AIBU or is everyone else on the coach?

[DialsMavis]

A live one... I've just boarded a coach with DS (12) and DD (4) for a last minute visit to see family. Couldn't get the train as its £££ if you don't book in advance, we've done the coach before and it's always been OK. The journey is 2hrs15 mins without any delays.

Today we got on at Hammersmith rather than Victoria so every pair of seats was taken up by single passengers. Not a single one would move so I could sit next to DD and most just ignored us as we walked up and down aisle (coach in motion) asking if someone would move. Ds is right at other end and is fine.

I'd have moved OP. I frequently do on the train so families can sit together .

Realistically, if I had a window seat I would hope that someone else would swap seats for you.

If your DD ended up sitting next to me, THEN I would move to an aisle seat next to another adult, letting you sit with her.

But I would start off by looking out of the window and hoping very hard that I didn't have to.

Diffusion of responsbility, innit?

People seem to be missing the fact that the OP was as close to her dc as she would be in a car - she said she sat across the aisle and one row apart - easier to reach than if the dc was sat behind her in a car. This is not some sort of force separation where they can't still talk, see one another, pass things to each other, etc.

YWell, if I were on the receiving end of the paasive aggressive behaviour / comments suggested by various posters, I certainly wouldn't move, on principle!

It's fine to keep a window seat but what is a joke is when passengers plonk their bag on a window seat and sit in the aisle seat on a full bus, while watching people stand when they could easily pop their bag on their lap and move up.
I get buses often and it gave me the rage while I was pregnant, when I did ask people to move their bag so I could sit down I would get rolled eyes and huffing and puffing in return.
I would have moved for you OP. A seats a seat, you're likely to have to sit next to someone if a bus is busy, so what difference it makes whether it's a 4 year old stranger or an adult stranger is beyond me, and it would have made your journey a little easier.