Some People are Inconsiderate

A couple of days ago I was waiting at a bus stop and as the bus pulled up, the bus driver looked at me and said, "I can't take you, we already got two strollers on the bus". (I'm in a wheelchair so that's why he said that.)

Today I ran into the same bus driver who told me, "You know the other day when I couldn't take you on the bus? Well the two ladies with the strollers were apparently acquainted and got off two stops down the road from where you were waiting. (Whereas I needed to go the full distance of the bus route)."

I don't think he was trying to rub it in my face, I think he was pointing out the stupidity of some mothers and their inconsideration for others who need to take up the same area. Two stops? Really? You couldn't have just got off at the exchange and walked a block with the baby in the stroller? I swear once a woman has become a mother the first couple of years they can be very lazy...

Anyone have any similar experiences?

Eh, humans are going to be human.

That elevator thing is pretty common. People think the elevator is faster when it's only a single flight of stairs when in-fact the stairs will likely get there long before the elevator...

Women become lazy when they become mothers? Are you kidding? A parent, male or female, (especially one with a baby) is one of the busiest jobs you'll ever have. It's hard to get a stroller on or off a bus, they may not have even known you wanted to get on until it was too late to offer to get off.

There are plenty of reasons why they may have decided not to walk from the exchange (I assume they didn't get ON at the exchange and take a bus two stops). They're not being inconsiderate at all, how were they supposed to know that somebody who was in a wheelchair was going to want to get on? They paid their bus fare, they deserve to be able to to from their point A to point B on that fare, and not have to get off prematurely. It might have been polite to, but it's not required.

It sucks that your desired bus was over capacity to allow you on, but other people have to get around too. It would have been polite for them to try and accommodate you if at all possible, but I think calling them lazy or assuming you have precedence over somebody else because you've got a disability is absurd. Carting around a huge stroller and juggling a small human being along with all the other stuff they may have on and off a bus is difficult. I'm sure if they had any other way to get around they'd be using it.

[Edit: I'm not saying that a person with a disability doesn't have presendence in other cases, such as the elevator scenario or wheelchair spots in theatres or venues, but I think in this case OP is acting as if the people who didn't get off were simply too lazy to get off the bus before they even knew he'd be wishing to get on]

A couple of days ago I was waiting at a bus stop and as the bus pulled up, the bus driver looked at me and said, "I can't take you, we already got two strollers on the bus". (I'm in a wheelchair so that's why he said that.)

Today I ran into the same bus driver who told me, "You know the other day when I couldn't take you on the bus? Well the two ladies with the strollers were apparently acquainted and got off two stops down the road from where you were waiting. (Whereas I needed to go the full distance of the bus route)."

I don't think he was trying to rub it in my face, I think he was pointing out the stupidity of some mothers and their inconsideration for others who need to take up the same area. Two stops? Really? You couldn't have just got off at the exchange and walked a block with the baby in the stroller? I swear once a woman has become a mother the first couple of years they can be very lazy...

Mesden

I do feel bad for you, honestly. And I was about to give my total sympathy until that line. :PBut I really hope you don't consider your own mother very lazy in the first couple of years she took care of you while you could do nothing but eat, crap and sleep. Might not even be laziness. Could be tiredness. Oh, and the irony of the topic title and that line. :P

My GF is in a wheelchair so we have to take elevators to get to different floors. I cant count how many times There was no room for us because of perfectly able bodied people taking all the space even with stairs right next to it. Sometimes it was only 1 or 2 floors up or down. Also one time at a concert we went to we were in the handicap cap seating and the singer came down to the audience so everyone ran to get as close as the could so we went to. Someone told me to move my GF out of the way her wheelchair takes up to much room. Luckily the secruity guard heard and told the guy to move out of the way and we got to get right up front and he played his guitar for my GF and gave her his guitar pick. AutoPilotOn

I'm glad something nice happened to you guys at the end. People act too busy to be courteous too often.