Who’s in the wrong here?

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Was just sat on a bus. A lady gets on with a buggy and parks it in a way that is taking up two spaces and then sits down next to it, so taking three altogether. Bus not very busy.
An elderly lady opposite her starts shaking her head, tutting and muttering to her friends about how many seats she’s taken.
The lady with the buggy asks if there is an issue. The elderly lady says ‘you don’t even pay for babies to get on and they end up taking two spaces’ to which the lady with the buggy replies ‘pretty sure you got on this bus using a free bus pass. Out of all of us I’m the only one that’s actually paid for my seat. Thank you’
This is then followed by a lot of moaning and voicing of disgust between the elderly lady and her friends while the lady with the buggy goes on her phone to ignore it.

I’m on the lady with the buggy’s side here. If the bus had been packed I would have expected her to manoeuvre the buggy to be taking up only one space but it wasn’t so I don’t think she needed to. I’m all for respecting your elders but I do feel this lady was being a bit silly. What do you guys think, who’s was being unreasonable here?

I am normally anti buggy on bus BUT as long as the space wasn’t needed and giving benefit of the doubt that she would have moved if needed (although I know many don’t) then she hasn’t done anything wrong at the point of being criticised.

It’s a fact. This lady was in her 80’s - she was elderly. The posters saying this statement is ageist are linking their own connotations to the word ‘elderly’. It’s like calling someone young if they are young or blonde if they are blonde.

People will try and twist it because they want to see ageist comments so they can stick the boot in at any opportunity.

I bet these same people are the opposite when it comes to young people and will just accept the description of a young person if they are young. And to be honest, there is far more casual ageism towards young people than there is towards old. It’s like making insulting comments about someone’s weight when they’re thin and nobody bats an eyelid, but when it’s a cat person the world ends.

*FAT person Cat people are ok normally. Dog people annoy me

If the bus is quiet can’t see the problem. The mum in question has to get around like the elderly person and had her baby so the older lady should of kept her mouth shut when it wasn’t needed. Folding up a pram with a baby is a faff. Fortunately I drive now but when I had my eldest I was 19 and didn’t have a car and the drivers never seemed to help me if I was trying to fold the pram and hold baby!!