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......

Complexnumber - yes.

limitedperiod - there are complex commuting arrangements. Train is only when working in London. No reverse-gear lanes are when working from home.

Lanes aren't going so well at the moment. There seem to be a whole load of new rat-runners who don't know The Rules.

Thats amazing coffeedag, wish i could have seen that, what a clever boy :o

Ahhhh The Rules :o

Hurrah for Master Coffeedog and GrowlyKungFuPanda :o

I don't know what's funnier.- the growling or Complexnumber's need to summarise!

Well done you OP - take no nonsense! Coffeedog - love your kid.

This is a brilliant thread!

Well done that woman!

To back up the sometimes bus drivers are lovely point, one stopped and waited for me for ages when I forgot I was 41 weeks preg and tried to run for the bus

... Mind you, I think he had to stop as he was laughing so much at the enormous pg lady trying to sprint. :-)

I can't bring myself to actually read this. The title is so good the thread itself is bound to be a huge anticlimax.

Brilliant, just brilliant.

I take it back. This thread is the best.

Go LittleChap!

You remembered the mantra "no is a complete sentence" and used it on a total stranger, respect

Edam - I don't think anything makes a bus driver's day like the sight of the pregnant woman sprint-waddle. They always wait and they always look amused!

I got all prepared to be annoyed yesterday and was thwarted, thwarted I tell you! A couple of dithery older women were dithering in the charity shop and one walked backwards into my pram. She trend round and I was sure she was going to tut at my being in her way, so I worked up my indignation - only for her to apologise profusely and say "oh, I am sorry, it must be hard enough for you without people like me getting in your way," and then the other one opened the door for me. Bitches

Love it overmantel.

I growl at students who talk when they shouldn't, and make stabby motions at the offenders with my biro, accompanied by bared lower teeth. They snigger and stop the chit-chat.

I must have missed National Unreasonable Person day - the only unreasonableness on my train this week was a group of young people who sat down and talked, and they were doing it on Monday.

Maybe they were practising?

'no is a complete sentence'

Grrrr! is a complete sentence :o

Must try it soon....

haha, I laughed. Definitely bark at him. Report back.

Such exciting battles you have!

And having met you, I know for a fact that you are slim and petit, though pregnant, so couldnt have taken up a lot of space anyway....

Is complexnumber the woman who was told "No"?

So glad I eventually opened this thread, so funny!

Hardly ever use public transport and only remember the good old days of friendly, helpful drivers but got on a bus recently and an old lady was running down the hill trying to catch it. Told the bus driver to wait and he just said, 'she can get the next one'! Luckily took me a while to gather all my coppers to pay so she made it in the end. Driver wasn't happy, miserable sod.

Well done OP and Coffee Dog's son!