To expect someone to walk around me on stairs?

[elfinblast]

So, I'm in a large shopping centre, walking up the very wide staircase.
I am holding on to the rail with one hand, and with the other am holding small childs hand, and have a big bag half way up my fore-arm.

Half way up aforementioned stairs, I come across a woman walking down. She is 40's, no bags, and no children. She stopped dead, as did I and waited for me to walk round her.

I didn't and she had to walk round me, and gave me a gobful of abuse for her troubles.

And I'd kept to the left.

If she'd been old or had more bags/kids than me, then fair do's, but I do feel rather miffed about this.

[amytheearwaxbanisher]

ynbu muppet of a woman how rude!

[RGPargy]

YANBU. I always move out the way for people with kids on stairs as they are obviously teaching them to be careful on the stairs etc! She's obviously of the "why should i f*cking move" school of thought and just plain rude/ignorant.

[Niecie]

Silly woman!

Why don't people keep to the left? It would be such an easy rule to follow since we drive on the left but so many people don't think! Drives me mad.

I bet you can think of hundreds of retorts for her now, can't you?!

[littlelong1]

You want rude? Try taking a 3 wheeler to any London museum which involves the London undergroud and those bloody steep escalators. I was one of 3 adults with the pram. escalators aren't very wide, so you can't stay on the right side, as you take up the whole step!

2 of us held the front end so the single wheel didn't topple. The looks we were getting cos people couldn't get passed. It really wasn't nice. & it was a saturday - anyone would think we were holding up rush hour! It really is a case if some people see a pram/small kiddi they either get cross cos its/they are in the way, or are rude and just carry on in your path. What's with that?!?!

I do understand - bloody rude woman. what ever happened to good old fashioned manners?!

[mumtojess]

YANBU - I went to M&S last Friday and a woman did her best to get into my DD's pram in order to cut the corner. I did an emergency stop and she tutted at me! I had to take a few deep breaths as inside I wanted to put her on her arse - so to speak!

[toastedteacake]

Devils advocate..... did you know that pedestrians are supposed to walk on the right hand side of the road facing on-coming traffic (highway code). Still doesn't excuse the 'cow's' behaviour though!!

[Sushipaws]

Silly bitter old hag, bet she doesn't have kids.

[Lazarou]

You should have kicked the stupid bitch down the stairs.

[elfinblast]

Niecie, I can think of many better things to say than the earful I dh got. He was following behind with 2 more children..
"did you see that...stupid cow" etc. etc.

I will kick the next person to do this down the stairs. Promise.

[kekouan]

YANBU. I had something similar the other day. I'm 8 months pregnant and need to haul myself up on the handrail. Expecting perfectly able people to walk around me is obviously completely unreasonable of me. :-p

[lizziemun]

YANBU

I know how you feel, i would be able to walk in half the time if i didn't have to go around everyonr with my pram and DD1.

I just think that people are so rapped up in their own world they forget (don't care) that other people may be around.

[milward]

yanbu - what a rude & selfish person she was.

[maisemor]

Toastedteacake, I have been taught that on the pavement or any other pedestrian walking areas (i.e. escalators, stairs etc.) you keep to your left.
However if you are walking on a road, you keep to the right as you then can see the oncoming traffic and can step out of the way (as roads are for cars and not really pedestrians).

[maisemor]

By the way YANBU elfinblast.

[LittleMissNervoustWitch]

How rude! silly selfish woman with zero manners, lets hope karma catches up with her and makes sure she has a very bad day for the mouth full of abuse she gave you in front of your dc!

[Fossil]

Yesterday I was q'ing and the young bloke in front left the queue to go and get some other shopping, then came back and stood in front of me again! . Tosser.

[RustyBear]

Perhaps she'd just been watching Sliding Doors...

[Carbonel]

I am playing devil's advocate to a certain extent, but maybe she was unsteady on her feet and needed to hold the handrail?

My mum (OK well over 40 ) cannot walk up or down open tread stairs without holding on as she has some queer phobia about seeing through the stairs!

Or it was perectly possible she had arthritis or something....

but either way it does not excuse the abuse!

[southeastastra]

i was wondering if she was slightly phobic too, i hate walking in the middle of stairs and hate tube escalators (especially Angel tube) argh

[bookwormmum]

Asd loads of people have said, I wonder why the women coming down didn't walk on her left - you are instructed to do this on stairs on the underground and it's really just commmon sense so everyone can get to at least one handrail. I can understand why she was reluctant to walk around someone going downstairs though being as I am one of these people who are slightly phobic about falling down stairs/escalators (even walking past an open stairwell used to present problems for me). She may have frozen through fear but that doesn't excuse her being rude to other folk.

[toastedteacake]

Maisemor,

Brownies in the '70's were taught to make way on pavements, stairs, etc. for old people, small children, ladies with prams, and people with a heavy load.

I stick by the Brownie Guide Law, it's just good manners.

toastedteacake

[MissM]

This has pushed my buttons as I was walking down some stairs today, 8.5 months preg, holding handrail. Woman behind me huffed and puffed and tutted then stormed past me. I said loudly, 'God, isn't it annoying when very pregnant women walk slowly?'. No idea if she heard but made me feel better. YANBU.

[bubblagirl]

yanbu used to happen to me all the time

worst time for me was at a bus stop heavly pregnant put my bags on floor bus arrives old people kick my shopping over rolls around every where like hell can i reach down to get it every one watches me struggle not one person helps me pick it up

get on bus not one person gives me a seat luckily nice bus driver had a go at the way i was treated and made someone give me a seat then he stopped out side my door and carried shopping in for me thank god for him wontr go near buses now lol