What Will You Do With 10 Million Frozen Pensioners, Rachel?

Why not get a taxi, ronib?

MissAdventure so you are telling me that school children have made public travel a no go area and I should accept the feral state?
I don’t like using taxis with my grandson because he doesn’t have a proper car seat in a taxi….

I'm not telling you anything like that, at all.
It was a question I asked.

MissA and I hope you understand the answer….?

No, I'm too atupid.

So stupid, I can't even spell 'stupid'

Please don’t trivialise my pain MissA

I wouldn't dream of it.

We should campaign for bus conductors to be brought back.

ronib

MissAdventure so you are telling me that school children have made public travel a no go area and I should accept the feral state?
I don’t like using taxis with my grandson because he doesn’t have a proper car seat in a taxi….

I've never seen a car seat on a bus.

I've never suffered from feral schoolchildren on a bus either.

ronib

growstuff have you tried travelling on buses crowded with noisy teenagers recently? Preferably with a small child who is unwell.

Yes. I've also travelled on commuter trains full of schoolchildren.

growstuff for some reason completely unknown to anyone, teenagers are unable to get onto a bus in quite the same way as using a train. If screaming is avoided on entering the bus, extremely loud conversations or just noise are quite common on buses but not trains.
It makes me wonder why? What on earth are State schools doing to their pupils? Private schools usually run their own coaches and so members of the public are protected!
It has to be experienced in order to be understood. I think it’s very worrying to think this is in any way acceptable.

I know that car seats are not on buses growstuff but buses travel more slowly than taxis and I think offer a safer form of transport for young children. Plus of course it’s supposedly more environmentally friendly… do we save the planet or not?

School buses pass my house every day. Every pupil is staring at their phone, not disturbing others.

How on earth did we get here?

Cabbie21 One of the schools in question does not allow mobile phones on the school premises. Thanks for your post.

ronib

I know that car seats are not on buses growstuff but buses travel more slowly than taxis and I think offer a safer form of transport for young children. Plus of course it’s supposedly more environmentally friendly… do we save the planet or not?

What on earth has this got to do with feral schoolchildren?

I must admit it doesn't sound good, so if you'd be kind enough to let us all know where you live, we can all avoid it. The schoolchildren round here are more likely to be staring at their phones too.

ronib

Cabbie21 One of the schools in question does not allow mobile phones on the school premises. Thanks for your post.

Ho ho ho! How do you reckon they stop them, if the children have them switched off at the bottom of their bags?

ronib

growstuff for some reason completely unknown to anyone, teenagers are unable to get onto a bus in quite the same way as using a train. If screaming is avoided on entering the bus, extremely loud conversations or just noise are quite common on buses but not trains.
It makes me wonder why? What on earth are State schools doing to their pupils? Private schools usually run their own coaches and so members of the public are protected!
It has to be experienced in order to be understood. I think it’s very worrying to think this is in any way acceptable.

I'd like to recommend trains into Cambridge at about 8am. They are full of private school children (often with their bikes). Some of them are incredibly inconsiderate, but hardly public enemies Number 1.

growstuff. I live in a good area but with two problematic senior schools . The problem is known to the Schools as teachers have been used in the past to ensure normal boarding of buses.

growstuff I have no idea how children are stopped from bringing in mobiles - I know the new head isn’t very popular.

The school can't dictate that pupils aren't allowed phones on their way to or from school.

That's the main reason children have phones, so that the family can keep in touch at relevant times.

What a loathsome miserable thing to do. Pick on the pensioners, because we have no power.
I’m like lots of others, I’m just over the threshold.
But as long as they still get there heating allowance for their second property, we can all rest easy.
The hypocrisy of it makes me so angry.

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

What’s this got to do with pensioners, whether they’re cold or not?
I know threads meander but……..