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Thank you all of you people:

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Twinkie · 23/09/2004 11:51

Who have so far made my day great:

The tosser who pulled out on me on my way to the station and then gesticulated to me that I was a mastubater (er well I thought that was what he meant but he was holding his mobile so not sure!!)

The driver who obviously wanted to take a day off and so my train was cancelled!!

The lady who decided to sit mext to me on the train and ignore the other empty seats - although I am obviously pregnant and having someone who had not only eaten all the pies but the f'ing shop too as well as the employees sit on your right leg is not too comfortable (and then she tutted when I tried to extracate myself from under her!!)

And finally all of the wonderful people on the No48 bus from London Bridge to Liverpool St who decided that the 2 heavily pregnant women on the bus were better off being thrown around by psycho bus driver!!

Have a nice day all of you!!! [ANGRY

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Kayleigh · 23/09/2004 11:53

oh, babe, you do make me laugh. Hey, it can only get better.

vict17 · 23/09/2004 11:53

lol! it can only get better!

anorak · 23/09/2004 11:55

Car, train and bus? That's like an assault course before you even start work!

Marina · 23/09/2004 11:55

Oh, was that the 8.40 Twinkie? Rotters. Just managed to get previous Charing X service.
I find knitting needles (with knitting attached unless you want to be arrested) really good for deterring over-friendly, overstuffed commuters.
Really hope your day gets better.

Hulababy · 23/09/2004 11:58

Oh dear Twinkie, not a good start to the day then!

I guess it can only get better now! Take care

welshmum · 23/09/2004 12:05

When I was heavily pg I used to stand in the middle of the bus pointing at my stomach and saying 'Ok who here would like to give me a seat'
I usedto get so cross I didn't care.
Hoe you're day gets better

motherinferior · 23/09/2004 12:22

Wish I'd done that when pg. I do now do it with the buggy - given up looking hopeful, just stop people and say firmly Would they mind, please.

There is a lovely line in a John O'Farrell novel where a heavily pregnant woman just asks commuters hiding behind their papers 'Are you quite comfy like that, or would you like to put your feet up on my bump?'

Kayleigh · 23/09/2004 12:28

PMSL motherinferior
Almost worth getting pregnant again just to use that line. Actualy on second thoughts ...

sweetkitty · 23/09/2004 13:20

mine was yo say"it's amazing how invisible you can be when your this size" why is it always men who look you up and down then turn away

cat82 · 23/09/2004 13:24

A good one i learned from a book was "Would any men here who are not pregnant, kindly let me have a seat!"
Hope your day gets better!

xx

Cadbury · 23/09/2004 13:30

I was standing and being thrown around on buses until I was 9 months and then was so huge I couldn't go out any way! Not one person offered me a seat. Actually, the one time I was offered a seat on a bus in London by a concerned lady, I felt really cross. I wasn't actually pregnant and she thought I was. (concerned looks at my tummy when I said no thankyou.) Fffsssss [angy]

fiorocious · 23/09/2004 13:35

The unmentionable who swerved on to the pavement instead of waiting for a gap to go and I had had to pull my child out of the way. I was not aware I could swear so much and in front of my children too.

fiorocious · 23/09/2004 13:39

I also broke a perfectly manicured nail in the process.

yingers74 · 23/09/2004 13:43

Twinkle - sorry to hear this. Unfortunately, London is full of people are so busy engrossed in their own probs and lives they don't see other people. When i was pregnant and travelling to work on the tube, i was never offered a seat, men and children alike! One time me and another pregnant woman took turns in sitting on the same seat - everyone just watched us struggle! One lady was so angry for me she asked me whether I wanted her to drag someone off a seat!!!

Once an old guy tried to get me to get out of the priority seat for him!!! Luckily a young man told him to take his seat. This old guy then proceded to tutt at me, I opened up my jacket, he saw my bump and then shut up!

Hope tomorrow is a better day. There are nice people out there!

yingers74 · 23/09/2004 13:44

meant to say men and women alike

Bibiboo · 23/09/2004 14:10

People are SO rude aren't they? After carrying this baby around for the last 8 months, I am going to forever give up my seat to pg women, even when I'm a little old lady.
At least we can all sit smugly and think how nice and lovely we all are compared to those rotters out there.

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Twinkie · 23/09/2004 14:15

No women are worse than men IMO - I too also have on accassion given up my seat for women who were bigger (more pregnant than me) and no one even had the guts to meet my eye when I said how disgustig peoples manners were very loudly!!

Felt very good when I woke DP up on the train last week though and made him give his seat up for a pregnant lady - he was happy too I felt dead proud of him - poor love - although anything to stop him snoring and dribbling on the train next to me on the way home!!

I think I am going to write to TRansport for Lodnon and ask them to add pregnant ladies to their signs that ask you to get up for disabled or elderly people - do you think they would take a blind bit of notice??

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hatter · 23/09/2004 20:58

2 old bags - well 50 somethings, very well-dressed, nothing better to do than shop all day, and presumanbly do lunch, you know the sort, contrived to push infront of me in the queue in John lewis today (me trying to buy stuff whilst simultaneously preventing dds from turning haberdashery into Beirut, you know the score) bad enough in it self, but when counter lady politely pointed out what they were doing, they tutted and preceeded to demand to be served before me. blody cheek. jl lady was lovely and apologetic though

kimi · 24/09/2004 18:22

Did you not know that you are instantly invisable once pregnent and on public transport??
Had to get the Heathrow tube home from work when ds2 was in transit, size of a whale and still totally invisible to all who had seats.

Love the tube though, had some bloke full asleep next to me last week and his head got feather and feathreon to me to the point of almost being on my lap (much to the delight of fellow passengers) before i could get off my seat. (better to stand sometimes of carry a hatpin)

tallulah · 28/09/2004 12:38

Just to play Devil's Advocate here, since I turned 40 I find I'm far less able to stand while travelling than when I was 28 & 9 months pregnant...

(my particular pet hate is seeing small children sitting on their own seat on the bus- or anywhere, come to that- while elderly people have to stand. I always made my kids either sit on my lap or stand up.)

lou33 · 28/09/2004 12:48

Completely agree with you on the children sitting, elderly standing thing Tallulah.

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