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AIBU?

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to be excited about witnessing my first pushchair related fight?

53 replies

entropygirl · 16/05/2012 23:41

I don't get out much...especially not on public transport...but today I lost my pram fight cherry and witnessed actual swearing

So who was U here?

On a crowed train and I am sitting with 3 other people in the fold down chairs next to a window labelled to indicate that bicycles may also be stored here.

At the next stop a man and woman in control of a pushchair with an approx 3 yo in the front and an approx 1 yo in the back get on. They stand in the seatless area by the doors.

Next stop, a few people get off allowing the woman to sit down near me, filling the fold down chair space once more. She puts the pushchair across in front of the luggage rack.

Next stop, everyone wants off except me and the family. Half way through disembarking the woman launches herself across the carriage and start hurling abuse. It would seem that another woman attempting to gain access to the luggage rack has touched the pushchair! The infringing woman is startled and squawks 'I'm not touching your baby, I would't touch your baby" and the woman with the pushchair tells her to "fuck off and not every fucking touch her fucking pushchair" etc etc and all but chases her off the train.

The woman with the pushchair spends the entire time to the next stop chuntering alternately about people with their "sewer" hands touching her pushchair and how in reality it the fault of everyone sitting on the fold down seats for causing the problem in the first place.

So a) is it actually U to move someone's pushchair to get your luggage off a train?
b) is it U to swear at someone who has done this and chase them off the train?
c) is it all my fault for sitting on the fold down seats?

OP posts:
BumpingFuglies · 17/05/2012 13:56

They are all BU. The luggage rack is for goats. Wheelchairs belong on the roof, pushchairs are only allowed for carrying the flatscreen telly.

Entitled fuckers.

entropygirl · 17/05/2012 14:06

ohhh you could have at least 3 tellies in this one...if you took the vimto out first

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BumpingFuglies · 17/05/2012 14:10
Grin
AberdeenAgnes · 17/05/2012 14:14

Haha. This reminds me of the BOLLOCKING I got from a woman in mothercare once for moving her empyty pushchair.

The context was that she'd abandoned her empty pushchair in the aisle and wandered off doing something else. I tried to get passied it with my puschair so literally just pushed it forwards a couple of inches. But it was a maclaren with bags on the handles and it tipped over backwards and sent her sunglassses flying.

She gave me a right bollocking for that - I should have found her and asked her to move it apparently. The idea of not abandoning it in the middle of a crowded aisle clearly never occurred to her Hmm

BumpingFuglies · 17/05/2012 14:17

Aberdeen - how could you have known whose it was? My buggy did that every time I took DS out - I NEVER learned.

naturalbaby · 17/05/2012 14:20

what kind of pushchair was it (or is that not the point?!)? was it one of these?

entropygirl · 17/05/2012 14:22

natural whhhhahahahaha.

You could not put vimto in one of those....it would repel it....in fact you could probably bounce a vimto off that thing's chav deflector field.

OP posts:
FioFio · 17/05/2012 14:23

did her pushchairs have built in flatscreen tv's?

entropygirl · 17/05/2012 14:24

erm what the fuck? Did I mention the vimto and the coarse language?

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BumpingFuglies · 17/05/2012 14:26

Coarse language??

Off to find the smelling salts.

entropygirl · 17/05/2012 14:26

was sort of like this only not green...

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entropygirl · 17/05/2012 14:27

I know...swearing on public transport....what is the world coming to....

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chipmunksex · 17/05/2012 14:28

I like vimto. You've made me crave it now. Hmm

Good use of the word vestibule btw Grin

RoxyRobin · 17/05/2012 14:28

What was Mr Charming's role in all this? Did he have a non-speaking/swearing part?

SunflowersSmile · 17/05/2012 14:29

What's wrong with vimto Blush.
Poor woman trying to get her luggage being verbally abused for daring to touch push chair in the way. [By the grace of God go I. Surprised I have survived so long not knowing buggy touching etiquette].

BumpingFuglies · 17/05/2012 14:31

Crikey OP, the kids could command the Starship Enterprise from that!

C'mon, what did they say?

naturalbaby · 17/05/2012 14:31

hmm, so it wasn't the fancy buggy that was the problem.
Maybe she's getting a visit from Aunt Flo in a day or two?
Maybe her 1yr old decided to clean the house with the loo brush just before she left the house? (ds1 did that once, and never ever touched the loo brush again!).

footflapper · 17/05/2012 14:43

WIBU? Yesterday after a horrible busy day DH, 2 DC and myself got onto an overcrowded train. Absolutely nobody offered to move from the allocated push chair space, my feet were killing me :( AND THEN after 20 mins or so, after I finally sat down on the seat I am entitled to, some damned filthy cretin who had been picking her nose & bogey eating actually dared to move the pushchair for no other reason than to intefere! :o

BumpingFuglies · 17/05/2012 14:45

Foot flapper you need this

entropygirl · 17/05/2012 14:48

Yes the man of the family was very very quiet. I suspect he may even have said something (whispered) along the lines of 'that was a bit ott' which may have been what triggered the rest of the bitching...but that is pure hyperbole.

He also (tellingly) I feel, refused to sit down next to the mother when a seat became available (pre-ranting, at the point the mother grabbed a seat and moved the pushchair in front of the luggage rack). Perhaps he saw it all coming?

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Pendeen · 17/05/2012 15:47

What are " sewer " hands?

Confused
complexnumber · 17/05/2012 16:06

It somehow seems different to move a pushchair with kids in it to moving a pushchair without the kids in it. For one thing there is probably a responsible adult nearby you could ask. You wouldn't just move a wheelchair with a person in it for your own convenience, a la Ricky Gervais in The Office, would you?

entropygirl · 17/05/2012 16:32

yeah I felt that too. But on the train I don't know what else you can do other than shout out to everyone...I really don't know how the person could have known who the mother was....

OP posts:
2shoes · 17/05/2012 16:34

vestibule
I like that word

gafhyb · 17/05/2012 16:42

The woman who chuntered has mental health issues. IMO. What this tell us about pram-related issues on pt in general, I can't say.

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