To ask a parent to move their buggy from a café so I can sit down?

That’s not my understanding - the seat was free.

I did once have a lady moan at me about not moving my three year old from our table for 2 because “I have sore legs and I need that seat, she can sit on your knee”

Lol. People are insane.

You buy food, not a table. You can sit wherever there is a space.

One person at a table for six - acceptable to ask to share.

One person at a table for two - not acceptable.

Is my view, anyway.

Yabvu
just go to another cafe if there’s not any seats available, instead of disturbing a mum and her baby when she’s just probably just trying to catch a break for 5 mins.
honestly, so entitled.

I may have it wrong but it sounds that you were asking her to move her child from the space at her table so you could have the child's place.

That is pretty unreasonable, yes. Was there even a spare chair at the table? You mentioned the pram was where the chair "would be".

I would have been dismayed to have you standing over me as I was forced to transfer the baby to a high chair. There would be a very good reason why she hadn't already put the baby in a high chair.

YABU. My 12m can sit, but she’s bloody tiny and we can’t use high chairs in cafes or restaurants. She slips and it’s really dangerous. She’s safe in her pram.

Also asking to sit on a 2 person table with someone is weird.

no - don't be ridiculous. It's not like moving a coat
off a chair so you can sit down.
why would she uproot her baby so you can sit down?
im assuming you struggle with social interactions?

No anger at all and nothing mean about it. I wouldn’t sit at your table in a restaurant either. It’s really rude to just demand to put yourself in the space someone is already using. It’s clear OP was making a point about the pram. there was no other space anywhere? She didn’t ask to join a group of 3? Hmmmm. I wouldn’t be rude enough to do that either. It’s incredibly intrusive and shows both a lack of self awareness and a lack of social skills. From OPs other responses though I suspect it’s not either of those things, as she’s coming across as generally abrasive.

It’s nothing to do with wheelchair users, you’ve clearly got a bee in your bonnet about that.

You sound very strange OP. Never have I known anyone to ask to share a table with a stranger. If there's no free tables you don't go there you go somewhere else.
It would make me feel very uncomfortable if you'd done that to me.

I'll lean to you being unreasonable. She was enjoying quiet time at a small table and suddenly that's disrupted by a stranger sitting at her small table.

The cafe was full. I'd have gone elsewhere or taken my food away with me.

Even if it's table for 2, already taken by 2? 🤔

So we agree that the op asking to move the pram so she could sit at the table too was unreasonable then.

You asked her to move her pram so you could sit at her table with her?! What a strange thing to do! Yeah YABU and I would have been really confused if this had happened to me.
Wait for a table to become available or go to a quieter coffee shop. Poor woman was probably desperate for a moment of peace and then you turn up!

I don’t think it’s at all normal to sit at a 2 person table with a stranger. Maybe if there’s a single person on a 4 top you might ask if you could sit diagonally but facing someone on a small table just feels incredibly awkward - I’d have felt so uncomfortable if I was the mum.

You speak for yourself - such anger and meanness.

That’s great. Mine throw themselves backwards and are a danger to themselves and others. They also get really loud. No way are they coming out of the pram.

A baby was using it. Either a baby in a pram, or a baby in a high chair. Where was OP hoping the baby would disappear to? And where would a folded down pram be stored? And why should the mother have to disrupt herself and her baby?

Totally unreasonable.

What if she wanted to breastfeed in peace without you gawping at her?

Why? Babies in prams take up more space than a second person, even if the pram is folded! Mine was a monstrosity. Also where would the high chair have gone? In the space where the second chair should be surely. Unless OP (who has now flounced after leaving some colourful insults that have been deleted) was expecting the mother to hold the baby on her knee! That really isn’t reasonable as I assume the mother was wanting to eat and/or drink something!

The op said the baby could sit in a highchair. Once my children sat in high chairs they tended to have a snack and beaker of water in a cafe (usually a board book or a little toy too). Those things take up the space of a second person.

My meds - lol -your comment is stupid. I’ll make it simples - What magical being was in the spare chair? No one was using it. Cue thoughtfulness and don’t prevent someone from sitting at the empty seat or using the seat space.

If the cafe is that busy where is she going to put her pram? Not away from her if it has her baby in it.

Besides I can’t think of anything more awkward than sitting at a two person table with a mum who has just moved her pram and baby out of the way at my request.

You were really unreasonable. She was sat at a table occupying it perfectly reasonably minding her own business and you muscled in and intruded upon her time in the cafe telling her to move her baby and forcing her to share the table.

You are hugely unreasonable and really entitled.

No you wouldn’t.