Christ of almighty, how oblivious do you have to be to even post that? Of course you’re the asshole, no doubt about it! As I’m sure they’ve been told multiple times on the original post.
Apart from anything else, when in Rome… If they were on a train in the states and the Irish girl was in their seats you can be damn sure they’d have her moved. And probably arrested cause ‘Merica.
>My husband joked that we didn’t know that was a name as it just looked like a random string letters, which seemed to upset her.
What the actual fuck.
This almost seems too bad to be true.
certified cunt moment.
I’m 99% sure this is fake, probably written by an Irish person
The vast majority of the posts on AITA are made up and designed to get people angry. This one seems to be no exception.
We don’t know the full context here. Perhaps the seat in question was once sat in by this American family’s great-great-great-great grandfather. We simply can’t know
AITA for a being a total asshole?
Absolutely the asshole.
>I informed her that there was no assigned seating on the train
Wrong. With Iarnród Eireann trains pre-booked tickets come with assigned seating. Those who have just bought a ticket at the counter, as this person did, are obliged to sit in a non-assigned seat or stand.
>It just looked like a random string of letters
Insults, what I am assuming is an Irish name, because she’s too stupid to realise there are other languages.
>She paid for that seat specifically for a reason (she didn’t say what the reason was)
The reason is she paid for a seat to ensure she had one. These trains are usually full during the summer because of people like OP. Locals know to book seats to ensure they can sit down for the 90minute journey and likely do work/read etc… Regardless, she doesn’t have to give the OP a reason.
>she said if we wanted to sit together as such a large group we should have had the common sense to book online in advance
Well she’s correct. Why should this person who booked a seat have to give it up because OP couldn’t be bothered to book their journey in advance?
>She cut him off and said: don’t call me young lady, you fucking yankee bastard”.
Again. Your husband being condescending and patronising to somebody in their own country and then is surprised to be told to shut up. As for calling him a “yankee bastard” he got off lightly, I’d have called him a “typical ignorant American c*nt”
This sounds like a troll post.
I don’t think anybody can be this stupid.
Thinks back to the “why do Irish people think Americans are stupid” thread from last week.
Cue the Mitchell and Webb “are we the baddies?” Sketch
Yes, those tourists are definitely the assholes here.
The sheer nerve of saying that the girl’s name looked like a random string of letters…
If they want to sit together, they can book online in advance, like anyone else. You’d think they might have realised that, travelling all the way from the US in a party of 8 including 6 kids…
I really doubt this story is true
she was upset when they made fun of her name? how surprising!
I wish she hadn’t walked away and stood there until they made the wee cunt move. I’ll never forget my friend retelling his own story of him making a woman move off his pre-booked seat. All her friends were yelling at him and he said he watched her get up limping and being passed her crutches while they whole train GLARED at him hahahaha. He didn’t give a fuckin shite. As he said if you know you can’t stand, book a fuckin seat !!!!
R/aitaWritingPrompts
This is the fakest thing that ever faked. Half the stuff on AITA are elaborate creative writing exercises.
Haha fair play to her, ” You Yankee Bastard” 🤣🤣
As an American I have developed a theory about my fellow countrymen who act like this. See we are raised on a non stop diet of U.S.A. is number one. We are told the moment we start school how great we are and how we lead the world. As we get older we split into one of two categories. One group continues to believe the hype. They believe they should be considered upper class anywhere they go because they were gifted by God to be born American. In there eyes America has never and will never do anything wrong. I think they mentally can’t handle thinking about how shit America has been to the world, to them it feels like a personal attack. The rest of us grow up. We see through the “propaganda” and realize America is just as fucked as anywhere else and more so than some other places. If it makes anyone feel better the vast majority of us over here think these type of people are cunts too.
To be fair the woman’s name was Seat Free.
Why do I feel like this was just an Irish person taking the piss… it’s just such an obvious “you’re the asshole” post.
I’ll take things that didn’t happen for ten.
I use the train every week to come home from college in Cork to Kildare.
The amount of fuckers who completely ignore the booked seating is insane.
One woman gave out to me when I said she was in my seat, saying that the train was already late from Heuston by half an hour… as if that didn’t mean it was delayed by half an hour for me a few stops down too.
Once kicked half a family out of our seats on the way back from Castlepalooza. Train was rammed and had a quick conversation with my wife on the way to our seats about what we’d do if someone was in them. Land on “we’ll leave it if they’re old but otherwise I’m getting my seat”
Get there and the two in our seats were the daughter (our age) and her husband. So I politely say “sorry, those are our seats”. Yerman immediately says “I don’t see your name on it!!”. I just slowly pointed at our names above the seats.
He starts shite’ing on about what station they got on at, asking how much I’d paid for it, etc. All trying to argue me out of the seat. I didn’t answer any questions, said none of that matters mate, I booked the seats and that’s that. The young couple finally left. We sat stonefaced across the table from the fuming mammy and daddy the whole trip back.
Plenty of people on the train were giving me filthy looks the whole time too. But 100% fuck that. If you’ve booked the seat that’s all there is to it.
There’s no way that is real. Come on people.
This can’t be a real AITA! No way.
If an American said to me an Irish person I should be grateful that they’re visiting my beautiful country I’d actually boot them all the way to blanch or tallaght and tell them to have that same attitude and audacity to others
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Gewan young one!
God I hate people
Christ of almighty, how oblivious do you have to be to even post that? Of course you’re the asshole, no doubt about it! As I’m sure they’ve been told multiple times on the original post.
