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?

Hey, I was a teenage Mum and and now am a Mum to a teenager. Neither I then or my daughter now would be so inconsiderate to others on a train or to anywhere else for that matter. Nor would any slapping be going on.
In my experience the 'I have a baby so bow down to my mighty vagina and it's spawn' type parents tend to be in their 30's and 40's.

The baby probably got left on a train...

Would also like to say I was a teenage mum. If I behaved as appallingly as the OP, I would still be mortified to this day.

I just arrive at the train station and wait

OP, I don't believe that you had any intention of folding your buggy, even at the platform.

There, I've said it.

Get a car, Christ

God no, please don't inflict her on those of of us who have to commute by car
She'd probably be under the impression that the Highway Code doesn't apply to her because she's a mother in case you weren't aware and that general road safety and courtesy towards other road users only applies to other drivers,whilst she can carry on in her bubble of oblivion.

Notso - yes, sorry, I used trains and tubes and had common sense as a teen.

I guess I'm just picturing someone who was ferried around by a chauffeur, then got thrown out of the family home for having Audacious and now has to resort to being rude to people on trains.

joking aside - I am sorry. I realise the OP is just one person and not an example of anything in particular.

Paul - cross post and apologies to other teens, I do know you all have good common sense.

I should step away from the thread I expect [embarrassed]

Parents like you give the rest of us a bad name. Sort yourself out and stop being so precious.

lorelei don't! It's perfectly acceptable to be looking for any way possible to try and explain the OP's ridiculous attitude!

YANBU. It's just the middle class London commuters on this thread thinking they're special. If you'd been on my train, I'd have used the extra time given to me by not being able to get off at my stop to make you a nice cup of tea. We could both have relaxed and chatted about your day shopping as we sailed past Sheffield and on to Edinburgh. 'Cause that's what us working class northerners are like. We drink tea and crowd ourselves around train doors like total fucknuggets, whilst pondering why some clever-dick southerner hasn't thought to invent buggies that fold, or some sort of storage shelf for luggage on trains.

BorderTerrier dying! 😂

Now that's a bit much Border poor Edinburgh hasn't doesn't anything to deserve the OP.

OP, exactly what pushchair do you possess that cant be folded down and blocks the doorway of a train so completely no-one can get past?

FWIW I get on a packed commuter train every morning with my toddler in a pushchair. The train itself has been dubbed the education express as there are approx 20 schools along the train line (yes, really!), with iirc 8 or 9 of them within half a mile of the station I get off of.
If I wouldnt have been able to get off at my stop because someone selfish couldnt be bothered to move their buggy, then oh boy would I have been fucked off, especially as the stop after mine would involve me crossing a motorway junction to get there.
If the train is busy, the toddler gets ousted from his buggy, handed to the nearest person on the train, buggy folded and on we get. This being the buggy we have.

And in the interests of disclosure, I have long term SPD, so yeah life can be pretty painful at times.

I'm a edinburger, would be cracking to see people's reactions to this shite tbh!

Now that's a bit much Border poor Edinburgh hasn't doesn't anything to deserve the OP.

It's them or us.

(Sorry PaulAnka!)

Omg I can't believe the OP is still trying to argue her case and suggest that everyone's views on here are invalid and not representative of the public..(only because we are saying what she doesn't want to hear!).

(and PrivatePike - BTW is that a Monstrous Regiment inspired name? Awesome if so!)

Can someone please explain this sentence to me

"People with kids should not be denigrated to off peak times"

Has the insanity of this thread caused words to change? Maybe there was a memo about the change in meaning but the messenger missed his or her stop because the door was blocked.

Sorry couldn't help myself - I shall denigrate myself elsewhere.

Btw OP YABU.

Don't forget it also has no brakes, ihaterain and thus requires a chocolate teapot friend to hold it at all times.

Because I don't think I was being U Sirzy

Really I would never have guessed...

Here's what normal people do.

Get to station, start to fold buggy, train arrives. Friend gets on and stands in doorway leaning out, buggy finishes being folded, pass buggy to friend with one foot on train, get on train.

OR

Get on train, push buggy into empty aisle, fold it.

Easy peasy. On

Unless its one of these pushchairs iCandy that come apart in several bits.

Seriously though, most people are capable of following instructions as to how to fold a buggy i.e. 'pull the handle in the seat hard' or 'kick this bit up, stand on this pedal and push it to the floor'. Even my 6 year old knows how to fold the buggy