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What’s with all the daycare moms across the city, who think it’s okay to hold up everyone, to pile 15 screaming infants, onto an already packed bus, making all (soon to be) paying customers stand up in the back stuffed like sardines, making it near impossible to get off? —Courtesy Goes Both Ways
This article appears in Mar 29 – Apr 4, 2012.
14 Comments
It’s public transit. I’m sure it must be annoying but I’m sure if they could afford a big van or truck and the gas and the maintenance and the insurance they wouldn’t have to cart these kids around on the bus.
Would you say it “isn’t an Access-a-Bus” if someone with disabilities were to get on at the same time as you?
Get the fuck over yourself. You’re on a goddamn bus, beggers can’t be choosers
Just how far up your ass did you stick your head this morning? Hopefully far enough you won’t be able to breathe and will rid this world of your douchebaggery.
You’re right it’s not a school bus. Somewhat appropriate since they’re not going to school dontcha think? It is ok for them to do this as it’s a public transportation vehicle and they are members of the public who require transportation. Fucking douchebag!
Courtesy does go both ways. Try it some time you dick!
what a gormless wanker
Suck it up. Yesterday I got on a crowded bus and sat next to a-whole-lot-of-crazy man. I thought he was going to punch me. Mumbled the entire trip waving his clenched fists.
If only I had a giant space laser that I could melt certain people off the face of the earth with…
Often I find myself sitting beside some daycare mom whose ass is so big they can’t fit in the seat; with their butt fat oozing over into my space… fucking gross
I dunno about y’all but I can definitely attest to some grossly aggravating rides home listening to kids prattle on and on and on….
I get where they’re coming from.
That said…. life isn’t fair and unfortunately you’re going to have to deal with a certain level of shit in your day. Get a car or learn to deal with public repercussions of public transit.
I recall a snowstorm where I was absolutely livid for an hour and a half while this kid drove me batshit crazy the whole ride…. rambling on and on, completely incoherently…
and I got off 2 stops early just to get away from this little fucker.
I actually ENJOYED walking that last stretch home in wet, slushy snow, old, shambly shoes, feet frozen and legs tired from having to stand for over an hour trying to get home….
I ENJOYED it soooo much…. simply because I was walking in sweet sweet silence.
I’m with you, OP. Annoys the hell out of me when a daycare type group decides that peak transit time is the best time to take the kiddies to the park/museum/whateverthehell. Yeah, it’s public transit and kids are part of the public. But they don’t have a job to get to like the majority of us do, and it rankles me every time that I am forced to be late because they couldn’t a) organize more appropriate transportation in advance or b) have the courtesy to at least wait until the buses aren’t packed.
They’re customers too, OB. As much as it sucks to have 10 annoying kids around you, they have as much of a right to be there as you or me.
I can’t stand it when like 3 ladies (obviously daycare workers) come on a packed bus with 12 kids under the age of 4, whom they can hardly keep track of in public…
I guess this is where headphones come in handy.
Whoa whoa whoa, OB, there’s no need to be douchsicle
Kids love to take buses OP. This and the fact that public transportation is far more affordable than mini-buses and the subsequent insurance daycares would have to purchase. You don’t like kids?
PG is right, this wanker has no gorm.
it has been happening since the days they first started running. it is a public service, and they are just as much public as you or i. i agree that some are a little untamed, but hey, they are only little kids, and you are a lot bigger. and maybe they are afraid of the whole bunch of giants that are there. you gotta chill out, and let the little know that you aren’t a big mnster. whenevr i used buses, and they came on, i always talked to them, and most quieted right down. pays to be a person o.p., not a whiner.
The main issue I have with it all is the kids’ safety. They are piling a bunch of little kids onto a public bus with no safety belts, let alone the booster seats the same kids would be required to sit in if they were in a car. Plus at most two adults watching 15 kids….come on…