| %&$@**! carriages on buses
Posted: 6/15/2007 10:30:25 PM | Being on the bus today reminded me of why I hate it sometimes. When I busted up my knee and was on crutches and had a knee brace if I got a standing room only bus, very rarely would someone get up for me. I usually had to ask and then the person would give me nasty looks. Seriously? I'm on crutches!
It also kind of pisses me off when I have a backpack full of heavy books and another one of those super strengh Sobey's/Safeway bags full of more books and there are people who are hogging the whole two seats with their bag or are sitting in an outside seat with no one on the inside (had that happen to me today, so I said something). | |
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| %&$@**! carriages on buses
Posted: 6/15/2007 10:55:55 PM | I enjoy the challenge of someone trying to hog a seat by sitting on the outside seat. I always say excuse me and the start to sit down by sliding past the if they wont budge. Only once did someone chew me out for this, and I cheerfully ignored him. | |
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| %&$@**! carriages on buses
Posted: 6/17/2007 8:34:07 AM |
I enjoy the challenge of someone trying to hog a seat by sitting on the outside seat. I always say excuse me and the start to sit down by sliding past the if they wont budge. Only once did someone chew me out for this, and I cheerfully ignored him
And those morons (when they do respond) always give the same ridiculous answer, "I'm getting off in a couple stops". Big f*****g deal, slide your lard ass over and let someone that's standing sit by the window nimrod. | |
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| %&$@**! carriages on buses
Posted: 6/21/2007 1:30:03 PM | | I take the bus when am downtown (HATE PARKING AND FEES!) and the bus I was on was full of strollers and I made a comment to the bus driver about a wheel chair coming on board. HE said and I quote " Wheelchairs have priority, any strollers in her way have to move to the back" no one said anything bad, the people with babies collapsed the strollers and everyone moved. Sounds like an idiot bus driver not doing his job to me! | |
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| %&$@**! carriages on buses
Posted: 6/21/2007 1:48:30 PM |
those morons (when they do respond) always give the same ridiculous answer, "I'm getting off in a couple stops". Big f*****g deal, slide your lard ass over and let someone that's standing sit by the window nimrod.
Tell us how you really feel?? | |
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| %&$@**! carriages on buses
Posted: 6/21/2007 8:44:49 PM |
those morons (when they do respond) always give the same ridiculous answer, "I'm getting off in a couple stops". Big f*****g deal, slide your lard ass over and let someone that's standing sit by the window nimrod.
Tell us how you really feel??
It's not my fault, I wasn't breastfed, umm my father never said he loved me, I'm from a broken home, and I'm the middle child. Oh yeah, and society is to blame  . | |
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| %&$@**! carriages on buses
Posted: 10/1/2007 5:10:44 PM | | And I bet you probably had to stand all the way on your bus ride home from work... because some kid's damn backpack had a, you know, really really hard day. ;) | |
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| %&$@**! carriages on buses
Posted: 10/1/2007 6:40:07 PM | After 3 pages I am gonna jump up front on this one, Shit have not any of these people heard of condoms??? Like really now, should their lack of the pill or other abilities in the talent section of the bedroom, come to bare on the rest of us with the kiddie carts and thier government paid tickets.
Most people do family planning, not this opps shit honey guess f'n what, or my last b/f got me knocked up.
Now, I have worked all my life, I always had a place, and always had a car, maybe not the nicest, but it was mine. I did not make good money at the time either. I made min wage.
Now what you people are seeing is the younger me generation, that is lazy, useless, and on the are on our tax bill, for the most of them. Granted there might be a few who do to break up's and other un-forseen cases, might class has hard ship. But for the most part, if they spent more time working, and less time on their back, there would be far more less carriages on the buses. The transet system was set up at first to transport workers at the peak times. And to service shoppers secound. | |
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| %&$@**! carriages on buses
Posted: 10/1/2007 6:55:43 PM | whoa whoa ,,, some one is pissed,,, and guess what sorry!
I have to agree here!
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Posted: 10/1/2007 7:29:15 PM | Well, for big families it isn't that easy just to fold up and hold. When my children were babies, 1 & 2 yrs old, I had to have a stroller... Yes, some strollers are WAY to big to be hauling on a bus...the smaller ones work well. However, who's to say how far they are walking once they get there?
What about the diaper bag, purse, groceries, etc.etc.
Large strollers either take up a handicap area, or block the hall...
Perhaps during peek time a rule of some kind.  | |
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Posted: 10/1/2007 8:04:59 PM | You know it is just like the early 70’s where every year they cam out with a bigger car than the year before. They just kept extending the bumpers making the sheet metal wider, it was amazing that we could get two cars down the same road.
Same thing is happening with the strollers. Every family has to have one bigger than the next guy. Can put a whole patio set in the trunk of them. Next you know that afro’s will be coming back and those stupid high boots.
The only good thing that came out of all that was punk rock. And we still have the odd kid walking around with spiked hair. I hope they do not bring back that romantic electronica crap. I don’t think I can take it. Anyone want to Wang Chung tonight? | |
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| %&$@**! carriages on buses
Posted: 10/1/2007 8:38:42 PM |
Shit have not any of these people heard of condoms???
