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To 'confront' this man when he asked for the priority seat on the bus

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YoJesse · 02/04/2016 14:43

Me and Ds 3 were on a really packed bus, no seats left at all. I was standing and Ds was on one of the priority seats. The other 7 priority seats were taken up with what looked like young able bodied people and on Dad with a baby.

A man 50ish gets on, walks past all the other seats and says to me 'I'm disabled, can you move your son?' I got Ds up without questioning it but then I heard the Dad with the baby say to the man 'fucking hell, seriously mate?' This got me thinking that maybe it was a bit unfair so I tapped him on the shoulder and said 'as you can see I'm happy to give up the seat for you but as you can see there are lots of young, able looking people on the other priority seats, don't you think you should of asked them not my son?' He then goes off on one say ' I'm disabled, your son should be sitting in here in the first place etc' so I said that he is less able to stand on a moving bus than most other people so maybe he is entitled to the seat. The man got all sweaty and angry and I felt really uncomfortable so I got off.

Was I unreasonable to confront him?

YetAnotherHelenMumsnet · 05/04/2016 19:57

Good evening everyone,
We have had this thread reported many many times and have made a number of deletions. Peace and love and let's keep to the subject at hand, folks.

KatherineMumsnet · 06/04/2016 10:30

'MNHQ have made it extremely clear that disabled people are 'other' and that therefore it's open season to deride and lock them and their caregivers.

Hence why they're all piling in.'

BishopBrennansArse, while we are completely open to feedback of all descriptions - we rather draw the line at out-and-out untruths such as this one. This really isn't the case.

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