To all of the passengers on the morning Bedford-to-Downtown bus, you know who you are. I realized, years ago, that chivalry is dead on Metro Transit, but I can’t help but feel that our community has sunk to a new low when my six-months pregnant self has to stand for the entire commute each morning, while all of you sit in comfort.
I know it’s early and you’re all tired/lazy/cranky. For weeks I’ve been giving you all the benefit of the doubt, assuming that maybe you can’t tell that I’m pregnant. Well, my ability to hide it and your ability to ignore it has long-since passed.
I know that I am neither disabled nor elderly as the signs indicate, but I don’t think it’s too much to ask that one of those reserved front seats be vacated for me as I waddle onboard. And I don’t think it should be left up to me to awkwardly ask one of you to give me your seat.
By all means, continue to avert your eyes from my belly when I look in your direction. We wouldn’t want your conscience to get the better of you and cause you to yield your seat to a woman with a uterus the size of a soccer ball. —The preggo passenger
This article appears in May 20-26, 2010.
Maybe they assume you’re fat and could stand to stand.
Aw, suck it up, you lazy cow. I had three and I didn’t look for any special treatement. Be grateful you don’t have to chomp on a tree branch and squirt your kid out in a squat like our ancestors.
OP – I agree with you, common courtesy, respect and chivalry seem to belong in a bygone era, which in my opinion is a shame.
Let me guess, you’ve already secured financing for one of those honking big SUV size strollers on the grounds that payback is a mo-fo.
still… it would be nice to think some people would be generous…
I’m not saying she’s entitled, but chivalry makes a man look (and in my case feel) good.
TTFN – you are fucking loser bitch. I hope the bus that this poor lady is riding hits your stupid fat, poor, ignorant ass. I bet your 3 kids grew(grow) up to be losers too…in fact I guarantee it. Welfare should cut off your Internet too.
I am not on welfare, you fucking tit, I’m retired and all my kids are grown and doing quite well, thank you. I guess I’m not enough of a victim for you, arsepucker.
Tell ’em, TTFN!
It doesn’t sound like to much to ask to expect a grown man to give up his seat for a 6 month’s pregnant women. At least not in my books, If I rode the bus I would give up my seat in a second in this situation.
I would give up my seat for you, I promise.
Those people are thoughtless
I find that people posting responses on these boards look for opportunities to be assholes to strangers, but that is the anonymous internet way.
Wimp.
Go choke on your baby bonus.
Ahhh, the sense of entitlement of the pregnant woman. You chose to get knocked up (or stay knocked up) and you can live with your choice. If you don’t like having to stand on the bus while pregnant, grow a backbone and ask someone if you could have a seat. You are not entitled to a seat any more than any of the other passengers. Expecting them to suddenly jump up and give you their seat is bullshit. And Basil, you’re right. Chivalry is dead and women with a sense of entitlement killed it.
I like the comment about you getting an SUV size stroller for your baby, & making sure you make full glaring eye contact to all the assholes who have to crawl over it from a seated position.
Payback can be a bitch ~:)
TTFN, so not only are you an insensitive bitch you are also a fucking liar. I guarantee you have 3 loser kids…100% guarantee it. You may not think so but that is because you are fucked in the head.
“Take away their knives and they make great pets” – Irvine Welsh, Filth
Did I say Liverpool, N.S. you fucking twit? As for the rest of your baseless remarks, try to imagine how little I care, Hemorrhoidhead.
anyone selling popcorn?
it’s leotard or kaytard liverlips
500 Quaatluus on the Earth female. Don’t let me down TT, I’ve got baby’s college money riding on this >; )
SHEFFIELD UNITED – 100% BLADES! If they’re good enough for Sean Bean, they’re good enough me.
Aw, it’s just a pathetic little flamer trying to stir up the shitdust – thank fuck for that great ol’ adage: ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words can go suck the Pope’s knob warts’.
mmm mr. sean bean, he really wasn’t gonna take the ring
Like TTFN, I did not seek special treatment while pregnant. Hell, I was walking 5K a day in my ninth month. Pregnancy does not equal unhealthy. In fact, being fit is encouraged for the eventuality that is childbirth. That being said, perhaps the OP will get more seat offers as her girth expands making the pregnancy more obvious.
