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  Poor news outlet, if a Solo Dad was the one assaulting the mother they could had 10 times the clicks.
context: In boston on the orange line, people would get on the virtually empty outbound trains in the morning, ride to stops further from the city, and switch to an inbound train.
  Probably other lines as well. >
  
  It is quite common to do this on BART (in the Bay Area) during commute time. Although, there is rarely an issue with the trains being actually full. People do it so they can get a seat instead of standing. >
  
  Another common BART rider trick is smoking fentanyl in the bathroom until you overdose and pass out so nobody else can use the bathroom til you (hopefully) wake up. That and pissing and jacking off on the train. But I mean obviously these aren’t selfish like the woman in the article though. >
  
  Man, what the fuck is up with the public transport in the US? I've used it all over Europe and the weirdest I encounter is just obnoxious people. And that one time the guy pissed himself in the back >
  
  Lack of social safety nets and shit healthcare system exacerbate homelessness and the raging drug epidemic. >
  
  You missed sky rocketing housing costs. >
  
  Have you guys actually ridden public transit before? It's not normally like this at all. >
  
  The last two cities I've lived in I've relied on their public transit systems (Boston and New York for full disclosure) and yes I regularly see homeless and drug addled folks on my daily commute in each. It's not like, a lawless hellscsape where everything is on fire but some days it felt pretty close, especially on routes near any hospitals or public health services.
  And granted some days the Boston T lines literally were on fire but anyways..
  Before THAT, I lived in San Diego and it wasn't even a question of riding public transit, homelessness was everywhere. Not as bad as San Francisco but the point stands - it's an epidemic. >
  
  Dude comm ave was always a nightmare near the methadone clinic! >
  
  I used to do the same. My commuter bus was very crowded at my stop, the last stop,  and would have 20+ people waiting.  So I’d walk up a few blocks to prior stops to get on, where the line was shorter. If the closest stop had a long line, I’d walk up one more. >
  
  “The line at McDonalds was long, so I went to a different McDonalds”
  “How fucking dare you?” >
  
  More like "The line was long at the McDonald's drive-thru so I went inside to order." >
  
  this always amazes me. the drive thru line will be MASSIVE and then inside there will be nobody. it really speaks to the laziness of people >
  
  Except that 9 times out of 10 it is still faster to go through the drive-thru.  There will be 4-5 employees working the drive-thru, and when you walk inside, you have to wait for an employee to come to the cash and take your order.  
  I've often been left wondering... since when did actually going inside an establishment make you an after thought or second class customer.  Almost every place that has a drive-thru makes the drive-thru a priority over people inside the restaurant.
  Rant over! >
  
  Corporate.
  They have time goals for drive thrus, usually only a couple minutes at most. The staff catches shit if the times are too high so they dogpile the drive thru with 4-5 people so they can keep everything moving and hit their times.
  People coming inside are not only not timed, but expected to sit around for a while at their table anyway. >
  
  1) why did anyone write an article about this 
  2) lady was just smarter than them and they mad, who cares >
  
  It’s Somerset, they rarely have anything interesting to report on. >
  
  "No luck catching them swans then?" >
  
  It's just the one swan actually >
  
  I wanna do what you do. >
  
  I do hereby give you permission to quote "Hot Fuzz" in all venues throughout the universe >
  
  I did.  "I wanna do what you do"  "you do do what I do!"
  I guess most of yall only know 2 or 3 quotes >
  
  The greater gooooooood >
  
  I moved to the end of the subway line in Singapore. I thought I would always be guaranteed a seat on the early morning train. Instead it was always full when I got on. People on the stop before the end would fill up the train, ride to the end, then back into town. I couldn't really get mad at them though. >
  
  Bizarre.. Never seen that in London >
  
  Hold the front page! Woman walks to bus stop with stroller! Gosh, life is exciting in Somerset. >
  
  “May you live in interesting times” is one of the great curses.
  I pray to live the rest of my life in a place as exciting as Somerset apparently. >
  
  I’m fond of “may each day be the best day of the rest of your life” >
  
  Can you ELI5 why that’s a curse? It sounds like each day would be better than the last. >
  
  Each day is the best day of the rest of your life would mean that every day is progressively worse than the one before it. >
  
