Would you offer your seat to anybody (I say anybody) to save on the correct thing - on a bus train tram etc., I hope there are some acts of chivalary still out there.
2007-02-24 06:33:20 · 21 answers · asked by deep in thought 4 in Travel ➔ Travel (General) ➔ Other - Destinations
I would, same as the others for someone who needs it more than me. I also offer my seat to a woman in heels if I'm not, I know how horrible it is to stand for very long and try to keep your balance on a bus or train in heels. I also have no issue with loudly voicing my opinion that it would be nice to have more people in the world with manners when I have already given my seat and others haven't and their are older people or people with babies or pregnant standing. Works almost every time, at least one able bodied man gets up. -- Along these same lines, it drives me crazy watching able bodied young people circle a crowded parking lot for 20-minutes to get the spot up front OR park in the spots reserved for people with children with them rather than parking farther back and walking. I always park in the rear and leave the spots up front for those that need them. I'm grateful for the two working legs I have.
2007-02-24 11:34:56 · answer #1 · answered by nativeAZ 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I would; my husband would; all my kids were reared to do the same; but I think we are in a minority. My heavily pregnant daughter travelled a mainline train route to and from work, and usually had to stand for the 40 minute journey. If someone offered a seat. it was usually another woman.
I was with her one day, and was outraged to see her left standing.
I spoke to two young men who had studiously ignored her; one ignored me; the other said "I paid for my seat. It's her tough luck she didn't get here first. It's not my problem she's pregnant."
(Older women can do this stuff and get away with it)
I then spoke in a loud voice -"is there no one in this carraige who will offer a pregnant woman a seat?"
And a woman my own age stood up!!!
2007-02-24 06:43:14 · answer #2 · answered by marie m 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I always give up my seat for elderly people, pregnant women etc. I have also taught my kids to give up their seats to old people etc.
I was in the hairdressers today with the kids, the salon is "cool and groovy" and has 3 large leather sofas in the waiting area. There were about 11 young men (probably about 18 yrs old and up) sitting around waiting when a very old man, who had trouble walking, even with his walking stick came in. NOT ONE of these young lads offered him their seats, and it was up to me to give him my seat. I cannot believe how rude those young blokes were, and I hope their karma comes back on them in the future. Manners cost nothing.
2007-02-24 06:44:56 · answer #3 · answered by lululaluau 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
of course i would. Any one in need, pregnant, elderly, or to a young child as sometimes mothers with young children are made to stand, and i would offer to the child as they are more likely to fall over and the mother has to hang on to them to stop them falling over. Any one with manners would do the same. It is simple logic, and responsibility. It doesn't matter if you have paid for your seat, if some one is weaker than you then you should be gracefull and help them. Some people are just inconsiderate and don't belong to the human race.
2007-02-24 06:58:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Honestly- probably not. I'd only offer it to someone who was in some degree of "discomfort"; a very pregnant woman- or one laden with children or groceries; the elderly or the infirm. Afterall, I don't pay for a seat on mass transportation for the purpose of giving it away to get where I'm going.
2007-02-24 06:47:35 · answer #5 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I always do unfortunately when I was pregnant I was forced to stand because teenagers pushed passed me to get to the empty seat. If I see someone pregnant, with a cane, not feeling well, carrying a child, or elderly I give up my seat. Do unto others you know...
2007-02-24 06:42:21 · answer #6 · answered by nylatinanurse 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When my friend and I were about 14years of age, we caught a train to Dublin (about a five hour trip), and ended up sitting at opposite sides of a table with a bench type seat each. As the train filled up a bit, an elderly woman sat next to my friend, and as the journey progressed, she started nodding off.
In an effort to be the dutiful, polite girls we were raised to be, my friend got up to move beside me, and insisted to the old lady that it was no trouble. "Not at all," my friend said bracingly, "you go ahead and lie down and spread your legs!!!"
...Needless to say, she meant 'stretch your legs'. We were in stitches laughing the rest of the trip! I still laugh about it to this day... many years later...
2007-02-24 06:44:19 · answer #7 · answered by RM 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes of course, I am female and not exactly young anymore but would always offer my seat someone less fit less able or more encumbered than i e.g. heavily pregnant or very young children. and i hope many others would too.
and i have discovered that chivalry is not dead on a personal basis when people have helped me or offererd me a seat
2007-02-24 07:42:55 · answer #8 · answered by sabrina 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would - but not to just anybody. To someone who I consider needs the seat more than me - yes I would.
2007-02-24 06:42:21 · answer #9 · answered by G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would offer my seat to an old lady or someone with a child, but not to a young woman. I did this once, and the young woman was rude to me! Never again.
2007-02-24 06:44:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