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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Did you consider he was complimenting you on fitting into the fly's space?

Poor fly. Am concerned he's flattened on the underside of a Pringles tube. Texan Barbecue Pringles.

Pigs in blankets flavour Pringles are the best. None of this salt & vinegar nonsense...

And no, I don't know what fly space means either.

I saved a bumble bee yesterday with some sugar and water, but I then accidentally ran it over with my car and squashed it on the drive.

Do buses have BEE space too OP? 🐝

Just thinking it might be safer for them to travel by bus. 🚌

Has it been established what a "flight seat" on a bus is yet??

#enquiringminds

I think the OP was sitting in the aisle seat, leaving the seat next to the window (the fly seat) empty, but her bags were overflowing into it.

The man got on the bus and wanted to sit in the seat next to the window, but felt that the OP and her bags were taking up too much space. When he said so, the OP assumed he must be referring to her size, because her bags were actually small, and shouted at him, so he retreated and sat on the flight seat, which I assume is a single seat at the front, possibly a fold-down one near the luggage/wheelchair/buggy soace.

I'm sorry. You're all wrong.

The limited edition CHICKEN pringles are the best

This is the weirdest post I've read in a long time!

I think RustyBear might have it. In which case OP was being very unreasonable. Bus seats are for people (and flies?) and not bags.

Unless of course it was a flying bus, in which case OP should have chosen a flight seat to begin with.

This thread is odd.

Blimey. I wonder if the op is in a country no one else on here is in and in that country they have fly spaces and flight seats on buses. I've never heard rhe term either,
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I think she was sitting on the bus, had her shopping beside her on the seat and up against the window and a man basically said she was taking up more than one seat with her and her shopping on the seat she assumed he was saying it was because she was fat as she didn't have much shopping, so started shouting at him.

If this is the case, op yes you were being unreasonable. You don't need to resort to shouting,

What flavour Pringles? This is important

I wondered that too, Thick

If you will put your human scale bags in the seat intended for flies (and presumably other insects) then what on earth do you expect to happen?

Cats

Right it's simple

Op placed bag next to window
Op sits next to man
Op is encroaching on aisle seat as a result
Man points out she's pretty much taking up the second seat by doing so.
Op loses her shit.
ARE YOU SAYING IM FAT?!

Op is really mad about this and posts on Mumsnet many hours later

Man was correct to point this out
Op was batshit
No one is fat
Fly seats are a made up word.

HoneyDragon bravo! 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻

Sorry op sits next to BAG not man

I think that English possibly isn't the OP's first language.

The above diagram has really helped to clarify though my head has actually imploded by reading this thread.

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.

This is superb analysis Greenhills.

I wish it had proceeded from my heat oppres'sed brain.

And why is everyone harping on about the rice. Rice tastes of nowt! It's a plate-filler, that's all.

The Pringles are the key here.

I think honey dragon has it although I have a feeling the flight seat might be those ones at the back that face each other.

I need to know if the pringles are safe?

maybe the flight seat is the one fitted with ejector rockets for quickly getting crazy people off the bus?

Will no one think of the flies?!

HoneyDragon - Brilliant diagram but I think you should have blanked out the OP face so she doesn't get outed in real life.