Some evil genius has made a youtube compilation video of Boromir set to John McDermott’s rendition of “The Minstrel Boy”. When I’m in my cups I watch it while SOBova looks on all concerned from the door of the computer room, much like June Carter in the “Hurt” vid.
you people are insane
Well, you must have graduated first in your class at CSI academy. >: )
If someone wants to offer their seat to OP, that’s one thing. But to actually expect it in today’s world is laughable. I’ve been a beachball with feet three times and used Metro Transit daily in those days. I never got into a snit because a whole busload of people didn’t offer me a seat – I just dealt with it. Pregnancy doesn’t disable your legs, just your sex life – heh-heh.
no were not insane….we are abi something…abinormal. destiny, destiny no escaping dat for me
Fuck that, she should expect it… Your 100% correct OP and I’m a guy. Dont listen to these tools. Society these days is all me me me… No wonder 90% are overweight. Anyone who jumps all over a pregnant woman for wanting a seat is just fucking sad. Who the fuck said anything about it being a dissability? Forget chivalry, its simple respect for others… Man you people suck.
agreed! it’s just a little bit of kindness!
just like i’d give up my seat for a woman with a small child! they’re hardly DISABLED.. just need it more than i do, come on
“Society these days is all me me me… “
That goes for the self-entitled female and pregnant woman also. Nice way of using your LOGiC against yourself 🙂
I think being pregnant is a beautiful thing, it’s a special condition that I hope someday I can enjoy as well. No, there shouldn’t be any kind of entitlement there, but still some respect and kindness goes a long way for someone who will hopefully be nurturing a member of the next generation.
It’s a sad state of society that we’ve become so jaded by hopepless, psychotic fools like the subject of a previous bitch that we lose respect for those around us. Whether they’re old, fat, young, beautiful, ugly, pregnant, handicapped, or whatever.
People deserve respect and if someone needs a seat more than you do, move your lazy ass.
TTFN, LIverpool, NS? What the fuck are you talking about? You referred to sheep – an insult reserved for people from New Zealand….not England or Nova Scotia. I do however have to apologize to you. I notice that you have almost 1900 comments on LTWWB. If each one took you 30 seconds on average that means that you have wasted 16 hours straight commenting on this worthless forum. I know feel really sorry for your very sad existence. I am very sorry to have insulted you.
Wow! You tallied that up? Now who’s wasting time?
As for the sheep joke, that one polevaulted right over your noggin.
I agree completely with this letter!!! I’m nine months pregnant myself, and have experienced the exact same thing — no one has ever offered up their seat, whereas I have always given up mine when I saw a pregnant or elderly passenger without one. Any decent, able-bodied human being should give up their seat to a pregnant woman without hesitation. It’s just good manners.
First it was the feminist that killed chivalry, now this bitch complains about it. She’s not looking for respect from everyone just men. Really there were no young women that could have given up a seat, just men? If you want a seat take a cab.
Okay, here’s a different angle on this one….why EXACTLY is it the responsibility of a MAN to give up his seat? What’s wrong with a woman vacating their seat for the OP? Society tells us that in todays world, it is PC to treat everyone as equals, regardless of gender…so expecting chivalry from a man is a bit like having your cake and eating it too. Equality should not be applied only when it’s to ones advantage, but in all situations, or none at all! That all being said, if it was me on the bus and I had noticed you standing, I most certainly would have offered you my seat, as that’s how I was brought up…in fact whether you were pregnant or not, the offer would have been made. Unfortunately, todays society teaches most that if there isn’t anything in it for you, then why bother doing something.
Yeah, some people are more independant than others, but a visibly pregnant woman should be offered a seat. Unfortunately we don’t all have the criteria of what passes for courtesy, let alone common decency. I’m almost to the age where I’ll be offered a seat closer to the front but I still give mine to a woman and expect the asshole with the back-pack to move it too!
Ladies: go get pregnant all you want. Just please don’t expect the rest of the world to cater to you once you’re eating for two. It’s a simple fact that the rest of society outside your inner circle and facebook friends do not care about your condition. It’s not bad manners, psychosis or rude; it’s just being human – or even animal.
