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One more Stop!

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CircleofWillis · 06/10/2018 20:00

My DH, DC and I are abroad at the moment. Today we were travelling on public transport with my DH who had the city map and was navigating. Our train stopped at a station and DH announced "One more stop". Consequently, I gathered small child and bags together and rose as we approached the next station only for my DH to stop me saying "No, it's the one after this". I objected saying "you just said it was the next stop" he answered "NO I SAID IT THERE WAS ONE MORE STOP. THIS IS THE LAST STOP BEFORE WE GET OFF". (My caps - he wasn't shouting). His navigation carried on like this for the rest of the journey. I am thoroughly annoyed and frazzled as a result.

AIBU to find this confusing and bizarre? Surely when someone says "One more stop, two more stops" etc the final stop is when you get off not the stop before?

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Magmatic80 · 06/10/2018 20:02

I’m with your DH. If the transport was stopped at the time he said it, I’d assume he meant there was one more stop before ours

HolesinTheSoles · 06/10/2018 20:02

YANBU my DH does this too and insists it's logical. If he says there are two stops left he means we're going to get off at the third stop. I don't know what he would say if we were getting off at the next stop "there are no more stops left"?

tenlittledinosaurss · 06/10/2018 20:04

I would take that to mean the stop after the next one was your stop.

MorningsEleven · 06/10/2018 20:04

He's right. One more stop then it's ours.

Oysterbabe · 06/10/2018 20:05

I agree with him.

PippilottaLongstocking · 06/10/2018 20:08

I agree with him, I’d take it to mean one more stop before yours. Otherwise it would be “next stop”

youarenotkiddingme · 06/10/2018 20:09

O agree with your DH. Had to read your OP a few rimes as couldn't understand what you meant about being annoyed.

One more stop means 1 more.

He'd have said next stop if he meant the next one!

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CircleofWillis · 06/10/2018 20:13

I'm amazed that so many people refer to it in this was. Today was honestly the first time I've encountered it.

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CircleofWillis · 06/10/2018 20:13

*this way.

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Waitingonasmiley42 · 06/10/2018 20:15

I agree with your DH

DickensianHysteric · 06/10/2018 20:16

I agree with him too, it's one more stop and then the stop we get off at. Sorry OP!

MabelFurball · 06/10/2018 20:18

"Next stop" the whole bus shouted when we were on holiday and wanted to get off for a museum.

iloveredwine · 06/10/2018 20:18

no I would think one more stop meant the next one was the one I wanted. when I am on a train with my children I do tell them we are getting on at the 3rd stop meaning the 3rd time we stop!

Celebelly · 06/10/2018 20:18

Yes, one more stop means there is one more to go before you arrive at your stop. Otherwise you would just say 'next stop'.

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CircleofWillis · 06/10/2018 20:22

He'd have said next stop if he meant the next one!

But if they are all stops why is the last one not counted in the "more stops"
Sorry this is confusing to explain but...
suppose there are seven stations en route...
to me there are seven stops...
because the train will stop seven times on our journey

to my husband there are also seven stops (as he refers to the last one as the "next stop" or "last stop")...
however he does not count this way when reporting how many stops are left

How is this logical?

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CrohnicallyEarly · 06/10/2018 20:58

I can see where he's coming from. It's kind of short hand for 'one more stop and then it's our stop'

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CircleofWillis · 06/10/2018 22:31

Chronically, I think you are right. I think he is using it as short hand but somewhere along the line has left off that extra part of the phrase. To the PPs (the majority) who also use the phrase this way... is there an implicit "and then it's our stop" which is running through your mind?

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HuntIdeas · 06/10/2018 23:05

I’m with your DH here too. Why would he say one more stop if he meant next stop? What would the more bit mean if it wasn’t implicitly ‘one more stop then it’s our stop’?

buscaution · 06/10/2018 23:24

But if they are all stops why is the last one not counted in the "more stops"

Because 'one more stop' is shorthand for 'one more stop and then it's our stop'

I'm quite surprised anyone could think otherwise tbh

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CircleofWillis · 06/10/2018 23:33

Hunt, you see I don't get that at all. The little voice in my head says "one more stop until we get off". I can see that my DH is in the majority here but I still can't help feeling you are all wrong Wink.

Perhaps it is cultural because I really haven't encountered this with my friends or family and have travelled extensively with both. I'm usually the map wielder on trips with my DH and the difference in meaning has never come up before.

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SausageOnAFork · 06/10/2018 23:36

I’m with your DH. ‘One more stop before we need to get off’.

Fiveletters · 06/10/2018 23:40

Yes. One more stop and then we are getting off. The one you get off at isn’t a stop because you aren’t stopping there, you are getting off the train!

PanchoBarnes · 07/10/2018 01:09

I would have thought as you did OP - that, one more stop (the train stopping once more) was meant to get off at the next stop.
I can almost also see perhaps it referring to one more stop, as in station, to sit through before arriving at your station. However, in that case, the train will have then stopped twice more. Smile

knittingdad · 07/10/2018 01:16

If your DH had said, "one more stop before our stop," then it would have been clear, but as it was he missed those words out and assumed that you knew he was referring to the number of stops before your stop.

But why would you if he didn't say?

It's only three more words.

Upsy1981 · 07/10/2018 07:10

I'm with your DH, sorry! Otherwise he would say 'next stop is ours' or similar. One more stop means one more before yours.

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