Short Story Saturday

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"Driver, can I get on the back please?"

The driver nodded his head.

She wheeled her double buggy towards the back doors of the double decker bus, tipped it up and pushed it into buggy space.

"Do you want to sit down?" A lady with said loudly with ear pods in her ears.

"No I'm fine, thanks so much for offering."

She smiled and nodded.

The bus whirred down the busy London road-- a multitude of people got on and got off the bus.

Two seats were free in front of where she put her buggy; she took off her bag and sat down.

Her son at the front of the buggy started to kick and scream.

"What's wrong? What do you want?"

He started to scream even louder than before.

"Are you hungry?"

He shook his head and released a high pitch scream.

"Do you want some water?"

He grunted, hitting the yellow pole on the bus.

"Do you want to sit down next to me?

He stopped screaming and looked directly at his mum's face.

"Well if you want to sit down, you have to ask. Kicking and screaming is not going to get what you want!"

Her son started to know hit his head against the back of the buggy.

She got up and scolded him.

A lady with a black curly weave asked, "Is he bored?"

She turned around and smiled,

"No, he wants to come to come out of the buggy and sit down, but I want him to learn a lesson that bad behaviour won't get him what he wants. He has to learn how to ask."

"That's a really good thing you're doing, keep it up mum"

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