Single mothers on their mobile phone on the bus, talking for 30+ minutes

HovaBaby · 15-01-2012 3:25pm #1

Has anyone noticed this phenomenon? In my last 3 bus journeys I have seen 3 single mothers in the buggy areas of the bus, talking out loud into their mobile phones. (with everyone on the bus able to hear.)

Now, the bus journey for me is 30-40 minutes long, how can they keep talking for that amount of time non-stop? You wouldn't mind, but on one occasion I saw the womans child (she had a baby in a buggy too) was asking for her to tie his laces, but she wouldn't pay him any attention at all. She just kept speaking loudly into her phone.

Before I got on the bus the child was taking payphone receivers off their holders and hitting them against the payphone, yet no response from his mother. IMO he was trying to get some attention from her. Another single mother had a newborn baby and was talking straight for 40 minutes. Has anyone witness this type of behaviour, and if so, what do you think of it?

BTW, I know they are single mothers from their lengthy conversations. They let everyone on the bus knows this from the multiple times they talked about "the new fella".

CamperMan · 15-01-2012 3:26pm

how do you know they are single mothers from their conversations?..

and if they were irritating you, why did you listen in?

dvpower · 15-01-2012 3:28pm

How many permutations of this thread are possible?

HovaBaby · 15-01-2012 3:28pm

CamperMan wrote: »

how do you know they are single mothers?

I edited the post from what you saw. I knew from their conversations.

"I've a new fella now. I jumped on toppa him and started kissing him."

Ellis Dee · 15-01-2012 3:29pm

How did you know the mothers were single? Or is it only single mothers who talk out loud on the phone?

:):)

Edit: Oh, I've seen your edited version and the bit about her jumpin' on top of him and kissin' him.

Was your mouth waterin' at the thought?

Sunnyisland · 15-01-2012 3:29pm

Women gossiping the way women do.

MrStuffins · 15-01-2012 3:30pm

So wait........ kids are acting like kids and people with phones use them to have phone conversations?

KILL THEM ALL!!!!!!!

HovaBaby · 15-01-2012 3:31pm

It's kinda hard not to listen in. The radio is down low and they are talking very loudly. I had no earphones so I couldn't listen to some.

I had my iPhone but I find it bad manners to play music directly from the iPhones speakers in front of everybody.

Butterface · 15-01-2012 3:32pm

Everybody knows there's a direct correlation between lenghth of phone conversation and whether you've had a child out of wedlock.

Kevin Duffy · 15-01-2012 3:32pm

This has to be top of the list of First World Problems. Who gives a fúck? Stop eavesdropping or buy a car.

Millicent · 15-01-2012 3:32pm

You're assuming that married women/those with partners don't do this?

MrStuffins · 15-01-2012 3:33pm

HovaBaby wrote: »

It's kinda hard not to listen in. The radio is down low and they are talking very loudly. I had no earphones so I couldn't listen to some.

I had my iPhone but I find it bad manners to play music directly from the iPhones speakers in front of everybody.

So what exactly is your problem here? if she was married would it have bothered you she was on the phone?

stovelid · 15-01-2012 3:33pm

dvpower wrote: »

How many permutations of this thread are possible?

An amount that is as infinite as the brains of those starting them are limited.

Millicent · 15-01-2012 3:33pm

stovelid wrote: »

An amount that is as infinite as the brains of those starting them are limited.

I love this answer.

HovaBaby · 15-01-2012 3:34pm

MrStuffins wrote: »

So wait........ kids are acting like kids and people with phones use them to have phone conversations?

KILL THEM ALL!!!!!!!

Mothers repeatedly ignoring childs request to tie his shoe laces so she could yap into her phone = ???

Mother?

BunShopVoyeur · 15-01-2012 3:34pm

What does them being single mothers have to do with anything?

CamperMan · 15-01-2012 3:35pm

HovaBaby wrote: »

I edited the post from what you saw. I knew from their conversations.

"I've a new fella now. I jumped on toppa him and started kissing him."