  That’s just dark as shit.
  Wow. Thanks. >
  
  r/slownewsday >
  
  The transit stop next to my office always has a long line.  So much so that often one would have to wait thru two or three busses before getting on, and even then you would be likely have to stand in the isle.
  I noticed that there was an earlier stop about three blocks away.  At that stop the bus was nearly empty.   So my choices... one block walk and 30 to 40 minute wait to board a standing room only bus, or walk three blocks and have my choice of seats in an almost empty bus.
  You know which one I took! >
  
  Lol. People will say anything when they lose the brain battle >
  
  Would it change anyone's mind here if the other two women noticed? And there was time to jump multiple stops back? Like at no point would someone be a dick? Like it would be really annoying to get to a stop first have someone move a block up to prevent me from getting on. I respond by 2 moving two blocks up, then they move 3? I really do not see a problem with this, but in kind of changed my my mind reading her quotes, which made it sound she was fully aware one of the women would not be able to get on at all now.
  I'm having trouble of thinking of examples, but I do feel like this is akin to a lot of examples where people are abiding by some etiquette and others think they out smarted the system, but in reality you are aware of what they are doing, and if you respond in kind the whole system breaks down. It just becomes a race to the last stop for the bus, that everyone is dragged into >
  
  I dont blame her at all. If this stop is that busy thats a fault of the system not the rider. The system should have more buses at that time if this is a common occurrence. >
  
  I mean both can be true. Also I generally agree systems are more often than not inadequate, but that isn't necessarily the case here. If that scenario comes up less than once a week, it's not practical to run 50 extra busses a day. 
  I also dispute that is is a function of out smarting them. They arrived at an empty stop. If everyone used this logic the system would be the last to arrive gets on the bus, unless someone has impaired mobility >
  
  But I'm also not sold I'm correct because on a larger routine scale I have no problem with someone planning ahead to go to a further typically empty stop >
  
  Wow...
  I'm at a loss for words..  More so that the police had to be called..  Damn.
  
  and one mum even "tried to shove [her] off the bus".
  
  Not allowed on the bus with your buggy, so you leave your child on the sidewalk to get on the bus to try and shove someone else off?  Because she wasn't lazy and outsmarted you.. >
  
  The lady is assaulting a mum with a baby, while she has a baby. Pretty crazy. >
  
  Stupid and entitled people see any act of common sense as cheating if they don't think of it first. >
  
  I’ve done this myself in the past, they’re just angry they didn’t think of it first. >
  
  Honestly we need to come up with a word for this, it's a very specific anger but everyone knows it. >
  
  Reality Check (2 words). They've been living in a fantasy of their own creation, but then reality kicks them in the face and they don't like it. >
  
  Deja fu. The feeling you've been kicked in the head like this before. >
  
  Time as a weapon?  Lu Tze was the only master of that art.  Rule #1:  Never underestimate a little bald smiling man. >
  
  I had a woman tell me I was cheating by walking 4 blocks and two stops so I could get a seat in the morning. >
  
  The real drama begins when a wheelchair user, who has absolute priority in that space on the bus, wants to get on and prams are to be folded to make space for them. >
  
  That’s actually not how it works, well not in Canada at least. Here whoever is there first has the right to stay there no matter how able bodied they are. If they refuse to move when asked even if the bus is empty they tell the wheelchair that “sorry but you have to wait”.
  This is because everyone is considered equal here and so you don’t get special treatment.
  Source: am a bus driver
  Edit: I’d like to point out that I’ve never actually seen that happen because it’s a massive dick move and people on the bus would be pissed at you, just pointing out that wheelchair users and strollers don’t automatically have ‘absolute’ priority there. It’s called the courtesy section. >
  
  This was in the UK. Buses from round here (at least in London) tell buggies to collapse to make space for wheelchair users. They get priority here. >
  
  It is funny eh, I would be interested ins debate on who ethically has the most right to the seat when the bus is full. Not saying either is right just that it would be an interesting debate as each party has their own merits there. >
  
  Woman uses public transportation efficiently. Chaos ensues. And this isn’t the US? >
  
  Obviously not, as there was public transportation. >
  
  Busses running every half hour?  Sounds like the U.S. >
  
  Half hour? Where do you live that you’re so blessed?? Usually more like 45mins-an hour where I am between busses, if that often, it may be longer >
  
  Y'all have busses? >
  
  Ah yes, Mumsnet, truly an Oracle of wisdom for our times >
  
  When I was a student I used to do this all the time. I left my house about 5 to 10mins early and turned Right. My bus traveled from Right to Left. I just kept walking past stops and people until I matched the arrival time. Normally would have 1 or 2 waiting each stop and would make up to 5 stops earlier. >
  
