To think that parking buggies to face the wall in busses is weird and a bit mean?

[notanumber]

I always, if I can manage it, park my buggy in the buggy space with my child facing out. This seems like an obviously the right thing to do to me (and of course I am the definitive source of what is right). I am daily judgy surprised at how many people don't do this and park their buggy with the child facing the wall.

I just don't get it. Why would you shove your child into a space with their nose a few inches from a piece of grubby wall where they're too low down to even look out of the window when you could just as easily reverse them in so they can look at you, all the people getting on and off the bus and the view from the opposite window?

Okay, there are times when the bus is too full to manoeuver the buggy backwards, or you want the child to sleep and not be distracted, but the majority of the time it just seems plain mean to banish them with their faces to the wall.

Apart from anything else, it's brilliant having them facing outwards because old ladies and broody teenaged girls entertain the child for the whole journey while you read Heat compile educational flashcards.

LOL at your finely tuned moral decision making notanumber

no i also wouldn't tell the social or nuffink neither

next time i am on bus i will look out for wee chubby squidgy legs and babies in buggies

Mmmmm but surely if you have them facing towards the aisle then you can't put the brakes on? My buggy brakes were above the rear wheels, not that I've ever been on a bus with a buggy in my life.

Stripey, you put the break on while you're standing behind it, then shuffle it backwards from the side or the front.

Admittedly this is a bit faffier than wall facing parking.

brake sorry.

I park DS facing inwards if he is in a 3 wheeled pushchair, because otherwise the front wheels are likely to trip people up!

hmmm I've thought this before as well.. my buggy is rear facing so my DD gets to endure all the silly faces the old folk pull at her for the whole journey

Get a Stokke Xplory - problem solved

YANBU.If only because it deprives me of the opportunity to pull silly faces and coo over them.

I have to admit I never considered which way the buggy faced on a bus. And now neither DS nor DD use one I will never need to consider it again.

Nah, I don't even think about it.

I mean when I get on the bus I stuff baby Carlyle-Rottweiler Milan Smith into the corner, give him some haribos to eat and some coke in his bottle (he's already had enough sugary tea in his bottle by then). I'm too busy thinking bout my giro, and what i'm gonna get for shopping like 2 x packs of fags, coke, those fantastic turkey twizzlers, crisps, sugar, fizzy laces and some lovely lacey nylon thongs from primark.

I always see this girl on the bus though, I think she's a bit wierd, shes got a little boy Tarquin-Lord Sommersby Wicket. She always puts him face out. She's always reading to him stories about multicultural people and sharing or something and giving him disgusting carrot sticks. He's always blabbering away about numbers and counting to ten. In my opinion I think she's a bit wierd, I mean who sits there child facing outwards - when they can give them some food and shut them up?

well technically you should park the buggy with the handles facing the front of the bus (ie travelling directly backwards) as this is the safest position in an impact.

But (as the OP will no doubt discover one day) if you have a double buggy you just shove the fecker in any way it will bloody well fit and be grateful you aren't walking home in the rain.

There are children starving all over the world. 4 million children in the UK live in poverty. There are 2.4 million people unemployed.

Don't you have something else to worry about?

Ineedalifechange

I love you very much

Tarquin-Lord Sommersby Wicket

Mean? Weird? Really?

YABU and quite possibly bonkers.

Generally you can sit/stand by the pram and intellectually stimulate little Jimmy without the plebian masses simpering at him

Surely it's a better life skill for a child to learn how to entertain yourself while staring at nothing rather than being constantly entertained...

entertain themselves

no that doesn't work either... well I'm just a northerner, what would I know about grammar

[wink}

I'm going back to bed

YABU
You must travel on a lovely bus route with lots of space
Facing out would not work here, buses are too full with people and other buggies

How do you get your buggy out when all the other buggy spaces become occupied?

Bloody hell. 45 posts and not one has yet mentioned the fact that you should have folded your buggy down. Don't you know it's a sin to take a buggy on a bus? YABtotallyU not to walk to wherever you are going donchya know

Banish them?! Really?!

It's just easier to park DS facing the wall. He doesn't seem to mind, especially as I actually gasp talk to him. I usually sit on a flip-down seat which faces him. If I can't manage this, he still manages to cope without being stimulated all the time, though if I'm feeling kind, I might give him a book to look at.

hahaha..well maybe they don't want Tarquin kicking other passengers in the shins/flicking bits of Greggs sausage-roll

Well Tarquin-Lord doesn't have Greggs - off all things! His mum says that reclaimed meat is the food of the unwashed masses, and only allows Tarquin-Lord to eat beetroot (either roasted or raw), organic carrots, organic blueberries and dairy free, sugar free, carob chocolate.

I on the other hand, think that Greggs sausage rolls are the best and great for a pick me up after a big night out down the bingo with my mates, especially after eating that dodgy kebab at 2am. Carlyle-Rottweiler loves them sausage rolls. He also likes those value cocktail sausages.

ooh sorry bout that ...what kind of Greggs do you go to 24hrs?..night out down the bingo? Greggs shuts at 5pm madam!..well maybe in your area Greggs is needed 24hrs