WIBU not to share?

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Yesterday,I was on a bus,going on a journey lasting around an hour or so,and I was enjoying reading a book on my ipad mini. I was about 15 minutes into my journey,when a woman with two children,aged about 4 and 6, interrupted me,and said he,pointing to the six year old,wants to play with your ipad. We've forgotten ours.

I said sorry,but I'm reading. "They'll just be ten minutes with it"I said sorry,I don't have children's games on it,and I'm using it to read.

She said but they're bored. I thought not my problem,but didn't say it,just said I'm sorry but I'm using it. She snapped at me,and said well you shouldn't bring it with you if you won't share.

So,just how mean was I?

YANBU how rude and entitled!
I often use my iPad on public transport and have never been approached by anyone demanding to use it.
I did once allow a young boy to share mine with me as he was staring at it in amazement but that was my choice and I wasn't using it at the at point.

Yer what!

This really happened? Well, heliotrope begonias to the woman!

That's just... Wow

Real people actually come out with stuff like that?! Glad I've avoided it so far that's beyond the pale!

Unreal! Those children are in for some shocks if they emulate their mother's behaviour around others.

Please can someone link to the backpack thread?

Actually I meant.

Can someone link to the backpack thread please?

WHAAAAAAAAT??! I don't believe it.

I don't use buses so I'm a bit out of the loop here, but is it normal these days to be entitled to use strangers belongings? Is it some new bus etiquette code?

Ha! I'd have laughed in her face due to the audacity and shock of it all!

Why don't these things happen to me?! I'd fucking LOVE putting them to rights!

I'm so shocked that I'm not sure it's true!

This brings back fond memories of the Entitled thread in classics.
Oh happy days!

What's this about a backpack??

Regardless, I think I'd tell this woman where to go. I wouldn't let two kids who I didn't know use my ipad.

I honestly can't believe this
I have no idea why the op would lie or have shy reason to do so, but no matter how hard I try I can't fathom how this exchange would take place.
Utterly bonkers

I am boggling at this - that woman has more front than Blackpool!!

Bag,sorry Tidy. Not a backpack.

Tidy's bag thread.

Read the bag thread. OMG, is all I have to say. There are people like this in the world?

Bonkers. Just read the bag thread. And, hilarious.

Gosh, how incredible.

People do try to take the piss a bit with me, I am getting better with the saying no stuff now though.

I know it sounds totally unbelievable that there are people like this out there, but that's because most of us are relatively normal and wouldn't dream of behaving like knob ends.

Thanks for the link

Off to read it now and put off ironing school uniforms a little longer.

I really wish something like this would happen to me after a bad day

"Of course they can play with it, but it's so packed with hardcore pornography that I couldn't possibly see why you'd want them to! Tell you what, how about you share your credit card details with me as you're such a sharing advocate. No? Smeg off then you entitled twat."

In both the backpack and ipad cases, I wouldn't even bother explaining anything to these kind of people.

I would just look at them and say "Excuse me?!!"

If they insisted, I would then say "Excuse me. Do I look like your mother?"

I think in the case of the bag, I would have been heavily tempted to smile sweetly at the father and say "Certainly your little girl can have it. That'll be £20". That way, when he refuses to pay that makes him the nasty mean person, not Tidy.

That is so cheeky! I cannot believe someone would ask a complete stranger to borrow their ipad!

And I thought the woman who asked me if she could have the sticker off my McDonalds coffee cup the other day was taking the mick somewhat.

I bet people think this is a wind up for sure but there really are some cheeky fuckers around haha! When i was younger i was at a bus stop, a bit tipsy, waiting for a late bus with a sweaty kebab in hand... this middle aged woman SOBER TOO came up and said "that looks really nice can i nick a bit" I was so bemused i said YES and gave her the rest..i couldnt bring myself to even touch it once she had... this still amazes me today

I confess I was reading my kindle one night on the bus when the woman next to me said, "Oh I hope you don't mind me asking, is that a Kindle, my daughter wants to buy me one but I'm not sure its for me."

In that instance I was happy to show her a few basic functions and how it worked and she was really taken with it.

However if someone outright had asked me to let them have mine as they'd forgotten theirs....