  The woman did nothing wrong. Trying to get on a tram with a pushchair is an absolute nightmare. I've often had to get the tram on the opposite side of the road to travel to the terminus to begin the journey home. >
  
  She had the idea, and she put in the work. >
  
  I would take the subway into Manhattan from Brooklyn, to avoid the rush of people getting on at my stop and the stop right before it. 
  If you didn’t do this, you would never get home during rush hour. >
  
  Wow, slow news day. >
  
  She's a smart lady. >
  
  Just brought back a memory of the before times. Used to do this in Sydney - one bus stop was hella crowded for some reason, and I’d go just one stop beforehand (like 1-2 blocks away) and always get a seat. This was commuter bus that took 45 mins to get from suburbs to the city, so it kind of mattered. >
  
  This story reminds me of a time I got cussed out by a Karen at a gas pump.
  Someone was sitting in their car 20 ft back from the pumps.  Someone pulled away from the nearest right side pump.  The father right side pump was still occupied.  I waited, and waited, and they didn't move, so I pulled around them and started using the empty pump.
  She gets out and starts yelling that I jumped the line.  She wanted BOTH pumps to be open.  Even though there was more than enough room to pull around to the far pump.
  If I recall I just laughed at her without saying a word >
  
  This also works with elevators when everyone seems to be going in one direction.  Going the opposite way ends up with you going the correct way. >
  
  This is just common sense. During the Christmas rush, when i finished my shift the stop outside work would be crowded and all the buses endlessly full.
  Walk 10 min across town to the bus depot and get on the bus with nobody else around. >
  
  
  This is just common sense.
  
  Actually, this only works as long as it isn't common... >
  
  I think it's not a lack of common sense but more laziness >
  
  This is an example of survival of the fittest through natural selection. That mother will pass on her problem-solving skills to her child and increase their biological fitness; if the child ever sees a lion at a bus stop they will walk around the corner to the previous bus stop, the lion won't be allowed on the bus and the child won't be eaten. The child will live to pass on their superior cognitive genes to the next generation. And no doubt the lion will have a good old moan about it on Facebook later on. >
  
  Natural selection should not have allowed for someone to post this nonsense. >
  
  It's a joke >
  
  I thought jokes were supposed to be funny >
  
  It is funny >
  
  Really isnt >
  
  How much of an NPC do you have to be to think you're somehow not allowed to freely choose which stop you get on? >
  
  Once when the bus was overcrowded and they weren't letting anyone else on, I ran to the next bus stop and caught it there instead of waiting for the next bus. Do I get a news article? >
  
  this one weird trick will score you a place on public tansport - bus mums with oversize buggies hate it! >
  
  It's fair game and well within the unspoken rules >
  
  Long story short, fuck all happens in Somerset! >
  
  Work smarter not harder 🤷‍♂️ >
  
  This is also the way to use SF cable cars as actual transit instead of a tourist attraction, except in reverse—instead of standing in the massive line at Powell and Market, walk up a few blocks to Geary and board there. It’s a later stop but the conductors save space when loading the tourists so locals can actually get from A to B. >
  
  Jamaica Queens, always get off the F on 169 not 179 if taking the n6 east >
  
  This story is so British it makes me laugh >
  
  It's not selfish, it's called "load balancing". >
  
  What she did is not load balancing. Load balancing optimizes total system capacity by moving load to underused vehicles.  That function is built into the system, and takes place regardless of what she does when a vehicle is full and therefore rejects a passenger.  This is selfish - it is ensuring that somebody else instead of her gets moved to a later vehicle, despite her having arrived last. >
  
  Laughs in New Yorker.
  What is this aritcle? >
  
  She did nothing wrong… that’s public transport for you 🤷🏼‍♂️ >
  
  Ottawa on Canada Day, many years ago... there were four of us in the multitude all waiting for a bus to take us out of downtown.
  The problem was, every bus that went past never stopped, as they were all standing-room only. After a bit, I noticed that the busses coming into the downtown were empty. We crossed the street, got on one of those empties, went about 4 blocks to the turn-around stop. Boom! Standing-room only, but we already had our seats for the ride to Bayshore.
  The icing on it all was overhearing some locals moaning and bitching about "all the G D tourist in town" that day. >
  
