Getting pissed off with buggies

LynxZF7 wrote:The ramp and the space in the bus is made for wheelchair users, people with prams have just got lucky since they can use it too, but it was never made for them. People with prams should fold them up each time, they did it when all the buses where step entrance (if they have a supersize pram that can't fit tough). The wheelchair space should be free for a wheelchair user.

If the driver is in a good mood and you ask him/her niceley they might let you use the space with you pram. Same thing with lowering the ramp for old people. Thats how it should be.

Unfortunately though we live on Planet Earth, where things seldom go smoothly!!!!

notabusdriver wrote:Pull over switch off the engine, not move until the arsehole folds the chair down?

I advise the drivers to do just that,put the pressure back onto the pram user,be nice and ask,then speak firmly and leave the pram user in no doubt your in charge,the bus dont move until you comply with a reasonable request,i did you a favour by lettin you on with the pram unfolded,dont kick the arse out of it or your off,and dont say it wont fold,cos your still off,dont leave a wheelchair user behind .

Search youtube for the below title and you will here me discussing the very problem with Jeremy Whine on Radio 2

Semtex Radio 2 buggies.avi

(Not allowed to post links yet)

I will embed it for you Stu.

I know parents have to transport their little screaming snotty sprogs somehow, & I understand that some buggies are bigger than others but I can't get the idea of why some of them so absolutely huge when there's only one sprog in there! Some are like mobile shopping malls & they take up such a huge space, folded or unfolded its ridicules!

I had a situation recently coming up Foregate Street where this very nice Indian lady got on, she was polite & she only had one babe in a normal sized buggy. Babe was quiet & so was she & she parked in the proper space. Not long after another woman tried to get on with one of those gigantic monster things with the one front wheel that sticks out several feet so everyone trips over it & she ORDERED, not asked, this Indian woman 'MOVE'

Understandably the nice lady was shocked & stood her ground & the other one got really quite nasty so I ordered her off. She screamed all that rubbish about how I should let her stay but I said if she'd have been polite & treated the innocent lady with respect I'd have worked something out with her but as she's so vicious I won't let her on because she's endangering other passengers. I told her I have a son who is now 18 but not once, ever, did I go around thinking that the world owes me something because I chose to have him!

I had one hell of a row with the stupid (bleep) & in the end I told her if she don't get off I'll call the & have her tossed off that way! She got off & threatened to report me but I didn't care less! The Indian lady was no trouble & nor was her babe!

Don't you jut love obnoxious idiots?!

We were told to inform the buggy owner that if a wheelchair gets on they would be asked to fold their pram. Most of them seem to accept this.