S’pore bus captain gives distressed boy chocolates, mother commends his kindness

Singapore – A Singaporean mother with a distressed child while in a bus was also close to tears until the bus captain walked over and handed her children some sweets.

Facebook page ROADS.sg highlighted the bus captain’s commendable behaviour in a post on Friday (Jan 28).

The mother, Ms Aleesa Saaib, shared that she picked up her two boys from school at around 5 pm, per usual, and boarded bus service 98 to head home.

“At this hour, my son has shown distress, and he needed to feed on breastmilk,” said Ms Aleesa.

Her son cried throughout the journey and broke free from her arms multiple times, throwing his body towards the chair.

The mother admitted her helplessness and tried carrying her son to the window to show him the moving vehicles.

The trucks passing by kept the boy quiet for a while, but he would soon cry again when the bus moved, or there were other vehicles to distract him.

“I almost cried too because I could not help him and have no idea how to calm him down,” she wrote.

When the bus stopped at a junction, the bus captain came out of his driver’s seat and walked over in their direction.

Ms Aleesa thought at first that the bus captain would scold her for not being able to keep her son quiet.

“But I was wrong. He walked towards me with two pieces of chocolates,” which he handed to her two sons.

“I was too stunned to speak and almost cried again because there’s still (a) kind soul around me.”

She noted that her son stopped crying immediately. Ms Aleesa thanked the bus captain by raising her hand in appreciation at his direction, which he accepted through the rearview mirror.

“This bus driver of bus service 98, with plate number SBS 3414X deserves a shoutout and commendable service award for his kindness and thoughts for his passengers,” she wrote.

Ms Aleesa said that she sent feedback to the Land Transport Authority and Tower Transit, hoping the bus captain would be praised or rewarded for his good work.

In a comment on her separate Facebook post, Tower Transit Singapore thanked Ms Aleesa for her “thoughtful and heart-warming post.”

“We’d love to share your message on our own page if you’d be happy to allow us!” the transport operator added./TISG

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