When I first found out that Halifax’s buses don’t allow oversized or excessive luggage (or just stuff) on board I was bummed, but really, it made sense: buses are for people, people need space.
Now WHY, does your entitled, infant covered ass get to take up THREE seats worth of space to park your car-sized stroller? 1. Are you blind, or have you not noticed that your BabyCadillac has a detachable carrier? You overpaid for that thing, might as well make use of its features. 2. If you’re, godforbid, too tired or lazy to carry it, and know you’ll be on the bus that day, why not get one of the nice folding buggys? You’ll take up 1 more seat space, then the only annoyance is the screaming kid. 3. If you’re so busy and have to be running so many errands that a carrier or little buggy is not sufficient: leave the kid with a babysitter.
I’d get bitched at if I had my feet up on three seats, how come you get to take up three seats with you, and 100lbs of plastic and puke-repellant fabric with a pint-sized kid inside? You’re a mother, not a queen. —No More Entitled Than You
This article appears in Oct 18-24, 2012.
Op, it may have been shopping day and she wanted to leave the hubbies SUV at home. She should be commended.
Perhaps, OB, you might be more comfortable in the stroller yourself. It sounds like you belong there with your poor me attitude. You’re on the bus, for freak sake. Suck it up, this is what you encounter on a bus, at least you had a seat.
What I find ridiculous is the fact that guidelines and policy allow a stroller on that is larger than a personal scooter.
That’s bullshit. It’s a baby for fucks sake.. you’re gonna allow it more room than a full sized adult?
Effing Stupid.
http://www.halifax.ca/metrotransit/policie…
People with kids take them out daily. It’s not a once in awhile thing. People don’t travel every day so maybe when they DO, they can work a taxi into the budget.
But whatever, fuck logic. You’re too entitled for that shit, aren’t you?
ERMAGHERD! ERMAGHERD! ERMAGHERD!
Issha bebbe struller busch betch! An ish aint’n ebben schummer no mores! I SHOOO ESSCHITED!
PICTURE THIS:
A young mother (early 20’s) with a baby under 6 months. She and her boyfriend can only afford one car because they are not welfare scamming assholes. Said car is at work with boyfriend. Mommy wants to (heaven forbid) scrub the baby puke out of her hair and venture out of the fucking house to, I dunno, visit friends and family for the day, grocery shop and pretend to still have a life so they take THE BUS.
DUN DUN DUNNNNNN.
Mamma and baby will need to get home again when the day is done, yes? After already enduring shank eyes from ignorant childless fucks like yourself on the first bus ride mamma is hesitant to bring tired and possibly cranky baby on the bus again with tired and possibly cranky commuters on their way home from work, SOOOO what better way to get home than in the nice cozy car with daddy?
Daddy who has worked all day should not have to drive home to pick up a car seat and THEN come back to get baby and mamma. Car seats are expensive as fuck and since again, they are not welfare bums they only have the one which, wait for it, conveniently attaches to the cadillac/suv/hitler stroller from hell clearly designed by satan himself just to annoy you and CERTIANLY not designed for the ease and convenience of parents who have the nevre to leave the goddamn house.
In short fuck you and the bus you rode in on, if you have a problem suggest a special section at the back where mammas can clip their strollers away from you so you can freely navigate the aisles and take up three seats with your fat entitled ass.
Yeah, Madien! You tell ’em!
No seriously, babysitters are fucking expensive. If I don’t have a car and am not a welfare millionaire how am I supposed to pay for or get baby to the babysitter? Perhaps my family and friends want to see the baby? Perhaps I can’t be away from my baby because I’m (eww disgusting pervert incest) breastfeeding (no not ON the bus hold your fire!), as in straight from the boob because it’s what’s best for the baby. Does it suck that there is no room to fit a big carseat clip in stroller on the bus? Yes, for me and you both. This does not make me an entitled asshole.
I hope you know you’re opening the door for anyone to carry anything that isn’t exceeding 42” x 22.5”. That’s anything 3 and a half feet by nearly 2 feet in area. If we were all allotted that additional space, how many people would we be fitting on a bus?
Your lack of planning and/or financial situation does not warrant a burden on everyone else.
I know that’s an unpopular answer but really… how’d you feel if you were denied entry due to lack of space because everyone else brought a shopping cart on with them?
She can wait for the poor schlub to get home and then get out.
Them should be the breaks.
If you give me the single mom, too poor to own a car routine, I swear to lucifer….
What the fuck are you doing having a kid for if you aren’t stable (both financially and with some assistance) enough to actually RAISE the thing???
BUT society as a whole realizes that you want to get out and so we kindly put up with your shittiness and succumb to just griping about it from time to time.
ok, I’ve put on my “The Mountain Three Wolf Moon Short Sleeve Tee” and am ready for the flaming to commence.
zed….that T shirt makes your ass look big !
Y’know. My mother got along just fine with a little umbrella stroller for me and she carted me everywhere on the bus. And yes, part of that was going shopping and carrying some bags here or there. Those were the days when strollers were required to go to the back of the bus, too!
So…. why do people REQUIRE strollers that are as big as a house for their kids?
Boggles the mind, people.
It doesn’t actually.. If you’d bother read the reviews you’d know it actually tones and strengthens all parts of me. I’ve had 16 women come to my cubicle in the last half hour alone and remark how amazing it looks… one even got pregnant from my touch as I had to fend her off.
My junk is currently at 1.5 times its original size and I can feel the testosterone flowing through my veins…. I’m the ALPHA MALE!
