Giving up your train seat...

Fenris said:
I'll give up my seat for pregnant women and anyone who looks like they have difficulty standing, i.e infirm elderly people (not ALL elderly people), people on crutches etc.
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This for me. Unless I have a reserved seat, and I won't budge for anyone unless they look like they're about to keel over. Although (like others have mentioned), I have mistaken a fat lass for a pregnant one before :eek:

arknor said:
man up and tell them to move their **** ? up here on the Newcastle metro I've often heard the driver on the loud speaker telling people to get there feet off the seats like they should.
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Aaaw I got the Metro to work everyday for 4 years (Fellgate - Central). How I miss it! :D Was just talking about that the other day... people always used to pass out directly on me, or I'd always end up next to the drunk lad who just spent 10 minutes throwing up on the platform before he got on. Lush!
 
Freefaller said:
However, if I am on a train, if someone looks like they are in more need than me then I offer my seat. It's called being a gentleman, but also a decent human being.

Though it does wind me up when you offer an older lady with presumably her grandchildren and she gets the children to sit down :/ I offered the seat to you not a young hyperexcited youth!
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I agree with this. It's just common courtesy to offer your seat to someone more in need of it. I like to think that I was brought up by my parents with manners and find some peoples attitudes nowadays quite disappointing.


JoeF1 said:
WHAT?

Would it not be cheaper to drive?
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Mine's about the same and I don't always get a seat.
 
I was on a train the other day where an old, disabled lady was made to move from her chair because she was sat in a reserved seat that two uni students wanted to sit in when they got on at Durham.

To be fair, I don't think they realised at the time, but then neither did they say anything as she struggled to stand up.
 
JoeF1 said:
WHAT?

Would it not be cheaper to drive?
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Not in London.

Average traffic speed is measured in miles per day. Parking is charged per spare kidney. And then you have the kamakazi cyclists to worry about. If I'm not on the tube I just walk.
 
ahar said:
Not in London.

Average traffic speed is measured in miles per day. Parking is charged per spare kidney. And then you have the kamakazi cyclists to worry about. If I'm not on the tube I just walk.
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Damnn!

Glad im from Yorkshire.

£320s like 3/4 of my rent....
 
I would give my seat up for anyone I thought genuinely needed it more than myself. That doesn't automatically mean a pregnant woman, elderly person or somebody disabled , If they look fit and healthy and are coping with standing then the seats mine.
 
Or maybe if you bring a boombox on the train with you and play the English national anthem at full belt. Some people might stand up in honor, then you can jump in the seat.

**** yeah.
 
Freefaller said:
lol at the faux "alpha" guys who said they wouldn't move for anyone. Rather amusing. Want alpha? You'd bloody move if I asked you to, and that I can guarantee ;)
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Watch out lads!

Out of interest, is it only OK to throw your weight around if you're big and muscly, or can I just grab a knife and do the same? :p
 
I don't throw my weight around at all, if I wanted to I'd just become a Don again :p The post was made with tongue firmly in cheek, it's just interesting how defensive/aggressive the little boys get on here. ;)

In fact I'm pretty placid and non confrontational. :)

At least Davey got it...
 
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