| %&$@**! carriages on buses
Posted: 3/23/2008 11:11:32 AM | Not all women with strollers on the bus are single moms with absent or deadbeat fathers. I honestly dont recall giving women with strollers nasty looks, and I have always offered my seat when the bus fills up.  | |
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| %&$@**! carriages on buses
Posted: 3/23/2008 12:42:05 PM | | never said everyone gave me nasty looks, just said it happened....and I guess we never rode the same bus my friend cuz I woulda been very grateful to you! | |
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| %&$@**! carriages on buses
Posted: 3/23/2008 12:54:37 PM | | I give people nasty looks whether they have a stroller or not. It is not like everyone does not deserve it. It is about time you all crowned me king of the world. Or better yet exalted leader. I think I would like that. | |
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Posted: 3/23/2008 2:14:40 PM | guess we never rode the same bus my friend cuz I woulda been very grateful to you!
Just HOW grateful would you be? | |
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Posted: 3/23/2008 3:20:25 PM |
I don't have a problem with the strollers being there, I have a problem with aisles clogged unsafely. coupla weeks ago... one big stroller taking up the handicap spot on the front left side of the bus, one big stroller taking up the handicap spot on the front right side of the bus, one big stroller right in the middle of the aisle between the first two, a fourth big stroller immediately behind the third stroller, a fifth stroller had already been wheeled near the back and parked right in front of the rear door (and stairs). there was room to sit on the bus still, but no one else could get on the bus because of these five mammoth strollers blocking the aisles. and when i needed to get off the bus at my stop, literally crawling over this f'cking stroller parked right in the middle of the god damned bus, that little c'nt with the fifth stroller gave me a dirty look as if it were me inconveniencing her. i guess i was just supposed to ride the bus until she got to where she needed to go before i got off the bus, so as to not disturb her and her child blocking the f'cking aisle.
i'm all for limiting the amount of mammoth strollers allowed on a bus. i say: two. two can be safely put out of the way AND there'd still be room for anyone with a handicap (why the f'ck should they have to wait for the next bus just because some ignorant little tit cant fold up the stroller? not like a handicap person has the option of folding up their wheelchair  ) i say, even if the bus IS packed with mammoth strollers, if a person in a wheelchair needs to get on, either strollers get folded up to make room or the parents get the f'ck off the bus.
maybe we should start a petition?? either transit limits the number of unfolded strollers allowed, or they start giving us hazard pay for having to climb over them.
When the bus isn't packed, I have NP folding up my seat & giving the space to them. when the bus isnt packed i dont even bother sitting in the front... i know full well that sooner or later we're going to come to a junior high school student with a mammoth stroller provided by welfare. anyone else notice that it seems to be that generation refusing to fold the strollers, instead making the aisles unsafe and acting as if society owes them a debt? its not my fault you got yourself knocked up, so dont give me a dirty look when i need to crawl over your stroller just to get off the bus. | |
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Posted: 3/23/2008 4:11:41 PM | | There are some very angry people in this city. I have to say I just don't see myself getting that worked up about a stroller. You sure it's just the stroller? | |
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| %&$@**! carriages on buses
Posted: 3/23/2008 4:18:17 PM |
There are some very angry people in this city. I have to say I just don't see myself getting that worked up about a stroller. You sure it's just the stroller?
Exactly,.... men will tend to just go around , over what ever.... don't sweat the small stuff !
Too much estrogen ?
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Posted: 3/23/2008 4:36:23 PM | People who bring strollers on a bus are minions of the devil and are part of the great conspiracy!
My favorite so far has been the people who cite the “safety” issues… It warms the heart when you see peoples concern for others. | |
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Posted: 3/23/2008 4:53:02 PM | Maybe we should all carry on our Tim's/Starbuck's/Robin's coffee, and if we have to climb over or around these strollers, spill the hot coffee on the ignorant moron that's blocking the aisle  ... if that happened all over the city several times a day (because we couldn't squeeze past the strollers safely) then transit would put a stop to the strollers being there.
