in being cross at the girl on the very crowded commuter-stuffed bus who decided to peel and eat a satsuma?

[MadameDefarge]

Two reasons I am pissed off at this. One is, I do think that eating something very odiferous in a confined public space is anti-social....there is no escape from it...(even healthy foods)

second, and I do know this shouldn't really come into it, but its an hour long bus journey for ds who has dyspraxia, and he has trouble with travel sickness AND is a supertaster....literally throws up in the presence of oranges being peeled and eaten. She was sitting right opposite him.

I saw how he was trying to control himself, but it was clear he wasn't going to make it. So I manage to get him off the bus, for him to throw up all overhimself, and poor wee lad has to walk 25 mins in the freezing cold without his top layer....

Possibly IABU.

If you only have to do the problem journey on Mondays (as Fridays you say is betteran you don't do the rest of the week as he's at his Dad's) then why not look into a local community car type scheme? There's lots in London I think.

I have to say if my son was struggling with the problems you describe and I really couldn't afford to run a car then a small community car charge plus an £8 congestion charge once a week to alleviate his suffering would be something I would find.

Or possibly I'd get an earlier bus, that was less crowded.

Or maybe I'd book a cab. It's one single journey a week, how much would that cost? You can come home on the bus afterwards.

I get why the experience was horrid for you both. But yes, you ARE being unreasonable to be cross at the girl.

grocers up in arms at success of ban the satsuma campaign

Thanks for suggestion casserole. will look into community car share. Ds would be your best friend re the taxi idea. when I am flush i admit I do sometimes take him in a taxi.

buses the worst for travel sickness imo but taxis can also be bad

is there no train or tube even part the way?

nope. no tube or train ( well, there is a line, but its down at the moment and goes in the wrong direction). Hackney. the only borough in london with no tube. in the process of being remedied, but still a bus ride away.

Bus can actually be pretty quick. half an hour home. Its just the inward journey that is the shocker.

In a taxi I use his booster seat and open the windows...but yes, he can still get sick.....but much less...

MmeDefarge aren't you the poster who was asking about birthday party gift bags months ago? If so, you were the first poster to address me directly.
IIRC you also made an absolutely hilarious typo in which you claimed you would be feeling the kids at the party (as opposed to feeDing). I laughed about this literally for days. Blame he pregnancy hormones.
If both these facts are true, you can do no wrong in my eyes.
Therefore YANBatallU

yes yes yes blinder!

Those poor kids, they all needed therapy afterwards.....

I was once sitting on a busy train and a woman standing next to me was eating curry out of a saucepan at 8am! Now that was unreasonable!

Oh I just bet she was pregnant, muminthecity

Madamedefarge, do you mean the only borough in north London with no tube? Plenty of south London isn't on the tube, including the borough I live in in SW London.

Maybe heQet but still, a saucepan and a spoon on a busy train? She could've at least put it in a tupperware box! My main gripe was that I hadn't eaten breakfast and the smell of food was making me hungry!

Lyra is there any London apart from North ?

Madame - cannot be arsed to read thread, as is very long, but I am sure it has run the gamut of MN emotions. You must be very proud ... 10 pages !!

um, I might have got this wrong, but I believe Hackney is the only borough not to be touched in any manner shape or form by the tube...perhaps this refers to inner london boroughs however.

Its a historical thing, I believe....

get a life OP

it was a satsuma

people can eat fruit on public transport surely

im actually laughing at the ridiculousness

yup. Ten pages of top form AIBU flaming. Gotta be proud!

Aw, I didn't flame you, madame. Nor did a few others.

Jamie, I think you'll find that the best bits are south of the river

thats beauty of AIBU.any raver can get answers,in fact the dafter the better

i love a good aibu esp if poster is wildly wrong.makes it funnier

yes, only inner London borough

Madame, as I said, my borough has no tube. So that's at least two.

Inner London. Not London.

No indeed, Heqet, you didn't, and for that I thank you!

Probably could have worded OP a bit better, but hey,that's the joy of AIBU...don't go into it if you can't stand the heat...

you will see I have revisted that statement Lyra. OK?

I never go Sarf. There be dragons .........