Would you tell someone to move on a train

[MinnieMountain]

I’m prepared to be corrected, this is more of a how much of a dickhead is this man being post.

DH and I are on the train. Our allocated seats are next to opposite windows with the aisle in between. DH sat next to me so that we were in the same airline seats.

A passenger got on and told him to move to his allocated seat as they are set up like that for social distancing for the staff, as he and his own DP are doing.

DH moved. Dickhead has had his mask off pretty much since he sat down (he is in my eyeline).

AIBU to think that if you’re that bothered about the rules, you really should obey them all yourself?

And would anyone else have actually said anything, regardless of what they thought?

I do and I am thank you @IntoAir.

It’s a bit confusing when different train companies have different rules during a pandemic though.

I used to use trains and tubes all the time, I would get really annoyed if someone sat in my seat.

No one sat in anyone’s seat

Tbh you don't know if the seat was cleaned and your dh sat in it and now the other person has to sit in a potential Covid seat.

Oh behave! A “Covid seat”. Whoever heard such tosh

As for his mask, he could have a good reason not to wear a mask. If not he's a knob as well as your dh

I’ll go for him just being a busybody knob. He’d fit in great on MN.

The other passenger asking you to sit in your allocated seats was correct: train companies are trying to space people out.

But of course, he should have kept his mask on.

But he wasn't a dick for asking you to move. It is really annoying when people don't sit in their allocated seats. Do you travel by train a lot? It sounds as though you don't, and you're unaware of good train manners.

The OP was in her allocated seat. The seat her DH was sitting in wasn’t someone else’s seat.

@5128gap

This last year seems to have given a lot of people the idea that despite having no authority, they can police other people. I hope it wears off when we get to the end if this.

Yep

I think you were in the wrong

I do hate when a couple have an entire 4 seat with table to themselves, but insist on sitting side by side vs sitting opposite each other. You are supposed to keep the aisle seat free for social distancing - and it always ends up being a frowsy man that’s in the aisle seat and manspreading into the aisle. Legs and feet practically touching the seats in the other aisle and then they act like you’re being a massive inconvenience by asking them to move so you can walk through the train!

At this point I don’t even say excuse me, if my suitcase runs over your foot then I mean🤷🏼‍♀️ Play silly games, face the consequences

wings that's not remotely what the ops situation was. As has been said, most train companies are not requiring aisle seats free and if they were, it would be up to the train guard, not some random person to enforce it.

I guess the seats are allocated into ones you can use and those you can't to ensure there's a level of space between passengers, if your dh sits in an allocated empty space it means someone can't sit in a spare seat as they will be breaking the trains Covid distancing rules. I read it as it will then render the seats around him unusable

If you are the same household then I would have sat together. Someone across the aisle could have had the free seat. It’s baffling . All the seats get cleaned anyway.

I think not using the aisle seat is making sure people can walk down the aisle without walking right past a seated person, rather than whether you can sit together in a household bubble.

It’s not up to a random stranger to tell you that though, if it was an issue a train employee would ask you to move. Surely?