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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And as for the size of the bags: could have been 10kg bag of rice and a crate of pringles?

What a curious individual you are.

Sour cream and onion pringles need to stop, they are disgusting. Anyone who eats them isn't allowed to sit on the fly seat!

Its fly space and flight seat.
FFS can't we have some clarity around here? 😜

What is happening here?!

Oh god! Im crying!

After the latest update i think the flight seat is the foldy down one - either in the wheelchair bit or over the steps if it's a proper coach (like the seats crew use on planes maybe??)

The fly space seems to be the area between the seat and window. Presumably because it gives flies unimpeded access along the bus?

So op sits down with bags between herself and the window. Man appears and says something random about flies. Op says don't call me fat. Man goes and sits in foldy seat.

I don't know about U. I thonk you were both drunk. Or hallucinating. How big were these flies Op?!

Just read this thread and I'm crying with laughter I get the bus all the time but hadn't heard of a flight or fly space

So he said your bags take up the fly space, and you think they didn't take up the fly space?.

What troubles me here is that you and him are the only two people in the country who know what a 'fly space' is. And there you were, on the same bus, at the same time. Clearly meant to be. I think the universe was trying to drive you into each others' arms. But you screamed at him, so now... you'll never know.

Did you eat the Pringles? Did you cook the rice?

.FLY space. [grin[

Maybe op rides the Harry Potter bus?

Nutella and probables are a surprisingly good combo..... salted and Nutella is the best combo..... definitely not sour cream for dipping.

I wonder how OPs head is this morning! 🤤🤤🤤

Maybe the OP is in a different country, where those terms are common? As are Pringles obviously. #whatflavour

I use public transport all the time - never heard of a flight seat or a fly space, so I googled and NEITHER HAS GOOGLE! So perhaps if your OP was clearer and you didn't use made up terms, people would be more helpful.

@chopsticky Sat 13-May-17 07:13:31

Love this thread. I love that the OP's response to everyone asking what a fly space in was just to put the word fly in bold caps.FLY space.

This.

It's like Johnny English speaking louder so the bloody foreigner can understand him.

My FiL (foreign) had a similar way with words: He made a joke (in his native language which I was learning at the time) involving a complex pun. I had never heard the all important word - which it transpires means a mortar shell - before. His explanation of the word was "it FLIES" through the air......

It's ok Sharon. Just come with me.

Sharon? When did they release you?

proper laughing at this thread. :-D

OP nobody knows what the hell you're on about. Have you taken your meds today?

And YABU unless your Pringles are prawn cocktail flavour!

Nope. Still not making sense.

And the poor chap probably wanted to manspread, bless him.

Oh please come back OP

This is the first thread on MN that really has made me laugh out loud! I feel a bit dizzy after reading all 8 pages. And I have to get the bus soon. Not quite sure where to sit now as I have put on half a stone recently. Am not taking any rice or pringles with me so fingers xd for a peaceful journey.

I love Pringles in the green tube.