Some notes:
- this bus fare was $60 for an adult and $33 for a child (me) while a plane ticket usually averages $80 but are frequentl on sale for $60. Reason why I chose to take a bus is because I paid for the trip and I don’t get paid very much from work to afford the luxury to fly just as yet.

- I’m 17 years old and this lady seems like she’s 35-45 years old (in other words she might seem like she has some sort of authority over me because I’m young and she’s older)

- I am travelling by myself


So picture this: monday morning at 9:15am 2/3rds of a bus gets filled with people to drive from Melbourne to Adelaide (~800km/500mi). I’m on this bus trip for two main reasons: I have a car in Adelaide that I need to drive back to Melbourne and I also haven’t seen my dad in 4 months aswell (he’s the one who helped me buy the car aswell).

Now up until this point, I have been trying to get in contact with my dad so I can plan this little mini-holiday and how everything will work from registering the car to discussing and fixing all the problems with the car (its an old car).  Notice how I said I was ‘trying’ to get in contact with my dad - being that he’d lost his phone and hasn’t been able to call me (didn’t know my phone number).
Now this was all until I called my grandparents who live in the same city as my dad. As it turned out, my father went to his parents house to use their phone to call me, right as I was about to call him. So fair enough, I was on the phone with my dad and we talked.

Soon enough, we’d planned our week ahead and eventually got onto other personal topics because we don’t really call very often. By the time I say goodbye, it was about 11:35am. I was tired from the night before and try to get some rest.

No more than 15 minutes later, I get a call from my best friend. She was calling to tell me about how she and her parents got into a massive argument over the holiday we’re going on in 9 days. To celebrate our passing of highschool, its tradition for students to go on a holiday somwhere in groups with the main intention to get as drunk as physically possible.

Well, her parents had said that they didn’t want her to go, although we’ve all already paid $1000+ and booked it 6 months ago. Plans were SET, and we were ready to leave. So naturally I spent the next 45 minutes discussing what our course of action was to get around this situation.

No less than 5 minutes before I’m saying bye to my friend on the phone, this lady sitting on the other side of the aisle to me raises her voice at me saying 

“are you going to stay on that fucking phone for the whole trip? You’re being so rude!”

“Um hello? How am I rude? I’m talking to my friend and its only 12:30pm. That means daytime. That means people wont be sleeping”

Now I know that there may be some people asleep on the bus. I should know, I almost had a nap before my friend called me. But I’m not sure how I was rude. If you didn’t want this, then you should have flown and not caught a bus.

So Reddit, am I the asshole?