The Bus Police

I use to be one of those people who would tut when a screaming child kicked off on the bus, or when an empty buggy was in the wheel chair space, but since Iv gone over to the dark side its a very hostile place, it starts at the bus stop, if you the first buggy there you should be first on, so you claim your position by sticking you hand out first and rushing on, god forbid some other buggy cuts in on you and steals your place! one of two things happen, you either don't get a space at all (because another buggy is on taking up the two allocated spaces)or you barge on, squeeze your buggy on and make loud complaining noises to your son about how 'mummy would love to sit down but somebody go the seat first' ( I am in the latter group big time!) My first bus experience came when my son was 5 weeks old on my first venture onto a bus with the buggy. I had been visiting my grandad and was getting a very busy bus home in rush hour (novice mum that I was, what the hell was I thinking!) it was November, freezing and I had a tiny person wrapped in a million layers) as soon as I get on this woman starts complaining, two stops later a wheel chair user wants to get on, unfamiliar to the etiquette I start to panic, do I get off? do I fold the buggy, what would I do with the baby?would someone help? before I even had a chance to do anything, this woman leaps up and starts shouting, 'Get off the bus, this area is not for your kind of people!' shocked, I burst in to tears, by this point the whole bus staring, going bright red with rage, the poor wheel chair man is confused,and isnt getting on, am I refusing to get off, I'm I having a break down..what should I do? In the end I get off the bus, in the freezing cold, the woman starts a round of applause and the tears start again and I end up waiting for it all to happen again on the next one.
 Bus people fall into two groups when it comes to kids and buggies, the unsympathetic, who usually hog a priority seat at the front and have a massive shopping trolley, or the lovely, who will coo over your baby, chat to your toddler and offer all manner of advice....
moral of the story, be a bus bully, everyone else is!