Pushchairs on buses?

Question

Is it my imagination or are people with buggies often arrogant and selfish?
A few days ago I was going to university, and I have to get the bus cause it's the only way into town from my halls. I had taken my guitar with me for a practice session. There were no more seats left so I stood near the front near the little fold-up seats. When we came to a stop a few minutes later the woman sitting on the seat behind me pulled her buggy out, hitting me in the ankle then pushing me out of her way without even saying excuse me. My guitar was pushed into the wall jerking all the tuning keys out of place and scratching it.
Why is it a mother/father with a buggy seems to think that people should just bow down to them and get out of their way, and showing little respect for anyone else's wishes. The above incident is just one of several incidents with these people. I'm so fed up!
What do you think? Has anyone else had the same problem?

I must make a distinction between the majority (the considerate buggy users) and the selfish minority (the rude and arrogant ones).
I do help buggy pushers where and when I can as well.
I also acknowledge the person who was talkin about people barging into her pram. But the MAJORITY of mothers use pushchairs as a shopping trolley and an excuse to not bother to pay their children any attention or even control them.

I actually wasn't carrying my beloved guitar like some answers suggest, but it was on my back like a rucksack. I had several heavy textbooks to deal with in my hands!

Answer 1

I am a mother and I use the bus. I also get annoyed when I have to use the bus because sometimes nobody offers to help me, I have bags, a baby and a pushchair to get on board and carry my purse so I can pay. I find it really arrogant and rude that nobody has the manners to help.
Maybe the mother was tired, rushed, flustered, and fed up of buses too. Actually I bet she was.

Answer 2

I thought I was the only person who thought that some people with pushchairs can be very selfish. It amazes sometimes when there are 3 pushchairs already on the bus and another person with a pushchair gets on when there is clearly no room. They stand in the middle of the aisle blocking every ones way. Showing no consideration for anyone. What about the elderly and disabled who have no where to sit. And the 2-seated and 3-seated pushchairs that try to get on the bus when they clearly will not fit. I have great respect for parents but common sense has to prevail and you have to take some personal responsibility. You are going to find it difficult getting on the bus with a double/triple buggy.

Answer 3

I know what you mean, i live in a market town so it gets pretty packed on market days - once i was walking in the opposite direction to a woman with a buggy - the street was packed with people and she was ploughing her way towards me and i couldnt move out of the way as there were people everywhere and market stalls, so she ploughed straight in to my right leg and i lost my balance and nearly fell into her pushchair (there was a child in it!)

luckily my mate managed to grab me in time to steady me!

I know they must face real obstacles when shopping etc and it must be a real pain to push a buggy round everywhere, but yes i do find most of them unpleasant and they they use their buggys as weapons if people are in the way!

I think its great that online shopping can be done, and some stores even do special home delivery services, thats what i will do when i have kids as it must be a nightmare carrying everything and looking after the children.

Answer 4

many people with buggies are selfish yes.

I'm disabled, I walk with a stick and I was in a shop, i stood aside so an elderly lady, who looked really frail could get past. Well some woman with a buggy wanted to get through so she ramed my ankles with the buggy and told me to get out of the way.

Have you noticed the rudest ones are those whe give the kid in the buggy cans of coke?

Oh and why do people take babies in buggies to crowded places such as camden market? or events at the NEC like the food and drink show? The kids can't possibly enjoy these things.

Answer 5

All I can say is thank god I don't have to handle buses with a couple of kids, shopping bags and buggies, it must be damned hard for those women who have to do this on a regular basis, no one seems to want to help them and those who think their an hindrance should maybe think how hard it is trying to shop with young kiddies who are probably tired and grumpy, not every mom out there has the luxury of cars or a childminder while they go shopping, I am sure the lady didn't mean to bash you with her pram either, hope when you become a mom yourself you find people both helpful and considerate, just thank yourself lucky you only had to worry about your guitar and not a buggy, kids and shopping.

Answer 6

LOL Fassa you certainly stirred up a few emotions there!!!
I hope you teach any children you may have to play the guitar. You could make up a song about your experiences and sing it to them while you are on the bus with the buggy......oh!

Answer 7

Banning such factor would not be useful, each so often human beings merely want get the place they are going so weighted down. To chastise mothers and fathers and stress them into their automobiles is unwise. that is to not say that some style of advisory action ought to not be instated. The tube is already festooned with posters advising against intrusive music quantity & pungent nutrition; why not "the place achieveable stay away from carry cumbersome bags & pushcairs onto the tube throughout the time of top hours." this would not look unreasonable while many practice companies already persist with a "folding motorcycles in basic terms" coverage throughout the time of top hours.

Answer 8

i've only ever gotten angry when a mother with huge pushchair tried to get on the bus at quarter past five. when the driver said 'sorry, there's no room', she started screaming at him telling him he should make some of the people on board get off so she could get on.

my mother carried me, or folded the buggy up, something mothers seem to be incapable of these days. I KNOW it's annoying trying to fight with a pushchair, and a child, and however many other things, but come on. there's internet shopping these days. if i have a kid we're never leaving the house.

My mum carried me for as long as she could. And I used to scream my head off from the moment i got on the bus, so she made sure she travelled outside peak hours to annoy as few people as possible.

Answer 9

i am a mum and have to use the bus as my husband has the car, and when you have kids yourself you will realise what u just wrote is rubbish and it can be so tiring and stressful trying to get a baby, shopping and pushchair onto a moving bus at times.

and as for shops why do people always blame the buggy pusher? i have had someone fall over into my pram as they were stomping through new look while i stood waiting to pay, thankfully my 2 month old daughter at the time was not hurt but did they stop to say sorry to the screaming baby or the panicking me??? no they didnt. and i always say sorry whether it is my fault or not just for the fact i feel like a nuisence for having a pushchair but after reading this i dont think im going to now as it seems regardless mums and dads are going to get slated for having a buggy.

Answer 10

Lol i know what you mean when i had my son i just thought pay back time!! for all those times i had had a buggy rammed at my ankles. But seriously were not all like that. And a little help getting the buggy off the bus if ywere on our own with a baby and bags wouldnt go a miss.

Answer 11

I have run into people like that-or should I say,they ran into me!
When my daughter was in a pushchair I was very carefully and often said,'Pardon me.' as I was getting off the bus,leaving a shop,etc... But there were many people who would physically push me-and even worse-my daughter's pushchair out of the way-quite aggressively! Sadly,there are a lot of people out there who don't give a damn about anybody but themselves!