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Using your intelligence in a bus queue situation

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biglouis Wed 21-Dec-22 11:58:36

This account was on mumsnet and the responses intrigued me:-
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After picking my child up from her child minder today, I arrived the bus stop to find two women with buggies waiting.

Knowing that the driver wouldn’t let three of us on, I walked round the corner to the previous stop and got on there.

When it arrived at the next stop, sure enough only mum was allowed on - the other was told to wait 30 minutes for the next bus. I was screamed at and called a cunt and a queue jumper by one mum who tried to shove me off the bus.

I don’t think I did anything wrong, nor did the police when they turned up after being called by the driver.

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I dont feel this OP did anything wrong, mean or sly. She used her initiative in a way that I have often done in some similar situations.

When I worked alternate saturdays in Liverpool as a girl I was 2 stops on from the football ground on the weeks they played at home. Buses arrived full and there was a real scrum at the bus stop. Football fans can be very rough. I used to travel 3 stops in the opposite direction and transfer to a nearly empty bus at a stop just before the stadium. So I was already on the bus before the crowds of fans.

Do you think the OP behaved sneakily or strategically?