Mum fumes over not being offered a seat on the tram - but not everyone agrees

AuthorKatie Williams
Published date14 June 2022
Publication titleEdinburghLive (Scotland)
In a rage, she posted on parenting forum, Mumsnet, to complain after she was on the tram with her family but was not offered a seat

Her daughter had fallen asleep on her and she was surprised when she was 'ignored'.

While she was looking for sympathy, many hit back telling her that she was unreasonable.

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Remaining anonymous, she wrote: "So we went to see Ed Sheeran, took DC [dear children] who are seven and nine. Made sure they were fed and watered but knew it was going to be a late one.

"Parked out of town with the park and ride (all other options booked up so went with it). DD [dear daughter] was exhausted so carried her for the last bit of the sizeable queue. Got onto the tram and she wanted to have a kip.

"Young lad was already on the train and an older couple sat in front of us who had got on at the same time as us. DH [dear husband] and I stood with both the kids and DD asleep on me and then DH."

She carried on: "Young lad looked at his phone and out of the window clearly ignoring us. Woman of said couple sat and started wittering on about inconsequential sh***.

"Neither of them got up so DD could at least sit down. They proceeded to steadfastly ignore us for the entire journey as DH got more and more p****** off.

Eventually someone got off and we got a seat but AIBU [Am I being unreasonable] that neither of them offered their seat to the DC.

"Is this a sign of the times? There was also older people standing up that probably could have...

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