Traveling by train can be a really beautiful and peaceful experience, especially if you have a seat picked out and don’t have to fight anyone for it.
This woman did have to fight someone for it, and she didn’t let the fact that the other woman was pregnant scare her off.
Check it out.
AITA for “kicking a pregnant woman out of her seat”
Ok so this happened a few hours ago and I’ve only just calmed down, because I hate conflict.
Basically I was doing a long travel day (5 ish hours) so I booked my train in advance to ensure that I had a reserved seat.
When I get on the train a woman is in my seat, so I politely inform her that I think that’s my seat show her my ticket and ask her to move.
She checks her ticket and just says well I must have sat in the wrong seat and puts her head down.
I say that it’s my seat and could I please sit in it.
Seems reasonable enough, right? But then…
At this point her partner sitting opposite her starts speaking at me in what I perceive to be an aggressive tone.
He suggests I find another seat (which there are none because it’s busy) and I say but I booked that seat and there are no other available seats in the carriage.
He then raises his voice and says well someone else is in our seats and that his missus is pregnant.
I say I understand and that I have a heart defect (which I do) and said everyone has their own medical issues and reasons standing for long periods of time might be difficult.
That sounds more serious than a normal pregnancy to me.
And here I could be the [jerk], I ask him to not speak to me in an aggressive tone, and that I will make a complaint.
He then starts swearing at me and I ask him to stop.
Eventually the woman gets up and allows me to sit there and he continues to berate me.
Saying he hopes I feel good for myself and that I’m quiet now I have my seat, when really I just stopped engaging as I felt there was no point
And then this was apparently an option the whole time:
One of the men who was sat beside him offers that him and his partners sit in the seats opposite me (it’s a table seat) at which point he sits his partner down and then laughs at me and points in my face.
Eventually when the ticket inspector comes around they are asked to move to their assigned seats and she asks if I’m ok as another passenger had made a complaint on my behalf.
Even so was I the [jerk]?
Should I have just left them alone as she was pregnant?
And did I in any way escalate the situation?
What a mess. Let’s see what the internet thinks.
Curb your self-importance:
Follow this train of thought:
If anything, you should have been more of a jerk sooner:
Just be polite to each other, folks.
It’s not that hard.
If you liked that post, check out this story about a guy who was forced to sleep on the couch at his wife’s family’s house, so he went to a hotel instead.