Passengers sigh when they remove bag off neighbouring seat on PT

Rude

Really? Why? They would be the person at fault surely?

That would be very confrontational and I very much doubt you would.
But if you did I'd say, you are obviously. 🤨

HRFT yes I agree with you, but at about 2y they aren't sensible enough to shop with you but are too big for the trolley seat, even if you can manoeuvre them in. Faced with the option of carrying said child whilst pushing trolley or plonking him in it, I go for in the trolley. He is actually genuinely comparatively calm but other people ramming him with trollies is unsafe.

If they sighed at me I’d ask them ‘what is your problem?’

i was heavily pregnant and commuting on the train to work. Many people made eye contact with me but refused to offer a seat (i was also wearing a badge), Fainted twice too. On my last day of work I remember sending a photo of myself standing to my husband whilst unknowingly in labour. My waters burst the day before but hospital said it was discharge but i went back the next day and indeed they did burst my LO just came a few weeks early. People are just rude nowadays.

I regularly experience this. I have quite bad mobility issues (rheumatoid and osteoarthritis of hips and knees) so I need to sit down on public transport. On the bus that I use regularly,one of the priority seats is next to the luggage rack, and there is only about 10 inches of space for your legs. I find it extremely uncomfortable not being able to straighten my legs out for a 20 minute journey and avoid sitting in this seat if at all possible. A few weeks ago,I got on the bus and a woman was sitting in the seat behind the seat I've just described,with her handbag on one of the seats. I asked (politely) if she could move her bag so I could sit down. She rolled her eyes,grabbed her handbag,then as I sat down said 'You could have quite easily sat in THAT seat' pointing to the seat in front which I try to avoid. I said 'I didn't want to sit in THAT seat'. She then proceeded to mutter under her breath for the rest of the journey. Honestly. Should I have to justify why I don't want to sit in a particular seat?

A paying passenger who wishes to sit in a specific area of a train is not a bully. Your eye roll is unwarranted. You fancied that area of the train and maybe another passenger also wished to be near the luggage rack, toilet, cafe, door etc.

Yeah I find it gross when people put their bags on the ground. I haven’t did that since my uni days. But I guess a lot of people do.

I actually think this is more of a problem. I don’t want to sit where someone’s dog has been sitting. I was on a super crowded train once and this man and his huge dog took up most of a 6 seater area, so there was only room for maybe 3 others when there should’ve been space for 5 other humans. Considering how many were standing up it was so rude. I wondered did he really need to travel with his dog at 5:30pm from Liverpool to Manchester.

My handbag doesn’t ever go on any floor except in my house - where the floor is clean! This is a habit I picked up after stashing my shopping bags and handbag on the floor in a cafe, only to find that the previous table occupants had left their baby’s vomit on the floor without clearing it up (this was 30+ years ago). My handbag and other bags have always been kept away from public floors ever since!

I know.....as if the bag needs a seat??

Newsflash, humans needs seats

I ask, and say thanks. Only had a problem once with a 20 something child who didn't want to move her bags, who wouldn't acknowledge that they should have been put in the luggage space, and spent the rest of the journey on the phone bi*hing about me. Tbh no f*ks were given.

My favourite is getting on a fairly empty LNER train in the morning (origin station) with the traffic light system:

Red for booked,
Amber for available until X station and
Green for Free

Getting to my booked seat (which is more often than not surrounded by ambers and an entire green section) and finding someone sat in my seat with all their stuff laid out all over.

I hate having to tell anyone to move first thing in the morning, twice a week, but it always happens. Have had the sorrys, the sighs and the 'fcks sakes'. Learn to read people!!

No. Who’s gives a fuck if they don’t like moving their bags.

I feel cross when all the isle seats are taken and noone moves to let me sit near a window. So I say quite loudly "would someone move please so I can sit down. Then they all start fidgeting. I am old but probably fitter than most.

I had to ask politely 3 times for someone to move so I could put my pram in the only space they go. Then she glared it me - so I told her off - saying that I’d asked politely three times, I was blocking the aisle and the bus wasn’t going because we were all waiting for her to move while she was acting like a sulky teenager. She did move, acting like a spoilt baby the whole while but it didn’t need to come to that when there were other seats. I just say it like it is now - I’m done pandering to the feelings of inconsiderate people on public transport. It’s bad enough being forced onto it through no choice due to epilepsy as it is without dealing with total melts.

Trains used to have a guard's van, where you could do exactly that.

When my brother (now 59) was a baby, he had a massive Silver Cross pram and that used to go in the guard's van while we sat in the nearest carriage with my mum holding the baby. And there were station staff that helped get the pram on to the train.

That sounds like you don’t actually move your bag unless asked. Is that right?

If a bus/train etc is clearly busy and lots of people are getting on, no one should have to “ask” you to move your bag. You should realise it for yourself and just do it! Else you actually come across as selfish whether you realise it or not.

They are behaving as though they are being inconvenienced. If you don't like your bag on your knee don't use PT.

The younger women may have had a hidden disability and needed a priority seat. Her coat certainly did not though.

And how do you know the much younger woman doesn’t have a disability that’s hidden and you’re not aware of ?

Equal opportunities here. If a bag - any bag - is on a free seat that hasn't been paid for then I am having that seat!

There's ways some fucker who sits next to me rather than two free seats elsewhere. Same people who can see an unoccupied row of 15 cross trainers in the gym but use the one right next to me.

YANBU to be annoyed at people not moving bags when asked, but YABU to let a sigh have such a big effect on you.

Saying that, I have a friend who asked someone to move their bag, and when they refused, she sat on it 😂