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Q: Do you ever offer your seat to a child?
on the bus/metro/train?
I like to think of myself as a moderately civilized person and sometimes I hate the Chinese people too busy sleeping, reading or just being blind to see the old crippled person get on that crowded bus and offer her or him their seat. So I get up and prevent the greedy ones from being faster than the octogenarian I just spotted.
And the young mothers carrying a baby, especially the very young ones that seem to have a countryside background, yeah, they can count on me.
But my amazement is beyond description when those same Chinese people can't get up fast enough to offer their seat to a 6-10 y.o. boy or girl from an obviously well-to-do family with the fancy backpack and the fashionable outfit (mom loaded with shopping bags). Glad that they set me free from even considering it, though. As if I would. Quite recently, there was this little boy standing beside me and staring. I was wondering, is it because I'm foreign to you or are you just trying to stare me out of my seat? Good luck then, I'll get up when I'm about to get off.
10 years 30 weeks ago in General - Other cities
Do I bol***s? I might give it up for an old lady. You know...if she's hot.
To elderly people and pregnant women always, usually on metros. To kids, no way. They're better off standing, gotta grow up.
Happened couple of times some smartass tried to be faster than the elderly I was trying to accommodate. Made them changing their mind.....
Just to add, airports: it sickens me to see people occupying the dedicated seat reserved to elderly, pregnant women, disabled. WTF, they're red with clear signs among grey ones and there's hundreds others available, ARE YOU F*****G BLIND?!?!!?!?
Why so difficult a minimum, basic dose of social behavior?
Yes
Elderly then person with baby or toddler
Small kids get forgotten and stepped on by heartless ass holes otherwise
As Andy has pointed out there are many other travel peeves we could add
I have offered my seat to elderly women, only for them to push their 7 + year old into it. Not what i intended, but what the hey, someone more in need than me got the seat.
I was once offered a seat by an elderly gentleman, I'd only been here a few months so my Chinese was piss-poor and he was gesturing he was getting off so I accepted, anyway the bus stopped and he didn't get off, next stop no, finally 3 stops later he got off. I was pretty embarrassed!
as for giving a seat you have to fit into one of these categories; old, pregnant, crippled, carrying a baby. Outside that you're gonna be standing in front of me!
sorrel:
lol, that has happened me often: an elderly man tries to give me his seat, but that is one 'arguement' i win, even with my poor Chinese. If someones need is greater than mine, i'll let them have my seat.
hiddenjelly:
I agree but in this instance the bus was just stopping and I thought he was being kind because he was getting off.
Funny thing is that even after the stop there were seats and he didn't sit back down.
Always
And alwayus hate them, when they avoid to look at me or my wife with our son on hands, while he asking if there is a free seat. sometimes they even smile to him, but never ever atand up and give him a seat.
I do offer my seat to children and elderly although sometimes I am no sure how old they must be to be offered a seat. I once offered a seat to a woman with grey hair in her late 50s and she didn't accept the offer. I think she was insulted that I thought she was an old lady.
djangolee:
Yes it is a bit annoying because sometimes I'm not sure how old the person is either ...What I usually do is to smile to him/her,look at the seat and try not to say anything.So if he/she thinks he/she is not old enough for that,nobody would know that I have done something inappropriate except us...
qbsinceage10:
Wow, I defer seats to women of all ages. Sometimes they look at me strangely but they always accept.
