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If you are one of the parents/siblings/babysitters/grandparents/caregivers of any kind who has to rely on the bus to transport a huge number of children, the least you could do is teach the children in your care to be mindful of other people. In the past few months, I feel like I have seen everything. I seen one young woman taking three toddlers (all with whistles in hand) on the 21. I swear she was paying the minimal amount of attention to these kids. Only stopping her conversation with her friend long enough to stop the kids from grabbing each other’s whistles. Wow lady, I am so glad you made sure each child had their own whistle to blow. I mean it’s not like there were other people on the bus who were all staring at you and your toddler terror parade. Then a couple weeks ago, another woman brought at least 5 children on the 18 at 9 am. In case you aren’t familar with buses, 18 is the university route and it is particularly packed in the morning(people heading to work and class). Rather than keep her group of children together, she started setting them in the chairs next to complete strangers. In the end, the kids were dispersed all over the place with one of them sitting next to me. I honestly believe I got the most annoying of the kids because he was right up in my space and staring directly at me, only looking away if I looked in his general direction. I even caught him staring at me a couple of times. The woman was turned in her seat talking to a little boy just next to him so she was even looking in his direction. I had to first ask her to tell him to stop staring at me. Then, she had to tell him to let me out of my seat because he was physically blocking me when I went to get off at my stop. Hasn’t anyone heard of manners, or even teaching that to their children? —Wish I Had the Money for A Car
This article appears in Oct 30 – Nov 5, 2014.
OH NO NOT A STARING CHILD! *gasp*
You sound like an oversensitive, inconsiderate twat, OB.
Welcome to the real world where not everything bends to your will. It’s called MASS transit for a reason, OB. Suck it up, ya big baby.
Glad I’m not on the fairview 21 anymore… though I will have to watch out for that pesky 18. *shudder*
I think we can all agree unanimously that kids on buses are the worst, just slightly beating out ignorant/loud/obnoxious younger teens on buses (2nd) and those self-absorbed, bitchy ladies with the shit pop music blaring so loud everyone knows what shitty song is ‘your jam’ (3rd).
If only we could all agree to STFU and enforce no internal noise on the bus…
I mean half the effing buses are loud enough on their own what with all the rattles and shaking and squealing brakes.
I dunno, I see a lot of good kids on the bus, and OB Complaining because a kid was staring at them is just petty and ridiculous. Kids stare. Kids are inquisitive. If you can’t deal with that you probably shouldn’t go out in public. Kids have just as much right to go out in public than everyone else and expecting perfect adult behaviour (when most adults don’t even do that) is wholly unreasonable.
I’m not sure how intimidated I would be by a toddler staredown – unless of course he was wearing a tiny little Tapout hoodie and I thought he was sizing me up for when he completed his juniour MMA training.
I have to admit though that I did chuckle at the OB’s phrase: “toddler terror parade”. Good one!
STARING
“I even caught him staring at me a couple of times.” Wish I Had the Money for a Car
If you’re going to sit splayed-legged on the seat, at least wear your bloomers.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Hahaha you asked someone to get a child to stop staring at you? Good luck in life.
” Mr. Speaker, there is a dark cloud hovering above us. Small children who whistle, talk, or make eye contact with adults. Mr. Speaker, I call them Bad Kids, Evil Kids. Canadians do not feel safe on Route 21 of Halifax Transit, when these vile creatures are nearby, staring, talking, whistling. Mr. Speaker, this is why I am happy to introduce to the House, on the behalf of our Beloved Brave Super Awesome Heroic Hero Leader, the Evil Child Eradication Omnibus Act. Mr. Speaker, this legislation will aid in our ongoing War on Terror by giving our security forces the power to make preventative arrests on small children found within 30 meters of any public bus, train, or office building. Canadians will never have to fear again, Mr. Speaker, because this heroic legislation will also enable our brave security forces to secretly imprison whistling, talking, and staring children for up to three months, without evidence, and without affording these vile creatures their basic right to due process. Mr. Speaker, whistling, talking, and staring children should not be given the same rights as law abiding adults, or, as I like to call them, normal grown ups. Mr. Speaker, the opposition disagrees with me, BUT, Mr. Speaker, I say to them: YOU’RE EITHER WITH US OR YOU’RE WITH THE TERRORISTS (and the child molesters)”.
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The Jesuits proclaimed , ‘Give me the child for his first seven years, and I’ll give you the man’. This was the premise for Michael Apted’s film series that began with Seven Up. So maybe the OB saw the toddler staring at her as the preview of a man leering at her. Think about it!
Where the hell does this ’21’ go? Bowels of the earth perhaps. I stopped reading at your use of ”I seen one young woman ……” You cannot SEEN anything as it is a past participle.
FAIL