Funny how people here can write in to complain sleeping people’s legs hitting theirs on the bus and all sorts of other petty shit, but the moment a pregnant woman writes in about her observation of how rude people are to not offer her a seat on the bus, a ton of you jump on her back and call her a lazy bitch! You’re all a bunch of backwards fucks. Whether she’s a self entitled princess of not, whether she actually expects someone to offer her a seat or not, whether she thinks she deserves the seat or not, it doent take much a brain to know how fucKing RUDE it is NOT to offer someone like this a seat!!!!!!!!
Life is not rude.
Excuse me while I do my banjo solo.
this is ridiculous. pregnant or not when it’s crowded on the bus seats should go to the people who need them the most: to the elderly, handicapped, young children AND visibly pregnant women. able-bodied people who continue to sit on their asses when these people get on the bus a grade-a jerks. man or woman, young or old: if you see someone getting on the bus who needs the seat more than you do the least you could do is offer it to them. If they decline, sure, but you’ve done the right thing…
… i worked standing on my feet 8-10 hours a day cooking soups and baking in a kitchen in the summertime until I was 8+ months pregnant and the doctor forced me to stop because I had pulled muscle in my chest that wouldn’t heal due to the 50 pounds of baby pulling my belly down. every breath felt like being stabbed in the lungs, so yes, i can hang, i’m no slouch, no sloth and not generally lazy. that said by the time I got off work every day I hurt in so many places that if someone didn’t give me a seat on the bus for my looong way home i would’ve likely been arrested for assault. which brings to light another option for OP, you’re got hormones to blame so if post baby blues is a (potential) get outta jail card then maybe pre-baby psychosis works too.
and p.s. feminism is not the problem, while far from perfect – for many reasons that don’t need to be hashed out here, the quest for equality between the sexes is worthwhile and not even close to being done. feminists of different stripes have gotten things wrong on many occasions but overall the movement done a hell of a lot of good.
I agree with birdie and EML, get the fuck up and give her a seat. If any adult or child over 16 didn’t have the courtesy, sympathy and at least common sense to offer them a place to sit then those rude/ignorant scrunts are part of the problem. What in hell is going on back there these days? Did HRM suddenly move to Ontario?
OK I can’t stand excessive parental self-entitlement (including obnoxious SUV strollers) but a pregnant woman should be able to sit. If the bus came to a sudden stop and she lost her balance and fell, she actually could suffer a miscarriage.
And what, that’ll be the passengers’ fault if she does?
ummm LiverTool…
there’s nothing wrong with commenting frequently.
and I give a seat (or just don’t sit down once they become available) so that women can plunk down. young, old, fat, pregnant… whatever. The way a nicer world would be.
No one’s disputing that anyone with manners will give up their seat – I’m just saying to be self-sufficent and don’t expect anything in this age of self-absorbed-plugged-in flesh islands shooting stinkeyes at anything outside of their miniscule universe.
Sigh. Maybe it’s time to bring in the Spanish Inquisition – just don’t know when to expect them.
I give my seat to pregos, old timers, kids, disabled, etc. I’d be affraid that the pregnant woman would fall while standing on the bus and land hard on her stomach. Ever think of that? The way some bus drivers break is insane and can definitely make you fall flat on your ass or stomach. It could hurt the lady or fetus.
Is that because nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition? I do understand your point TTFN, but it is too bad this is what we’ve come to.
NGF: Well, it wouldn’t be the passengers fault, no, but you would definitely get home or to work a lot later than planned because everyone would be made to get off the bus and get another one while they called her an ambulance. All because someone wouldn’t get off their ass.
Pfft, just take the pregnant woman off and continue on the commute with passengers.
C’mon, TTFN, back a brother up!
I was polite and courteous a.k.a. Hanibal Lechter in my post # 3 – how do we all feel about giving up our seats for a waddlopolis – a 2 ton Tessie – a Porker – a Baby Beluga – someone who is knife and fork challenged?
One of the national slo-pitch ball authorities now allows pregnant women (visible or otherwise) to play. They lost money when a pregnant woman sued because she was not allowed to play. Personally I think this is world class retarded but people have rights and how we choose play that card is what defines us. btw the first time I ran into a situation of a pregnant woman wanting to play, the other team walked off the field and forfeited. No harm No foul as they say…
Anyone could fall hit their head, and suffer brain damage. OP lost me at- only men should give up their seats.
