Travels on the number 10 bus

YOU really never know what you will see from the bus as you travel to work and this morning even that saying surpassed itself.


My friend’s new baby.

Looking, or should I say kinda gazing without really looking I came too and realised that the woman stretched akimbo on the back seat of a car that I was blankly looking into had actually just given birth and was being rushed to hospital under police escort through the morning rush hour traffic in Phibsboro.

I had noticed a woman’s thigh lying across the back seat of a car. As the car pulled ahead I realised that I was looking at a woman cradling her wrapped up in swaddling newborn baby absolutely flaked out on the back seat after having given birth.

I was so excited I took off the auld ipod and said to the bloke sitting opposite me ‘did you see that?’

Despite wearing an identity card proclaiming him to be a staff member of the Children’s University Hospital, he didn’t seem too bothered at all.

Maybe he sees this type of thing all the time, or maybe after seeing a couple of children projectile vomit, nothing could compete.

Anyway is this bad to admit but I did really want to take a picture, but it would have been wildly obtrusive, I know, though it really would have been a brilliant shot, fantastic.

I resisted though and didn’t. So if you are disappointed sorry I can’t share that lovely moment with you. I somehow think the new mum wouldn’t feel the same about it.


Another shot I took of another friend’s baby.

Mentioning this to someone in work, they were saying ‘ach poor woman and her embarrassment’.

I don’t believe she would care, not at that stage, she had after all just given birth and as my own mother said to me and it is true modesty goes out the window when childbirth is involved.

Besides I only saw her because I was sitting on the bus raised up slightly above her, and she would have been lower than most of the traffic on the road. And anyway her modesty was protected and the most important thing is that they seemed fine and were being brought to hospital.

I do hope everything is okay, and her and the baby are fine after their police-escorted trip to the hospital.

It has put a big smile on my face today.


Congrats and well done new mum, I think you’re great.

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