Busy hospital waiting room

[JobSeekingMissile]

AIBU to think if there's a row of four seats in a busy waiting room that it's shitty to deliberately sit in the middle two?

I should clarify, it's children's waiting room. So nobody is alone

I think in a children’s hospital waiting room people probably have bigger things on their mind than where you think it’s socially acceptable for them to sit.

I’d just ask politely if they would mind moving up so you can sit down next to your child.

Ask them to budge up one so you can sit with your kid.

Everybody will presumably be with a child that’s possibly unwell so I doubt they’re thinking too much about which chair they sit on. Just politely ask them to move up.

Just ask them to move (nicely)

Ask them to move up.

That's the thing you feel bad asking as you don't know what's going on

People can sit wherever they like. It's not as though seats are reserved by prior notice.

Venting anonymously is less confrontational

So you'd rather stand or sit with two people between you and your child than make a simple request? It's not confrontational to ask them to move up!

There's being non confronting and there's being a doormat. If they need to move so you can sit with your child, just ask.

Ask nicely.

omg, just ask, with friendly tone. They aren't thinking as you point out, probably worried, rather than want to be inconsiderate.