Here’s a question for you.
You’re on the train, with a child
and both of you are sitting. Train fills and now all the seats are occupied. Now
more people get on, none are disabled nor pregnant nor elderly. So the poser is
do you get the child to give up its seat?
If you live in London then the
answer is generally no. We see it time and time again, and it frustrates the
dickens out of me.
Several months ago now when I was
making my way home, by myself, on the train, standing for the trip as usual, a
very preggy lady got on. Other seated passengers looked up then went back to
their books/papers. Right in front of us was a young fit man with his nose in
the paper. ‘Excuse me’ I said to him ‘how about giving this lady your seat?’ he
did, but gave me a very dirty look. I was very pleased when he got off the
train. When I got off at my station a woman approached me and said ‘good on
you, if he hadn’t gotten up for her all the other women on the train would have
mutinied’
This evening on the way home there
seated on the full train was a mother and her child. I looked around for a
preggy lady but no luck. After they got off I commented about the lack of
manners, and would you believe it that it was another Kiwi. We had a pleasant
chat comparing notes until he got off
the train a few stops later.
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