To not what to be "sat next to" on the bus

[Lucyellensmum95]

I am quite upset actually. I have had a really hard day, so when i get on the bus at the end of the day, i just want a bit of "me" time. I don't want to sit there squashed up with someone, or worse, someone elses child sat next to me.

So i did the accepted thing and put my bag on the seat next to me. This is surely a sign that you have had a bad day and just want to be alone isn't it??

The bus fills up with people, now if there had been OLDpeople there i would have grudgingly moved my bag, but there wasn't just a man with a baby and his DD who he had picked up from school. She was fidgeting around and not holding on, so she fell over. Now of course im symathetic but she should have been holding on.

Then some mouthy cow started gobbing off at me, asking me to move my bag?? I mean, she could have just said, would you mind moving, but oh now, the common mare asked me if my bag REALLY needed the seat? I mean, the cheek of it . I did ask her if she meant to be so rude - she said yes The audacity of some people

This is why i don't travel on the bus anymore!! The child was perectly capable of standing!

This post is a joke right?

It's a joke.

most people use some sort of 'don't sit next to me' strategy

wearing l'eau de fromage et oignon seems to be the most popular on my bus route

Personally, I don't tend to travel short distances so have need of neither public transport ,shudder. or a chauffeur. People come to Moi & anything I want my assistant goes & fetches. For any greater distance I use my helicopter from the pad on my roof.

You have my sympathy, Lucyellen having to mix with the common herd, but then I am considerably richer than you, which is lovely for me.

I'm glad you think its a joke - but the last laugh is on me, oh yes, the guy with the baby and kid was apologetic and after the rude bitch got off the bus we were lauhing about how rude and common some people are. I am meeting him in town for coffee tomorrow!!

I just by 2 tickets that way I have one for me and one for my bag.

YANBU. Some people just don't understand boundaries. I once had some ancient old hag ask me to move my coat so she could plonk herself next to me. She must have been about ninety. Why wasn't she at home watching Countdown and eating hobnobs?

There will be none of yer instant in a mug either, oh no, a lovely mocha courtado for the lady with the nice bag!!

The trouble is when sitting down on a crowded bus, is that you get everyone's arses in your face.

that is why i make sure i get a window seat complex, for that very reason - looking forward to my date though

I generally like to pat the seat next to me and say 'Please sit here!' as people get on.

For some reason, nobody EVER sit's with me on the bus

"I generally like to pat the seat next to me and say 'Please sit here!' as people get on."

Good strategy!

I find I often get a seat on a bus by dressing in full military combat gear with a green painted face. If I don't, I merely shout "Anyone else going to Ruislip Lido?"

Honestly, darling, it's hoi polloi. And next time get a sedan chair and use the butler's valet, nobody will know.

But complex i don't live anywhere near ruislip - i don't think that would have helped. Usually my considerable backside is enough to put people off - i mean, i notice little miss gobby, with her svelte figure didn't want to sit next to me - there was room for my bag, and, so it would now seem, a 6yo scoffing harribo