Giving up your seat
Discussion
ali_kat said:
Elderly, infirm, pregnant, crutches, Mum with pushchair - I'll give up my seat for.
Anyone else can sod off!
I've only read to this post and I agree.Anyone else can sod off!
I commuted by train for six months and I saw people at their worst. Most people are ignorant, impatient and intolerant.
I was in the supermarket earlier and moved a guy's trolly about 5 inches to get into the biscuits - he starts muttering something so I ask him what his problem was - apparently I should have asked him if he wanted to move it. I told him in no uncertain terms he was being ridiculous and was easily annoyed. I should add that he was looking at something further up the aisle. I think people have got angrier and plain nastier.
anonymous said:
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I can actually make myself feel quite down about it the more I think of it. I know it sounds crazy but as I get older (31 now) I feel like I'm becoming increasingly aware of how bad society is getting. I suppose the negative moments in life stand out more than the good things people do for you sometimes but whether it be on the road, on the street or as per today, the supermarket, it's as if by default people are increasingly taking on an unpleasant persona. As you say, I've started to find I'm starting to do the same and need to remind myself how I was brought up. Maybe I'm just being a woman loldarren f said:
£7k a year..., no guaranteed seat, on the contrary, having to stand for 2.5 hrs if your conscience kicks in. This country's rail network eh? Customer service, what customer service? 
Of course if the "needy" person has a season ticket they've as much right to a seat as you.And if they don't have a season ticket, on a per journey basis they've paid more than the season ticket holder so are therefore more deserving of the seat
anonymous said:
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I find the worst to be the Boomers for that reason, followed by their children. those older than the Boomers actually had to fight for the scraps they earned and their children seem more embued with that ethic. But generally speaking, people who don't or didn't do work effort commensurate with their lifestyle do seem to be the worst.
I am a fit and healthy, recently turned 50 year old female. A few weeks ago I travelled on a train along the North Wales coast on the way home from a concert. The train was full of people who had also been to the concert and the atmosphere was jolly and sociable. I was quite happy to have to stand as my journey was only to be about 20 minutes when a chivalrous young man got up and insisted that I have his seat. My reaction was two-fold, firstly impressed by his courtesy and good manners and secondly mortified that he thought I was in need of his seat. I replied "I'm not that old!" but at his insistence took the seat for fear of offending him. What should one do in those circumstances?
Martin_M said:
so I ask him what his problem was - apparently I should have asked him if he wanted to move it. I told him in no uncertain terms he was being ridiculous and was easily annoyed.
I think people have got angrier and plain nastier.
"Hello Pot!I think people have got angrier and plain nastier.
"Why you're looking very black, Mr kettle!
- I missed this until now, very good!
Sorry for the tardy reply 
Comments are primarily from the affluent retired gents attempting to secure a perch for their significant other. I've just resorted to pointing out that the a seat is available on first come first served - make try effort like I do and you can sit where you like!
Usually results in nothing more than a huff and walking off -but tend to get evils from the others sat around!
£7k and 5hours a day on the train is worry it *not* to live in London!
Comments are primarily from the affluent retired gents attempting to secure a perch for their significant other. I've just resorted to pointing out that the a seat is available on first come first served - make try effort like I do and you can sit where you like!
Usually results in nothing more than a huff and walking off -but tend to get evils from the others sat around!
£7k and 5hours a day on the train is worry it *not* to live in London!
Martin_M said:
I can actually make myself feel quite down about it the more I think of it. I know it sounds crazy but as I get older (31 now) I feel like I'm becoming increasingly aware of how bad society is getting. I suppose the negative moments in life stand out more than the good things people do for you sometimes but whether it be on the road, on the street or as per today, the supermarket, it's as if by default people are increasingly taking on an unpleasant persona. As you say, I've started to find I'm starting to do the same and need to remind myself how I was brought up. Maybe I'm just being a woman lol
I think like that sometimes, particularly in London where everyone is caught up in their own little world.But then periodically I see something bad happen like an old lady fall over, or one from the other day where a kid got trapped on the tube with his dad failing to get in through the door, and suddenly everyone wakes up from their stupor and you realise that without exception everyone in the vicinity fall over themselves to offer help to strangers who need it (even the most unlikely looking candidates) and you feel better about people.
Had some fat entitled cow roll her eyes at me on the train the other week because I took a seat before her – never mind that I got on before her and was closer to said seat. I was standing directly in front of it and she tried to muscle me out of the way. Seat opposite became free so she was able to sit down anyway but obviously couldn’t resist showing her displeasure that I hadn’t treated her like a princess and stood up like the doormat white man she pegged me as. Repugnant f
king we.
Happy to give my seat up to the pregnant, infirm or elderly. Fat, middle-aged women who think the sun shines out of their arse can fk off.
king we. Happy to give my seat up to the pregnant, infirm or elderly. Fat, middle-aged women who think the sun shines out of their arse can f
k off.Rh14n said:
I am a fit and healthy, recently turned 50 year old female. A few weeks ago I travelled on a train along the North Wales coast on the way home from a concert. The train was full of people who had also been to the concert and the atmosphere was jolly and sociable. I was quite happy to have to stand as my journey was only to be about 20 minutes when a chivalrous young man got up and insisted that I have his seat. My reaction was two-fold, firstly impressed by his courtesy and good manners and secondly mortified that he thought I was in need of his seat. I replied "I'm not that old!" but at his insistence took the seat for fear of offending him. What should one do in those circumstances?
Correct course of action in this situation is to insist that he sits on your knee! Neil H said:
Rh14n said:
I am a fit and healthy, recently turned 50 year old female. A few weeks ago I travelled on a train along the North Wales coast on the way home from a concert. The train was full of people who had also been to the concert and the atmosphere was jolly and sociable. I was quite happy to have to stand as my journey was only to be about 20 minutes when a chivalrous young man got up and insisted that I have his seat. My reaction was two-fold, firstly impressed by his courtesy and good manners and secondly mortified that he thought I was in need of his seat. I replied "I'm not that old!" but at his insistence took the seat for fear of offending him. What should one do in those circumstances?
Correct course of action in this situation is to insist that he sits on your knee! 
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