Today I was going home with a sleeping toddler in a buggy, an older child aged 5 and loads of shopping. Got to the bus stop, no other buggies, waited 20 mins. Bus arrives, suddenly this couple with a buggy and baby in a sling appears from a way off, and due to where the driver stopped, managed to get on before me. I had been letting some elderly people on and then all of a sudden they were there. There was one buggy already on the bus and they took the last space. Luckily I managed to get on as I don’t think the driver noticed and I had to wedge myself my the door, 5 year old getting hit every time someone got off. In 6 years of having a buggy and not driving, I have never known a bus driver allow this!
As I got on, I said ‘Excuse me but I was at the bus stop before you, did you not see me?’ - they immediately got defensive, saying they had been travelling for hours and had a young baby, etc. In my opinion, it doesn’t matter, the person waiting at the bus stop first with a buggy, should get a space on the next bus due to limited spaces. They were so smug and entitled about it, saying ‘I really don’t understand the problem, we are all on the bus, why don’t you just let it go’ etc. Really patronising.
YABU - bus stops are a free for all and it just depends who the bus driver stops closest to
YANBU - they were entitled bus wankers and should have waited their turn.