We took my 2 year old to a playground this afternoon without knowing beforehand there was a circus nearby and, bad timing, within a minute of getting in the playground everyone came out the circus and loads of people brought their kids into the playground. We decided we'd stay just for a short while.
My son was on the swing for about 30 seconds and a couple put their daughter in the other baby swing. They pushed her for about two minutes then the mum started very loudly saying to her daughter they needed to get off the swing to take turns. The dad said to her there isn't anyone waiting.. the mum said there might be someone else watching further away and waiting and they've had their turn now. She left the daughter in the swing for another minute or so but repeatedly saying really loudly and pointedly they needed to get off for another child, they can't hog the swing, it's polite to get off. When they left the swing stayed unoccupied.
I am a sensitive person but it upset me a little as her comments were very clearly directed to us and my husband felt the same. My son had been on the swing no more than 3 minutes, no one was obviously waiting, the playground was full of kids from the circus but they were pretty much all over the age of 4/5 and wouldn't have been using the baby swings. I would absolutely be the first person to get my son to take turns with the swing if I thought anyone else wanted it, but also he'd barely been on it any time at all. Was I doing something wrong or being unreasonable?