Perhaps I’m being a bit of a grump today. Many of you are probably saying “So what else is new?”
This week, going to and from my freelance job on the bus, I’ve had my share of babies staring at me. I guess with my long hair, I appear strange to them. Yes, I find it annoying but I can’t do anything about it. I put up with it.
And I can’t do anything about this either, but what’s become increasing hard to put up with this week is crying babies on the bus. No, I’m not heartless and I know the mother (why is it always the mother?) is doing the best she can with the baby, but after a day’s work, listening to a crying baby on the Metro is torture. Their cries echo all the way from the back of the bus to the front.
Babies ride the bus for free. I think if the baby is crying when getting on the bus, the mother should have to pay for his or her fare. I’m only half kidding.
(Photo from musingsfromawriter.com)
Babies will be babies and babies cry. I rode the bus for a lot of years and had my fill out of it. You have to be understanding, of course but yeah, it’s tiring.
I see it all the time. I feel sorry for those moms!
Put a nipple in that baby’s mouth. Allow breast feeding on the bus. A suggestion.
I second the notion of breast feeding on the Metro. I can’t read on the bus because of motion sickness and watching this activity would give me somethng to do.
Will and R. N. : sick losers
Like you, I believe in public transportation and like you I’ve put up with my share of screaming kids. Also like you I just put up with it. It’s part of urban living and you take the good with the bad. As far as Will and R.N. — boys, your hard ons are showing.
Robin may look at a woman breast feeding her baby on a bus, but I never would.
I think you are a bit of a baby yourself.
Just recently found you. You keep yourself pretty buried with WordPress press as your host.
Crying babies in New Jersey is the norm. You put up with it. Taking the bus means a person is poor and that’s me. When poor you just handle it and put up with th screams. ipods help.
Julie, you always makes sense out of it all. Thanks.
Well, I must say! Larry, It’s the gloom of winter, the cold, snow all together getting to us all. Are you grumpy well with the line about making them pay for crying babies! MAYBE!! Just think about it. Spring afternoon the work day is over a baby cries out on the bus! Your thoughts would be different ya suppose! Not really cryin babies noone really ever want to hear!
thinkasif, Larry is a grump spring, summer, fall and winter. He never changes and we love him for that.