People are so Rude
I think there was a topic like this before, but I cant seem to find it-anyway-listening to the radio and they're talking about people having bad manners and it made me think about what me and oh were talking about yesterday.
People just seem to be so rude to pregnant ladies and women with young children. It started because there was a woman struggling getting off the bus with two young kids. Noone got up to help her at all-we were sat quite far back but oh got up and went to the front so he could get her pushchair off with her while she held the little ones.
It started us on a discussion about how people just dont want to help anyone anymore-no matter how easy it would be.
The other day I was walking across the road with oh, it was a main road and a main crossing so there was loadsa room-but two blokes who were together walked straight at me (one from either side) so I had to dodge out of their way. I think its discusting they'd do that to anyone, never mind a woman and one who's obviously pregnant as well.
My sisters had trouble as well, when she was about due she got on the bus and had to stand up because noone offered her a seat, the next day she had two offers of a seat, but the sad thing was-one was a frail old lady and the other a foreign lady who didnt speak much English but got her to sit down anyway.
Then recently since my sisters had her baby she got on a bus with her newborn and 5 year old and there was an old man and a teenager sat in front of the space where pushchairs and wheelchairs should go with their bags in the way on the floor, as she got on the young lad turned round and said ''And I dont know where she's gunna put that'' my sister just ended up stood in the isle until the lad got off at the next stop and the old man moved his bag then....I was fuming when she told me, I would have been tempted to roll the pushchair over their bags and said ''well I dont know how he's planning on getting to that''
People just seem to be so rude to pregnant ladies and women with young children. It started because there was a woman struggling getting off the bus with two young kids. Noone got up to help her at all-we were sat quite far back but oh got up and went to the front so he could get her pushchair off with her while she held the little ones.
It started us on a discussion about how people just dont want to help anyone anymore-no matter how easy it would be.
The other day I was walking across the road with oh, it was a main road and a main crossing so there was loadsa room-but two blokes who were together walked straight at me (one from either side) so I had to dodge out of their way. I think its discusting they'd do that to anyone, never mind a woman and one who's obviously pregnant as well.
My sisters had trouble as well, when she was about due she got on the bus and had to stand up because noone offered her a seat, the next day she had two offers of a seat, but the sad thing was-one was a frail old lady and the other a foreign lady who didnt speak much English but got her to sit down anyway.
Then recently since my sisters had her baby she got on a bus with her newborn and 5 year old and there was an old man and a teenager sat in front of the space where pushchairs and wheelchairs should go with their bags in the way on the floor, as she got on the young lad turned round and said ''And I dont know where she's gunna put that'' my sister just ended up stood in the isle until the lad got off at the next stop and the old man moved his bag then....I was fuming when she told me, I would have been tempted to roll the pushchair over their bags and said ''well I dont know how he's planning on getting to that''
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It doesn't cost anything to be polite or offer help and society would be a heck of a lot nicer if people did more!!!
Its just a shame people are like that, its so easy to just be nice to people
There have been some friendly people around me, oh knows loads of people and Im always getting them coming up asking how everythings going and there are strangers who are friendly as well, its just the bad ones that tend to stick in my mind (Ive had a bad week).
I meet one of my friends every week for diner and the bloke who served us gave me extra meat the other day for the baby that was sweet.
And then last week I had this idiotic woman asking me all sorts of personal questions - I did a thread on this! It really pissed me off!
xxx
However, this morning a woman offered me her seat what a lovely person. I kept thanking her over and over!
i think that some pg women and mothers make it hard for the rest of us as last week whiles i was out me and a few friends were having lunch and a women with a pram came in demanding that she be offered the table we were sat at as it would be better for her pram, yes there was other tables and yes we could have moved but she being such a cow about it and our food had just been put out for us, the owner of the place asked her take the seat she was offered or to leave and she started on about how mothers with pram/pushchair or pg women should be treated better, but didn't say sorry or anything once he informed her i was pg, also there is nothing more annoying that trying to do your shopping and not being able to get down alsie cause there is a few women with pram/pushchair in the alsie who even when asked politely ignore you and take up all space and not move or run over peoples feet
i think its just people who are not as nice as they used to be and i just hope that when lo is born i do a better job with him/her about manners and how to behave than a lot of people seem to do, hope i haven't offended anyone, xxx
I cant believe she was like that to be honest, I would never dream of asking someone to move tables because I had a pushchair, nevermind demand that I have their table. Some people just have a cheek.
I think its just a sign of the times, people have less time for others and respect sadly!
Babyemzie, I do agree with you though, I hate it when people with children assume that the whole world should revolve around them, it does give us all a bad name (and people who barge past with prams as though they atomically have right of way everywhere annoy me as much as the train-shovers).
There seems to be just a general lack of manners everywhere these days, I suppose we all just end up getting aggressive with each other!
mummylisa80, in these situations I always wonder how that (awful) man would have behaved if you had a man with you at the time (or had been a man yourself).
I agree with bedhead i av a 5yr old and a 2yr old and i am 21wks pg and i have noticed that the older people are usually the ignorant ones and that the younger generation like the teenagers especially lads are the ones to hold the doors open or get up on bus to help you.
Take care
Adele xxxx