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| Huttopia Member Since: 23 Feb 2016 Location: West Midlands Posts: 1977  
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Context is all! An 80 year old getting up to give a 14 year old a seat is clearly different to a 20 year old giving up a seat for a 4 year old who's Mum is wrestling with a toddler and arms full of shopping....
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5th Jun 2019 10:47am |
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| OsloBlue Member Since: 14 Jul 2018 Location: Essex Posts: 823 
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I take the tube on a daily basis...
Giving up a seat for a short person makes sense, we have a short employee who simply cannot reach horizontal grab bars, so we have to get her a seat or she has to stand next to a vertical bar. I always donate my seat to pregnant, disabled or old people, but if you bring a child on the tube during peak times you’re about as thick as concrete. Every school break we get groups of parents and children who are shocked to see the tube mayhem at 17:15, they get a choice of when to go home, I on the other hand do not. So why did they choose to go home during peak times? Besides it’s cheaper off peak... I feel the same way towards retirees to a certain extent, but it’s very rare to see. Disabled and pregnant people I have no problem with. But people at Gants Hill tube station seem to have this problem with these people. They think of it as some kind of game to storm the carriage to get what seats there are to the point where they would sprint. Sometimes leaving a pregnant or disabled person who is not so fast without a seat by these giant hill people sit there smugly expecting someone who woke up early to get to a station further down the line to donate their seat. I do sometimes have this problem; I get on at Liverpool Street which is the terminus for my line, so I usually board the third train to depart in order to guarantee a seat for my hour long journey. Sure as hell the train fills up and someone comes on who could probably do with a seat. Why don’t they get another train and get a guaranteed seat like me, why should I delay my journey to donate my seat only to delay it again. I’ve seen some brat in her mid 30s demand a seat from someone, didn’t get her way so spat on one person and sat across the laps of three others... I'm on IG: https://www.instagram.com/osloblue42/ Current: TD5 '110 "Lucinda" Thread here: https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic62562.html  |
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5th Jun 2019 2:02pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3525 
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Valid replies from Huttopia and OsloBlue
I very rarely have to go down into the smoke these days, but I hardly ever sat down on a the tube as it is a nightmare trying to get off your seat and to the door when you reach your station and my size 12 usually got stood on. Hats off to you people who do that day in day out. I couldn't do it. Trains I find are very annoying and I would give my seat up if someone as mentioned above needed it more than me. The annoyance for me are the people who take an aisle seat then point blankly refuse to move to let anyone sit on the window seat and those that refuse to use a shower in the morning. Nearly 2 hours of body odour from London to Norwich is not pleasant. |
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5th Jun 2019 4:37pm |
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| Sulisuli Member Since: 30 Oct 2016 Location: South west Posts: 4799 
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5th Jun 2019 5:10pm |
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| Zed Member Since: 07 Oct 2017 Location: In the woods Posts: 3334 
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Yep.
Yep, yep. |
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5th Jun 2019 5:37pm |
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| JOW240725 Member Since: 04 May 2015 Location: Suffolk Posts: 7908 
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When we rarely use the tube with the kids we can't get them to sit they much prefer to surf! James
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5th Jun 2019 7:32pm |
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| defender9 Member Since: 12 Mar 2016 Location: Fylde Coast Posts: 1629 
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Slightly off topic but we go to London fairly frequently and use the tube quite a lot to get around. What always surprises me are the people running through the tube stations to catch a train when there will be another one in a couple of minutes. perhaps its the pace of life in a big city and where we live its semi rural, anyway I just don't get it, perhaps someone can enlighten me?
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6th Jun 2019 8:30am |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3525
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I have noticed that also, defender9.
It also amazes me how they still run for trains that are blantantly pulling out of the station. Maybe they have all been watching that Sky Mobile advert where the train stops and the driver waves for the running commuter to get on??? I’m glad that’s not a world I have to live in. They need to live where I do. If you miss the bus, the next one will be Wednesday  Now that would be a reason to run. |
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6th Jun 2019 8:44am |
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| Procta Member Since: 03 Dec 2016 Location: Sunderland Posts: 5212
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One thing I don't miss was getting on the bus, Similar thing. The way school kids used to go on was unreal! The driver couldn't take anymore on. Told then to get off, they would really set their lip up at him and even hit the EM switch. Then you had people with prams or push chairs trying to get on, Some people wouldn't even move for them at all! I remember one woman losing her loaf at a couple of people for not moving down. I couldn't wait till I got my drivers licence through. I am glad I didn't become a bus driver, I wanted to be one as a kid. But with working for the general public in a supermarket for 13 years, and driving standards, No way could have done the job at all. I did say to the bus driver one time, he got really bad for the kids. I said can you not just change the front to say sorry not in service, when full? he said you know something son, I will mention that to the bosses. Then a few days later, I saw the bus company do exactly that. Not sure if they still do that now, as the bus service I used back then no longer runs. Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back
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