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'Naughty' toddler thrown off bus

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Limpopo · 18/06/2010 13:09

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Can't believe the bus driver What a bully. Bet if it was a gang of teenagers acting up he wouldn't have said anything. How embarrassing for the poor mum

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bossyboop · 07/07/2010 17:59

When i was pregnant I struggled to walk at times and used to get a terrible stitch after about 2 minutes walking and certainly experienced this at 4 months. It was a 5 minute walk from the bus stop to my home and by the time i got into my street i could barely walk and was doubled up in pain, so no pregnancy isnt a disability but it affects all of us differently.

dorie · 12/07/2010 11:16

I was returning home from holiday, by plane, a few weeks ago. There was a toddler sitting behind me, who screamed a ear splitting noise from the time the plane took off until it landed - 4 fucking hours!!

Wish they had thrown that little fucker and his dopey mother off the plane!!

DollyPS · 19/07/2010 19:47

At the pilot couldnt hear it except you and there could of been anything wrong with that little one you ungrateful witch. Did you even venture over to ask I'll bet not. No for thoughts 4 hours you and a lot of passengers would of been giving the poor woman dangers. Nice one?

SammyAPG · 02/08/2010 22:24

Its easy to judge if one has not been in that situation. And easy to say "I would just get out and walk" It does not work like that. I just had to leave the bus with my three year old little girl as she had started screaming. She is not naughty and has not behaviour problems. She is very sweet natured but at that moment she was the "evil child" and I was the "useless mother who can not control her kid" for the people of the bus. Walking was not an option. I was on the way to Winchester from Southampton and I took the bus because I had no choice. My little girl got scared by a little fly passing by. She was stung in the morning but a bug in the garden and that triggered a new little fear which I'm working on. When she saw one on the bus she just went into a panic and then thought every little fluff in the air was a mosquito or fly so she was very unsettled. She calmed down for few stops then saw something again and started screaming in fear. She would not seat down and I was trying to reasure her. Then I noticed we had been stopped for a while and the doors where opened. I thought it was odd as there was no one on the bus stop so I gathered that was our invitation to go out. People were getting impatient as well so I took my little girl and left for the sake o everybody's sanity. I understand the "heath and safety" side from the drivers point of view that's not the issue but the reaction of the other people. I don't expect them to tolerate my daughter screams but they are on a public bus, not being driven by their private driver so things like this happen. While my little girl was terrified people where looking at their watches in an exagerated manner, changing seats and looking in disgust. They were quite happy when I walk out not even half way through my trip with no cash left by a motorway with a three year old. Busses are PUBLIC transports with all sorts of distractions, tantrums, teenagers being loud, drunks. I've seen the lot, but you take it on the chin and hope to get home soon and take a paracetamol after sharing with your partner that you had the ride from hell because there was a noisy kid.
It's embarrassing enough because you don't want to inconvenient but when you see their reaction next time I would be "well you abandoned a young mother by a motorway with a tree year old so you really don't have much respect from me as a human being, next time you will hear the screams until the last stop!". Anyway, we walked to the nearest Petrol station and was rescued by my amused partner lol.

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