SO SHE ISN'T SINGLE!

dxhound2005 · 15-01-2012 3:35pm

HovaBaby wrote: »

I edited the post from what you saw. I knew from their conversations.

"I've a new fella now. I jumped on toppa him and started kissing him."

Maybe you misheard, it could have been something like this they were at.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2076228/Im-doing-child-Meet-single-mothers-turning-phone-sex-lines-bid-boost-family-income.html

MrStuffins · 15-01-2012 3:36pm

HovaBaby wrote: »

Mothers repeatedly ignoring childs request to tie his shoe laces so she could yap into her phone = ???

Mother?

Perhaps she was in the process of teaching the child to tie his own shoelaces and thought the best way to encourage him to do so would be not to answer him?

Seriously, the single-mother/traveller/Roma Gypsy/Dole etc. threads on AH have gone really downhill. I remember they used to be something to actually have a discussion about.

Sunnyisland · 15-01-2012 3:36pm

MrStuffins wrote: »

So what exactly is your problem here? if she was married would it have bothered you she was on the phone?

Or if it was a Man with a child who was not married talking on the phone .

LighterGuy · 15-01-2012 3:37pm

I know what you mean op. I've been on the bus and sometimes you'd hear a skanger women just yapping on... excessively loud so the whole bus has to her.

MrStuffins · 15-01-2012 3:37pm

LighterGuy wrote: »

I know what you mean op. I've been on the bus and sometimes you'd hear a skanger women just yapping on... excessively loud so the whole bus has to her.

Who said anything about her being a skanger?

Millicent · 15-01-2012 3:37pm

HovaBaby wrote: »

Mothers repeatedly ignoring childs request to tie his shoe laces so she could yap into her phone = ???

Mother?

So one example of lax parenting is a phenomenon?

crazygeryy · 15-01-2012 3:38pm

HovaBaby wrote: »

Has anyone noticed this phenomenon? In my last 3 bus journeys I have seen 3 single mothers in the buggy areas of the bus, talking out loud into their mobile phones. (with everyone on the bus able to hear.)

Now, the bus journey for me is 30-40 minutes long, how can they keep talking for that amount of time non-stop? You wouldn't mind, but on one occasion I saw the womans child (she had a baby in a buggy too) was asking for her to tie his laces, but she wouldn't pay him any attention at all. She just kept speaking loudly into her phone.

Before I got on the bus the child was taking payphone receivers off their holders and hitting them against the payphone, yet no response from his mother. IMO he was trying to get some attention from her. Another single mother had a newborn baby and was talking straight for 40 minutes. Has anyone witness this type of behaviour, and if so, what do you think of it?

(BTW, I know they are single mothers from their lengthy conversations.)

Why don't you mind your own buisness? what about people watching what other people are doing all the time and listening in to peoples conversations.
Stick a pair of earphones in your ears ffs.

HovaBaby · 15-01-2012 3:38pm

Millicent wrote: »

You're assuming that married women/those with partners don't do this?

Well on many times i've seen a couple with a pram on a bus, and no, they haven't participated in this behaviour. They didn't talk a lot and any conversation they had wasn't within my earshot.

MrStuffins · 15-01-2012 3:39pm

HovaBaby wrote: »

Well on many times i've seen a couple with a pram on a bus, and no, they haven't participated in this behaviour. They didn't talk a lot and any conversation they had wasn't within my earshot.

Maybe because they don't need to phone each other because.... you know, they're sitting beside each other on the bus!

Millicent · 15-01-2012 3:39pm

HovaBaby wrote: »

Well on many times i've seen a couple with a pram on a bus, and no, they haven't participated in this behaviour. They didn't talk a lot and any conversation they had wasn't within my earshot.

Maybe because chatting on the phone while your boyfriend/girlfriend/wife/husband is beside you is rude?

LighterGuy · 15-01-2012 3:40pm

MrStuffins wrote: »

Who said anything about her being a skanger?

re-read what I said.
Thats my experience I was talking about. I thought the "i've been on a bus and.." part would of made that clear

Freddie59 · 15-01-2012 3:41pm

HovaBaby wrote: »

Well on many times i've seen a couple with a pram on a bus, and no, they haven't participated in this behaviour. They didn't talk a lot and any conversation they had wasn't within my earshot.

