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AIBU?

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to be annoyed at being moved to the luggage compartment?

10 replies

muddychipmunk · 13/05/2012 13:12

On train. Travelling with ds who is just under two. Pram loaded with rucksack etc - travelling from one side of the country to the other. Parked pram inn empty luggage slot behind a seat and was just settling ds down for a nap when conductor told me I had to move pram to the bike carriage / over size luggage space at the back of the train.

AIBU to be annoyed when the train isn't full in any way nor is there any pressure on luggage space. He said the pram was taking up space which would be needed but an hour and a half later, the train is still hugely uncrowded, with the smaller luggage space next to me holding only one smallish suitcase, with loads of overhead space to, nothing else in corridor etc...

Conductor got quite annoyed when I asked why my pram and luggage needed to be shifted for any future luggage - there was none waiting or anything. He said very loudly that railway by laws state that all prams must be folded.

Sorry for bad texting. Arm gone to sleep holding very heavy ds for hour and a half. He's snoring his head off k is a solid weight Grin

Seriously, pram wielding women aren't the enemy are we? Should we be banished even when there's no need? Honestly honestly this is not a busy train (so far, two hours into the journey with one more stop to let passengers on only).

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Sunscorch · 13/05/2012 13:15

If you were only required to move the pram and follow the rules when the carriage was getting busy, then the carriage would already be busy, your son would be asleep, and it would be fifty times as much trouble.

So yes, you're being unreasonable.

larks35 · 13/05/2012 13:16

These are probably the rules but I have to admit that in the many train journeys I've taken no-one has told me that before. You've unfortunately come across a jobsworth without enough to do Sad.

IAmBooyhoo · 13/05/2012 13:24

agree with sunscorch. neither you nor the conductor could tell when you got on the train how busy it was going to get. how would you have managed doing it later with ds fast asleep and lots of people there?

dozensofpichu · 13/05/2012 13:24

YANBU. I spend nearly every train trip to take my daughter to hospital stuck in the luggage compartment as even my small umbrella fold pushchair doesn't fit in the carriage or fold small enough to put safely on the luggage rack! I was told on one train to use the wheelchair space at the end of first class, but on the return journey was thrown out for not having a first class ticket, as I wasn't a wheelchair user! I then had to sit on a floor outside the loo to feed my baby. I was furious!

muddychipmunk · 13/05/2012 13:33

Good point sunscorch! I hadn't thought of the horror of disturbing sleeping ds [shudder emoticon] Grin.

I never realised prams were herded in the bike carriage as standard in case of potentially more valid luggage on trains! I thought that as long as you weren't taking the Mickey, that luggage was luggage and that was it.

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poocatcherchampion · 13/05/2012 13:38

I'd be pretty annoyed. I guess we'd also have been in trouble for having a carrycot over 2 seats yesterday, replete with sleeping baby. Glad we weren't on your train! Our chap was pleased when we folded the frame unnecessarily in a gesture to a disabled passenger.

mirry2 · 13/05/2012 13:39

I didn't realsie that ttrains still had luggage carriages. Who looks after the luggage when they're there?

WorraLiberty · 13/05/2012 13:45

Agree with Sunscorch

Also, a little light folding buggy is a godsend when travelling.

muddychipmunk · 13/05/2012 13:51

No one looks after the luggage. You just have to leave it - I'm sat half on the edge of the seat trying to watch it cos I'm worrying that the passports may in the bag that's still on the pram. Ds is still sound asleep and as he's full of cold as well as shattered by our 5 am start, I'm hoping that they're in the bag that's propping my arm up but I can't wiggle to find out. Also thirsty and I know my beautiful water is on the pram... Och, I know its probably me being a chancer but I hoped and hoped for a train that wasn't busy so ds could have a nap before we hit the hell of the tube, and I get my wish just... Not quite right. My arm really aches!

[makes note to read those bloody fairytales properly where the beautiful princess ends up cocking everything up cos she didn't word her wish right... ]

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MrsAmaretto · 13/05/2012 14:03

Yabu, but just a bit. There isn't enough space for luggage in train carriages, that's the problem. And I think the train conductor is likely to know if it's likely that the train will get busier a few stops further up the line.

But you are mad not to take your bag off your pram if it's not near you.

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