To not move on the train?

[TheCatsMeow]

I was on a very busy packed train with my friend and DS. DS was in a sling, we had the buggy and I was feeding him. We were standing by the doors (no one offered us seats!) trying to feed a screaming baby, penned in by others standing. There was no where we could go.

People tried to push past us to get out the doors and nearly sent DS flying. I firmly asked if they could use one of the other doors and I literally couldn't go anywhere. Cue mutterings and dirty looks!

We couldn't collapse the pram there wasn't room to do and as no one had offered a seat we couldn't move anywhere! WIBU to ask them to use another door?

You mean you didn't want to move but you expected everyone else to. Because you are a mother! And you have a baby. Jeez

When i had to fly alone with 9 mpnth old, puhscahir and a car seat and luggage i found people really did do everthing to help because it was obvious i was struggling. I wouldnr have expected help when there were two of you. Push comes to hsive you load absoltely everything into the seat of the pram and friend gets off with pram at each stop. Not rocket science. If people had seen you struggling whilst trying, they wpuld have helped!

No, people can still get past a person in an aisle! And it may have prompted someone to give you a seat!

I'm not in the mood for people being rude.

Just a suggestion. ... Maybe don't be so rude yourself

I'm having trouble believing the OP is serious. On many packed trains commuters haven't a hope of getting to the next door along without meeting incoming passengers and the doors closing again.

People not standing in the aisle is a major ball ache as the doors get blocked. If it was just you + baby in sling, I've never been on a train where a bit of shuffling wouldn't have enabled someone to get past you in the aisle. Plus you have been in pole position for seats when people got off the train.

If you stood in the aisle right in the middle you'd have blocked no one as they'd have been able to head for the doors on either side of where you were standing without you moving. Perfect for everyone!

If you were so pinned in you couldn't move, someone should have been in the aisle. Simple physics.

PFB & entitled with bells on!

All these replies as she still thinks she's in the right!

Maybe try not being rude yourself?

Read your replies, you've been selfish, expected others to move so you don't have to and insulted a whole group of people.
It is not us that are being rude.

How would moving into the aisle help because I'd then have been blocking the aisle!

What Jassy said. People could get on and off if you were standing in the aisle.

Lots of people don't fold prams down the op is right. That's why I often can't get into the wheelchair area with Ds due to empty pushchairs being left in the area!

Wow. Just wow.

I hate standing in the aisle as I am short and can not reach the overhead poles. I have fallen on those sitting down a number of times, as a result.

Sorry but prams on trains and tubes during rush hour piss me off, I am a daily commuter, it is bad enough being hemmed in like a sardine without people taking up huge amounts of space with buggies, you either fold it, or don't travel in rush hour, YABU.

What was your useless friend doing to help you with all this drama?

This thread is comedy gold.

Just to add to the consensus, OP was being totally unreasonable. I have never in my life seen someone so rude as to block train doors and demand that people attempt to use another one instead, knowing full well that they could miss their stop. Actually baffled that anybody could be so rude, you are very lucky that nobody told you so at the time!

I hate standing in the aisle as I am short and can not reach the overhead poles - me too, Cleaty. I live in mild terror of getting shunted to the middle of a section where there are no poles to hold on to. Though last time it happened I just gave up being overly polite - I asked a guy if I could swap places with him so I could hold on to something, he just rolled his eyes at me, so I held on to him instead With typical British style he just pretended I wasn't clinging grimly to his arm...

OP, your utter lack of self-awareness is comedy gold. Please carry on posting about how everyone on the train was a twat except you. Extra twat points if they were middle-aged or not as common as you.

Also LOL at Audacity Baby.

People tried to push past us to get out the doors and nearly sent DS flying.

You must have a really shit sling if they nearly sent him flying.

Why didn't you protectively put your baby on the floor and squat over him like a penguin? It's what any caring mother would do.

I'm popping over to the Baby Names section to suggest Audacity as a great name for a newborn.

or Ohdassiti if you want to be yoonique

Sorry if this has been asked but why didn't your friend put the bags down and fold the buggy for you

And the reason you are getting London-centric replies OP is because we know what a packed train really is.
Yours wasn't packed apart from the bit around you, your baby, your buggy, your shopping and your useless friend

Ordassitie is quite pretty