Mum in tears as elderly lady 'disgusted' on bus over pushchair placement

04 September 2023 , 10:07

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The bus row left the mum upset (stock image) (Image: Getty Images/Maskot)

If you don't own a driving licence and a car, you will know the hassle a bus journey can bring, especially if you're a busy mother travelling with kids. The experience can become particularly difficult if a bus is packed and waiting for another means your child could be late for school or their doctor's appointment.

One woman has shared her struggles after she was reduced to tears during an awkward confrontation with an elderly woman on a bus. The mum-of-two said she returned from a shopping trip with her 2-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter when she decided it would be better to take the bus home with her kids, as the items she bought were heavy.

After she entered the bus, she immediately noticed that there was a woman's buggy taking up space in the vehicle. The mum pushed her pushchair to fit next to the woman and sat her daughter in the disabled elderly seat next to her pram. However, she was then shouted at for taking up space by an elderly woman.

Writing on Mumsnet, she said: "Well a few stops on a lady also gets on with this very big pushchair there is no way she was going to fit in the opposite bay so she squeezed in right in the alise [sic] next to me. Not even giving me a chance to move my pushchair so she could try squeeze in next to me."

The elderly woman watched and told the mum there would be no way the other woman would be able to "put her buggy there" if she didn't move. The woman claims she was shouted with the words: "Your disgusting you should of moved your pushchair so she could get into the spot and moved your daughter off that bloody seat so that woman could sit down!"

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Continuing, the mum expressed: "She then said I should be ashamed of myself! So I lost it by then and replied 'how about you mind your own business!' But she was still ranting at me as she got off the bus! Not going to lie I did actually feel like bursting into tears as I have lot going on at the moment and that just set me right over the edge. So I'm just asking was I in the wrong here?"

A number of people rushed to comfort her, with one person writing: "To speak to someone like that and call them 'disgusting', I'm guessing she has her own issues and it wasn't really about you. Try not to let it bother you."

A second person added: "Oh love, no you were not in the wrong and she was being horrible. She probably has stuff going on herself, anyway. Never right to rant at another person without taking the time to understand what's happened - she wasn't right to rant, I mean. And you stuck up for yourself, good for you. Put it behind you. All over. Stress. There's SUCH a lot of it about."

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Ayaan Ali