Living in the city comes with good and bad. The TTC falls into both of these categories at times.
The good, you can get almost anywhere you need to go via the TTC. It gives great you the ability to not have a car when in the city. There are times you can have really nice talks with other passengers. You get to see the good side of the human race.
On Friday I was able to get on baby free. I was on the bus to go over to York dale mall. While on the bus an older lady got on and she was offered a seat by a younger person as there where no other open seats. I have seem a driver wait for someone that is running for the bus, instead of just leaving. These are only a few of the good things I have seem.
The bad, yesterday was a bad TTC day. We where going out for the day. Me my husband and the little one. So we had the bigger stroller with us.
Not the biggest stroller you can get but it takes up a good amount of space on the bus. All this to say we had to let 3 buses pass us before we got one that was not so full we could not get on. So when the bus we did get on went out of service at the last stop before the subway we where not vary happy. Fine its a nice day so we walked.
So fast forward to coming home. We missed our normal bus. This one runs every 30 (or at lest that’s what they say it does). It happens so not a big deal we head up stairs. Once we are up there is not going back down as there is only a stair case to go down from the upper level. We waited more then 20 minutes for a bus. Thankfully (????) 6 buses all come one after another. So the 6th bus was the one we where able to go on to.
Yay we are on a bus and finally on our way home. Well at the second stop two more strollers get on the bus. Okay that’s fine we moved our stroller in so they could get on. Well the one lady sits with her kids and talks with them. The other lady, puts her kids in the seats at the fount with the stroller (she did put the breaks on) and sits in a seat about 5 feetish away. She spends the whole time talking (loudly) on her phone. Her older boy (about 5) tried to get her attention by calling out to her several times with out any response at all. Finally the other lady needs to get off the bus. So instead of hoping off the bus for a second to let her off she man handles her (my guess 3 year old) daughter out of the way. Never did she stop her phone call or ask the little one to move or give her any kind of instruction.
I truly felt bad for these kids. There should never be a phone call that is that important that you can’t respond to your 5 year old.
Sorry for the rant. We will get back to our normally fun topics next time.
Sara J 