pregnant woman vs man with pram (another bus thread)

[beanlet]

So, I'm 36 weeks pregnant and was sitting on one of the disabled seats on the bus, the ones that fold up to allow extra space for prams if there are no disabled people. A fit young man got on with a DD who looked to be at least 5 sitting in a folding pram. Despite the fact that there were two free folding seats next to me, he made me get up and sit somewhere else so he could park the pram.

AIBU to think a) disabled trumps 5-year-old in pram, b) 36 weeks pregnant is near-as dammit to disabled, and c) therefore I should have "sat" my ground?

just curious, of someone had a cyst the size of a small baby on their body would they be classified as disbled?

Hold up, it's not a buggy area, it's a wheelchair space. Read the notice. Anyone with a buggy should fold it up sharpish if someone using a wheelchair needs to get on.

Using that space for prams is a lucky break, not a right.

Mind you, the one time I've seen a dispute over this issue, the wheelchair user was majorly pissed off that the driver intervened and made the buggy woman fold. Think lady in the chair didn't want anyone to make a fuss and wash trying to squish in next to the buggy.

Our bus actually says 'buggy friendly' on the window - so not quite a 'lucky break' but obviously wheelchair users have first dibs.

I find it easier to just jump off for a wheelchair user. If you ask the driver they will give you a receipt thingy so you don't have to pay twice if you have to get another bus.

Once again, not a problem and haven't heard a single complaint from a buggy user about shifting for a wheelchair, of course you do that, is mind boggling that anyone wouldn't!

No, but people keep talking about a buggy space and it ain't. If you call it a buggy space, people will forget what it's really for and get arsey about wheelchair users (which is what the woman who wouldn't move did).

Have also seen a star bus driver who got off to harangue a white van driver who was sat in a bus stop, so the driver couldn't put down the ramp for a wheelchair user. Everyone applauded when he won the row and white van man had to piss off!

Nup, just Central London.

I rent a car if I need to go much further than that.