on the bus yesterday. So glad I don't live in London - this was only DS's second ever bus journey. He's 21 months, I'm 8 months preg.
So lugged the pushchair on, and went to the area you park them in. Bus was virtually empty, but there were two semi-rotund old ladies sitting on the flip up seats. I politely asked them "excuse me, do those seats flip up so that I can put the pushchair there?". They both said "nooo, dearie". (old means around 65/70 - not doddery 80s in this case)
So everyone else getting on had to squeeze past me, bump, pushchair and a poor guide dog sitting opposite, whose owner was getting very unsettled. Freaking annoying. I got off two stops up the hill, as did the old ladies, at which point the seats flipped up behind them. I shouldn't have, but said to one of them "those seats DO flip up", and she said "I know!". Basically, I asked her why she hadn't moved, and she said the space was for wheelchairs and elderly people as well as pushchairs. I pointed out there were other seats for elderly people too, but nowhere else for a pushchair, and she said I was getting shirty. I just walked off.
It was more amusing than anything, but seriously, can't some people remember what it was like to be pregnant/ have a toddler?
AIBU?
to think these were old lady bitches?
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And yes- parents would be well annoyed to be called old LOL! Dad would have cheerfully helped fold buggy and then carried shopping whilst entertaining baby..... at almost 70 he is far fitter than me, even with a dodgy leg he managed to cycle to his manual (inustrial cleaning) job.
The age at which you can be old, it seems to me, is somewhere between about 27 and 91 (coz Grandad is 91 next month and pretty adept- driving, independent, although Aunt is miffed he has let his agrden go a bit 
), personality driven more than number of accrued years!
You're unreasonable, OP and your first post stinks. 
You assume that ladies between x and y age are not doddery - how would you know?
You assume that because the bus was stationery that the ladies would have felt confident and limber enough to move, not knowing when the bus suddenly would move. I've seen elderly people start and/or fall when buses move suddenly and they break bones easily.
You assume that you have a right to the flip up space because of your buggy - you don't. What about people with large suitcases/backpacks or wheelchairs. Would you have moved if somebody with a non self-limiting condition had needed the flip up space?
You're pregnant, with a toddler, people should have consideration for others who might need the special area/seats, but you're the one with the unbelievable sense of entitlement and you have the affrontery to refer to elderly women as 'bitches' so anything you said after that means not a lot really.
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