Wasting your time I'm afraid. Criticism of any of the aforementioned groups not permitted - or didn't ya know?;):)

HovaBaby · 15-01-2012 3:41pm

MrStuffins wrote: »

Maybe because they don't need to phone each other because.... you know, they're sitting beside each other on the bus!

I'm talking about using the phone in general, I never stated people only calling each others partners on the phone.

I don't know who the woman on the bus was talking to. I'm talking about phone etiquette.

HovaBaby · 15-01-2012 3:43pm

Millicent wrote: »

Maybe because chatting on the phone while your boyfriend/girlfriend/wife/husband is beside you is rude?

Maybe because chatting on the phone with your 2 young children beside you is rude?

MrStuffins · 15-01-2012 3:43pm

Freddie59 wrote: »

Wasting your time I'm afraid. Criticism of any of the aforementioned groups not permitted - or didn't ya know?;):)

Silly post.

If someone makes a well reasoned argument with proof to back themselves up, then why not?

But saying "I saw a woman on the phone for a long time. She was a single mother so obviously that has a bearing on the situation" is hardly that!

Josephine O Beirnes · 15-01-2012 3:44pm

Doesnt bother me in the least, as long as the bus gets me to where im going, i couldnt care less if there are 20 people talking into their mobile phones, wheither they are single mums/dads i dont know, everybody has their place to go to, and if they like a bit of chat along the way, well then why not,

MrStuffins · 15-01-2012 3:44pm

HovaBaby wrote: »

Maybe because chatting on the phone with your 2 young children beside you is rude?

No it's not.

Millicent · 15-01-2012 3:45pm

HovaBaby wrote: »

Maybe because chatting on the phone with your 2 young children beside you is rude?

Oh, so no parent ever tells their child to phwisht when they're having a conversation unless they're a single mother?

Bad parenting isn't dependent on marital status. There are some single mothers who are the best parents in the world and some who aren't. Vice versa with partnered/married parents.

MrStuffins · 15-01-2012 3:46pm

HovaBaby wrote: »

I'm talking about using the phone in general, I never stated people only calling each others partners on the phone.

I don't know who the woman on the bus was talking to. I'm talking about phone etiquette.

And phone etiquette is to stay on the phone less than 30 minutes and to talk so that nobody else can hear you?

Last time I checked, off-the-phone etiquette involved not sitting behind somebody listening to all the finite details of their conversations, so much so that you can then repeat them later and start a thread about them on a public forum.

HovaBaby · 15-01-2012 3:48pm

BTW, i'm not just saying a "conversation", or the length. She was very loud the whole time.

I could speak and only the person next to me would hear, but the person right up the back would hear every word she said.

marketty · 15-01-2012 3:48pm

I don't believe this happened. Everyone knows single mothers get free cars (and socks) so why would they lower themselves to public transport?

MrStuffins · 15-01-2012 3:49pm

HovaBaby wrote: »

BTW, i'm not just saying a "conversation", or the length. She was very loud the whole time.

I could speak and only the person next to me would hear, but the person right up the back would hear every word she said.

Maybe she has hearing difficulties?

If she'd have mentioned this in the phone conversation i'm sure you'd have jotted it down in a notebook somewhere?

HovaBaby · 15-01-2012 3:50pm

MrStuffins wrote: »

And phone etiquette is to stay on the phone less than 30 minutes and to talk so that nobody else can hear you?

Last time I checked, off-the-phone etiquette involved not sitting behind somebody listening to all the finite details of their conversations, so much so that you can then repeat them later and start a thread about them on a public forum.

As I said before, I don't "listen in" to people's conversations. You would have had to be 80% dead not to hear what she was saying.

Regards phone etiquette, you talk so only a couple of people can hear you, not the entire bus. Speaking for more than 30 minutes and loudly, I consider that improper.

