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Original poster

To wonder how many different ways you can come up with to say YABU to this

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atthewelles · 25/02/2013 12:05

Just always fascinated by how a post that only seems to have one possible answer ie YANBU can be turned on its head, mis-read, mis-interpreted, taken out of context etc in order that the OP can be told they ABU.

So, to this perfectly obvious YANBU example how many ways can different posters find a YABU angle?

"I was standing at the bus stop yesterday and was first in the queue for the bus. After waiting about twenty minutes the bus came along and was pretty full. The driver said 'one passenger only' and the person behind me pushed me to one side and got on. AIBU to think this was rude, inconsiderate and downright cheeky and to wish I'd said something at the time?"

OP posts:
ouryve · 25/02/2013 19:05

If you'd made use of that big pink thing in your head, you would not be wondering this, now. You would know for certain.

So, YANBU.

ThreadWorms · 25/02/2013 19:05

Ywnbu to feel annoyed.

But you already knew that so Yabvvvu to start a thread about it here. This is AIBU, not somewhere to have a moan.

BeyondTheLimitsOfAcceptability · 25/02/2013 19:10

Can't believe you're not riding a horse, you environmentally unaware fuckwit.

LadyBeagleEyes · 25/02/2013 19:13

The sheer concept of queueing is so British, and you sound a bit pathetic Op
If you live on the continent you 'll find that the French or Italians don't bother with all that malarkey, which makes for a far more tolerant society.
Learn to push and shove or you'll never make it in this world.
It's everyman/woman for themselves these days.
There is no such thing as society.

almapudden · 25/02/2013 19:20

OP, I am the woman who 'pushed' past you, as you so rudely termed it. It might interest you to know that I have a very serious debilitating condition called crowd-blindness. I also have low self-esteem and it's people like you who make it so difficult for me to leave the house every day.

I hope you're proud of yourself. I am literally shaking with anger and shame :(

Snazzynewyear · 25/02/2013 19:21

She'd probably come straight from counselling aimed at making her more assertive and had been told to practice her skills, thus you were colluding in her continued oppression by thinking you could just get on the bus. How can you be so selfish? If you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem.

foxache · 25/02/2013 19:24

Are you young?

beautyfades · 25/02/2013 19:31

This is why i love mumsnet! I do not think YABU, if someone jumps the queue that is wrong, is it not?

LondonMother · 25/02/2013 19:33

YABVVU, OP. The other person was clearly a spirited child whose parents wisely let him/her do exactly as s/he wished. You're the kind of person who probably doesn't like it in restaurants when children use waiters carrying scalding hot food as a slalom run, aren't you?

TheVermiciousKnid · 25/02/2013 19:36

Are you in Scotland?

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 25/02/2013 19:58

What's with the Scotland comment, you some sort of racist?

TheVermiciousKnid · 25/02/2013 20:01

Stop bullying me! Angry

SirBoobAlot · 25/02/2013 20:03

Why didn't you get on an earlier bus? Jesus, some people are so disorganised, and then expect other people to make their lives a priority.

ChaChaDigregorio · 25/02/2013 20:10

Personally I find this whole thread unreasonable. Who are you OP to judge other people's judgements of reasonableness? YABVU.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 25/02/2013 20:12

I don't think the OP deserves such a flaming.

Nest of fucking vipers the lot of you. Angry

HerbyVore · 25/02/2013 20:15

There's so much bullying on this thread...
you should all be ashamed of yourselves Sad

MrsDeVere · 25/02/2013 20:23

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AlexReidsLonelyBraincell · 25/02/2013 20:28

I don't believe this really happened did it OP? Hmm, was the wasp on the bus? Did the lady trex her way onto the bus?
You're very confident for a new poster arncha?

butterflyexperience · 25/02/2013 20:30

Bah haha
Please put this thread into classics Smile

ThreadWorms · 25/02/2013 20:35

1/10

Smudging · 25/02/2013 20:50

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vladthedisorganised · 26/02/2013 10:03

This is awful. The OP clearly has a compulsive queueing disorder and everyone seems to have turned on her. Nasty thread.

Not of course that I'm defending the OP's attitude to the woman who got on the bus: clearly she was entirely within her rights to do so and frankly we have no right to expect otherwise.

And I have a phobia of bus queues, I didn't pass my grade six cor anglais and I insisted that everyone brought a gold-plated toilet brush to my baby shower, WHY IS EVERYONE JUDGING MEEEEEEE?

Grin (Can we put this in Classics please?)

Original poster
atthewelles · 26/02/2013 10:03

Thanks for all the bitching helpful points of view. I can see now that I was wrong to assume that someone skipping the queue was skipping the queue simply because I saw them skipping the queue.

I will try not to be so judgmental in future. [blush[

OP posts:
Original poster
atthewelles · 26/02/2013 10:04

Blush even.

OP posts:
chocoluvva · 26/02/2013 10:06

Anyone else noticed that the OP has flounced off?

OP, Did you mean to be rude?