Puddle splashing cars!

marywooyeah

MamaMoo wrote: »

On Saturday, I was waiting at the bus stop with my son in his pram. Next to the bus stop, there is a very large, deep puddle. As the bus approached, I put my hand out for him to stop. As there were no available pram seats on the bus, said driver decided to speed on past, straight through the puddle, drenching me and the pram. Luckily, the raincover was on, but I was fuming!
If you have a pram, and there are no pram seats left, the driver is supposed to give you the opportunity to fold it down. Not this guy, no, he even laughed as he drove past. Absolute git. And it was the last bus for an hour.
It would have caused no harm to himself or anyone else had he slowed down, the roads were clear of traffic, and the puddle is very big (covers the lane, widthways, and is maybe 3 metres long), and it had been there for a couple of days, so I would have expected him to a) see it as he approached or b) have prior knowledge of it, due to driving past/through it regularly.
Some drivers are clearly just idiots.

omg! that's just downright nasty! I hope you reported him!

when my son was a baby a bus driver stopped but wouldnt open the doors even though an entire side of the buggy bay was free (on the other side there were 2 people sat in it despite the bus being about 90% empty) then drove off after sticking his fingers up at me! I reported him straightaway and recieved a letter saying he was being investigated and got vouchers for free bus travel for a few days too.

the behaviour you described is completely unacceptable and he deserved to be punished for it.

marywooyeah

Gilbert2 wrote: »

No, it sounds more like the driver of the car was so aghast because a pedestrian moans about getting wet in, errrm, the rain, that they laughed it off as being so ridiculous for words!

If I constantly ate cream cakes I'd be fat, why would I blame ASDA for selling them to me?

It's a similar thing, some people will just blame everybody else for everything.

it wasn't raining. It's not a similar thing at all -if you were fat from eating cakes, it would be your fault because you put them in your mouth, ASDA may have sold them to you but you consumed them.

Here the damage to OP and her clothes was completely avoidable and completely the fault of the driver, OP was simply walking down the road and bears no fault at all. Quite frankly if I was OP I'd be sending my dry cleaning bill to the smarmy cowbag!

custardy

I'm still astounded he idea of stopping/slowing is alien to some on this thread
No no,I must get past that pedestrian, so its just tough luck what happens.......