5 things I hate about London public transport buses

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Just a little post (mini-rant) about public transport – buses in particular – and why I hate it using it sometimes. Unfortunately I don’t drive so usually have no choice but to use the buses. Don’t get me wrong, most days I love it but then there’s those days that I can’t stand it.

If you’re a city mum then chances are you will probably be able to relate to one, if not all, of the things below:

1. In summer it’s humid and smells like sweat and bad BO. In winter, it definitely smells like BO… and damp… and then some.
2. On the cold, wet rainy days there is NEVER enough buggy space! You then end up waiting for 2-3 buses to pass by before you finally get on one.
3. Leading on from point no. 2 sometimes the buggy spaces are taken by strollers with NO CHILD sitting in it… Just food shopping or an older child in the buggy – not a baby or toddler or pre-schooler even – I mean a fully grown 6 year old child that can sit on the chair will be in the stroller taking up space. So not cool when you’ve got a newborn and it’s the third bus you’ve waited for in the cold rain.
4. Summer: super hot and everyone is sweating = heaters on. Air-con off. Winter: freezing cold as hell = no heating. Air-con on. I don’t know why they do this – It drives me bonkers!!
5. If you’re pregnant no-one will bother to give up a seat for you – whether you have that poxy ‘baby on board’ badge or not. Okay, maybe not all the time but the majority of the time you won’t be able to get a seat. If you’re pregnant without a badge, chances are even slimmer. (PS I had a badge and hardly ever got a seat given to me unless I asked which I hardly did… Too much pride.)

Do you sometimes hate public transport? What’s your pet peeve? 

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