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

Unless your kid is an absolute porker (I doubt it) can’t she sit on your lap?

Me too. Why be a dick when you can be decent? some of these responses are so deliberately obtuse.

Train travel is expensive and not always very pleasant. Understandably in my view people don't want to be inconvenienced when they're already sitting in their seat.

Meanwhile OP is being so much more considerate?

Nice if she offered. But no obligation to. The entitlement on here is breathtaking.

I would only move for you OP if there was another seat I could take on the train.

I would not stand so you can seat especially if this was a long commute for me...

That's the thing with public transport you don't always get your way.

The fact that someone is young does not mean they are necessarily in good health either. She could have an invisible disability/condition and might need the seat more than you or your daughter.

OP didn't ask her to move. It's quite possible the woman was busy/didn't notice.

I don’t understand why you are saying “ ha ha”, who are you laughing at- the woman or the poster who suggested speaking to her?

And where did the OP say that she didn’t book a ticket. I book a ticket for my commuter train to London, it doesn’t mean that I get a seat. Sometimes I have to stand. There is no option to reserve a seat.

Where did it say that she was expecting the other person to stand? The OP clearly said that there were plenty of single seats.

I’d either sit my child on my knee or find 2 individual seats next to each other. I wouldn’t expect anyone to move.

dd is a nervous flyer so we always pick and book our seats on flight so that she is sitting with one of us as she would hate to sit beside strangers.

Sit down, 5yr old stands between your legs or sits on your knee.
It's a non issue. With several kids I managed without having to ask several people to move to accommodate us!

Stop saying haha when it's not funny.

Yabu. You haven't even asked the woman to move. Is she meant to be psychic??

I have actually found most people pretty decent in offering to move etc or I'm about to get off in a minute would you like to sit here etc. But it's not an expectation.

She's 5 small enough to sit her on your knee.🤔

I’m so glad it’s not just me who doesn’t get the ‘hahas’. There’s one further down as well.

abandoning her small child!😂 LMFAO

I suggest in the future you book seats for your train journey. You can do so on the Trainline app and several others.

🤣🤣🤣

You can't book seats on a train that doesn't do reserved seating. You can only buy a ticket that entitles you to travel on the train, like OP did. If you're travelling say Southeastern HS1 or Scotrail, you can't book seats. If Trainline is purporting to sell seat bookings for trains where the operator is not doing seat bookings, that's not worth the paper it's not printed on (the data it takes to load it? Is there a digital version of this phrase?).

Or perhaps the OP is being entitled and trying to use her power as a parent?

You can see the other thread now.

AIBU to ignore this woman staring at me?

The train is busy but not full. However this woman has plonked her small child next to me and it pointedly standing there staring and me. I just finished a Night Shift/am pregnant/ have a disability/ just don’t want to move but she is making it obvious that she expects me to get up and move so she can have my seat. I was here first.

Yes, before I sat down. He first pretended not to hear me, then got out of his seat pointed to the window seat and before I could suggest that maybe I could sit in the aisle seat, he’d almost pushed me into the window seat with his body by not waiting and plonking himself back down in his aisle seat. When my son called across to me, I looked the man right in the face and started to say, “Excuse me, could….” and he looked away from me, took his phone out and proceeded to ignored me.

BaronessBomburst · Today 12:17

Ask a man to move. Women are always expected to be accommodating. It gets wearing.

100% what @BaronessBomburst said.

@PrettyPleaseXo you are being entitled and ridiculous to believe strangers should move to accomodate you when your child can sit on your lap or would even care.

You are worse for thinking like this when you haven't even asked this woman anyway.

And worse still for picking on her. If you are that bothered why not say loudly to the carriage, would anyone next to an empty seat be willing to move so I can sit next to my 5 year old daughter. Willing to do that? If not, why not?

I know, because it's easier to single out a bully a lone woman.