Millicent · 15-01-2012 3:51pm

This is officially the worst single mother thread I've read on AH. And that's saying something.

HovaBaby · 15-01-2012 3:54pm

MrStuffins wrote: »

Maybe she has hearing difficulties?

If she'd have mentioned this in the phone conversation i'm sure you'd have jotted it down in a notebook somewhere?

Listen here pal, I don't remember the vast majority of the conversation. I have seen many many people on the bus talking on their mobile, but I don't remember a bit of what they said.

It's not my fault she was boasting to the whole bus about "the new fella" and she wanted people to know. If you were involved in a new relationship or got a new job, would you be boasting about it to people on the bus?

Mance Rayder · 15-01-2012 3:54pm

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LighterGuy · 15-01-2012 3:55pm

JESUS :eek: !
Why are people giving the op such a hard time?!

He is bloody just talking about loud jerks on the bus. Are people on here in a bubble that much? ... that they've never heard loud people talk shout down a phone on a bus?

Millicent · 15-01-2012 3:56pm

LighterGuy wrote: »

JESUS :eek: !
Why are people giving the op such a hard time?!

He is bloody just talking about loud jerks on the bus. Are people on here in a bubble that much? ... that they've never heard loud people talk shout down a phone on a bus?

No, not people--single mothers. Check the thread title and OP.

CamperMan · 15-01-2012 3:57pm

LighterGuy wrote: »

JESUS :eek: !
Why are people giving the op such a hard time?!

He is bloody just talking about loud jerks on the bus. Are people on here in a bubble that much? ... that they've never heard loud people talk shout down a phone on a bus?

if the OP doesn't like noisy people on buses, he has other options...

get a car
get a bike
or walk!

I don't use public transport for many reasons so I use all three of the above

Kevin Duffy · 15-01-2012 3:57pm

HovaBaby wrote: »

Listen here pal, I don't remember the vast majority of the conversation. I have seen many many people on the bus talking on their mobile, but I don't remember a bit of what they said.

But you didn't start a thread having a go at them, you picked on single mothers.

HovaBaby wrote: »

It's not my fault she was boasting to the whole bus about "the new fella" and she wanted people to know. If you were involved in a new relationship or got a new job, would you be boasting about it to people on the bus?

She was talking to the person on the phone, not the whole bus. I wouldn't do it myself,, but that doesn't make her wrong. I think you're jealous she's roidin' the new fella.

HovaBaby · 15-01-2012 3:58pm

Millicent wrote: »

No, not people--single mothers. Check the thread title and OP.

When did I say i'm giving single mothers a hard time?

When I said "Single Mothers" I didn't mean every single one. I typed this topic because the 3 people I saw engage in this behaviour were single mothers.

Eric Cartman · 15-01-2012 3:58pm

theyre talking to other single mothers about how to trap men and scam more dole ofcourse

MrStuffins · 15-01-2012 4:00pm

HovaBaby wrote: »

Listen here pal, I don't remember the vast majority of the conversation. I have seen many many people on the bus talking on their mobile, but I don't remember a bit of what they said.

It's not my fault she was boasting to the whole bus about "the new fella" and she wanted people to know. If you were involved in a new relationship or got a new job, would you be boasting about it to people on the bus?

Nope. And it dorsn't sound like she was either. It sounds like she was trying to have a conversation on the bus and you were sitting listening to her.

I don't like when people are loud on the bus. I'm not a big fan of people on the phone in my ear. I'm not a big fan of people playing their sh*t music out loud on the bus. So ya know what I do? I bring my earphones with me. I have a smartphone and an iPod, I use them.

If I don't bring my earphones, tough cookie for me, I have to put up with other people on the bus.

Single mothers and all :rolleyes:

mikemac1 · 15-01-2012 4:01pm

This week has been dominated by racism threads

OP, this is a terrible attempt at a single mother thread. Try harder

Travellers have neglected for a while now. Monday morning, start of the business week AH can start to sort that one out

Single mothers on their mobile phone on the bus, talking for 30+ minutes

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