annoyed woman wont move seats on train

[PrettyPleaseXo]

Currently on the train with my 5 year old. There’s loads of individual seats but none together so I’m stood next to my daughter who’s sat down next to another woman.
AIBU to be a bit annoyed she’s turned her back on my daughter to avoid eye contact and hasn’t moved to another seat so I can sit next to my daughter?

if there were no other seats I’d completely get it but there’s loads of individual ones

How is minding your own business just sitting in your seat 'being a dick' exactly?

Quite. Let's not forget nobody even ASKED "the dick" to move.

Don't you know that it's every woman's duty to constantly think of how she can make life more pleasant and comfortable for others around her? Random train woman is failing at this.

I’d have sat mine on my lap at that age

Decent, well brought up people would move without being asked.

Why? There are other single seats available and a child can sit on a persons lap.

The adult is perfectly capable of asking and it's not unreasonable to assume they'd ask if they wanted to.

It's totally different from say a person with crutches, when I agree a decent person would offer up a seat or move from an easy access seat without being asked.

This is daft. Besides, when I was a child (and brought up in a 'decent, well brought up' way as you put it), I was taught that a child does not sit when an adult is standing! I was taught from a young age that I should not occupy a seat if an adult is standing - and not just old/infirm.

Op lit the touch paper and is well gone. Train journey probably finished ages ago

Why did you choose this particular person to sit next to?

If she’s in the window seat you’ve blocked her in so asking her to move would be your only option. The more logical thing would be for someone else sitting next to an empty seat to move for you.

Wind em up and watch em go !!!!!

Why should anyone give up their seat that they have paid good money for, so the OP could sit down? Why did the OP's 'needs' trump the other woman's needs?

She's five not a newborn.

Waiting for the other woman to post.

Exactly. Saying someone is a dick if they don't move for a women with her child is just rude, offensive, and plain ludicrous. 😆 FFS, entitled much?! I have a child so give up your seat. Errrr, no love! I paid good money for this jog on!

No need to snipe at people's upbringing because their opinion differs from yours.

Reminds of that story about Vogue Williams not pre-booking their seats then expecting people to move for them.

your feelings are your feelings, and if youre annoyed thats fair enough, but you dont have a right to sit in her seat. On a busy train youre lucky that you managed to get a seat for your kid, but sadly for you, the others were taken and you just have to stand or sit elsewhere

I am really surprised by the number of people who wouldn’t move to another seat on here. For what it’s worth I would have moved, absolutely no cost to me to scoot out the chair and sit in one a few meters away and I wouldn’t even think on it again. The only thing I can think is maybe there is a hidden disability in which case I think trying another person is a better thing. My 5 yr old is so chatty that it would only take a few minutes for the person sat next to her to willingly want to move!

Yabu op. If you need to sit together reserve seats or be early to get seats.

You can't reserve seats on all trains

Oh I remember that too! Entitled and precious like a few others on here!

@MissersMercer you can't reserve seats on most trains. Just the 'intercity' style ones.

@MissersMercer and also how can you "be early" if your stop is number 7 out of 15 stops or whatever?

The other spare seats may have been reserved for people jumping on at the next station or two? If so, she wasn't being rude because she wanted her seat.

BUT if the other seats weren't reserved, I would have 100% moved. I think any decent person would? I've been in the same situation and a lovely gentleman moved to a single seat and let us have the double. I didn't ask mind, I made my DD sit in front and I sat behind so i could keep an eye on her .

So you would put your child next to someone who refused to move for you both, and have her irritate the other passenger til she was forced to move?

Actual WOW.

@Dibblydoodahdah

You seem very cross with the people here who don't agree with OP

I noticed that too

@Dibblydoodahdah · Today 13:56

No one else standing but the OP. You’re just trying to be clever. The OP’s post was quite clear. She couldn’t just move to one of the other seats because her daughter is five. That was why she was standing. Nothing to do with seats not being available, it was because there weren’t two together.

I don't need to TRY to be clever dear.