which others have so warmly referred to me as in recent days I'm probably being unreasonable in thinking that the robot working for a coach company my daughter booked seats with is a congenital moron!
This imbecile told my daughter, who was holding my 2 month old grandson in his car seat, that you cannot sit together despite tickets being pre-booked.
Am I wrong to be a tinsy winsy bit annoyed with the robot or is the robot in line with Charlton Life thinking and I'm the one in the wrong?
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It must be me but I cannot believe anyone with an iota of intelligence would seriously try to separate a 2 month old baby from his mother on a journey but it happened.
Nobody else seems particularly surprised by it so yet more evidence that I am an anachronism in my own country in the 21st century.
when the bloke said 'you cannot sit together' was it some kind of rule to make people integrate or was it just because there were only 2 seats left that weren't together available?
I'm not surprised that it is 'first come first served' to be seated (like some airlines) but the way you describe it doesn't come across like that?
Other people on the coach not offer to swap?
On the plus side I still manage to walk into lamposts whilst staring at the pretties in various stages of undress during this weather. Just as well the lamps are in the way really 'cause my hip wouldn't let me chase them and I've forgotten what to do if I caught one.
Yes I remember that.
some nurse forgets to lock the cell door, which results in escaped nutters shouting about robots on coaches.
seriously though it seems like every other day you'll run into some bureaucratic shitfuckery. come back common sense, all is forgiven!
I assume, like most coaches, seats are first come first served, so I assume your daughter was - one of - the last to arrive. If this is the case it's not really the 'robots' fault, is it, how can (s)he be expected to make someone else sit away friend the person the are with, who arrived in time to get a pair of seats.
The blame lies with someone not offering to move, to allow your daughter and her child to sit together.
Wibble, wibble...
She may have assumed, not unreasonably in my jaundiced opinion, that those seats would be together but I don't know that.
She is no shrinking violet and by going to the top duly got her seats together.
My point is that what imbecile would put her in that position to start with?
It's stressful enough travelling with a small child without having to see managers because bureaucrats cannot or will not do their job properly.
Step back from this a second and take a deep breath and pretend you're not so emotionally attached by it being your daughter/grandson. I understand your point, but you dont realise the way you come across.
As others have said, there are multiple occurances in life where you book 2 seats at the same time and then they are allocated on a first come first served basis (perhaps you dont travel with budget airlines as well as public transport) but even if you book 2 flight seats together, it doesn't give you a divine right to 2 seats together.
With flights they tend to allow families with kids to board first, to avoid this occuring I should imagine, however, a coach probably doesn't have such rules, therefore, if there were only 2 seats left seperately, I personally dont see it as the role of the coach company to reorganise the coach so that your daughter can sit with her child, especially as we dont know if she was last to board, dare I say it, late? or if they had allocated her 2 seats seperately - that would be more worth getting in a twist about.
I'd have asked those sitting on the coach if they would mind moving to accomodate a double seat or if they would care for my child for the duration of the coach trip - i'm sure someone would oblige rather than run the risk of a small child bleating in their ear for a journey.
I don't see where along the line there are imbeciles? just an unfortunate situation that took a bit of sorting out.
It's all very well for you coming on here with the voice of reason but it's Friday afternoon, some of us, I'm sure, will have had a small drink by now. Leave us all alone to play! :-)