We live in Brooklyn, NY.

A BIG place. Filled with nice individuals and not so nice individuals. The bus is the worst means of transportation because every time the bus hits a bump or something, everyone goes knocking into someone and if you are disabled with arthritis or any kind of anything, and you are standing up holding on to the overhead hanging thing, or just holding on to a pole, and the bus driver is driving the bus AROUND some big truck and the bus lurches, well it can PULL THE ARM ALMOST OUT OF THE SOCKET.

I had a bad shoulder for years. I did the crawling up the wall thing and got it to where could use it. Lots of therapy but it's MUCH better.

I get on the bus, I'm nolding on, the bus lurches, my arm starts to hold on, and because I have to hold on so I won't fall, my arm gets stretched in places it does not want to get stretched.

Murder.

So I always try and get on buses with empty seats.

Oh, the other day two women with a baby IN THE STROLLER got on. The bus driver told them. "you cannot bring a baby with a stroller on this bus" And I'm not talking those little fold up stroller either, this was big normal sized stroller that if she just took out the baby, and collapsed it, well it would have been much flatter than if she got on the bus with the baby IN the stroller.

She ignored the bus driver she paid the fare, she and the other woman just rolled the stroller onto the bus and there they sat. Thank god I was on the other side of the bus and didn't have to STEP over the stroller to get off.

Never in my life have I seen such things being brought on the bus, as I have lately.

People bring full size shopping carts (and not folded, but filled with packages). The bus driver doesn't do anything. He might warn them but if they don't listen, he says 'what can I do"?

It's getting much worse.

But if one has to travel, one has to travel.

lol