Woman on train

[holidaysareoverated]

DH and I took our toddler on the train today. The train wasn't super busy but there were no free seats so we walked to the next carriage. A woman and her teenage daughter were sitting at a table for four. So we approached and asked them to move over so that we could sit in the two free seats.
The woman started sighing and eye rolling at her daughter as though we were being complete pains in the arse. I told her that she was rude and entitled and asked if she expected the train to herself. Her daughter then started saying " she only sighed, she is allowed to sigh". The woman herself remained silent and then said exasperatedly "there's so much space!", which there was in the aisles. There were no other free seats at all.
AIBU to have fantasised about spilling my coffee all over them? I can't believe she thought a pregnant woman with a toddler should stand up so that she and her daughter could have a table for four to themselves!

[Burnet]

You should have been more oblique with your aggression. Thanked her profusely for being so kind about the awful awful bother of having to sit in a different -although exactly the same - seat, and given her a huge smile. Maybe offered her a toffee. Then given a death glare. Then a huge smile.

[MuddhaOfSuburbia]

pairs of people who sit diagonally from each other and take over a block of four (or even worse-SIX) seats on the train are wankers

but you're only allowed to think that, not say it

[TenForward82]

Personally I would have just sat in the available seats, even if they weren't "together". The woman and her daughter got on first, I'm not really entitled to ask them to move. If there free seats I don't think I would have even thought of asking.

[HelloNewman]

Blimey, she sighed and you 'told her that she was rude and entitled and asked if she expected the train to herself'? Bit ott.

Obviously, it's polite to move to allow others to sit down.

[TTTatty]

My apologies having read your update. No you were not unreasonable and I have misunderstood the OP.
I would have enjoyed her fussing - can't stand people on train trying to bag two seats for the price of one!

[EmmaU123]

I always sit in an aisle seat so unless they physically man handle me?

[holidaysareoverated]

Where did I say we wanted to sit together? You've made that but up! She was blocking the other free seat and we POLITELY asked her to move, either to let us get to the free seat or to sit in it herself. We didn't care what she did and we certainly didn't dictate who sat where. She took huge umbrage to the fact we dared to ask to sit there as she felt we should have been happy standing for half an hour so that she could keep the spare seats to herself.

[VodkaValiumLattePlease]

No Tttatty she asked the aisle seat to move, to the window. After she sat down the people asked for them to move so that the mother and daughter could sit together.

[CustardLover]

Oh and OP, YWNBU, the woman was a bad mannered grump.

[DextersMistress]

Emma I hope I come across you on a train one day. I'll sit next to you and fart.

Op yanbu.

[ToadsJustFellFromTheSky]

I always sit in an aisle seat so unless they physically man handle me?

Or just squeeze past you?

[ToadsJustFellFromTheSky]

Emma I hope I come across you on a train one day. I'll sit next to you and fart.

[StealthPolarBear]

Emma u have you ever been on a train? I'm fairly sure you've never travelled on the tube!

[VodkaValiumLattePlease]

Emma if I'd asked for you to let me sit down and you'd have said no, I would have found the conductor who can make you move.

[ToadsJustFellFromTheSky]

I think Emma was the sighing woman .

[WayneRooneysHair]

Emma I'd squeeze past you and fart in your face

[TTTatty]

I misunderstood and have apoligised.

Emma - what if someone was stood there and asked you to allow access to the free seat that you haven't paid for? Would you just say no?

[EmmaU123]

Oh for god sake grow up. You'd "tell the conductor" really?

[AlbrechtDurer]

Seriously, Emma, you need to make other arrangements for travel and avoid public situations. It sounds like you lack the most basic social skills.

[StealthPolarBear]

Ok you'd deny someone a seat because of your specialness? I think you need to grow up and learn that the world does not revolve around you

[UncertainSmile]

Seriously, Emma, you need to make other arrangements for travel and avoid public situations. It sounds like you lack the most basic social skills.

Yup

[hobnobsaremyfavourite]

Oh ignore the wanker
There's one on every thread these days.

[Oliversmumsarmy]

In the OP she says about asking the two people at the table to move next to each other as opposed to diagonally opposite so the OP can have both seats of one side of the table. Or that is how I understand the OP

The op asked them to move over, no where does it say she asked them to move next to each other

[TTTatty]

Emma - why do think it is okay for you to sit and someone else to have to stand because you want both seats?
Am really shocked that anyone thinks this way. Having both seats is nice but not okay if people are having to stand. Really selfish

[ToadsJustFellFromTheSky]

The only one who needs to grow up on this thread Emma is you.

What would you do if someone ignored your request, squeezed past you and sat down? You still haven't answered that.