Hmmmm naw they'd probably ban hot drinks .... OK plan "B", if one of these strollers (or the operator of the stroller) gets in the way, just kick them to the side or walk on them.
Ever notice you never seem to have a machete when you really need one ? | |
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| %&$@**! carriages on buses
Posted: 3/23/2008 9:11:52 PM | Maybe we can use all those unused bike racks on the front of busses to carry the strollers. I am sure it would turn a few heads. | |
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Posted: 3/24/2008 7:54:04 AM | well I have never seen unused bike racks on front of buses - surely going to get in an accident now checking the front of those buses! | |
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Posted: 3/24/2008 8:37:28 AM | Holleeee - angry crowd - maybe we should just provide them stroller hogs with bunjee cords so they can hook them strollers up to the back of the bus - baby and all .......
What's the alternative? Then take all that negative energy and make it into something positive and do a petition to Transit. They can't fix it if you don't tell them it's broken. Obviously it's worth the effort. What have y'all got to loose?
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Posted: 3/24/2008 3:49:33 PM | WOW - the hostility in this thread!  I have to admit I have not been on a Winnipeg Transit bus for at least 15 years BUT when I was in the UK for a year I was on public transport daily. I was STUNNED at how many people brought carriages on the bus and had NEVER seen that in Winnipeg. Well I guess you have to ride the bus to see it! LOL..did I find it annoying...YES I did but over there you not only have baby carriages you also have TONS of people bringing there "old lady shopping carts" (you know - the ones you pull behind you). As cars and everything are so expensive in the UK and gas is double the price here I would say that at least 50% of population in London and Birmingham do NOT OWN CARS and use public transport. Thats from teenage mothers - married mothers - business people - seniors.
So after a few months there I got tired of dragging bags and groceries myself as my arms had become another inch long and didn't I get myself an OLD LADY CART in a fashionable red plaid!!! I felt like the belle of the ball! HAHAHA. Buses over there are different and the first 3-4 rows PAST the handicapped seating have wide spaces IN FRONT of seats and your cart stays right in front of you.
So I guess then what we need are BETTER buses that accomodate our passenger's needs. Now what was even more surprising to me was over there they allow DOGS on the bus!! I don't mean seeing eye dogs either......ANY DOG and the damn dog doesn't have to pay and ummmm Rotties and Bulldogs take up a lot of space. Now what about people that are terrified of dogs??
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| %&$@**! carriages on buses
Posted: 3/24/2008 5:11:50 PM |
So I guess then what we need are BETTER buses that accomodate our passenger's needs. Winnipeg transit isn’t going to buy new buses any time soon, as a cheaper alternative they could install Prozac dispensers at the door of existing buses.
I doubt most people care either way about carriages. This is just another POF **** fest. | |
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Posted: 3/24/2008 5:37:51 PM | | It seems that the real issue is the lack of courtesy and consideration for others and this isn't restricted to strollers on buses. I don't think anyone would really mind the strollers if they were a bit smaller and if some effort was made to ensure that the inconvenience to others was minimized. | |
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Posted: 3/24/2008 5:52:15 PM | Ah, but the inconvenience is something we should all bear with gratitude.
Afteral, all those single parent supermoms aren't living a fullfilling life if they can't get an opportunity to impose upon everyone else because, gosh darnet, they are special and the rest of us should just accept that fact and go out of our way to make their existence complete by recognizing our insignificance in regard to them and of course their precious little bundle.