HHHOOOOOOWWWWLLLLLLL
Forgive my previous umm, enthusaisim, this is a bitch near and dear to my heart and I was late with my happy pill today.
Having two cars is not a prerequisite for proper parenting. We have a mortgage on a comfortable home, sufficient funds heat and power the house, to feed and clothe ourselves and two kids but not for gas insurance and monthly payments on a second vehicle. I understand your point of view and your feelings on the matter, I didn’t like doing it, honestly.
The bus is for transporting people not stuff, do some moms use their big strollers to get more stuff on the bus? I’m sure they do but most, myself included, do it only out of necessity and I did genuinely feel like a pain in the ass but I tried to never feel guilty-I wasn’t doing anything *wrong*.
Taking shopping carts full of stuff on the bus isn’t really the same as a stroller used to transport a baby unless you are using the shopping cart as some kind of ghetto wheelchair.
It is a problem with no feasible solution that can accommodate everyone. Even with a small folding stroller it’s still going to take up at least one seat and/or if front facing seats are not available or accessible some of the aisle. Many of these mini strollers are (A) not suitable for infants and (B) have no room for diaper bags. If you will be out all day with a baby you need ten changes of clothing at least 100 diapers, 4 thousand wipes a few toys and snacks to keep them amused so they don’t scream and annoy the shit out of people etc. etc. Even with my big ass stroller and my big pregnant ass I could usually wedge myself behind it so I only took up two courtesy seats and half the aisle, same as I would’ve carrying a diaper bag and pushing an itty bitty stroller.
Please childless bussers, stop generalizing all stroller pushing bus moms as evil breedin’ whores out to ruin your lovely transit experience with their devil spawn, we aren’t all that bad 🙁
Whats the big deal with hating on strollers lately. I get some are suv size. Those umbrella crap ones suck. So as much as one will hate the bigger strollers they are much better than the shitty small ones.
What if it was a 3 wolf moon stroller though?
Until my son was almost 3 years old,when I had to use transit I got around with my son in a baby backpack.I had a stroller which I used to take him for nice long walks in, just when my back hurt.I never learned to drive(believe me ya’ll are safer that way.lol).
My son loved being in the backpack,he used to put his fingers in my ears to tell me which way he wanted me to go.lol. He loved it and I did too..I used the baby backpack often on transit and usually only took up one seat and usually no ilse space,unless I was carrying grocery bags as well….My point is, my baby while on my back and myself usually didn’t take up a lot of space while riding the bus.
This past summer now that they are 1 and 2 I would wear the little one in a moby wrap and had a harness thing for my 2 year old, they both enjoyed that and I could still manage a diaper bag since they don’t require anywhere near as much stuff now, good excercise too. The wrap would have worked in colder weather I guess if the little guy was wearing his snowsuit but he puked A LOT as a baby lol. I don’t drive either I figure why bother, the car would never be accessible to me when I’d want to use it anyway.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/03/k… … Imagine if I took this on the bus?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/03/k…… I friggen suck at trying to post a link…
Tha fuck? I thought that was a photoshop joke! Someone would absolutely try to kill you. Who the fuck would wear that anyway? Never mind, Kim Kuntrashian.
SO, WHAT ARE THEY SPOSED TO DO WITH THE STROLLER PART, IF THEY TAKE OFF THE SEATER? LEAVE IT AT A PARK AND GO PLACE? HAVEN’T SEEN ONE OF THOSE YET HERE IN HRM? WHILE I PERSONALLY HATE SEEING THESE FUCKING UNITS ON A BUS, THAT I AM ON, WHAT YOU GONNA DO?
New mothers… tee hee
I really have to agree with OP.. It’s one thing if you’re in Westphal on a less-busy route, but the number of mothers who decide to go out downtown in the middle of the day, with a massive stroller for a feather-light baby (worse: a kid capable of walking: they’ll only learn/get used to it if you make ’em!), all to bus three blocks is insane.. Of course she’s allowed to go out, of course she’s allowed on the bus. OP and no one else said she wasn’t. What doesn’t make sense is why its okay for that stroller to be on the bus when any other large item would be refused. You don’t need a foot of plastic surrounding your kid in every direction, get a sling and wear it: ta daa.. safe, happy baby and FREE HANDS! woahh.
I’ve been on a few buses before where there were two strollers in the front. They blocked off the front entrance for anyone bigger than 80lbs, but to ask one to leave and (gasp) risk offending a mother is just a sin! It’s a large load, to allow it is unreasonable.
There’s nothing wrong with folding or ‘umbrella’ strollers, except your opinion of them. You probably all used them as kids and you turned out okay (hot tempered, but okay).
When my son was young you werent allowed to have those bigassed strollers on the bus.
You had to have a fold up one and take the baby out of it,hold him and actually fold it to get on the bus.
What in heavens name do you need to bring with you that I didnt need 18 years ago?.
Its worse when 2 get on together and sit at the front across from each other and you cant even get through!
I understand not everyone drives.I take the bus every day…to work and back,but I would never sprawl out over 2 or 3 seats with bags and groceries etc.It isnt right to take seats from other paying customers.
Just my opinion.
“What in heavens name do you need to bring with you that I didnt need 18 years ago?”
I often hear mothers of newborns talking about a giraffe…
I don’t understand why the municipality won’t get buses that accommodate strollers. When I lived abroad, buses were configured to take them without obstructing the aisles (which is the thing that drives me crazy about baby buggies, though I never say anything because some day that probably will be me).