AIBUto wonder why someone openly stared at my kids for over ten minutes?

[sickofdramaqueens]

She obviously didn't find them attractive but they were clean and quiet and siting down nicely so why????

I even went over to them after five mins looked at her and asked her to stop staring but no.... openly staring at them.

Why????????

Because I found it quite offensive as did my kids ...

It is possible that she was having a personal crisis and although she was looking she wasn't seeing.

She may have been on Autistic Spectrum and genuinely have found them interesting and not felt/known/considered that staring was rude. When you asked her to stop she told you a good reason, in her mind, so she carried on. A hidden disability.

perhaps she was thinking of something else and staring at nothing much at all in your direction.

It was on a train she was sitting next to them and had turned her head specifically to stare at them so it was blindingly obvious that that was what she was doing.

She gave a couple of little rolling eye movements as if to say "look at them" but as I said they were clean and well behaved so I really don't see what the problem was?

I'm still waiting to hear what she said when you asked her to stop looking.

This is a v weird OP.

maybe she had a problem with you, i think if someone asked me what i was staring at i may have a problem with them too if i just happened to be looking in their direction

really how old are you

She said..... nothing!

And continued to stare. I think she was probably from a different culture and didn't thnk anything of it. BTW I was very polite as always

Were you in first class?

I learned on here that many people think children shouldn't travel first class! [boggle]

Woooah! YANBU. That is out of order if they really were just sitting there. I would hate that and feel very uncomfortable.

I am now. I wonder if she didn't have a clue what you were saying.

maybe she was just staring at them but in a vacant manner while thinking of something else rather than registering what they were doing.

was she as jedi? she may have been doing a jedi mind thing on them.

I am sure she was stunned by their beauty

or doing Jedi stuff on them

Corny

on a train? she probably was a bit bored and they were more interesting than the view out of the window.

She might have been in a diabetic coma... an ex colleague of mine who never spoke to me but sat opposite me went into one and I didn't notice.

If she was rolling her eyes at them then it sounds like she doen't like children.

Hmm, you say they were being well-behaved, but are you sure they weren't doing anything that might annoy someone else, i.e., not their mum?

For example, you were not in the quiet coach and they were giggling or playing with an electronic toy? They were not elbowing her by mistake or kicking her seat without noticing? Are you sure?

Not doubting you, just wondering if a non-mum might've been annoyed by something you wouldn't even notice.

Perhaps she was blind?

No they didn't speak. After about 7 mins they did start pulliing faces and waggling their tongues but she had been giving the evil eye for too long at that point anyway...

Bimbo that is a really good point. I have a blind student who 'looks' at things - just listening intently, really - but if you didn't know she was blind you might think she was staring at you.

What worra said. Thought the same myself!

perhaps she was having an epiletic absence seizure?