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

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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 ...

Were you sat with the children?

I'm not nit picking, just that you said in the OP 'I even went over to them'?

Perhaps initially she thought they were travelling alone?

and not stopping staring even when you asked her to stop . Staring at someone for 10 mins is a very long time really.

Maybe she had mental illness?

Sounds a little odd alright.

I agree it could be any if the explanations offered here. Also, I suppose you don't know what's going on in her life, I remember staring slightly at children after a miscarriage, day dreaming of what my baby could have been like

OP when you say "from a different culture" what do you actually mean? In most non-Western cultures, staring isn't considered rude. India is the world's stariest place IME, with the whole of Latin America close behind . They're not being rude or aggressive, it's just a different social norm.

'After about 7 mins they did start pulliing faces and waggling their tongues '
sound REALLY well behaved OP!

that true about other cultures

in many south east asian countries they will openly stare, point and laugh at you, soon change once you start talking to them they go all coy then

Hmm I am still wondering about the blind hypothesis: the only blind person I interact with regularly does roll/ twitch her eyes periodically and appear to be looking at things.

But I also agree that they don't sound that well-behaved if they started making faces at her.

And also, what is 'ten minutes'? Because I will say, 'Oh I've been waiting for about 10 min' when actually I probably mean about 2. If you actually measure 10 min on your watch it's a long time. Was it really that long?

Get a grip OP

If your DC are waggling tongues and gurning tbh they do not sound well behaved. I think they were probably being annoying. People generally don't evil and eye roll without cause.

spiderpig8 'After about 7 mins they did start pulliing faces and waggling their tongues ' sound REALLY well behaved OP!

&RevoltingPeasant But I also agree that they don't sound that well-behaved if they started making faces at her.

Wagging tongues and pulling faces?! That doesn't make them badly behaved for fuck sake! 2 kids on a boring train journey sitting nice and still and quiet . . . shock horror they WAGGED THEIR TONGUES! Terrible, despicable behaviour!

proudfoot If you think wagging a tongue is bad behaviour what would you have thought if the children had been screaming or running up and down, hitting each other. Now that's bad behaviour.

Personally I may have wagged my tongue if someone stared at me not stop for 10 mins and freaked me out!