There’s a considerable segment of the population that feel perfectly entitled to ignore the rest of the world.
she said to “all of the passengers” not just Men.
I know I needed to catch myself this morning on the way downtown…
buddy was behind a tree and popped out at the last second for the bus.
Should have swallowed
While I hate the entitlement of this bitch, it wouldn’t kill someone to give up their seat for someone visibly knocked up. But as TTFN said: a considerable portion of the population just doesn’t care. Oh well.
First you want equal rights, until yuo get pregnant. If you want to bitch at someone bitch at Gloria Steinem and Andrea Dworkin.
People speak of entitled pregnant women, but what about the selfish cunts who think they are entitled to their seat on the bus just cuz they got there first? Are these people in grade school?As a man I can never know how it feels to be preggers, but it looks pretty damn uncomfortable.
And wow TTFN, it must be nice to live in a world where you know best exactly how everyone should feel and react every minute of the day! Maybe the OP thinks, feels and responds in A MANNER DIVERGENT FROM YOUR OWN because she is a DIFFERENT PERSON from you. Like maybe, possibly a first timer, pregnancy-wise? Try to muster up a little compassion.
There is a common standard of social decency, despite popular belief to the contrary.
In the future people like you, non disabled, seat misers and other wastes of space/sperm will be the ones pounding on the spaceship windows, screaming, “don’t leave us behind, we never thought you’d take it personally!”
Well we, the (otherwise) compassionate, will.
Have fun on your hell-world, it’ll all be yours 🙂
Unfortunately with so many woman being overweight it’s next to impossible to distinguish the diff.; and try offering you seat to a single woman and they act like you want a bj in return 🙂
I know when I am on a bus I zone everyone and everything out so I can endure the misery of the shitty bus ride. You could be the size of Mars and I would not even notice you, sorry, nothing personal.
Birdie…you say you had “50 lbs of baby pulling my belly down”
My GOD WOMAN…you had a 25lb baby ?!? (that’s giving you the benefit of the placenta & the Amniotic sac & fluid weighed the other 25lbs)
Which is stretching it a bit…but seeing as the biggest baby ever born that survived was 22 pounds & the average baby weighs in from 6 to 10 lbs… I ‘m thinking its a safe bet that a lot of that additional 50 lbs was else where ~;)
I wonder where inconsiderate people come from……..pregnant women!
I think 67 posts and only martym says the one thing that is most relevant to this case of “why won’t you give me the seat”. People CAN’T be 100% sure that you are pregnant, OP, UNLESS you indicate so yourself, as awkward as it may be. Considering the % of adults in this country who are overweight, obese, or morbidly obese, people would rather not embarrass themselves AND you by finding out that the woman they gave their reserved seat to was not carrying a fetus but just a mass of adipose tissue (or even a large tumor).
Also, there is a reason why some people don’t give seats to the elderly; Some people would get pissed at you for implying they are too old to stand. So rather than be punished for a good deed, people would rather be safe.
So be brave and ask for a seat. You ARE entitled to, and you would be taking responsibility for the health of your baby. (Just because TTFN managed to give birth to 3 children after standing on the bus doesn’t mean that YOU also can.) If they won’t give up the seat then, come back and bitch again.
Still not entitled.
I think that anyone who says a pregnant woman should stand on the bus while their unpregnant or otherwise undisabled selves sit is a terribly selfish, self-centred, and disgusting person.
I always stand and give my seat up for the elderly, young, disabled, and pregnant.
I was on a bus where a very, very elderly gentleman was swaying and stumbling while trying to stay upright in the middle of the aisle. I was sitting in the window seat while a young man of about 18 sat in the aisle seat completely oblivious or completely ignoring the poor man. I made the young man get up so I could give the elderly man a seat. The young man just scooted over to the window and stared out while I glared at everyone around me still sitting. Some of them at least had the decency to look embarrassed.
I feel like an asshole but I work in a hospital and am surrounded by preggos all day. Unfortunately this has jaded me towards them as I find many of them to be entitled and attention seeking, as if they haven’t noiced the other 50 people in the room who also managed to get pregnant. That being said, I certainly would offer my seat to a VISABLY pregnant person – I tend to agree with the others who said the OP might not be obviously showing – 6 months will not show alot on the average meatier person, and coats and things make it even less obvious. I also think it is worth pointing out though, that pregnant women are no more “disabled” than extremely fat people – they chose to get pregnant. Please don’t compare being pregnant with being blind or being quite elderly as they are hardly in the same category.