  Someone is confusing selfish and smart again. >
  
  They can be the same thing though. If I see a new till opening up I can rush to get there. Smart. But I could also let someone waiting longer than me go first. Nice. >
  
  She did nothing wrong. She risked getting the bus by heading to another stop. Her reward is that she was able to get the bus.  Simples. >
  
  I don't have a kid and I do this all the time. >
  
  I know we have a thing about queues here but this is just ridiculous lmao >
  
  I live near the second last outbound stop on our local LRT line.
  There's so many people doing the "get on going the other way" to get a seat, that the train is already full by the time it gets to me. 
  It's infuriating, but who do you really blame for that? >
  
  I used to do this at college (not have a child) but walk an extra 5 or so minutes to get the bus from the bus stop before the city centre, so I was more likely to get a seat for my 45-minute ride home. >
  
  That's just smart. "Mother goes to different bus stop." >
  
  Not seeing anything wrong here. Don't hate the player, hate the game >
  
  I did this at Disney World resorts. The main bus stop at any of the hotels is always the busiest. Taking a short walk to the previous stop will practically guarantee you a seat on the bus. >
  
  I'm just going to walk to my destination and out smart everyone >
  
  You ever click on these articles, read halfway through and just stare blankly ahead and go "wait a minute. I don't give a fuck about this. What am I doing?" >
  
  The Karens of Somerset were just pissed off they were too stupid to think of it first. >
  
  This is smart. Other mum is salty she got outplayed like a cs go silver in a MGE comp match. >
  
  British people are so weird. So she went to another stop. So? The police had to be called? What a flagrant abuse of the law.
  She was smart, that's all. Don't work hard, work smart. >
  
  This was a mum with a buggy. She went to her usual stop, and saw that there were already 2 mums there with buggies. UK buses usually only have enough room for two buggies and/or wheelchairs, and on the balance of probability, it's not likely a bus approaching would have both spaces occupied.
  The woman goes to the preceding stop and gets a space. The bus then turns up at her regular stop, causing one of the women with a buggy to be denied a space due to lack of room. Woman goes apeshit because she's likely never been told "no" in her life.
  Police were called because the woman denied boarding was causing a public disturbance, assaulted the mother that got on at the earlier stop, and was likely hurling abuse at the driver. >
  
  It's also worth noting this is Somerset. They don't exactly have frequent buses there. The bus to Langport used to go on a Wednesday and come back on a Saturday... >
  
  Dumb people hate it when you use just a little bit of common sense to get ahead. Not cheat, not deceive, just use a bit of common sense. Because dumb people don’t have common sense, so they’ll look at it as you pulling one over on them. >
  
  I do this all the time >
  
  Burn him!!! >
  
  Well Played…. >
  
  Holy shit, the entitlement of some people these days has got to be close to critical mass? Woman walks further to ensure she gets her child home quicker. That isn't selfish, it's critical fucking thinking. This is a case of "I didn't think of that so you're a bastard"  FFS >
  
  I do this on the Skytrain in Vancouver for any events (concerts, sports, etc). The arena is at, let's call it Station B, I need to get to station K, so I get on the virtually empty train to Station A going the other way, walk to the other side of the platform and ride from A to K guaranteed a spot on the traid and my choice of seat to boot. >
  
  They love their queues and queue etiquette. >
  
  It's called being clever, lady >
  
  I wouldn't even call it clever, it's just common sense >
  
  I totally do this. Otherwise I have to wait several buses before I can get on. I don't get up early enough to waste time. >
  
  Broke no rules but shes a sneaky, selfish asshole for her intent. >
  
  Tram 28, Lisbon vibes >
  
  I’m sorry, that’s just working the system. Girl’s got Mom Game! >
  
  After reading some of the comments I don’t think I’ll ever get on a train or no kind of transport. Yuck and are some of you really serious ? >
  
  I used to do that whenever NYC had a transit strike. I’d stay in Riverdale with my sister and walk to the city line to the first stop of the private Liberty Lines bus into Manhattan. Lots of people did the same thing. It used to take 3 hours to get to Manhattan but I had to work and attend law school classes at night. >
  
  Pretty normal thing, I used to do it too when I used the bus. I could stop at 1 bus stop and keep standing because bus is full, or use the 2nd route that’s 1 min further and not only get on the bus earlier but also finding a seat. >
  
