To have just growled at a man on a train?

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Actually growled. Not spoke crossly. Growled. Like grrr.

I got on a train and went to sit in one of the sets of 4 seats. An oldish gentleman was sitting in the seat diagonally opposite but with his leg crossed so far over his knee that it was right across the bank of seats. As I sat down I knocked his foot slightly at which point he made that growly, throaty noise of annoyance that only terribly posh older men can produce - you know the noise I mean? A sort of harrumphy grr accompanied by ostentatious eye rolling and glaring and slow removal of foot.

So I growled back. The best impression of his humphy noise that I could manage.

He looked a little shocked and is now hiding behind his paper.

Oh well, I suppose it isn't every day that a tetchy, heavily pregnant woman growls at you and in my defence it has been a trying day.

I might growl again and see what he does......

I wish I had had your balls when I was commuting.

OP, all sounds completely reasonable to me.

Coffeedog that is a brilliant story. Well done Mastet Coffeedog!

I have no balls. Just a bad case of late pregnancy rage!

This is a wonderful thread.

Evidently the Not Backing Car Up In Country Lane Because Of Recalcitrant Cow thread taught you some lessons.

I love the growling and the 'no'

I never commuted when very pregnant, the best I managed was scary teeth baring. Which isn't really all that challenging.

I heart you KFP!

Coffeedog, your little chap is a star!

The only way I ever got a seat whilst pregnant and commuting was by fainting and/or vomiting. Highly embarrassing but effective.

Kungfu is a bit of a heroine of mine: forcing the country lane beatch to reverse, and now subduing a rival alpha dog and adding him to her pack.

She is White Fang with hormones.

you should see little chap when armed with his twin brother for back up....

I swear they will take over the world as long as they love their mummy i wont mind

Aww CoffeeDog your boys sound brilliant :)

Kungfu I think you should have your own topic, you make me larf so much!

Pairs of pre schoolers are formidable.

DS and his little friend are unstoppable when they act together. Even the resident nursery toy snatcher gave up on them after a particularly well executed bash, grab and run operation. I am told they used a pincer formation with military precision.

Kungfu I had no idea you were pregnant! When are you due?

And I think you and Little Chap are equally my heros!

I was queuing in WH Smith this morning to pay for a pen. I was about sixth in the queue and it wasn't moving quickly. As I reached the front, a woman came from the side with some goods and said something like, "I've just been to do so and so," as if she were entitled to go straight back to the checkout. I hadn't seen her earlier while I was waiting and I knew she meant to go in front of me but I beat her to the till, ignoring her. When I had finished paying, I saw her still at the head of the queue because the older woman behind me had done the same as I did. Good for her! I'm always on thelookout at bus stops, too.

coffeedog -your boys ! they are amazing ! big to them both

Oh yes Mabel, me too - elbows out ready to repel interlopers. London buses are the worst. After the advent of bendy buses there was just some kind of anarchic free-for-all non-queuing mentality

I love the way you've written this story, Kungfu . From now on you will be my train travel role model.

I think the pre-Christmas rush brings out the worst in people - all that overcrowding and frayed tempers conspire to induce trolley pushing, seat hogging, selfishness.

So, you got on a train, a bloke was in your way, bloke got out of your way but made huffy noise (in your opinion), you then made strange growly noises.

You then thought this was good AIBU fodder and posted from said train.

Fair enough I suppose, lots of folk have responded

Sorry to hear of all the unreasonable people you're encountering but v well done with how you're all dealing with them! I applaud you!

Have to say though - everyone's been lovely since i've been pg - people almost fighting each other to get up for me, buses that have already set off stopping & opening their doors and one brilliant bus conductor who saw me about to get on and immediately ordered the bloke on the nearest chair to get up then helped me on board.

Good growling! Sounds like you put him firmly in his place.

The 'pretend to be posh of the train' brigade really do deserve a bit of mild piss-taking now and again.

As I am poorly socialized I would have bitten him without warning.

Lol I have a vision of you sounding like Marge Simpson, OP

You're getting the train these days? I'll miss your Thursday morning stand offs with The Woman With No Reverse Gear.

Although Harrumphing Man vs Kungfupanda sounds like a promising grudge-match too.

Coffeedog I've been there with shaven head and staples after brain surgery and I used exactly the same technique as your son on pushy gits.

Hurrah for him. He's clearly on the mend. I hope he gets better and better.

Yes! I will remember that 'no is a complete sentence' will use at next available opportunity! Well done op loving this thread

JanieComeHome I have to admit to not using elbows or knees. My words come out in my Joyce Grenfell voice before any action, I'm afraid. My friends often rib me about it but it stops strangers in their tracks if they are pushing in.