Surely thats not too much to ask? Heck, we could ask that the companies make those strollers even bigger and make the impassability of the aisles a definate thing. Make sure the strollers have a dvd player built in with a complete set of baby Einstein shows (How did Einstein ever get smart if he grew up without that stuff?....Hmmmm.) and a sensor system like come cars have where an automated voice will bark out "Warning! You are too close to the stroller! Back off now!" Then we could get sprayed with some sort of mace..... | |
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Posted: 3/24/2008 6:36:27 PM | | OOOH I have another good one. I was on the bus today with a woman hogging the aisle with a large stroller. There was no child in said stroller, only a bunch of stuff. The child was instead STANDING on the seat with his muddy wet boots. And that has to be my biggest pet peeve when riding the bus is parents who allow their children to stand on the seat, especially this time of year when the child's shoes are all muddy and wet. So I said something along the lines of "I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but your child's shoes are wet. Perhaps you might want to make him sit down?" She gave me a dirty look, so I continued "I'm sure you wouldn't want to be riding the bus and sit down on a wet seat so have your child do the same thing for others." I fortunatly wasn't going far and got off the bust after that last comment, just in time to hear her call me a b!tch and she wouldn't make her child sit in a wet seat. | |
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Posted: 3/25/2008 2:29:48 PM | ^^^^ AAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA her child is too good to sit in a wet seat, but the next patron is not. typical. i'm starting to think that the lack of consideration is delegated to the human race in general... the more i watch ppl, the more i see they are so self-centered they can not see past their own nose - they are completely ignorant to (and toward) those around them. on the topic of mammoth strollers blocking aisles... i was on the bus this afternoon with four other patrons, two of which were sitting in the handicap seats on either side of the bus (and no, they were not handica- well, mentally handicapped perhaps ) anyway. a girl (yes, of course, a child herself) came onto the bus with one of those mammoth strollers. neither of the two cheese-d'cks in the front could be bothered to move to the other side of the freakin bus so that the girl could get her mammoth stroller out of the aisle. oh, wait. no. my mistake. the cheese-d'ck on the drivers side did move over to the passenger side of the bus immediately after the girl got off at her stop... it looked like he needed to better see where he was going. could move for himself when it suited him, but not for her, and thus any other patron trying to get on the bus. yes, a vast majority of the human race is massively deficient in the capacity to see beyond themselves.
kinda like the second bus i had to catch to get home: full bus. 6 ppl crammed up at the front of the aisle beside the bus driver. empty space behind them that could easily accommodate at least 4 of said 6 cheese-d'cks. and me having to literally RAM myself between the cattle to get to the standing room behind them. i clearly heard the driver tell them to move back, so i treated them like the horses i work with... dont wanna move? fine. i'll make you move.
OO! OO! how about the mother with two VERY young children... i would have gladly given up my seat (had i been sitting) to make sure the toddlers didnt fall and crack their heads open... poor little girl did a face plant into my filthy barn jeans when the bus started moving... but do you think any of the cheese-d'cks on the bus had the capacity to think to themselves "this is an unsafe situation for those children. they should take my seat so they dont get injured." of course not. that would require seeing past their own noses.
moral of my stories: i f'cking hate ppl. they all suck.  | |
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Posted: 3/25/2008 3:07:33 PM | ^^^^
dont wanna move? fine. i'll make you move. It’s hard to understand how people could be so inconsiderate when you set such a fine example for them to follow.
And your concern for the saftey of the "cheese-d'cks" is simply over whelming. | |
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Posted: 3/25/2008 8:25:35 PM | | I don't know what bus your riding, but the signs indicate that those seats are for wheelchairs and strollers. Your obviously not a single mom, or never had to transport kids on the bus because it was your only means of transportation. Next time your on the bus take a closer look at the signs around those seats. The reason those chairs fold up is to accomodate both wheelchairs and strollers. | |
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Posted: 3/25/2008 9:02:15 PM |
i'm starting to think that the lack of consideration is delegated to the human race in general... the more i watch ppl, the more i see they are so self-centered they can not see past their own nose -
See buses aren't all that different from POF. | |
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Posted: 3/25/2008 9:11:32 PM | Yes and someone needs to get on the bus and off the bus over or through those strollers....my goodness how stupid are these human's who think there rights should alway's come first.......to hard to take the bus with a child carry that child.....i certainly did when my kid was small. I have sceen elderly folks with poor mobility be ignored by mothers and that makes me sick.....strollers are only as ignorant as the human pushing it...i have seen great parents do everything possible redess to bad you don't try that line .............your child probably is one of the good humans but for every good stroller rider there are 20 rude ignorant young mom's with a pea sized brain who expects a elderly person to squeeze ......... with no ability to reach the bars....who do these girls think they are????.......
