I seem to have accidentally booked me and loud DCs in to a quiet carriage on a train!

[MammaTJ]

WTF! I asked for a table, I asked for a power point, I most certainly did not ask for a quiet carriage!

We have a quiet carriage booked for on the way down. We are ok on the way home.

WTF do I do? I want seats, clearly, as I bothered to book them! I want seats together, preferably table seats but seats near each other would be ok.

So what do I do on the way down?

Tbh he actually prefers First class because they are strangely less snooty about people working in it

Yes, I generally travel 1st class if I can manage it. People understand about being quiet in the Quiet Coach, and don't get snotty about the fact that I might be taking up a quarter of the table with my work. OMG a woman working!!!

Um lessons

I'm not really taking this all that seriously...what I mean is that on public transport it is hard to control your environment.

A table for 4. So am I allowed a quarter? And BogQueen if your child vomited on my laptop you would be replacing my laptop. Good lord, what a snotty attitude to fellow passengers.

Fair enough, sorry. Hard to interpret it as a joke when it's written.

Blardy hell calm down

Dd1 has only ever been sick on a Japanese tourist

Well, to update.

We walked on to the quiet carriage and it was ram packed. Even our seats!

We walked through another carriage, which was also rammed! Then the next one. That one had some empty seats. DD sat at a table with a nice older couple. DS sat opposite me in the aisle seat and I was behind DD.

The older couple got off 20 minutes in to the 1 1/2 hour journey, so we nabbed the table. They coloured nicely and behaved far better than I expected (the DC, not the older couple).

On the way home, we had allocated seats in a row, so DD and DS sat together and I sat the other side of the aisle. Perfect!

There was a lottle tot on the train who kept getting upset for short bursts and the woman opposite kept giving dirty looks. I suppose her two DC were born at around 10 and 11 and never went through the toddler phase.

DS held his Mr Men T-shirt out for her to see when she went past and the little girl quietened at seeing Mr Tickle.

Sorry your journey out sounded a bit grim, but also sounded like your DS did a lovely job with the little girl too. Hope you had fun on your day trip.

(I'm not really an evil work-is-more-important-than-other-people type, honest.)

It wasn't a pleasure trip really. I had to go and see my personal tutor to sign off on my first placement that ended in March. We have just struggled to get around to it.

I had the choice between paying ££££s for a full days child care or £50 (including my unavoidable half of that) to take the DC with me and leaving them with a friend for a bit while I saw him.

That was a proud of DS moment! They are both sweet to littler kids, although evil to each other!

Aw, good on your DS! That's really sweet.

Did people not get up for you when you had booked seats?! Cheeky sods.

I didn't ask, went looking elsewhere instead. I would have asked had I not found somewhere. I am quite gobby not scared to do that, I just prefered to find somewhere else.

DS was dead chuffed he had made the little girl smile instead of cry, he said 'I'm glad I picked my Mr Man T shirt to make her happy'. He was all chest puffy proud, and so he should be! It wasn't just the T-shirt, it was him drawing it to her attention!

Oh, fair enough - sorry, it's just such a pet hate of mine when people won't get up. It only ever seems to happen to me on trains where the ticket inspector never turns up so there's no one to make them.

But yeah, that's really lovely. He sounds very mature.

Can't see who posted this but to the person re working on trains.

Maybe it's been my misfortune but whenever I'm on long/short journeys (short commute it doesn't seem to happen) I always get the idiot who spreads around and uses the whole of the table or half of it meant for 4 people. This has meant almost shoving what I'm reading (paper etc) or coffee and has happened even when there are 2 of us sitting opposite - still one person could've used the table space next to them but oh no tried to encroach on my space opposite until I made a cats bum mouth and told them I needed more space.

It's happened more than once, hence me pointing it out. You DO get the odd considerate laptop user just tapping away who uses their required space.

SuperFlyHigh That was me! My DH is a very considerate working on the train person as he never seems to have any papers. I think he works in a paper free environment. He sits quietly typing and that is it. You would like sitting next to him as he smells nice too!

little - it wasn't you don't worry!

oh gawd please don't remind me of smells - no I'm not that bad! Glad to hear it re your DH. I will stalk him and sit next to him! JOKE!

Super that was probably me. I don't travel with paperwork - I'm either typing on an iPad or writing in a book. I also hate sprawlers and space stealers and generally anyone talking let alone getting drunk and having a party

lessons don't think it was you...

in fact and I'm whisper not a mother - I'd prefer kids any day with laughter, funny chat and reasonable toys etc rather than someone rude who like I said, treats the whole bloody table (yes I know some tables on trains aren't that big) as their own desk. I'm considerate in that I don't put bags on seats, tables etc and am careful when drinking a hot drink. I also don't tend to eat smelly food (someone complained once, when I had a pasty ) unless there's a window open. but then why would they sell pasties at stations??

I just think passengers generally should be more considerate and generally they are.