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Babies on the tube at 11.30

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CoughLaughFart · 08/08/2017 23:53

I've just spent 20 minutes on the tube listening to not one, but two babies screaming at top volume. It's nearly midnight! Who is that irresponsible?

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AssassinatedBeauty · 08/08/2017 23:56

Why is it irresponsible?

Pallisers · 08/08/2017 23:57

If you need to move from A to B at 11.30 and you have a baby, what are you supposed to do? Is it irresponsible not to be able to afford a taxi or car??

Maybe the parents work shifts and the baby minder lives a tube ride away?

UsernameTaken2 · 08/08/2017 23:59

I don't understand how it's irresponsible?

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CoughLaughFart · 08/08/2017 23:59

Who the hell ferries kids about at this time?

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AssassinatedBeauty · 09/08/2017 00:00

Lots of people for lots of reasons.

ilovesooty · 09/08/2017 00:01

Parents who work shifts and needed to pi k up baby from childminder?

Foniks · 09/08/2017 00:02

Terribly irresponsible. They should bloody walk instead. Or better yet, just never go out past a certain time, never mind any emergency, it can wait til a more sensible hour. Never mind if the parents work late and that's when they picked up the child, they should leave the baby there and collect it in the morning instead.
They're probably on their way to a club or something, irresponsible people that they are.

Mamabear4180 · 09/08/2017 00:02

Might they be going on holiday? I bet they don't want to travel at this time with a baby. how is it irresponsible?

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CoughLaughFart · 09/08/2017 00:03

Is it that hard to understand that children need routine?

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PointlessUsername · 09/08/2017 00:04

Could be all sorts of reasons they are out at that time.

Ellieboolou27 · 09/08/2017 00:06

So judgemental!
I had to get the tube on a Monday at rush hour with my then 5 month old, I had the buggy which I'd folded, the looks, huffs and nasty looks I received made me want to knock them out!
I was taking my baby to Great Ormond St hospital, sorry to inconvenience any commuters but my baby's kidneys are rather important and my appointment was at 9.30am.
It's public transport, oh and babies cry they tend not to care about the time.

PickAChew · 09/08/2017 00:06

If a parent works in the evneings, then of course they have routine, it simply involves transporting them after 11pm.

DS1 was usually awake between 5pm and 10pm, once he was past his first few months. We did our shopping then! Even his first year of nursery, he did afternoons and slept from 10pm to 9-10am.

Lucked · 09/08/2017 00:08

Don't go into a 24 hour supermarket at midnight, you will be horrified! Although I am a bit meh about babies, it's the whole families including both parents and primary school kids picking up the cornflakes and toilet roll at a ridiculous hour that has me a bit just judgey pants.

I can think of reasons why the tube might be necessary at that hour though.

FittonTower · 09/08/2017 00:09

My babies didn't need routine. Routine pissed my two off royally. Never took em on the Tube at 11.30 but I don't live or work in London. They were very often awake at 11.30 though - sleepless little buggers

Coconutspongexo · 09/08/2017 00:09

How do you know what's happened to them? Maybe it's an emergency, maybe they've finally decided to leave their home?

Imaginosity · 09/08/2017 00:09

We are on holidays in London and our childrens' bedtime is midnight for these few days. We are out all day and come back late to the hotel and watch TV. The children are very happy and not falling apart without a routine!

FeelingStupid2015 · 09/08/2017 00:10

Crikey, I really don't know what to say to this. Apart from that there could be a million and one reasons why a family should have to travel during the evening. Realistically, it's of noone else's concern

Coconutspongexo · 09/08/2017 00:10

Also how do you know it's not their routine? Did you ask?

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AssassinatedBeauty · 09/08/2017 00:10

Routines are fine, but you don't have to stick to them on every single occasion, if you happen to have a different set of circumstances to your usual ones. You have no idea why they're traveling at this time. I'd assume they have a reason for doing so and they're not doing it for fun.

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CoughLaughFart · 09/08/2017 00:11

Okay, so what if the child is school age? Surely all the same theories apply. Are you happy for them to be out at this time hours before school?

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ineedaholidaynow · 09/08/2017 00:11

Slightly missing the point but London must be very different from where I live as most childminders here finish at about 6pm

Teutonic · 09/08/2017 00:11

Hold the front page. Baby crying on tube late at night shocker.
There are many reasons why the parents are travelling at what you deem to be way past a babies bedtime.
None of which have anything to do with you or anyone else.

BetterEatCheese · 09/08/2017 00:11

But they weren't...

PaulAnkaTheDog · 09/08/2017 00:12

You're talking about babies though. So stop your nonsense.