  Ridiculous.  Get on at whatever stop you feel like. >
  
  Oh what rubbish!!! >
  
  Any of them could have done the same thing. That was a mom doing what she needed to do. No issue with this move. >
  
  This is the most UK thing I've read today. It's called a big brain and she has it. >
  
  Only in the UK, y'all Brits love your lines. In America we'd call this mom smart. >
  
  I once had the same commute as a coworker and they were fixing a bridge on the highway which added at least 20 minutes to our drive times. I figured that I could take the off-ramp and then cross the road to the on ramp and miss 90% of the construction. When I told her this she was mad and said I was cheating. I figured I was just smarter than everyone else. Lol. >
  
  As a kid I used to do the same thing. The bus stop closest to our house was always busy, so I would walk to the one before it. Always got a seat. >
  
  Right thing to do. She did the work by walking to a different stop, she deserves it >
  
  Hate the game, not the player. >
  
  Most newsworthy day in Somerset >
  
  The real problem here is a system so fucked up that it rewards the person willing to walk the furthest in the direction opposite to the one they want to go.  That's the flavor in this onion. >
  
  Isn't that a part of life?
  Getting ahead of others by seeing opportunities?
  Oh wait,that's not fair is it.🤣 >
  
  Are brits assigned bus stops?
  Sound like one mom cared enough to get herself and her kid a seat and other didn't. >
  
  Stupid/lazy people mad at a mom for walking a hundred meters to the stop before a busy stop is peak stupid/lazy people. >
  
  I think I'm dumb, because I cannot figure out what even happened. Walking to a previous bus stop? So, like, behind where she needed to go? Like, for the next bus?
  I'm confused as to what is happening. >
  
  Buses follow a route going from A-B-C
  2 mums with prams at B.
  Person went to A to get on the bus.
  When bus got to B screaming ensued. Police involved etc.
  No one got to C on time. >
  
  Thank you I get it now. It's all happened before the bus arrived, so she went to A stop instead of B and now the mums at B stop are mad that she went to A instead, presumably taking a spot. That's what I gathered. >
  
  Yep you got it >
  
  Standard practice with overloaded transit systems, whats actually “selfish” is for the lazy ones to expect everyone else to lower themselves to their own level… >
  
  This take puzzles me.  The action is fundamentally selfish - the entire system is made worse by this action, not better - only she comes out ahead, and that advantage comes at a bigger cost to the whole system than the benefit she enjoys.  On the whole, passengers go to more trouble, since some of them are walking at least one stop to improve their chances.  On the whole, the bus has to carry people further, since they are walking 'backward' to the direction they want to travel.  On the whole, for every passenger that improves their experience, another one has their experience made the same amount worse.  And this starts a "race to the bottom" - if all three passengers walk back x stops, one or more will then want to walk back x+1, and this effect will continue until the total cost of the "extra" time imposed is worse than waiting for another bus.  Everybody loses.  Avoiding this type of situation is the reason we have social customs, and why social censure is imposed when people break them. >
  
  This country is backwards as fuck. Honestly, I'm amazed half the country know how to feed themselves, clearly using your brain these days is a punishable offence. >
  
  It’s always the ones who shouldn’t be moms who are having kids.  I’m talking about the mom who was screaming and cursing at the woman while with her kids.  First mom didn’t really do anything wrong. >
  
  Hot news!! Well.. actually.. maybe not on reflection >
  
  Nothing wrong with that! The pylons weren’t smart enough to think outside the box >
  
  How dare she walk, burning some calories just so she could get a seat? The most selfish thing I’ve ever heard. Unforgivable!!! >
  
  I do this all the time. The two other moms are morons. >
  
  Who cares🙄 >
  
  Who cares that you don't >
  
  My point exactly! >
  
  It's not line skipping if you are in a different line. >
  
  Hmmm.... when you read the title on it's own the obvious the woman did nothing wrong. But the spirit of queuing is what's the problem here. 2 woman were waiting, and by walking down the street, she did effectively cut the queue and another mother was not able to ride the bus with her children. The mom still did not technically do anything wrong. It's defintely not worth shouting at her over losing your spot, but knowingly jumping the queue and denying another mother transportation isn't nice either. >
  
  Alright runners line up in order of bib numbers 1-10. Ok now that you're in sequential order you now have to finish the race in that order. Congratulations to Bib number 1 for doing nothing.
  If you're quick and clever enough to get to the stop before the one you're at then good on ya.