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another train rant
DragonAnchor · 16/04/2013 19:06
Day trip to London today with DS in buggy. We got slightly held up and ended up taking a later train home than planned - about 4.45 so just before rush hour hit, and things were getting a bit busy.
Soon as I get on slightly crowded train, man in suit tuts inexplicably at buggy. DS starts to whine a bit - tired - another man rolls his eyes and sighs loudly. DS whines louder. I take him out of buggy to calm him, perching him on my him (toddler at 75 percentile - no easy job)
Realise I'm unsteady so scan train for a seat. There are none. Finally see a woman sitting down on an aisle seat with her bag on seat by window. Ask if she wouldn't mind moving up so my son and I could sit down. She pulls a face and shifts over as slowly as she can manage.
I felt like I was being massively unreasonable even being on the train. It wasn't peak rush hour, just a little later than planned (when we go into London we always try to be on a train home by 3.30). Have I broken some terrible rule? Or are commuters just wankers? FWIW I used to commute into town for work and everyone was lovely when I was pregnant, couldn't do enough. It's so different when you actually have the baby - then you just feel like a massive irritant!
thefirstmrsrochester · 16/04/2013 19:26
some commuters are indeed wankers. how dare you take your buggy on the train & how dare you try to take a seat occupied by an unpaying handbag?
you paid, you have as much right to a seat on the train as everyone else.
I'm in scotland and public transport wankers are plentiful, I can only imagine what London can be like.
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