“People speak of entitled pregnant women, but what about the selfish cunts who think they are entitled to their seat on the bus just cuz they got there first?”
Probably the fact that I got on the bus and there was an empty seat available and I then sat in said empty seat. First come, first serve.
The only thing Coast Bitchers hate more than bus drivers and cyclists are pregnant women.
I don’t take the bus but if I were and you were standing beside me I would have offered you my seat. I don’t get what the big deal is.
i mean come on now people. that has to be pretty fucking low.if i’m on a bus, and a lady with child gets on, i jump up and give her my seat. even if just a lady gets on, but this is a whole new area here.pregnant, and no one offers a seat. disgusting of you people reading this. hope it was not anyone that is on this forum, if so, my respect for you just went to below zero.i would like to think that it could be one of you here, or a loved one this happened to. bet you would be pretty pissed off, more so if something happened to her, on account of this story.i’m just fucking disgusted. o.p., fuck them people, if i see you, you can be guarenteed a seat.
Chivalry isn’t dead; LS just resurrected it.
TTFN, you said more than just “No one’s disputing that anyone with manners will give up their seat – I’m just saying to be self-sufficent and…….”
In fact you called the OP a “lazy cow.” So, as much I usually love your posts, dissapointingly, I’d consider you to be one of the jerks.
…which really surprises me, actually.
Whatever. Most moms could take a hint from TTFN on how to raise their kids and get along in life. After all, she grew up in a time when people actually had to work and without the Internetz.
Why is it predominantly women who bitch that others should read their minds? People are not going to cater to you, everywhere, all the time. Just fucking ask, if you want something you’re not getting.
Yes HG, she states all people, but then she go on to say chivalry which is a reference to men.
I’m right about something omfg newto hali can i use you as a resume reference under Not being a total dumbass section :):):)
Unfortunately, callous and indifferent behavior as displayed by TTFN and NGF is indicative of a vicious cycle. For the most part, you need to be taught good manners from your parents. So if you were born into a family of callous, degenerate, backwoods fucktards, you become one yourself. Fortunately, as this thread shows, these asshats are in the minority and chivalry is not dead.
I agree with Life Sucks
famous last words.
Yes martym you can use me as a character reference, but please know that I am not good at lying. 😀
Balls, if you know anything about psychology, you’d know that people have the tendency to assume that others think and behave (or should think and behave) in ways similar to how they think and behave. So, if you find that it is only women who tend to think that others should be considerate, that means they themselves are considerate, or that they try to be at least. The thing is, this assumption is often wrong, like in this case.
People need to chill. The issue is not the preggo asking for a seat and getting denied, that is something completely different. It’s her bitch ass ASSUMING and EXPECTING everyone to leap out of their seats when she gets on the bus. She’s a fucking spoiled brat. I can see her child already; completely dependant on others to help them do everything and will never do their own laundry until they move out at the age of 38.
I have been scorned too many times trying to help somone who I thought needed help. They get all pissy that I assume they need help because their old or what not, so blame them for people not being more generous.
And again, people can’t read minds. If you need a seat SOOOO badly then fucking ask for it and don’t stand their steaming and bitch about it later. Some people may think that you don’t want special treatment because many people don’t if they have something holding them back. I am not going to offer help to anyone who doesn’t ask. Unless of course they’re being murdered or something.
I’ll agree NTH, but I didn’t say only, but mostly. And yes I find men more direct about what they want. If you yourself are considerate, and you go around thinking other people think the same as you, you’ll soon find that you have been let down.
I bet if she had asked for a seat someone or many would have be considerate and offer theirs. Maybe someone would go as far as saving her a seat for when she gets on, if they knew.
If martym is going to use your name on a resume, he’ll need what appears to be a name other then newtohalifax, how about Penny Lane?
I think some of you need to re-read. She didn’t say MEN ONLY. She is speaking to all passengers.
I think giving your seat up to any mom, preggers or not is just the right thing to do.
And in all her hormonal glory the preggo lady is allowed to bitch…isn’t that what this forum is for? Bitch on girl to all the assholes of the world.
