket (no matter how awful it was) but considering how I've been treated on buses with my tandem buggy I would probably have felt a wee bit justified too. Mostly tho' I'd have felt relieved at not getting walloped FOR ripping it.

totaleclipse · 27/03/2007 23:23

You say you were trying to come down the aise, so presumably you were trying to get off the bus, meaning this woman had her back to you.........right? hmmmmm did you think maybe she had eyes in the back of her head?

powder28 · 27/03/2007 23:24

She got on the bus so the woman probably saw her. It sounds like handbags at dawn!

Blu · 27/03/2007 23:25

BakedPotato, please get your head tested before you get on a bus where I live. You will get punched or stabbed if you carry on like that.

On the other hand, perhaps you will fit in quite well....

VeniVidiVickiQV · 27/03/2007 23:26

Blu...

You either live in London, or Liverpool....which one is it????

rowan1971 · 27/03/2007 23:27

The thing is - following on from Shirley's point - some people can really be incredibly unhelpful about letting buggies onto buses. I've had some people be incredibly rude to me about giving up the designated seats - even when there are other seats available. Obviously the OP describes a - shall we say - slight over-reaction, but maybe it was prompted by long-term frustration?

God, I'm so blimmin reasonable, I'm boring myself.

handlemecarefully · 27/03/2007 23:29

I expect it was prompted by long term frustration but it doesn't make it right to 'vent' on one individual though

Blu · 27/03/2007 23:29

London, VVV, South London. And a notorious part of S London at that!

But even here I have never seen anyone rip someone else's coat on a bus for leaving a shopping bag in it's place!

lisad123 · 27/03/2007 23:29

I would feel terrible about it. How do you know she wasnt having a bad day, deaf or even has mental/social problems?
maybe you just assumed that because you had buggy people should let you past, I hate it when people assume you should do something, but im the first to give my seat to a old lady, or woman with buggy.
Its like the thing that old people think you should let them push in queue!!

VeniVidiVickiQV · 27/03/2007 23:30

LOL! I know where you are

Folk wouldnt actually let go of shopping bags down that way, let alone leave them on the floor

handlemecarefully · 27/03/2007 23:31

Sorry bakedpotato - I hope you aren't feeling beleaguered reading this!

rowan1971 · 27/03/2007 23:33

She's long gone.

Hope her DP hasn't used the last of the toilet roll...

shirleymac · 27/03/2007 23:33

I got on one of those lowliner buses with dd when I was heavily pregnant with ds. There was an old person at either side in the wheelchair/buggy bits & no-one else on the entire bus. I stood there (swaying 'cos the bus was moving) & said to both 'excuse me please' & both totally ignored me. Wouldn't even make eye contact. Eventually I squeezed the buggy in the side without the pole & the guy then tutted & moved one whole seat back. Father in law was a bus driver & he says those seats are the worst ones an old person can sit in anyway 'cos if the bus brakes quick there's nothing in front for them to grab onto so why they insist on sitting there is beyond me.

handlemecarefully · 27/03/2007 23:33

lol rowan!

Blu · 27/03/2007 23:33

There is some truth in that, VVV.

But still, most of us make do with vicious eye rolling rather than vandalism when faced with unco-operative folk.

Blu · 27/03/2007 23:34

snort at toilet roll!

Let him have it, BP - rip his pubic hair out by the roots - that'll teach him!

Are you feeling better now?

VeniVidiVickiQV · 27/03/2007 23:35

Is that a 'tool' in your pocket blu, or are you just pleased to see me?

handlemecarefully · 27/03/2007 23:36

Where is this then Blu - Streatham?

rowan1971 · 27/03/2007 23:36

Shirley -

I once got on a bus with a double buggy. Bus was almost entirely empty, save one perfectly able-bodied young chap sprawled all over the 'accessibility' area or whatchamacallit. I asked him politely if he could move so that I could fit the buggy in, and he said 'I hate those f*ckin things. Shouldn't allow them on buses.' Gaargh!

shirleymac · 27/03/2007 23:37

Gaaagh is right. Hope you ran over his feet!

rowan1971 · 27/03/2007 23:37

Bet it's Brixton. Brixton bus drivers are the rudest people IN THE UNIVERSE.

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