AIBU about the man on the bus?

[HelenaWay]

He said I don't think you should sit there. I said said excuse me what are you on about? He said the bags are massive and take up the fly space.

Well that was it. I was so angry, it wasn't a big amount. How dare he say that to me. I shouted at him that he had really offended me and it backed off and sat in the flight seat.

Now I'm thinking about it I don't know AIBU?

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[mustiwearabra]

Nestofvipers

[Youvegotafriendinme]

Think the OPs on a wind up!

[TheSecondOfHerName]

OK, putting aside the whole naming of spaces and seats, this is my opinion:
HWBU for telling you where you can or can't sit.
YWBU for shouting at him.

[GreenHillsSunnySkies]

It's not difficult people, OP had her Pringles and rice in the fly space, presumably the OP is not a fly, so the man, who clearly sympathizes with the plight of the genus Musca Domestica and supports them in their struggle against the oppressive hoards of the Arachniarchy, told her off for invading their space with her bags. Unfortunately the OP understood him to be adversely commenting on her size and let him have it with both barrels for body shaming her.

Or something like that.

Anyway OP YWNHB unreasonable to shout at this man if he had been calling you fat but in this case I think you misunderstood his intentions therefore you should go out and find him and apologise.

Oh and don't put anything in the fly space in future, they need it far more than you do. If need be just eat the Pringles and carry the rice on your lap.

[SleepingWithTheTelevisionOn]

I just suggested pringles to mfp and it exploded.

[memyselfandaye]

Wtf? Learn to drive, less angst.

Is English your first language OP?

Oh and what flavour Pringles? It matters.

[PelvicFloorClenchReminder]

Maybe it wasn't any flavour of pringles, maybe it was pringle socks. It's nice that pringle have branched out into making socks for flies.

[cherrytree63]

The fly space between the window and the passenger is the tiny gap where kamikaze flies land after bouncing off the window.

[pennypickle]

Uh????? Its obviously past my bedtime. I wonder if this thread will still be here in the morning? I very much doubt it!

[Vinorosso74]

Eh?? Now I have had a few beers and been to a fab gig but I still don't think this thread will make sense in the morning....

[PelvicFloorClenchReminder]

Was it Wheatus at Tunes in the Dunes, Vinorosso74 ? I'll be very jealous if it was.

[nakedscientist]

What are you all like, the flight seat is where the bus hostess straps her self in before the flies (who nestle in the FLY space at bus stops) buzz like crazy and get the bus airborne. Pringles are blocking the FLY space but rice is good in case they get wet.....simples

[RestingBitch]

Summary: you had you bags between yourself and the window. A man approached. He asked you to move your bags. You instead of looking at your mounds of rice and Pringles and promptly agreeing that leaving your bags on the seat was a bit of a shitty thing to do, you thought the appropriate response was to assume he called you fat and then promptly shout at him.

MumsNet summary: No one had a bloody clue what a fly space or flight seat is, and shouting at someone when they asked you to move your shit off the seat is a bit OTT. Also what flavour Pringles and what the hell is a flight seat? Is that the one that folds up/down in the wheelchair/pushchair. If so, can confirm that on good ol norfern busses we call those .. seats.

[Vinorosso74]

No it was Maximo Park at the Royal Festival Hall.
I want some Pringles now.....

[loaferloveforyou]

Seriously though, what flavour pringles?

[BoldKitties]

Eh? I have been commuting to work by bus for 18 fecking years and I have never heard of a fly space.

[BeeThirtythree]

I thought 'Flyspaces' was a tech company that just got a lot of investment? They'll be happy with all the Googling!

This one takes the 'Rosa Parks crown' from the 'Hotdog mum' !!

How many of us now fancy Pringles?

[Redglitter]

I love that every update the OP posts just makes the thread even more confusing

What's the relevance of the rice & Pringles

[BoldKitties]

Oh, wait. It's actually only been 12 years . Somehow I forgot how old I am and how long I've been bussing it to work for (never mind 18 years, it feels like about 68, dealing with bus gobshites every day).

[DoesHeWantToOrNot]

Have I been smoking crack?

[BeeThirtythree]

This flight seat is a small space, he told you not to sit there. You assumed he was saying it because he thought you were too big to fit in it. The man was on about you having a bag and sitting there, but you still shouted at him? Or did the shouting start when he said you can't sit there and he then mentioned the bags?

You subsequently put the bags in the space allocated for bags?

[MeadowDream]

Is the OP advertising rice and pringles in some way??
it's working, I want pringles

[user1477249785]

I want pringles.

[soapboxqueen]

Oh wow! This cheered me up no end.

[UnicornSparkles1]

Pringles, rice and how many bottles of plonk?