To expect him to move??

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Would really like to know others would react in this situation, if at all. I am aware this is not a major issue in the grand scheme of things but still..

Got on the bus today with double buggy. One stop after the bus route started so bus was fairly empty other than one man (Middle Aged) sitting in the seats next to buggy it. I parked up the buggy and expected him to say oh sorry I’ll move but no.

I said excuse me can I sit there (two seats next to buggies but his bag was on one). He picked it up but his legs were spread across half of the other seat so I perched on the edge.. no movement. Just repeated sighing when either of my babies made any sort of noise.

Both started crying. I can’t hold both (twins) plus had shopping and he just sat there when the rest of the bus was empty with his legs splayed out.

Aibu expect him to do the gentlemanly thing of just offering to move when I got on? Or st the very least to close his legs so I could fit on the only other seat near my babies?

The entitlement!

No you can't expect him to move. In London those seats are for disabled and elderly, not specifically parents and buggys, and actually, the space isn't for buggys either, it's for wheelchairs.

If he was manspreading into your space, you should have told him to stop.

So he was sat in the priority seats and you expected both of them for you?

If there were spare seats and he could have moved easily to one of them it would have been the nice thing to do.

Younbu

No @Sirzy she wanted one of the seats. Unless she did want two which would bu.

She had one seat. If she needed him to move his legs then opening her mouth and saying may have helped her!

Blimey, sorry OP but your attitude is a bit poor here. He might have good reason for sitting there, but whether he does or not is immaterial. He doesn't have to move because you want him to.

YABU. You aren't entitled to both seats and if you had a problem with what he was doing with his legs you needed to tell him that at the time.

That said, it probably would have "expected" him to move - not in the sense that I think he was obliged to, but I think it is what most people would have done and it is what I would therefore have anticipated him doing. (If that makes sense!)

I wouldn't overthink it.

YANBU
It would have been polite for him to move.

YANBU He definitely should have moved. The fact that you had to ask him to move his bag shows that he is the one with the issue. I don't agree that you are being entitled, if the bus was full and he had nowhere to go fair enough.

Thanks for the majority of negative replies. Made me feel much better on a low day. Don’t know why I expected anything more.

Thanks to the few who understood

Actually here the buggy area is not for wheelchairs , wheelchairs have a seperate area! And priority seats are not by the buggys. But if he did need a “priority” seat then he could have still shut his bloody legs. Hate that.

Anxious enough on public transport as it is