Giving up your train seat...

[wndsr]

I sit on a train for about 40 minutes a day travelling into the office and a discussion at work today has led me to make this post and ask: who do you give up your seat for on the train/bus?

I'll be honest and say that as a general rule, I won't give up my seat to anybody except pregnant women on the train. I find people who get on peak time trains with a load of shopping bags particularly irritating and won't surrender my seat regardless of age.

Am I the only person who thinks like this?

 

[Harvey616]

I am similar, I give up my seat to old or pregnant people. It drives me insane when people take up two or more seats on trains due to them sitting in the aisle seat or having bags on their seats- especially when it is peak time.

 

[James J]

Due to not being able to stand in the same spot for longer than 20 minutes due to a congenital back condition, I also won't give my seat up for anyone I deem wouldn't suffer more than me for standing. The frail and heavily pregnant women are usually the two exceptions.

 

[JonJ678]

Well, I'll move if they have a seat reservation for my seat. And probably would for a pregnant woman.

Do you mean you volunteer your seat to random people and then regret it?

 

[Skully]

Pregnant women only.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Pregnant women and old pensioners.

 

[wndsr]

Do you mean you volunteer your seat to random people and then regret it?

I don't regret it because I don't do it!

I have to confess that I don't stand up for older people either on peak trains, as I can't help but think to myself 'they were able to walk round town all day, they can't be that old'... Controversial !

 

[TrixiBuG]

Read thread title as "Giving up your train set..."

I think I need to catch the train home now

Although I do agree with you Op, when people (mainly single mother chavs on my trains) get on the commuter trains with all their Primark bags and a double buggy with the 2 kids in tow (note: not sat in the buggy) and then take up 4 seats - one for their fat **** wrapped in a knock off Juicy Couture tracksuit, one each for the kids - which they never sit in and she spends the whole train journey shouting "SIT YOUR **** DOWWWWWN KYLE!!!" or "STOP HITTING YOUR LITTLE BROVVA YOU ****! YOUR NOT GOING TO DADDYS HOUSE NOW" - and another one for all her bags, plus taking up the aisle of the train with said double buggy...It just makes me want to cheerfully jump out of the window

 

[isonomicjedi]

Don't get me started on giving up seats.

Women with pushchairs on busses who take up the wheelchair spaces.

THERE ARE SIGNS!!!

"Please Give Up This Space to Wheelchair Users"

Where the hell am I supposed to go.

Is it too much to ask for them to fold up there puschair so I can get on a bus.

 

[Hades]

Pregnant, disabled, injured/ill or elderly only.

 

[Craig1981]

Pregnant ladies and the elderly.

 

[Cosimo]

Pregnant women and old pensioners.

.... and people with crutches. The rest can lump it.

 

[Resident]

Probably gonna get slated for this but I don't always give up my seat for the elderly. But let me explain.

If an OAP gets on, there are no seats so then glares at me as if to say "move" then I won't. Glaring at me in that manner feels like disrespect IMO.

If they don't do the above then generally I will get up and offer my seat.

I just don't like the way some OAPs are. They get their bus pass and seem to think that it entitles them to more than the free travel.

 

[wndsr]

Although I do agree with you Op, when people (mainly single mother chavs on my trains) get on the commuter trains with all their Primark bags and a double buggy with the 2 kids in tow (note: not sat in the buggy) and then take up 4 seats - one for their fat **** wrapped in a knock off Juicy Couture tracksuit, one each for the kids - which they never sit in and she spends the whole train journey shouting "SIT YOUR **** DOWWWWWN KYLE!!!" or "STOP HITTING YOUR LITTLE BROVVA YOU ****! YOUR NOT GOING TO DADDYS HOUSE NOW" - and another one for all her bags, plus taking up the aisle of the train with said double buggy...It just makes me want to cheerfully jump out of the window

Sounds like you get the same train as me mate - you described it perfectly there.
There have been a couple of times when I have asked somebody to move their bags, a request they ignored, so I just picked them up myself and hurled them on the overhead luggage racks.

 

[Suarez7]

I give up my seat for no one. I pretend to fall asleep if I see a potential seat stealer.

 

[Crowort]

Pregnant, disabled, injured/ill or elderly only.

Pretty much this.

 

[nemtizz]

It usually depends on what kinda mood I'm in or how long it is until my stop, ha. Anything less than 15 minutes and I'll give it up to pretty much anyone but any longer than that then I'll probably only give it up for a pregnant women or elderly person.

 

[wndsr]

Probably gonna get slated for this but I don't always give up my seat for the elderly. But let me explain.

If an OAP gets on, there are no seats so then glares at me as if to say "move" then I won't. Glaring at me in that manner feels like disrespect IMO.

If they don't do the above then generally I will get up and offer my seat.

I just don't like the way some OAPs are. They get their bus pass and seem to think that it entitles them to more than the free travel.

Amen - like I said, I see no reason why an 'elderly' person would need a seat THAT badly on my train - it starts in the city centre at rush hour. They've clearly spent all day ****ing around.

 

[RDM]

Old people, pregnant women, anyone on crutches or with an obvious debilitating injury.

 

[neil_g]

Anyone that really needs it (pregnant/disabled etc). Otherwise this:

I give up my seat for no one. I pretend to fall asleep if I see a potential seat stealer.

But with sennheiser earmuffs for extra effect.

I pay £320/month to ride of this smelly metal BO fest, by god I'm having a seat..