To kick everyone on this bus who cheered?

[Sayyouwill]

So I'm sat on a very full bus and there was a lady with a young toddler in a pram. I can see where you think this is going... but no, not a bus/wheelchair debate, don't worry.

So the toddler was clearly upset at something and was crying and groaning. The mum was talking to her, pulling faces, rocking the pushchair (as best you can when the safety lock is on) to settle the toddler. Tbf, she looked knackered and at her wits end. When she pressed the bell to get off people cheered. As she was pushing the pram down he aisle one man yelled "thank god! Keep them indoors if you can't control them".
She looked so hurt!
I was raging! The poor woman was trying her best and it was a toddler for god's sake!!
I sort of said loudly and generally for them to pack it in but was drowned out by the cheers and giggles from everyone.
I'm still annoyed!

I believe that this happened and have witnessed similar with racial abuse on public transport, it's quite scary when the rest of the area are known for their friendliness, and community.

There are pockets of groups of people who have no empathy with mums and small children. They criticise and mutter under their breathe
Better known as cunts!

Some people are just arseholes.
My 2 year old played up big style on the bus this morning. He was just having a terrible twos moment that I tried to placate but I wasn't winning 😩
No I won't keep him indoors just because it would suit other people. If anyone had suggested I should have kept him at home, then they wouldn't have exactly got a nice warm response from me let's put it that way.

I get annoyed when the mother doesn't just lift the baby out of the pushchair to soothe them.

Along I wrote upthread about not taking my DS out of his pushchair when crying, because if I'd done that on a moving bus it wouldn't have been safe. (Dodgy joints, no seats, would have had to hold him with one arm.) The bloke who bellowed PICK HIM UP YOU BITCH at me throughout the journey agreed with you.

@Escapepeas I never said I lied or trolled. I said I embellished by saying 'everyone'.

I dont think it's even embellishing, more assuming that everyone was cheering when you couldn't seethe back.

Are you a silent bystander when everyone laughs or a rude man takes the wheelchair space so a woman has to hold her baby or do you confront this in RL?

I once took DCs on a bus to the nearest town for a fun day out. On our way back, there was this elderly man sitting on the wheelchair side of the seats. We took the opposite side. A guy in a wheel chair came in on the next stop. This elderly man had the gall to complain audibly about having to leave the space. The guy in wheelchair actually apologised! Needless to say, I gave the rude man a long, hard stare. Quite a few other passgers did the same. Then I kept talking pleasantly to the guy in wheelchair till I got off the bus. Mainly because he must have been feeling awful (he said he is used to it FFS) and also because it was obvious I was annoying the rude man. I am not a mean person but the way he behaved was out of bounds.
Another time, I showed the index finger to a really rude woman in the pharmacy who broke the long queue (full of rather sick looking people and one very frail/ill woman). The pharmacist was either a friend or did not want a confrontation. However, i was cheered loudly and unanimously by nearly a dozen shoppers which thoroughly annoyed the offender who then left in a huff, shouting all the way to the door, at a happy looking crowd.
It takes just one effort to unfreeze people who would otherwise stay silent. Always be that person. Why shouldn't you? YANBU at all.

@Sayyouwill So when you say ‘embellished’ you mean you mean you made some of it up?

Please be honest here - how many people actually within your immeditiate real-life hearing cheered or commented? Was it the whole bus (unlikely)? Half the bus? Two people sitting near you?

OP also had some problems with someone in front of them at a shop and they turned around in the queue at the supermarket and sneezed right in their face. I won't link as it's what probably got my last post removed. I think the OP should stop going out in public.

I think the OP should stop going out in public

Yes, quite a lot of unfortunate happenings and always a silent bystander watching injustice. Time to tackle some of it perhaps rather than bringing the outrage to MN to get everybody in a tizz about randoms being rude.

Iamagreyhound

Did you report all the posts, op? hmm

So what if she did? MNHQ don't delete every post that's reported, so they clearly agreed with the people who reported.

@Valentine2 I completely agree. I always try and speak up too.

I’ve seen a few whole-bus cheers. One guy with obvious mental illness ranting about Lewis Hamilton - whole bus cheered when he got off.

Teenage girl on a mobile telling some terrible tale about a guy in a club chatting her up then nicking her phone, and her punching him - whole bus cheered and clapped when she got to that part of the story (she was telling the story very loudly, we were all quite invested by the end). She looked around when we clapped and said “was that for me?” and looked quite pleased.

So it does happen. And given the number of filthy looks I’ve had for taking a tetchy toddler on the overground, I can well believe somebody getting abuse for having a fussy child on the bus.

Iamagrey I honestly wasn't being sarky, I thought it was funny. Evidently someone didn't.

We didn't want to disappoint WhimsicalTart so here it is.......

Ahem.....