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?

To the tune of Tragedy by The BeeGees:

Audacity!
When the choo choo stops and the twats get on
Audacity!
When the aisle is full and they all pile on
It's hard to bear
With no folding buggy
They're going nowhere

I am from NonLondon too! But we are in London this week, and today my toddler patted a man's arse on the tube. So maybe I shouldn't talk.

Did anyone write non London before me?

I've been getting excited. Thread started at 12.15 when all the RL commuters were at work. They'll have all come home, had a bite to eat, and any minute now they're going to be online to explain all their London-centric twattish actions to the OP.

Father I'm dying! 😂😂😂

If you have a huge buggy plus more luggage than you can manage, avoid rush hour. I've always found everyone very helpful on trains when I am considerate about where I put pram etc.

I'm not sure the twats are London ones. I'm a tad unclear but I've the feeling the op might not be in London. Hard to figure out.

Council of Ladies brilliant

I'm thinking buggies now come with a label saying not to be folded in nonLondon".

This thread has been pure joy

Wait... The twats aren't London twats?!

Shocked.

'Not in London' is now reading as 'I am Spartacus' in my head. Though I do love L/non-L!

This gem struck me from earlier:

I'm still amazed that so few people have raised the issue of the other passengers who could/should have moved out of the way.

Just because everyone else is behaving like a fuckwit does not excuse one behaving like a fuckwit oneself.

In my years of being a horrible nasty commuter in cities all over the world I've never encountered anything more effective than a nice assertive 'would everyone please move down the carriage, please, people can't get on/off the train!'

On one particularly maddening delayed journey the people stuck by the doors appointed me their official spokesperson.

I had this happen to me trying to get off a train in Newark over Christmas. Stupid cow had blocked the door with a buggy (empty) and three kids sitting on the floor playing on ipads. She was most non-plused when I told her she'd have to move so we could get off the train as the other door was completely blocked by luggage. If her kids had been standing whilst the train pulled into the station and she'd folded her buggy there would have been no problem.

It's utterly selfish behaviour.

Moln It's tricky, because there's a slim chance that OP might not be in London, but the people on the train were being so twatty about wanting to exit the train before it left the station, and all the MN users here agreeing with those twats must be Londoners...

Was there an influx of Londoners on NonLondon trains today?

You bastards stick to your own trains if you want to use the doors to get on and off.

I'm sure the idiotic twats on the train weren't London twats due to it being a nonLondon train. Unless of course the twats were London twats but were lost and accidentally got on the wrong train. This may explain why no one would climb over the OPs buggy and chocolate tea pot friend. They were too confused at the nonLondon nonFolding ways.

Can't believe this is still going! Has the OP admitted defeat yet?

Possibly, if they were true nonLondoners they'd have known to go back to their seats and crawl out the windows.

I'd like to post yanbu... no reason to shove & push. But OP long gone bullied away.
Obvious thing to do is hop off at the doors, let people off, & hop back on.

This is why I gave up using public transport when my DC's were little.

People who say "fold up the buggy" when you've got loads of shopping and a buggy, must be very strong, have 6 arms and / or have been accompanied by someone who could help carry stuff at all times.

It's just physically impossible. A public transport system that relies on strangers being good-natured enough to help you in a society where we're all trained to be individualistic self-obsessed bastards, is not fit for purpose.

Drive. The public transport system is designed for single, able bodied people who are not carrying very much. It's pretty hopeless for anyone else.

Well for what it's worth i don't think op is BU, other commuters should have made space for her to get away from the doors.. she did what she could in the situation.

Op needs to go on YouTube and look up the video 'getting on board a train in china' you londoners don't know how easy you got it

Not in London.

You are still totally unreasonable.

Are you always this dense when people give you feedback?

True. It's either use the window or the next Hogwarts I suppose. That's the true nonLondon twat way.

yabu. sorry. In a sardined train, it's hell getting off and all exits will be required. You should have sorted yourself out when you got on by asking for a seat. much safer for you to be sat with your little one. I personally find that always getting on the disabled carriage is the best idea - more scope and room for a buggy and I feel better about asking for a seat. not from a disabled person obvs.

Just caught up. This is hilarious. OP you are better than my toddler at maintaining a nonsensical position through sheer bloody mindedness, and for that I applaud you. 😂