I got on a bus outside a station with ds (2yo) it was the buses starting point and a retired man was sitting in front of us with his wife. As the journey started, I started talking to ds to keep him occupied, I was quiet, no louder than if I'd been chatting to another adult.
Ds opened the obsolete ashtray on the back of the man's chair once, it made a clicking sound and the man looked round and glared. So I distracted ds with looking out the window, cuddling him and pointing out dogs, asking him if he could see any cars/trees etc. I know it's inane talk to an adult, but after a four hour train journey it was keeping ds quiet and happy and we were both giggling quietly and having a cuddle. The man glared round again two more times in response to my quiet chatting with ds. I felt quite intimidated as it was clear he found having us there annoying.
I wanted to say to him 'well if I don't chat to ds he'll likely get bored and have a tantrum, he's two ' I couldn't move seats and so I went quiet in embarrassment at the glaring. Within minutes ds was. bored, complaining and.not happy when iI stopped interacting with him.
Aibu to think I should be allowed to talk quietly on a bus, even if it's inane conversation? I didn't want to have an argument in front of ds, I felt so uncomfortable by all the glaring though :-( I got off after twenty minutes (our stop) after I got off another passenger said she noticed him glaring at me too, she was really angry about it.