NGF – why all the hate for pregnant women? I’m of an age where it seems everyone I know is having babies, and I don’t know that I’ve encountered a single expectant mom who feels “entitled” or deserving of special treatment.
No, pregnancy is not a disability. But from what I understand it can be awfully uncomfortable at the end of a long day in those final months. Why not do something nice and offer up your seat to someone who maybe could use it more than you?
To those who have the “well it was their choice so I’m not going to extend them any extra courtesy” attitude – again, why all the hate? Your mothers were pregnant once, don’t forget.
Perhaps in addition to the Access-a-bus we could have a Preg-a-Bus? Another thought, we could be like certain countries and have buses for each gender, which then opens up the gay, straight, trans arguement – I think I’ll quit and get a coffee – maybe a barista bus?
more: I should have said 50 lbs of baby belly. I gained a lot of weight when pregnant, mostly water weight. First I lost 18 lbs the first 3 months, and then I gained about 65, even though I craved healthy food like chicken, rice and fruit and vegetables. And yes, while some of that weight was distributed over my whole body the lions share was in my belly, so much that from behind you wouldn’t have known I was preggo, but from front, or the side I was as big as a house. So much so in fact I had a middle-aged man ask if I was having multiples – and since most men dont give a crap and what’s cooking in a lady gut I know my belly was impressive in size to say the least… Not to mention the two young guys that commented that I looked like I was smuggling a basketball. While I wanted to punch them I have to admit what they said was true. Thankfully it wasn’t actually a basketball… 🙂
“No, pregnancy is not a disability. But from what I understand it can be awfully uncomfortable at the end of a long day in those final months. Why not do something nice and offer up your seat to someone who maybe could use it more than you?” ~HGL
^^^ probably the most sensible post in this entire thread.
I’d give up my seat to a pregger anytime, and chivalry (which by the way, is not the same as being a decent person/a man doing anything for a lady) has been dead for a long time. People are still just as nice to one another nowadays… It’s just we have this overbearing sentimentality of days gone by. In fact, it can be argued that we were worse. Sure, we’d give up our seat in days gone by, but only as long as you were white. Weren’t the old days great?!
But that said, I can see where the sentiment where people think she’s coming off a bit entitled. Better get used to this folks, because the Me Generation is starting to have kids. Think of this way; you know all the bitches about how someone has graduated from university with a brand spanking new Economics degree and they feel like they should be handed the CFO position of TD Bank? Well, inject an influx of hormones that would make Mother Teresa into a demon from the 8th Circle of Hell. What have you got? A woman who thinks the world should revolve around her, because she’s got the next head of the UN in her belly.
92 fucking comments! No idea what anyone said, but dude get over it. 6 months pregnant and your bitching? 6 months pregnant is nothing, besides, the exercise will do you good in the long run.
some of the weight would have been in the chest-al region as well…
hopefully.
🙂
And Liverpool F.C, whoever you are, you’re an idiot, TTFN is cool as shit!
Liverpool F.C. sucks anyway…….. Arsenal forever!
“Now you can slag me all you want but don’t you dare go making fun of my beloved Westham…”
Somebody should chain this post to a pickup truck and drag it around the Armdale Roundabout 372 times.
If you stuck a fork in this post, it’d explode.
Next.
and this makes post 100
Oh! post 101? Jesus, don’t leave for a couple minutes or 42 other people will start harping on a pregnant lady… I think ninja booties should get a prize.
It’s also very dangerous for a pregnant lady to fall or bump her belly if the bus driver slams on the breaks. She could lose the baby – which is why it’s much safer for her to sit down. Some people can be so ignorant and selfish not considering giving up their seat for a pregnant lady. Just rude!
I find sitting in HRM busses uncomfortable enough. lol Why do they shake so much sideways, and why do the drivers slam on the brake so hard? Do the busses here have sporty suspension/tires/brakes?
i’ve typed it before but think the bob newhart school of bus driving…pdg exempted and any other bus drivers here
likely because they have the air pressurized, comfy seat and don’t realize the torture they sometimes inflict on us in those plastic pieces of crap. I swear I’m gonna break one some day… now they *should* have that comfy seat, obviously, but still they can treat the bus like formula one at times…
PDG, you run the 21 yesterday at all?
soon every metro driver will have a sign reading ‘i am not pdg’
Sorry, what is pdg? Poor deranged and goofy?
