so quite unexpectedly I had to get the bus back from playgroup. Was getting a lift from a friend but we left it to late to leave and so to save her the hassle of having to be late to collect her son from school, I happily told her we would get the bus home - Mouse loves the bus anyway!
Right, so have a big belly, a nearly 4 year old and a two year old ( no you aren't missing anything, I was babysitting for the day) ...and it is drizzling!
All I had was 50p in coins, and two £1 coins - one of which is a bit dodgy. So get on the bus, big, fat, tattooed to the hilt bus driver tells me it is £1.70, so I put my two pound coins down. He proceeds to pick up my dodgy coin, sniffs at me and tells me he won't accept it. I implore him to look in my purse and see there is no more money to give - only 50p and some coppers, but would he have it? Not a ninny. So it goes like this:
" so are you going to kick off your bus a pregnant woman with two small children in the rain?"
"Yes, ain't my fault love and at the end of the day I ain't going to have to pay for your one pound coin "
"what?"
" well they don't accept them love and would make me pay outta my own pocket and I ain't gonna do that for everyone now am I?"
"Have you not heard of doing a good deed?"
" Love if I did that for everyone I would be outta pocket."
By now I am crying - stupid bloody hormones - but do you think tears moved this hard-arsed &**%£(*%% ? - yip, not on your ninny.
I was saved by a very kind lady who paid the one pound, so as I walked past her - still in tears - I upended my wallet in her lap, leaving her 50p and an assortment of coppers. And of course Mouse wants to sit in the very back, so I have to walk past everyone looking like a raccoon on a Halloween parade. Bloody stupid waterproof mascara that is no not waterproof.
Then when we get off the bus, Mouse and Phoebe give the bus driver a big "thank you", and I won't repeat what I said as it was extremely unladylike, and by that point my tears had turned to full on indignation.
Mr. A is searching for a second car for us - just a silly little runaround to get him to and from work....please, please, please someone sell us a car....preferably by next Monday, I need my car !!!
