To think parents should teach their dc bus ettiquette?

[katiekitty]

Yesterday, got the bus home, standing room only then I noticed a woman with a buggy in the buggy zone, buggy empty and her dd (about 4/5) in a seat. Yes, the buggy was hers. The little girl was then darting about the bus between her seat and into her buggy and during one of these forays, someone sat in the seat she was taking up when she vacated it to sit in the buggy. The mother said to the seat sitter, 'that was her seat' and gave them a dirty look. They didn't budge out though. Here's my first AIBU: shouldn't the mother have seen the busy bus situation and got her dd into the buggy seat and so free up a seat for someone else?

Then, when I went to get off I felt whooosh! My dress was lifted up to its full extent by the dd, everything on show to the bus omg! This happened not once but twice! I said: "Do you mind?" and she went to do it again and the mother said to me: "She only wants to know if you're wearing socks or tights under it" wtf! My second AIBU: The dd should have been told "No! You cant do that to the lady" or something along those lines, but no, nothing like this was said. Please tell me I'm not being unreasonable to think the dd should have been told!

Hi Tissy - do you know, I thought long and hard about whether this was the case, however, I can only conclude that the little girl was just being naughty and was not told to stop by her mother. The buggy was not one of those designed for older, special needs children as it was WAY too small for her and I think that if her special needs were making her act in this way, then her mother would surely have said something like 'oops, sorry, she didn't mean to embarras you' or 'let's ask the lady if she's wearing socks or tights rather than lift her dress up' anything like this! But, I think both mother and child were just being unruly.
I know it's important not to judge, but similarly, she should have not presumed that I would find this behaviour acceptable and that I was not going to scream or shout at this. You generally don't expect to flash an eyefull to the rest of the bus! God, I cringe to think about it! Perhaps I should have said something to her to clarify the situation?