.we all had kids but we did not assume the ground when old and shakey needs it....
To be fair....the selkirk bus route...the 16 is one of the worst for ignorant riders that i have been on...when i lived the core i could not believe the stuff i saw.......where i live now i have not sceen once troublesome thing...so depends what area you travel here to.IMO
common scence and report that route and driver and this will resolve as well......goodluck...wait till someone gets hurt on the bus and ignore your job DRIVER"S.............agreed folks speak up...let them give dirty looks but let them learn they are not teaching there spawn with there conduct...no wonder our schools are full of disrespect. No wonder kids have weight/health issues....sitting strapped in a stroller till they are 5........dumb people and you can bet rotten teeth with a bottle till that age..rolls eye's.
Children have feet to walk on....shakes head....oh well is there problem with overweight children to....
Now the young Dad's i have witnessed are a horse of a different color...they seem to show common respect...........anyone else notice how great dad's are on buses as aposed to mom's...completely different situation. | |
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Posted: 3/26/2008 6:00:26 PM | Reading all the hostile posts reminded me of an incident late last fall; I was sitting in the sideways facing seat across from the rear exit, and a woman was sitting in the seat to the rear of mine (facing the front of the bus) with her young delinquent beside her on the aisle portion of the seat.
The child ( a boy about 5 years old) was swinging his right foot back & forth, and after he'd kicked my knee for the 3rd time I asked the alleged lady if she could have her hellspawn (ok I worded it more politely than that) stop kicking my leg. She took a quick look at the situation and her response was "oh, he's just restless" .
WTF kind of solution was that supposed to be? He kept swinging his leg, so I started working on the crossword puzzle of my newspaper.... once he'd stabbed his shin with the end of my pen (hmmm guess I shouldn't have held it like that) he stopped swinging his leg
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Posted: 3/27/2008 2:09:50 PM | once he'd stabbed his shin with the end of my pen (hmmm guess I shouldn't have held it like that) he stopped swinging his leg. tff! amazing the things we have to do all because some ppl refuse to show even a grain of consideration.
anyway. susan... i FINALLY have a good story to share with you: another jam packed bus. a teenage girl got out of her seat to allow a young woman with a cane to sit... and no one else stole that seat before the woman could get to it, like i have seen happen sooooo many times before. the only negative today i think was some jack'ss felt his backpack needed a seat more than any of the ppl standing did. must have been one heavy backpack for him to have been unable to put it on his lap maybe more ppl than we know read these forums and are slowly starting to get the hint.
nah... the inconsiderate ones also seem to be the ones most indignant when their inconsiderations are pointed out.
I don't know what bus your riding, but the signs indicate that those seats are for wheelchairs and strollers. ms tree. perhaps re-read my posts? that, perhaps.... maybe... will clarify. yes. the two front seats are designated for strollers and the handicapped... but the AISLES and the REAR of the bus are not designated for strollers... nor wheelchairs. in fact, the reason those TWO seats are designated are for SAFETY REASONS, which these mothers are clearly ignoring when parking their strollers in the middle of the aisles halfway down the back of the bus, blocking ALL exit doors as well as making the movement on and off the bus unsafe. and those TWO designated seats are the reason why i am all for transit limiting UNFOLDED strollers to two, and all other strollers needing to be folded. because of the ONLY TWO seats designated for strollers and wheelchairs. geezus. its all there in my previous posts if you care to read instead only read what you want. or are my posts too ambiguous, do i need to start spelling everything out?
as a side note: transit does not allow wheelchairs on the bus if those two front designated spots are already taken. why? safety reasons. so. if wheelchairs are not allowed to park themselves any damn place they want, then why are strollers allowed to be parked anywhere, regardless of said safety issues already stated by transit in regards to wheelchairs? | |
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