I waited for over one hour for a bus in the freezing cold

How horrible for you Max, I remember those days when the children where very young, my youngest is ten now so not to bad. Did no-one try and help you?...I haven't been on a bus in a long time, I tend to walk if I haven't got the car, there's no bus route where I live, only for the school children (picked up from the door) which is wonderful for them. I can walk to the village, about 20 mins, but to go to town you have to have a car. Hope you had a nice Christmas Max.

I really understand what you went through. The place where i live has a very unreliable bus service. So if i have to go to a place and i have no transport i rather not go there than to wait for a bus. I remembered when i wanted to go to a place to meet my friend. At that time i still couldn't drive. So i decided to take the bus and i ended up waiting for said bus for 2 hours. And from that day onwards i never took a ride on a bus again. The only public transport that is the slightest bit reliable is our country's train service. However, recently it constantly break down thus causing us to wait long hours and making us late for work. As i work a part time job, each time i was late, i got a salary cut. With all my terrible experiences with public transports, i do not wish to take it anymore. Thank goodness, i have a lovely "driver" to drive me around nowadays. =)

HI maximax8, I am so sorry that you had to wait for one hour for a bus in freezing cold. I can understand that it was a bit annoying to wait in freezing cold especially having a toddler by your side. I really hope that you had somewhere cosy were to say while you waited for the bus The most time that I had to wait was about half an hour.

I think I would avoided the shops altogether if the weather was that bad. I usually check the weather most mornings before I venture anywhere in the winter time. I have a 6 yr old and because I don't drive, we use public transport most of the time when my husband is away overseas. If worse comes to worse I cab to places. One of my goals is to learn how to drive this month - I'm scared but I'm trying to gather a lot of courage to just do it.

oh yes, my friend i experience the way you did last week, i thought the weather is nice so i just wear long sleeve without a jacket..i went to a supermarket and it was far from my place..after an hr..it was snowing wow..it was a freesing moment when im at the bus stop, i was too ashmed cuz i dont wear jacket people are all looking at me shivering..so i take a taxi..

Hi! I am from India. The place where i live never got so much cold. We dont get below freezing point but still in winter the temperature is near 4 or 5 degrees. Once in a winter i was to go to college. I was at the railway station. The trains were running late due to fog. I was stranded at the station for around 2 hours and got late for college as well. I was sitting on the chair at the station, getting restless with every minute passing as was to appear for tests. But opened my book kept reading, but i was actually unable to get in any thing due to restlessness.

oh poor you and your son... i hope you are getting warmer now... i will write a complain to the bus company if i were in your position and ask them for compensation... waiting for more than an hour in a freezing cold weather is not fun at all... at least the bus company should provide you with a solid explanation for the reason of the delay... take care and have a nice day...

That is terrible! I've had my fair share of bus problems in the past 2 years that I've been using public transportation. My bus has a problem with being on time and there have been a few times I've had to wait an hour in 95 degree heat till it finally arrives. I have a few college night classes and don't get out of class till around 10 PM. There's a whole different pack of people on the bus at night, quite a few drunks and tweakers.

we have winter season but it is not so cold as yours.i usually avoid travelling during the cold times,as my kids tend to fall ill during this damp weather. belated happy new year

I have never waited for a bus in such cold weather but I have definately waited for the bus in very hot weather. It was over 45 degrees hot and I was waiting for the bus for over an hour. It was really hard to avoid from the scorching heat. It makes me sick to stand in the sun for such a long hour. Wil wish no ne stands out in the sun for so long.

yes,waiting for a bus or train for over an hour in this cold weather is very indignant.but we have no measures for it ,right?once ,i have waited my friends for a long time in cold weather,at that time i was very vitality.but i have no means for this.

That is really awful and I feel for you and your son. I hope it didn't take too long to get home and get warmed up. I know exactly how it must have felt, as when I was much younger, my mum took me and brother with her to do some grocery shopping at the supermarket. We would usually get the bus there and back and the bus service would usually be reliable. However, on that awful day, right in the middle of winter, the bus took a ridiculously long time and it was absolutely freezing cold. I don't remember what the exact temperature was but the memory is still so vivid because it was very difficult to endure how cold it was, and I remember that we did have to wait for about an hour before the bus finally arrived. I felt really sorry for my mum, especially when I now look back at that moment as she had me and my brother to worry about in addition to herself. Hope you never have to go through anything as awful again.

Oh dear! I have tried waiting for a bus with my son. I had to commute because my husband had the car and I have to meet my friend in her place. I arrived early in the bus station and it was freezing cold that time. I'm not very good with cold weather as we don't have it back home in the Philippines. That time I was thinking how nice it would be just to stay at home with a nice cup of tea instead of being there in a freezing cold weather. Hope you and your kid are fine now and didn't catch a cold or something.

every day my husband need wait the bus for half past one hour to work and wait the bus for half past one hour to go home.On summer the weather is too hot and on winter it is too cold .In this economic crisis time, my husband need work hard to earn money . For one time ,we visited my friend.when we want go back home and arrive at the bus station,there are a long line to wait for the bus.that time my daughter was sleeping.we go to ask the worker whether we can jump the queue. the worker answered that if we had the tickets ,we can take the bus firstly.that time we are lucky.

I remember I had to wait in the rain an hour for my mom in the pouring rain once boy was I mad at her and I was yelling since I could of easily gotten sick. But I dont mind waiting as long as I have my ipod listing to music can pretty much get me through anything.

It sounds like a challenging experience for you and your son. I give you a lot of kudos for making the trip in the first place. It doesn't sound like the public transporation system is always user friendly. If this world continues to go green the powers that control mass transit will have to address this issue as well as others due to the need for alternative transportation. I am glad that you are taking this challenge and using it to open a discussion with others. Have you thought about writing a detail of your story to those responsible for running and managing this bus line? There is always power in numbers so letting others know about what you went through will definitely open up the lines of communication and perhaps other riders who've had similar experiences will bond together to improve the circumstances of riding public transportation.

Hi maximax8, Well I just wouldn't go out in it and get my hubby to go do the normal shopping as he don't do much anyway, I hate the cold weather and if I do have to go out, then I go in my husband's car and he can do thriving as I can't drive. Tamara

Wow you poor thing. I hope that every thing is ok now that you are home safe and sound. I have had that happen to me when I was a kid. My cousins and I went to the mall cause school was cancelled due to the snow storm well when we were in the mall the buses stopped running due to the snow. We had no idea so when it was time to go home we stood at the bus stop waiting and waiting till finally someone drove by and told us that the buses have stopped running due to the snow. We walked across the road to a store and called my dad thank goodness he had a truck and was able to creep to get us other wise we may have been stranded at the store till the plows came out to clear the road. Since then I have made it a point to have my own car at least that way I dont have to wait for a bus that never shows up. Once again I hope that you and your little one are ok.