Now if you’ve followed a few of my threads, you’ll know I am not someone who goes all melty over children. I avoid them if I can, but if they annoy me, I will post a complaint thread here, because people get all pissed off if I complain in public when the incident happens. After posting, Dopers get all pissed off at me here.
But at least, I never toy with children’s lives.
I was on a bus, coming back from the Chicago Botanic Garden. The bus line runs along a railroad track with crossbars for pedestrians. While the bus was waiting at a red light, I saw the crossbar come down, with all the flashing lights and bells going off.
There was a guy on the other side of the tracks, walking with, I assume, his wife and child. He was pushing the child in a stroller.
And he runs, pushing the stroller around the crossbar and across the tracks. Not two seconds after he makes it, an express train blows past at about forty miles an hour.
:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
His wife had stayed behind the crossbar, and waited until it came back up to walk over to join him. And seemed quite blase about the whole event. They walked on.
My busdriver squeaked, “Did you see that?! Did you see that?!”
I said, “Yes I did, and I would have to kick his butt if that were my husband.”
A murmur ran through the bus, and a few awkward giggles.
Unbelievable. And I’m the childfree one. I would hope I would never do that to a kid in a stroller.
