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JohnL Wrote:

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> Some people used to be scared of upstairs (really)

> I've no idea why


Three clues:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-33760418


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-33584494


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-31097083

front seat upstairs for me everytime - if Sue's after the one front left, I'll take the one front right

except on a Boris bus


my bus-related nominees for Room 101

a. people who insist on staying in the narrow bit between the doors instead of moving down, forcing everyone else to stand near the front door or shove through - and then shove everyone else in their rush to get off at their stop

b. bus drivers who think that their bus is full because of the idiots in a. and sail blithely past the signals of desperate people waiting at bus-stops

c. bus drivers marking time till the end of their shift, who take an hour to get from ED to the Elephant

d. people who recline against the support posts in the bus, fingering their smartphones, preventing anyone else from holding on

e. people who refuse to hold on

d. the cyclist who toils sloooowly up Dog Kennel Hill, in front of a queue of buses grinding along in lowest gear and chock full of people worrying about missing their trains

e. Boris buses

What REALLY REALLY REALLY annoys me are two people travelling together, one of whom sits upstairs in the front left seat and the other one in the front right. So they talk to each other across the gap and there's a spare seat next to each.


I asked one of them politely to move the other day (the one on the left, obv), much to the embarrassment of my OH.


He did, with rather bad grace - but they then proceeded to diss me from the front right seat in some East European (I think) language. Which I couldn't understand, but I sort of picked up the gist :))

rahrahrah Wrote:

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> If there were other seats available I don't think

> it really fair to ask them to move.



Even when they're hogging the whole of the front of the bus?


I think it's reasonable to ask that four people can see out the front rather than just two.


But each to their own. I wouldn't have pressed the point if they'd refused.

I'm with rahrahrah. If the upper deck was busy and the only option was to either sit next to one of them or ask one of them to move next top their mate, then fine. But if there were plenty of seats available, then why should they move just so that you could have your favourite seat? I'd have said no to be honest.

Otta Wrote:

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> I'm with rahrahrah. If the upper deck was busy and

> the only option was to either sit next to one of

> them or ask one of them to move next top their

> mate, then fine. But if there were plenty of seats

> available, then why should they move just so that

> you could have your favourite seat? I'd have said

> no to be honest.



So you'd continue to sit at the outside edge of a double front seat, with your mate at the outside edge of the other double front seat, despite the fact that a couple requested to have one of those front doubles you were using up?


Regardless of whether there were seats elsewhere, sorry but I think that's just being difficult and unfriendly for the sake of it.


But as always, each to their own.

I'd say there's plenty of space to be used and as such I don't want to sit shoulder to shoulder with my mate. And I am quite taken aback that you're asking for it, as is your clearly embarrassed other half.


To put it another way, if you were in a half empty cinema and someone had gotten to your favourite seat before you (seats not booked, first come first served) would you ask them to move?


To me it's the same thing.

Also if you are a couple of tall stocky guys, sitting next to each other becomes a tight fit. I'm not stocky but I am tall and it's more comfortable to sit over the edge of the seat rather than cramming my knees into the limited space in front.


I can understand asking someone if they would move if there are no other places to sit together, but asking someone to move because they are in your favourite spot? Don't know what I think about that. It doesn't strike me odd that you (Sue) asked one to move, but it does strike me as odd that you can't understand why they didn't understand why you'd ask them to move when other seats were avaialable. It gives a signal of your right to that seat being more than theirs.

KalamityKel Wrote:

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> I'd say it was more of a moot... both sides

> choosing to be difficult... *sighs*



Yes but it's thighs that are the problem. Hot, fat thighs straining through Terylene and Worsted Suit Trousers and warming the thigh of one's chum. So snugly pressed together they look like a misplaced bum crack.


Sit over there you dick.

Blah Blah Wrote:

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> Also if you are a couple of tall stocky guys,

> sitting next to each other becomes a tight fit.

> I'm not stocky but I am tall and it's more

> comfortable to sit over the edge of the seat

> rather than cramming my knees into the limited

> space in front.

>

> I can understand asking someone if they would move

> if there are no other places to sit together, but

> asking someone to move because they are in your

> favourite spot? Don't know what I think about

> that. It doesn't strike me odd that you (Sue)

> asked one to move, but it does strike me as odd

> that you can't understand why they didn't

> understand why you'd ask them to move when other

> seats were available. It gives a signal of your

> right to that seat being more than theirs.


I went into a pub like that once.


Thats my seat - I've sat there for 30 years.

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