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Partygal · 2022-12-19T22:25:11+00:00

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?

DuplicateUserName · 19/12/2022 23:06

OP, I'm just trying to get my head around this.

Shouty woman abandoned her friend at the bus stop, got on the bus, pushed you and called you a cunt.

Then the whole bus waited for the police to arrive (how long did this take and what was everyone doing in the meantime?) and when they did arrive, they didn't want to speak to you even though you'd been assaulted?

Have I got that right?

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 19/12/2022 23:07

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Do they?!

And yet - it’s the WOMEN you’re attacking. Why is that?

JoyBeorge · 19/12/2022 23:07

redflowerbluethorns · 19/12/2022 23:04

I'd ban buggys from busses altogether myself. All too often selfish entitled mums refuse to allow wheelchair users on. It's disgusting. They'd soon be shouting if their child was a wheelchair user and they couldn't get on.

It's up to the bus driver to ask parents to fold down buggies. One could argue that a young baby in a pram that was "there first" is just as entitled to the space as the wheelchair user. You don't know if mum is disabled and would have a hard time folding/unfolding the pram.

Guess what. Children are part of society and belong in it. The animosity towards mothers and children across all parts of society is horrendous.

I agree. And it's not just busses, you can't even get in coffee shops for all the buggies either 😂

Busybutbored · 19/12/2022 23:07

redflowerbluethorns · 19/12/2022 23:04

I'd ban buggys from busses altogether myself. All too often selfish entitled mums refuse to allow wheelchair users on. It's disgusting. They'd soon be shouting if their child was a wheelchair user and they couldn't get on.

It's up to the bus driver to ask parents to fold down buggies. One could argue that a young baby in a pram that was "there first" is just as entitled to the space as the wheelchair user. You don't know if mum is disabled and would have a hard time folding/unfolding the pram.

Guess what. Children are part of society and belong in it. The animosity towards mothers and children across all parts of society is horrendous.

Wow, people do this to wheelchair users?? Gosh that is a new level of low. That makes me despair for society 😔

supersonicginandtonic · 19/12/2022 23:07

@DuplicateUserName this is where it's obvious that the police part is made up.

MummBRaaarrrTheEverLeaking · 19/12/2022 23:07

Yep. You knew the rules and got round them, ok. But you knew you'd be screwing over someone who was waiting longer than you when you didn't fold your buggy down, and you thought you'd get to smugly carry on your merry way without consequences. But maybe you should have considered the consequences after all. Absolute dick move, and for that YABU.

DuplicateUserName · 19/12/2022 23:08

Anotherbloomingchristmas · 19/12/2022 23:06

50 years ago all the mums had enormous pushchairs and must have travelled on buses.
I think there’s too many ridiculous regulations now.

50 years ago you weren't allowed on a bus without a folding buggy that went in the luggage rack.

WotsitsMadeIn1927 · 19/12/2022 23:08

Couldn’t one of you put the buggy down n sit with the child on seats?

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 19/12/2022 23:08

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Jeremy Clarkson, what are you doing on MN?

ancientgran · 19/12/2022 23:08

Anotherbloomingchristmas · 19/12/2022 23:06

50 years ago all the mums had enormous pushchairs and must have travelled on buses.
I think there’s too many ridiculous regulations now.

Yes we had to fold them. It's amazing how good you can get at holding baby in one arm and folding the pushchair with the other and then get on the bus with your buggy, baby and shopping. God bless the people who would offer to help.

DuplicateUserName · 19/12/2022 23:09

@supersonicginandtonic , just that part? 😬😂

Iknowhim · 19/12/2022 23:09

It was shady of you OP. Particularly as they were together so either both had to wait or travel separately.

She shouldn't have sworn at you and pushed you but I'd have been pissed off too!

grumpycow1 · 19/12/2022 23:09

Technically you didn’t do anything wrong but you were sneaky and mean. They were there before you, and you could have still got on and folded your pram.

cstaff · 19/12/2022 23:09

I would call this using your brain. My local bus stop is regularly packed and I usually walk back to the previous stop to up my chances of getting on or getting a seat.

ItsNotReallyChaos · 19/12/2022 23:09

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ilovesooty · 19/12/2022 23:09

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And you know all this by looking at fellow passengers?

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 19/12/2022 23:10

JoyBeorge · 19/12/2022 23:07

I agree. And it's not just busses, you can't even get in coffee shops for all the buggies either 😂

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I don’t think that poster was actually agreeing with you.

Oh no, having to walk round a buggy in a coffee shop! However do you coke? Why don’t these silly women just have their babies levitate above your precious head so you aren’t inconvenienced by their existence

SamuelDavies · 19/12/2022 23:10

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AzerJoon · 19/12/2022 23:11

Sometimeswinning · 19/12/2022 22:36

I'm stuck between thinking that was an incredibly low thing to do and you deserved a few choice words from someone who may have already waited upto half an hour. But then I kind of think I'd have done this if it had ever occurred to me when mine were in pushchairs!!

Don't hate the player.
Hate the game

AllOfThemWitches · 19/12/2022 23:11

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LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 19/12/2022 23:12

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And pray tell what is your name? And where do you shop?
What do you propose we do with these beaten women - father then in the town square and drop Nepalm on them?

ilovesooty · 19/12/2022 23:12

redflowerbluethorns · 19/12/2022 23:04

I'd ban buggys from busses altogether myself. All too often selfish entitled mums refuse to allow wheelchair users on. It's disgusting. They'd soon be shouting if their child was a wheelchair user and they couldn't get on.

It's up to the bus driver to ask parents to fold down buggies. One could argue that a young baby in a pram that was "there first" is just as entitled to the space as the wheelchair user. You don't know if mum is disabled and would have a hard time folding/unfolding the pram.

Guess what. Children are part of society and belong in it. The animosity towards mothers and children across all parts of society is horrendous.

No you couldn't argue that. Wheelchair users have priority.

AllOfThemWitches · 19/12/2022 23:12

user1471457751 · 19/12/2022 23:01

Or its because its possible for both sides to be in the wrong.

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Nah.

YellowTreeHouse · 19/12/2022 23:12

redflowerbluethorns · 19/12/2022 23:04

I'd ban buggys from busses altogether myself. All too often selfish entitled mums refuse to allow wheelchair users on. It's disgusting. They'd soon be shouting if their child was a wheelchair user and they couldn't get on.

It's up to the bus driver to ask parents to fold down buggies. One could argue that a young baby in a pram that was "there first" is just as entitled to the space as the wheelchair user. You don't know if mum is disabled and would have a hard time folding/unfolding the pram.

Guess what. Children are part of society and belong in it. The animosity towards mothers and children across all parts of society is horrendous.

No, one could not “argue that”. It is not a space for prams, it is a space for wheelchair users.

Prams are allowed to occupy the space when it is free but when a wheelchair user comes aboard they must fold the pram or leave the bus. It is not a first come first serve situation.

Charlize43 · 19/12/2022 23:13

Devious, but not very fair if the other mums had been waiting a long time.

Now you'll be nervous every time you use that bus stop in case she comes after you. It's like a Stephen King horror story from the 80s.