Apart from anything else, when in Rome… If they were on a train in the states and the Irish girl was in their seats you can be damn sure they’d have her moved. And probably arrested cause ‘Merica.
[AITA post](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/vy857e/aita_for_not_making_my_daughter_give_up_her_seats/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
AITA – Am I the American
Doesn’t every train in the country start with the announcement warning you
1) Don’t put your feet on the seats.
2) Don’t occupy prebooked seats.
Those Yanks, coming over here and taking all our . . . Seats.
https://youtu.be/dy7kb5ABsyk Ryan Reynolds sums her up well
>My husband joked that we didn’t know that was a name as it just looked like a random string letters, which seemed to upset her.
What the actual fuck.
This almost seems too bad to be true.
certified cunt moment.
I’m 99% sure this is fake, probably written by an Irish person
The vast majority of the posts on AITA are made up and designed to get people angry. This one seems to be no exception.
We don’t know the full context here. Perhaps the seat in question was once sat in by this American family’s great-great-great-great grandfather. We simply can’t know
AITA for a being a total asshole?
Absolutely the asshole.
>I informed her that there was no assigned seating on the train
Wrong. With Iarnród Eireann trains pre-booked tickets come with assigned seating. Those who have just bought a ticket at the counter, as this person did, are obliged to sit in a non-assigned seat or stand.
>It just looked like a random string of letters
Insults, what I am assuming is an Irish name, because she’s too stupid to realise there are other languages.
>She paid for that seat specifically for a reason (she didn’t say what the reason was)
The reason is she paid for a seat to ensure she had one. These trains are usually full during the summer because of people like OP. Locals know to book seats to ensure they can sit down for the 90minute journey and likely do work/read etc… Regardless, she doesn’t have to give the OP a reason.
>she said if we wanted to sit together as such a large group we should have had the common sense to book online in advance
Well she’s correct. Why should this person who booked a seat have to give it up because OP couldn’t be bothered to book their journey in advance?
>She cut him off and said: don’t call me young lady, you fucking yankee bastard”.
Again. Your husband being condescending and patronising to somebody in their own country and then is surprised to be told to shut up. As for calling him a “yankee bastard” he got off lightly, I’d have called him a “typical ignorant American c*nt”
This sounds like a troll post.
I don’t think anybody can be this stupid.
Thinks back to the “why do Irish people think Americans are stupid” thread from last week.
Cue the Mitchell and Webb “are we the baddies?” Sketch
Yes, those tourists are definitely the assholes here.
The sheer nerve of saying that the girl’s name looked like a random string of letters…
If they want to sit together, they can book online in advance, like anyone else. You’d think they might have realised that, travelling all the way from the US in a party of 8 including 6 kids…
I really doubt this story is true
she was upset when they made fun of her name? how surprising!
I wish she hadn’t walked away and stood there until they made the wee cunt move. I’ll never forget my friend retelling his own story of him making a woman move off his pre-booked seat. All her friends were yelling at him and he said he watched her get up limping and being passed her crutches while they whole train GLARED at him hahahaha. He didn’t give a fuckin shite. As he said if you know you can’t stand, book a fuckin seat !!!!
R/aitaWritingPrompts
This is the fakest thing that ever faked. Half the stuff on AITA are elaborate creative writing exercises.
Haha fair play to her, ” You Yankee Bastard” 🤣🤣
As an American I have developed a theory about my fellow countrymen who act like this. See we are raised on a non stop diet of U.S.A. is number one. We are told the moment we start school how great we are and how we lead the world. As we get older we split into one of two categories. One group continues to believe the hype. They believe they should be considered upper class anywhere they go because they were gifted by God to be born American. In there eyes America has never and will never do anything wrong. I think they mentally can’t handle thinking about how shit America has been to the world, to them it feels like a personal attack. The rest of us grow up. We see through the “propaganda” and realize America is just as fucked as anywhere else and more so than some other places. If it makes anyone feel better the vast majority of us over here think these type of people are cunts too.
To be fair the woman’s name was Seat Free.
Why do I feel like this was just an Irish person taking the piss… it’s just such an obvious “you’re the asshole” post.
I’ll take things that didn’t happen for ten.
I use the train every week to come home from college in Cork to Kildare.
The amount of fuckers who completely ignore the booked seating is insane.
One woman gave out to me when I said she was in my seat, saying that the train was already late from Heuston by half an hour… as if that didn’t mean it was delayed by half an hour for me a few stops down too.
Once kicked half a family out of our seats on the way back from Castlepalooza. Train was rammed and had a quick conversation with my wife on the way to our seats about what we’d do if someone was in them. Land on “we’ll leave it if they’re old but otherwise I’m getting my seat”
Get there and the two in our seats were the daughter (our age) and her husband. So I politely say “sorry, those are our seats”. Yerman immediately says “I don’t see your name on it!!”. I just slowly pointed at our names above the seats.
He starts shite’ing on about what station they got on at, asking how much I’d paid for it, etc. All trying to argue me out of the seat. I didn’t answer any questions, said none of that matters mate, I booked the seats and that’s that. The young couple finally left. We sat stonefaced across the table from the fuming mammy and daddy the whole trip back.
Plenty of people on the train were giving me filthy looks the whole time too. But 100% fuck that. If you’ve booked the seat that’s all there is to it.
There’s no way that is real. Come on people.
This can’t be a real AITA! No way.
If an American said to me an Irish person I should be grateful that they’re visiting my beautiful country I’d actually boot them all the way to blanch or tallaght and tell them to have that same attitude and audacity to others