Pushchair fight on bus

[Partygal]

After picking my child up from her child minder today, I arrived the bus stop to find two women with buggies waiting.

Knowing that the driver wouldn’t let three of us on, I walked round the corner to the previous stop and got on there.

When it arrived at the next stop, sure enough only mum was allowed on - the other was told to wait 30 minutes for the next bus. I was screamed at and called a cunt and a queue jumper by one mum who tried to shove me off the bus.

I don’t think I did anything wrong, nor did the police when they turned up after being called by the driver.

What the fuck is wrong with people?

They are different scenarios which is unknown if people will have to wait longer unlike a bus with 2 spaces,if there was 2 seats in a train and the person before you was heading towards it, would you climb the chairs to sit there 1st before that person or wait for an empty seat.

The bus karma is going to get ya!

What the fuck is wrong with people?

Yes, what is wrong with you, OP?

Why on earth wouldn't you facilitate a solution where all three mothers with young children are able to get on the bus, out of the cold, and safely on their way home. Like folding down one or more of the buggies. Which is clearly the responsibility of the person who oh so sneakily got on the bus first i.e. you!

You did nothing wrong.

I mean it’s morally dubious, as they had been waiting longer than you and you knew that you were taking up one of ‘their’ spaces on the bus. However it’s not queue jumping. You got on the bus first because you bothered to walk to an earlier stop.

Were you planning on folding your buggy to make room for everyone up until the point when they called you a cunt? If you weren’t then that is VU.

Strangely people managed for generations before buggies.

I agree with @TidyDancer

What you did was pretty shabby. You deliberately deprived someone of a space, knowing they had been waiting longer than you

So you went round the corner to get on a bus first knowing 2 mums were waiting first and your pushchair folds? You made a dick move and you know it. CF at its finest.

You did nothing wrong at all. I used to routinely walk to a bus stop slightly further away so I could get a seat when I commented by bus.

nothing ethically dubious about it at all.

So pushchair could have folded but you waited until it got to their bus stop to decide they weren’t worthy of it? Why didn’t you just fold it when you got on?

Not on the bus they didn’t.

I always have too much stuff in my basket to be able to carry that, the folded pram and my baby. I think if I ever had to fold my pram I would just have to get off the bus and wait for the next one 😬

Indeed! And a backpack or shoulder bag seemed to have held the stuff that was necessary.

There was a time people just carried newborns..

No wonder there are so many shitty arseholes who push in all the time. So you'd be happy if someone just pushed in front of you in a queue, when there was a big delay before the next bus. That's in effect what the OP has done. Not cool.

Then you’re an idiot. The OP walked further to secure a place. She put the work in and got a reward.

OP didn't queue jump, she left one longer queue and walked to a shorter queue.

I am not a shitty arshole and I don't push in a queue thank you very much 😒

OP didn't push in front, she wasn't in a queue. She walked to the previous bus stop to make sure she got on the bus. I've done this before, not with a buggy but when the tube goes down on a section of the line. Everyone goes to the bus stop the station staff point you to, I and a few canny others go to the stop before that. This means I don't wait ages to try and get on a bus. If the tube station at my mainline station is rammed I wont try and get on, I'll take the tube back a few stops to get on and get a seat then travel home. Not shitty, just sensible.

So you could have got on and folded the buggy up, thus avoiding the whole thing.

Correct. A lot of people on this thread don’t seem to understand how bus stops work.

Being shoved, called a cunt and having the police called isn't much of a reward 🤣

You did jump the queue! Obviously shouldn’t have any abused levelled at you but you know what you did was quite out of order. Wait your turn next time!

Clever move, but morally wrong. I'd say you were smug and proud of yourself. The other mother over-reacted though, and it's unfortunate the children had to witness the whole thing, police being called, the word 'cunt' being shouted.

You should have folded your buggy though before the other 2 women got on.

What boils my blood though is when someone won't fold the buggy down for a wheelchair user. A wheelchair user can't exactly stand and fold their wheelchair. I imagine the bus driver would insist a buggy user fold it and hold baby on their lap.

This. And I would also think worse of u if any of the children were younger than your ie still a baby that u can’t sit for a second to fold buggy and put it away. My son is 7months and if I saw someone wanting on with a baby younger I would still take him out and fold mine