Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[J0e Musashi]

Sounds like she needs the exercise from standing though! Unless you mean she was pregnant .

Course she was preggers!

[QualityChimp]

Considering the price i have to pay for a monthly pass to use public transport i don't give up my seat for nobody, love getting old people hassling me to give up my seat, sorry but i actually paid for my seat so no i won't be giving it up.

After busting my ass at work all day the last thing im going to do is stand up on the bus for half an hour as it makes it's way home. Don't even get me started on the women that bring a sprog wagon on the bus & proceed to take up all the room.

Boo to you, sir! Boooooo! :thumbdown:

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['Press Start']

On the way back from London (1 hour journey) I gave my seat up to an old lady at the start of the journey. She took the seat and was happy. It's the right thing to do.....for some I guess anyway.

Next stop a Lady and her son get on, the lady is walking on crutches. 2 stops later no one has offered a seat. Some fat man is trying his best to avoid looking in her general direction, the older lady who took my offer then offers her seat but she is so old the lady on crutches declines. Meanwhile about 5 suits are reading the paper with extra concentration, trying to sleep really hard to avoid detection and talking amongst themselves.

I look at the suspects who should give the seat up and all avoided eye contact but one, he looks at me and I tell him with my eyes ' You should get up and give this women with a broken leg your seat' He looks at the floor like a punk and stayed seated.

Joe's train seat story reminded me of that and it was 'situation irk of 2011'.

[randombs]

Regular seats I can give or take - personally I get up regardless of which seat I'm on - but what boils my piss(to use fader209's eloquent term) is when people don't even get up from the priority seats. That's what they're ruddy there for.

Considering the price i have to pay for a monthly pass to use public transport i don't give up my seat for nobody, love getting old people hassling me to give up my seat, sorry but i actually paid for my seat so no i won't be giving it up.

What are you on about? You don't pay for a seat, you pay for the right to board the train/bus/whatever. There's no such notion of first-come-first-served on public transport. When you're old you'll be posting on here about youngsters not giving their seat up for you despite the fact that you fought in the Great Mass Effect 3 Petition of 2012 so future generations would have the right to choose their own endings.

You'll see

[koopatroopa90]

but what boils my piss(to use fader209's eloquent term)

I think you'll find it was the cat that said that, you know, the evil one from the UK?

re public transport: for ease I tend to stand anyway, even when there is the odd seat dotted about. Not that I use public transport much these days. I'd offer my seat up to someone if I felt they needed it - doddery OAP, disabled, mothers with young kids/preggers, but I wouldn't give up a seat just because someone is old, say.

Some of them expect it, despite the fact they have just as much ability to stand up as anyone else (I'm talking about the fitter, less old ones here), and that irks me in itself. They don't have a right to the seat unless it is designated as a priority seat. Yes, it is courteous to offer your seat up to them, but there is no law saying you have to and if you don't want to so be it.

Oh and in Brighton it did pee me off that the free bus passes meant the bus company had to raise prices several times for everyone else, but that's not the fault of the old gits

[randombs]

It was definitely someone on here, anyway.

I usually give people the once-over with my Terminator-vision. It analyses how likely they are to need a seat. Like if they're leaning funny or have baggage. I use the same thing when deciding whether someone will need help carrying their luggage up/down stairs - if they lean too far to the side I swoop in like an eagle

[averybluemonkey]

There's an annoying habbit a lot of old people seem to have on the bus I use these days. On the top deck I sit as far back as the last openable window and open it as it gets hot and stuffy and I'm sick of catching their dirty old people illnesses, being that far back no one can complain I'm causing them a draft. Yet it seems every other week they think they have the right to reach over and shut my window. I'm wearing a t-shirt, I can't exactly take anything else off, was sitting there before they got on and they don't even ask first. No politeness, absolute entitlement. What's worse is the way they did it to my girlfriend and all laughed at her when it made her jump out of her skin. Then they act like you are the rude one if you re-open it because ooh they're cold. Here's an idea put a jumper on then. Way I see it just because someone gets old doesn't stop them being an arse, just because someone is old it doesn't earn them any respect in my book.

[importaku]

Regular seats I can give or take - personally I get up regardless of which seat I'm on - but what boils my piss(to use fader209's eloquent term) is when people don't even get up from the priority seats. That's what they're ruddy there for.

What are you on about? You don't pay for a seat, you pay for the right to board the train/bus/whatever. There's no such notion of first-come-first-served on public transport. When you're old you'll be posting on here about youngsters not giving their seat up for you despite the fact that you fought in the Great Mass Effect 3 Petition of 2012 so future generations would have the right to choose their own endings.

You'll see

Your very correct you don't pay for a seat, however i do pay a fortune every month for a bus pass to be able to use the bus i don't pay all that money to stand every evening after been on my feet all day. If oaps paid what i had to then thats fair enough but they don't, the max they pay is 20p if it's peak time. Sorry they ain't getting priority just because they are old, if theres any really frail ones then thats what the priority seats are for, the rest can get stuffed.

Don't even get me started on the ones that think they can just barge past you to the front of the queue.

[noobish hat]

Lol showed my passport to someone who asked for id and they said but my passport expired ..i pointed out the fact i am still the same person

Dara?

[Decider-VT]

I just don't bother offering a seat to anyone except pregnant women these days. I've offered up far too many seats on the 73 to ungrateful, curmudgeonly gits that acted like they were entitled to the seat in the first place for me to care anymore. I'm usually dead on my feet from work when I get public transport, so the wrinkly shoppers can stand unless they look like they're going to keel over before I do.

['Press Start']

It was definitely someone on here, anyway.
I use the same thing when deciding whether someone will need help carrying their luggage up/down stairs - if they lean too far to the side I swoop in like an eagle

Good man, I am the same. It's not because you expect or even want a thank you, something kicks in and tells you 'help them'.

[eastyy]

Dara?

nope but same thing happened to me to

when my other half goes to tescos to get drink she tends to get asked for id usually by the same person which i find odd

[kryss]

It was definitely someone on here, anyway.

I usually give people the once-over with my Terminator-vision. It analyses how likely they are to need a seat. Like if they're leaning funny or have baggage. I use the same thing when deciding whether someone will need help carrying their luggage up/down stairs - if they lean too far to the side I swoop in like an eagle

I used to scare people in Japan by not even asking, just swooping in and carrying their pushchairs up the stairs in the station. I rarely sat on the train unless I was going to be there for more than 20 minutes. but gave up my seat for very very old peeps, not the spritely 60s. They can stand.

[charlesr]

On my way back from the Marathon, I had old people giving up their seats for me.