Thanks to the three people with kids in strollers who boarded the #10 from Mic Mac Mall to Halifax on Saturday. You made my day. Especially the first idiot who made sure his stroller got on ahead of everybody else. The 30 people behind you really enjoyed tripping over it. The woman with the 4 year old in the stroller; seriously?! Make him walk. What’s wrong, can’t afford a baby sitter? You people have turned public transportation into the bratmobile. Next Saturday keep the little squawkers home. —Bus Rider
This article appears in May 19-25, 2011.
Stash hidden the nappy; stroller full of swag. First on means a fast getaway.
Your first mistake OP was taking the 10 out of Mic Mac on Saturday. Instead, take the 55 back to the bridge (it’s faster and far less crowded) and transfer from there, even if it is to the now much less populated 10. Second, I can’t see too many parents who would waste babysitter money so they could go shopping (unless it’s christmas) without the kids so they are justified in taking them on the bus. Can some of them walk, yes, but that call isn’t yours or mine to make. And considering they had far less choice of seats than the crowd, it makes sense they’d want to get on first.
I dunno — I mean, kids have just as much right to use public transportation (and their parents have just as much right to bring them on there) but… four years old in a stroller? FFS. My mom used to bring me on the bus all the time when I was a baby — she had a little umbrella stroller and from 3 months on I travelled on the bus… but she retired the stroller when I turned three. I know this because I can remember being three and walking and not being in a stroller (in fact, I can remember when i was two and being potty trained). Clear as day to me.
It just gets me, though, how even the ghettoest welfare baby mama has one of those huge ass strollers. And usually they’re filled primarily with walmart and dollarama bags. Could you not travel with a smaller umbrella stroller?
And don’t give me that crap about “wahwah it’s hard carrying stuff around with a stroller!” because my mother and other mothers of her generation managed just fine with a little umbrella stroller.
Back then, as well, people with strollers had to go to the back of the bus and not crowd the front. And that was with the smaller strollers.
Though, i’m pretty sure the entitlement some parents have today (especially those welfare moms with 5 kids by 5 different baby daddies).
Hey Hobo – ixnay on the ifty-twofay. It’s one of the Darkside’s more pleasant little secrets and it should probably stay that way >; )
That should have been ifty-fivefay. So much for keeping it shtum. Crap & Damnation.
I think it’s every saturday – I was on the #10 last saturday (14th) and the same thing. 3 big ass strollers got on at micmac and one held a child big enough to not be in a stroller. there was no room for anyone to walk by that got on the bus after them.
one big reason I don’t take the bus anymore, also motivation to make sure I can afford to live comfortably before I ever consider procreating. I don’t wanna take my damn kids on the bus. I mean if I decide to go somewhere that is easier to access by bus than yes, but I don’t want to only be able to afford public transportation if I ever have children.
Remember in that Movie Pursuit of Happiness (I think it’s from this movie) when Will Smith and his son are playing that game where they have to sleep in a public washroom, and then the kid wants to play the same game the next day and Will’s like :
“It’s one of those games that’s fun the first time n then not so much afterward” (not an exact quote)
kid: like riding the bus?
Will: Yeah, just like riding the bus
made me chuckle..
I just feel sorry for these broke down lookin parents, mostly moms on the bus, I don’t really resent them or their kids. It’s public transportation, you gotta deal or find another way to get around.
Pushing around a four year old in a carriage? Dumb fucks – a keg of beer would have been more logical.
Oh Ivan, I read your reference to the 52 and I was seriously convinced you were on drugs.
I don’t resent the broke looking moms on the bus, tommy, I resent the broke looking moms who are loud, rude, entitled, have a pack of different looking kids with them (all their own — they just have different daddies) with filthy clothes, yet mom has a blackberry and is always loudly talking about how her latest baby daddy has been looking at the hoe down the street and how she’s gonna kick her ass, because generally they feel they’re the only ones on the planet and that the world owes them some special debt because they decided to fuck around and get knocked up over and over again.
HOW in the hell do these women afford blackberries? Seriously.
TTFN: and people wonder why kids are little fatties these days.
LOLz Kitty. I’d have to slamming Shanghai Lady to enjoy that route, or to fit in. ^^
gee, another stroller/bus/rude ride bitch, yawnnnnnnn. take a cab next time o.p., or walk, if not too far. or, just get on, sit down, and go about your day. or hey, maybe ball up and say something to offending parties. we can’t do fuck all about it here you know
yeah, PK, I feel where you’re coming from. I feel sorry for those people too, even though they’re in control of their own destiny. I feel for them because they’re fucking stupid. I guess I still look at them in contempt too because if they’re on social assistance I’m paying for her shitty life choices. At least they teach the rest of us a valuable lesson though.. practice safe sex. I had a woman that fit the exact description you just gave live above me when I use to live on Lakecrest Drive by Tacoma in Dartmouth. I never saw her but my roommate reported that she was probably a prostitute, and that all her kids were different looking, a lot of them different races. She would scream and curse at those kids every damn weekend, they would be jumping off things and sounded like they were about to come crashing through my roof. Had the nerve to get hard with us when we tried to ask her to try to keep it down. (I don’t think she had full custody because they made a god awful racket, but only on weekends). She should be sterilized.
And they’re practically giving blackberries away right now, fyi.
Ok, lemme get this straight: people who use the bus are bitching about other bus users…who happen to have kids.
Yes, i have an issue with ghetto mamas, but not because they take the bus. They’re generally awful humans.
I take the bus not cause i cant afford a car, but i see no valid reason to spend that much money when i can hop a bus for way cheaper. However, i stopped using the umbrella stroller with my child a year ago. I cannot fucking stand those huge ones.
Public transit should charge an additional fee for these welfare parents and their strollers. $10 should do it. Oh wait, that takes away from their smokes and booze. Hmm….what to do? I know, sign them up to be sterilized.
For some reason I’m kinda buying into sebastard’s train of thought here ^^^
FML.
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I think everyone who smokes, drinks, and uses public transit should be sterilized.
Then again, i also think every person who has something against children co-existing in our fair city just because they don’t have them, or have grown ones.
blame the driver for allowing it. They were given the right to refuse or ask them to fold them up, if it is an issue for other people on the bus. When mine were young you had to fold up the stroller and carry everything on the bus. That changed when the busses became wheelchair accessible. As for big kids, well did you ask how old the child was or are you assuming? My neighbours kid is not even 2 yet but the size of a 4 year old.
Having said all that, I agree with get a smaller stroller and wait until the end to get on, if there is room.
Rawr… I think your train of thought got derailed there….
“…i also think every person who has something against children co-existing in our fair city just because they don’t have them, or have grown ones.”
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I’m also curious as to why you think this is?
“I think everyone who smokes, drinks, and uses public transit should be sterilized.”
Do you have any idea how much someone doing that contributes to the city and the province?
Wow, you are a very cruel person. What gives you the right to bitch at people with kids, walk the hell around the stroller. Are your weekend activities really that important that you can’t take two, yes TWO more seconds to walk around a stroller. GFYS