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AIBU about the man on the bus?

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HelenaWay · 12/05/2017 23:40

He said I don't think you should sit there. I said said excuse me what are you on about? He said the bags are massive and take up the fly space.

Well that was it. I was so angry, it wasn't a big amount. How dare he say that to me. I shouted at him that he had really offended me and it backed off and sat in the flight seat.

Now I'm thinking about it I don't know AIBU?

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Iris65 · 13/05/2017 07:37

Maybe the flight seat is the one reserved for space cadets?

MrsPringles · 13/05/2017 07:35

Yeah I like Nutella and I like Pringles but not together Confused

KungFuPandaWorksOut16 · 13/05/2017 07:35

Roast chicken flavoured Pringles are the one for me.

Without getting into seat terminology, sounds like you was blocking the seats with how you had positioned your bags. I can't see a reference in what was said, implying he thought you was fat.

Bubblesagain · 13/05/2017 07:33

Yes but only if you dip them in Nutella
Nutella and Pringles?! Envy

ShowMePotatoSalad · 13/05/2017 07:33

This is a joy to behold.

jarhead123 · 13/05/2017 07:31

Have no idea what you're talking about!

colonelgoldfish · 13/05/2017 07:30

I couldn't sleep in the night and clicked onto this thread. After a few mins I had to add it to watched for morning as I was finding it hard to control my laughter and DH started tossing and turning!

Never heard of the terms fly space and flight seat - I do hope the OP returns to explain them in more detail because I'm stumped!

piefacedClique · 13/05/2017 07:24

Yes but only if you dip them in Nutella!

MrsPringles · 13/05/2017 07:23

Actually my user name was inspired by Pringles, I was newly married hence 'Mrs' and was stood in the kitchen next to a tube of Pringles hence that part

I realise this is completely off on a tangent GrinConfused

MrsPringles · 13/05/2017 07:21

Paprika Pringles are the way forward. Are they acceptable to have for breakfast?

chopsticky · 13/05/2017 07:14

Also now I'm craving pringles. #sourcream&onion4life

SailAwayWithMeHoney · 13/05/2017 07:13

Wtf have I just read Grin

chopsticky · 13/05/2017 07:13

Love this thread. I love that the OP's response to everyone asking what a fly space in was just to put the word fly in bold caps.FLY space.

BoysaDearyMe · 13/05/2017 07:09

Much bags of Pringles and rice, mmmmm delicious

clearoffunumpty · 13/05/2017 06:54

Well this clearly explains the term BUS WANKERWink

Sprog19 · 13/05/2017 06:48

I am lying in bed reading this and trying to laugh silently so I don't wake anyone else up. Funniest thread for ages - thanks OP and all.

peukpokicuzo · 13/05/2017 06:45

I still want to know what a flight seat is but while we wait for OP to come back I have a theory.

Some busses have side-facing seats towards the front, and a few rows of forward facing seats at the back.

Maybe in areas that use busses like this, fly space is used for the little gap behind your head between the seat and the window (probably where dead flies are often found) and although you could put a small handbag there, a larger lot of shopping would encroach on other people too much.

On trains the seats that don't have a table (in most of them these days) are called airline seats - maybe in OP's world the few rows at the back of the bus that face forward are flight seats?

This is wild speculation of course. OP please come back and tell us what you actually mean.

hazeyjane · 13/05/2017 06:39

Two questions
1-were you planning to make a Pringle risotto? (delicious and ready in only 10 minutes)
2- I have not heard the term 'fly space', but am curious to know whether there are terms for other spaces between things....
Space between passenger and window = fly space
Space between foot and floor = squashed fly space
Space between passenger and unicorn = unicorn space
That sort of thing?

Missb00 · 13/05/2017 06:35

Am I actually reading this or have I been smoking crack unknowingly. Can we keep this thread forever?

OP are you there? Or have you been caught in an Uncle Bens frenzy again?

usefultoken · 13/05/2017 06:33

We'll this is amusing.

AwaywiththePixies27 · 13/05/2017 06:26

^Well actually they are common terms. The fly space is clearly the space between the Window and passenger. Everyone who rides a bus knows that.
I take the bus every week and have done for over 30 years but have no idea what the hell you are talking about.
Are you just inventing things?^

Same here Kali110 I've never once heard that saying.

CiliatedEpithelium · 13/05/2017 06:25

Lets hope the op feels a lot better when he or she wakes up eh?

AwaywiththePixies27 · 13/05/2017 06:22

What's a flight seat? Confused

You'd be regularly screaming at me then OP. I once made someone move her jacket off the only empty seat on a packed bus by asking her nicely too Shock and yes I do make a beeline for the seat that some numpty has put bags on. That's what the luggage rack is for!
Were your bags in the gangway or something?

GinIsIn · 13/05/2017 06:19

I really need pringles now. Haven't a bloody clue what a fly space is, or a flight seat. And yes, I do take the bus! OP are you feeling quite well?

TizzyDongue · 13/05/2017 06:12

I asked Google what a fly seat was but it lead me back to this thread. It's one of those scary trapped in a loop thing isn't it! Has Twin Peaks become real and we are all stuck in its warped reality!

Another possibility is maybe Google is punishing me because I didn't ask politely enough?

More importantly did either you or the fly thank the driver as you got off? If you got off that is

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