If not...... attend a POF function. I still have them on top of my fridge, the pink one, the red one and the black one. Oh did I mention the dental dam one I have in my drawer????? (thank you to the one who handed that one out at a function....still laughing over it). | |
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| %&$@**! carriages on buses
Posted: 10/1/2007 8:52:39 PM | | well it looks like to me while reading all of your post people it seems like being courtesy of those in need of a seat no matter what the handicap!..or disability..or even young mom with a stroller...i suppose the to be obliging and courteous doesn't always work!..sort of like first come fisrt seat!.and if ysa don't like it well one can imagine the answer given! | |
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Posted: 3/23/2008 9:19:17 AM | This thread came to mind again because of what happened last Thursday. I caught the bus on Sargeant, it was standing room only, and there were 4 strollers clogging up the aisles; an elderly woman with a walker (with attached oxygen bottle) wasn't about to give up her seat (rightly so) so one of the fold-up seats was staying down.
For the next dozen stops, anytime someone wanted on or off the bus, some of the strollers had to be walked off, then back on again. There's no way this could be considered safe. And, each of these strollers was of the type that can be collapsed. The transit authorities should not allow any carriages on the bus that can't be collapsed, and collapsing them so the aisles aren't clogges should be mandatory!!! Either that or a limit should be placed on how many are allowed on the bus, once the limit is reached then any other people that wish to board with a stroller/carriage should be told they have to wait for the next available bus. | |
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Posted: 3/23/2008 9:54:26 AM | My children are no longer small, thank god.....but as a single mom of two kids 2 years apart who depends on the bus I gotta put in my 2 cents. Back when my kids were small, those huge strollers were just starting to come out and they were stupid expensive so I never had one. I would carry my youngest and have the older one walk. On odd occassions I had a small umbrella type stroller with me and back then, yes, the drivers insisted you fold it up and hold your child. Not easy to do with a backpack full of textbooks, 2 bags for the kids stuff for daycare and a few grocery bags. However, I did it and would still give up my seat for the eldery / disabled. A good lesson for my children and one they learned well.
But I think we all need to be a little gentler when we dicuss single mothers. Comments about condoms and such are not neccesary. | |
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| %&$@**! carriages on buses
Posted: 3/23/2008 9:57:45 AM | Transit wont argue with fascist mommies with strollers - the moment they ask that they fold it up the mom will say something along the lines of (this was what I heard once on the Ness bus) "No way (abrupt rejection of personaly inconvenient request), if I fold this up and make her sit on a the becnh she (meaning the little girl around two years old) will start screaming and (following is implied threat) I can't get her to stop. Do you want to try to get her to stop? (implication is it would be YOUR fault my baby is screaming and annoying your other passengers).
The driver shrugged and started driving.
Now, as much as I dislike screaming children, I would rather have them clogging a bus aisle than any number of drunken stumblebums stinking up a bus and hassling people for money or not even paying to ride. | |
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Posted: 3/23/2008 10:01:48 AM | Hey I take my hat off to those single moms schlepping kids and strollers and back packs on the bus everyday to get the kids to daycare and themselves to school so they can make a better life for themselves and their children not to mention the role model they're providing to the kids..... 
Also being a single mom and having gone back to school years ago to take my nursing with one an infant and the other a toddler, I know how difficult it was and I had my own car. I can't imagine keeping those crazy hours and doing all that schlepping on a bus.
Perhaps it's Transit who needs to figure out a way to accommodate and support these young moms and their kids, strollers and all.
PP
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Posted: 3/23/2008 10:13:02 AM | | Personally, I'd rather see mothers on the bus than in cars with kids driving like they have nitro on board, or screaming at them to be quiet while on the phone,applying makeup and rushing to make whatever "look at me ,I'm supermom "activity she signed the kids up for. Oh by the way I don't take the bus ever. so stollers on there are fine by me. | |
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Posted: 3/23/2008 10:16:21 AM | | I don't have a problem with the strollers being there, I have a problem with aisles clogged unsafely. If it reaches the stage like I experienced last week, the mothers should have been made to collapse their strollers. When the bus isn't packed, I have NP folding up my seat & giving the space to them. | |
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Posted: 3/23/2008 10:16:50 AM | Personally, I'd rather see mothers on the bus than in cars with kids driving like they have nitro on board, or screaming at them to be quiet while on the phone,applying makeup and rushing to make whatever "look at me ,I'm supermom "activity she signed the kids up for.
Perhaps if there were more "dads" who'd drive the kids to school and such, mom would have more time at home to put that makeup on. Given the lack of supporting and active father's, you're dam right we're Supermoms!
PP | |
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Posted: 3/23/2008 10:44:28 AM | | I guess being reasonable and considerate would not solve the problem. Did any of the people complaining offer to help either the person with the baby carriage or the disabled person? Why is common sense so uncommon? | |
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Posted: 3/23/2008 10:50:30 AM | | Oh my yes! Even though I always folded up my tiny stroller when I had it, people would give me nasty looks for daring to ride the bus with small children and packages in tow and not once did I ever recieve an offer of help or a seat....although I always offered mine...and still do.... | |
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