… except one.
🙂
well I know based on past posts (assuming he’s not lying of course) certain traits to look for…. like the lady driving today for instance… not so much. It’s like a real life scavenger hunt.
plastic driver guy…our charming resident bus driver
pdg is not goofy 🙂
he actually changed his name to Plastic Diver Guy a little while back…
I didn’t notice either until jonnoman pointed it out to me.
not sure why but he must have his reasons.
maybe there was already a plastic driver guy bus driver and he didn’t want a lawsuit hanging over his head 🙂
Thanks for the explanations 🙂
I would always give up my seat to a pregnant woman. Anyone sitting in the front seats who aren’t handicapped/elderly/otherwise disabled should always give up these seats to someone more in need. You get up, you move to the back of the bus, and you let the person that needs it more sit at the front. It’s simple really. Just common courtesy which apparently isn’t that common these days.
no need for thanks mam, only doing are jobs here 🙂
welcome to the bizarro world, sweet thang…rawk. heehaw. meow. woof
At ever so nearing the 3500 mark, I’ve spent more than a gerbil’s life typing away on here.
my typing speed’s improved dramatically and I no longer need to look at the keyboard anymore, though I still do from time to time…. so there is some benefit. 🙂
all hail the new uuuhm….i don’t know. congratulations zZz, it certainly is an accomplishment just don’t know what to call it
most will call it ‘stupid’… ‘useless’… ‘moronic’… ‘loser’… etc…
I could go on… but if I really cared what other people think, would I really be on a bitch board?
well i’m a kinder gentler bitcher and well what the hell…hip hip hooray for the piglet and the pooh
I love how everyone peters off nearing EOD friday and it’s just a few of us rambling on until it’s time to leave.
🙂
i am still @ the shop…going to get sudsies for the boyos
well have a good weekend! it looks like it’s going to be beautiful out…
take advantage
It wasn’t the other passengers who got you pregnant…..at least I hope not. Stand, or buy a minivan.
I don’t hate pregnant women and there is no indication of any hatred. Nice attempt at putting words on my finger tips, schmucks. I just don’t see the entitlement of the OB merely. If she believes that the world should cater to her because she’s carrying a child it’s not my job to live up to her expectations.
She probably should have thought about the whole relying on public transit thing before getting pregnant. Unless it was unplanned (I don’t think I know of any that are planned nowadays) then it’s no one’s fault but hers (and the father’s) and she should live with the consequences. It’s not really that hard to get pregnant, you want a gold star too? Actually I believe it’s harder not to get pregnant.
The first time a pregnant woman falls and miscarries her baby because the other passengers wouldn’t get up to give them her seat will see Metro Transit slapped with a massive lawsuit I imagine. And Halifax the laughing stock of Canada when other people realise how rude the citizens are.
babies are protected in the womb, unless you’re at highrisk it is unlikely you would abort…even if the fall is a massive head over arse. i don’t take transit anymore but unlike some folks i actually paid attention. you can miss a lot…feeble people need seats
http://www.kmov.com/news/crime/St-Louis-Co…
This woman and her unborn child didn’t die, I think the OP will be just fine.
paingirl honey, are you off the meds again, rawk, meow and all that, holy shit batman, she be trippen’.
no i never forget those…merely keeping someone entertained.
i always give my seat up for elders,handicap,women with children,pregnant women,and able bodied women.
You can fall when you are pregnant man, it’s not going to kill the baby.
And let’s not forget that great entitlement (Preggo/New Mommy pink parking spaces.
ACTUALLY bro tim, When I was preggo, I didn’t really get the point of those parking spaces at first. I always wondered why the hell they were so big. I was just kind of like, what can’t preggo’s drive or something?!?
Then I became nine months pregnant, and getting out of the car in a reg size parking spot became…difficult…
It was at that time it dawned on me why the fucking preggo parking spots were so god dam big.
I’m as much of a cynical asshole as anyone else but I would still get up to give a pregnant woman, young child, disabled or elderly person my seat on the bus. It’s just the right and decent thing to do.
I didn’t knock you up, bitch so I have no guilt about not giving you my seat
Since when does the ability to catch wayward sperm in your vag mean you deserve any more respect than anyone else?