Too all the parents of screaming, loud, annoying kids on bus: You suck! I’m tired of all snot-nosed brats hitting, kicking and yelling at me on my daily commute. Learn some parenting skills, please put down your goddamned blackberry and control your child. When I was a kid I never once thought of acting up on the bus, or in a public places. Why? Because my parents cared enough to try. Kids are such brats these days and the parents are even worse.
—Annoyed Passenger
PS: To all the parents with well-behaved, quiet children on the bus: you rock. Keep doing your thing.
This article appears in Feb 25 – Mar 3, 2010.
I agree with the OP. Can’t they have a separate bus for children? Same goes for airplanes….can’t they create a play-centre in the cargo hold of the plane to keep them in until it lands? Kids are annoying. Use condoms.
I thought that’s what the roof was for? clip them to a roof rack and make sure to remember them when you get off.
I agree a billion percent!! Some kids are good. However, it seems the last few years, that the good ones are becoming such a rarity. I cannot tolerate most children or teenagers anymore, and I’m only in my 30s. From the transit, to the sidewalks, to the stores & restaurants, don’t forget movies – I just feel my anger boiling up inside as I witness the constant bad behavior that should not be allowed. I wish I could do something to them, but that would probably get me arrested.
You can’t blame the children, it’s the parent(s) fault for not raising them correctly.
MT should distribute a set of four large suction cups to each kid and make the noisy little fucks attach themselves on the outside of the bus.
You know what though? I see this woman with her little girl every day on the bus, and the kid has to be going through the terrible twos, because she’s fine on the first bus but screams bloody murder on the second. I feel so bad for the woman, because she tries so hard to get the kid to settle down.
Basil, I agree 100%.
If some strangers kid is hitting me on the bus, and the parent does nothing, well they are getting discipline from me.
Obviously I’m not going to beat them, but I’ll hold onto the hand hitting me and loudly and firmly state ” DO NOT hit my body, I don’t like it and it’s disrespectful.” the embarrassment felt by said parent and shock from the child having a stranger take on a stern voice should stop them.
however:
When I first started taking the bus with my daughter, I felt so bad for people because she would get bored, and test her boundaries (she was 8 months), and when I would draw firm lines of those boundaries for her..she would pitch a fit.
As a result, the first couple of weeks of taking the bus with her were probably hell for all…but if I gave her ANY attention for those behaviors, negative or positive, it would continue on and not stop for years.
After the initial of setting boundaries and getting comfortable with them..apart from the odd day, she was great.
So yes, I apologize to all those that had to deal for the first two weeks..but trust me, it would be better then having to deal for the next few years.
Ever think OP to direct a comment towards the parent ? Something like ” control your fucking kids.: They are adults and if they don’t want to control they’re kids . Fucking you can control the parent . Jesus have some balls and assert yourself . Who cares what the bitch with her box sprung idiots has to say. Let the person know . It will embarrass them with the right thing said.
I’ve asked people to control their kids on the bus. I’ve only had to ask once, it was on the 4 when I was still living in Clayton Park. The mother and the kids got on at the HSC and the bus was packed, and as usual, the kids had to go to the back. The little boy (or should I say little shit) started kicking me with his dirty winter boots. I asked his skank for a mother (she looks like she spent more on clothes in the past month than she’s spent on food in the kid’s life) to get him to stop. I wasn’t negative, I was entirely rational and calm. She told me not to tell her how to raise her kids. So, I pushed the kid out of the way and stood for the rest of the trip.
Asking nicely doesn’t always work, sadly.
guess that must have been the ghetto town express, where all the momies are on their crackberries and too busy to handle their monsters. in other words,they suck, the bus doesn’t. and i guess they must blow too, sometimes. get the hint.
I’m just going to skip reading TTFN’s posts until I’m all healed because I think I almost ripped an incision open from laughing so hard. Ow.
Suction cups to the outside of the bus? that visual is PRICELESS.
And I agree [somewhat] with sebastard — 90% of parents out there should’ve either used a condom or swallowed.
“All daddy wanted was a blow job, now he’s got a lil squirt”
It was better than my first idea – gluing ’em to the roof.
Like my mother always says “why can’t people leave their fucking kids at home?”
Which is kind of funny coming from someone who brought her kid everywhere…I guess the only difference *is* I was taught to have enough respect as to a) not embarrass my mother in public by making a scene, and b) bother others. That and I really had no desire to make myself look like an idiot when I was little. I always thought those kids pulling tantrums looked like assholes when I was a wee one.
When I was a kid, and wanted something my mom would say “You can’t always get what you want, so stop crying; or I’ll give you something to cry about!”
I wonder why parents still don’t use that technique.
Hey, my mother used to beat the living shit out of me with a wringer washer hose – no wonder I didn’t move a hair out of line for 16 long-fucking-years. Parents in the 50s and 60s would rather pound the snot out of you than let you get away with disrespectful shit. And we were well behaved as a result. Now a five year old kid knows the law better than his parents and the big fail is hitting the little Christers. O.K., so while hitting kids way back in the days of vinyl created a bunch of addicted & depressed adults, today’s untouched monsters will probably redefine Norman Bates with the help of a crowbar and a Mastercraft drill.
Where do you get this stuff from TTFN?
You’re like a bawdy Keats.
hope your boobies are not too hurty pk
My children are polite and well behaved in public, and at home for that matter. But there are times where for whatever reason, they can lose their minds and become screaming, frustrated, tantrum throwing monsters. More often than not, this happens at the most inconvenient time – the car broke down in a snow storm on the way back from grocery shopping so we’re on the bus with all the items we just bought that can’t be left in the car to freeze so of course we missed nap time and the bus is hot, we’re thirsty and we’re stuck next to the stinky guy – so fuck you, asshole. Don’t sit there, thinking you’re superior, plugged in to your iPhone and judging my parenting skills – be a decent human being and try to help; Maybe by offering your seat to us so at least my poor kid, that has obvoiusly ruined your life, can have a spot to sit and pull herself together. You judge me?! You were obviously not taught any manners as a child. What kind of miserable parents did you have? Want to talk about it – this could be your road to recovery.
when you were a kid…although I don’t know how old you are you probably were in daycare all day then stuck on a crowded bus in the middle of rush hour with a tired and maybe cranky parent as well as a mass of others who are also cranky…if I was a little kid in that position…I be pissed too…get a grip your the grownup right? kids cry even act up get over it!