Bad Manners

[BensGrandad]

Unfortunately this is becoming more prevelant and on general bus routes and services it annoys me that children under 5 who do not have to pay sit while others stand and are encouraged to do so by their parents. It could be argued that some of those standing like me would have an OAP pass so they dont pay but somebody does, the council, the government.

 

[portlock seagull]

Do not get me started on the experience of disabled fans yesterday at Brighton station. BHA Fans brilliant and courteous at falmer. Enter joe public at Brighton, mostly foreign I might add, and my god....talk about rudeness and selfish behaviour. Fair play and my thanks to Southern Staff who had to literally grab people to stop them shoving wheelchair users out the way and missing a second train - because of the thoughtless 'many' I have to say.

 

[portlock seagull]

Unfortunately this is becoming more prevelant and on general bus routes and services it annoys me that children under 5 who do not have to pay sit while others stand and are encouraged to do so by their parents. It could be argued that some of those standing like me would have an OAP pass so they dont pay but somebody does, the council, the government.

Agree. I'm amazed how little Lord and lady fontelroy aren't made to give up seats for adults as was the case when I was a child. Something changed in the 90s.

 

[essbee]

Do not get me started on the experience of disabled fans yesterday at Brighton station. BHA Fans brilliant and courteous at falmer. Enter joe public at Brighton, mostly foreign I might add, and my god....talk about rudeness and selfish behaviour. Fair play and my thanks to Southern Staff who had to literally grab people to stop them shoving wheelchair users out the way and missing a second train - because of the thoughtless 'many' I have to say.

I can only imagine. It was truly scary on Brighton station concourse yesterday - the queues for the west coast were backed up to the entrance
and people piling through trying to get to the London trains.

 

[Ernest]

Unfortunately this is becoming more prevelant and on general bus routes and services it annoys me that children under 5 who do not have to pay sit while others stand and are encouraged to do so by their parents. It could be argued that some of those standing like me would have an OAP pass so they dont pay but somebody does, the council, the government.

Even worse when the little brats sit in the disabled/elderly people seats whilst the mother takes up 2 or 3 of the FLAP seats with a buggy

 

[Super Steve Earle]

A couple of years ago, a heavily pregnant Mrs Steve Earle was feeling and looking very unwell as we left the ground. We asked a steward to escort us to the front of the P+R queue for Mill Road. We received a torrent of vicious abuse from fellow fans including such little gems as 'she's only pregnant, not ill'.

 

[portlock seagull]

I can only imagine. It was truly scary on Brighton station concourse yesterday - the queues for the west coast were backed up to the entrance
and people piling through trying to get to the London trains.

I'm pleased you've told me this because I thought won't do again if yesterday was anything to go by. Hordes of people heading back to London, it was like rush hour on the tube but without the frequency of services!

 

[BensGrandad]

The train from Brighton to Haywards Heath was packed solid very similar to the trains from Brighton to Falmer and to make it worse there was a number of buggeys which I can accept but also bikes. One chap got off at Hassocks with all his biking gear which probably looks good when he leaves home to his neighbours but he could quite easily have ridden from Brighton station to Hassocks in not to long a time. I was told that Southern have refused to take bikes if the train is very busy not sure if that is true but this was Thames Link to London Bridge.

 

[essbee]

I'm pleased you've told me this because I thought won't do again if yesterday was anything to go by. Hordes of people heading back to London, it was like rush hour on the tube but without the frequency of services!

Agreed.

And I travel most days on the tube - but yesterday at the station was in a different league altogether.

 

[Bakero]

Do not get me started on the experience of disabled fans yesterday at Brighton station. BHA Fans brilliant and courteous at falmer. Enter joe public at Brighton, mostly foreign I might add, and my god....talk about rudeness and selfish behaviour. Fair play and my thanks to Southern Staff who had to literally grab people to stop them shoving wheelchair users out the way and missing a second train - because of the thoughtless 'many' I have to say.

Bloody foreigners coming over here using our trains.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Unfortunately there are too many morons on transport. You get the idiots that are some of the first on the bus but are determined to block the aisle so they are near the front doors. As has been stated, those that don't give up their seat when there is someone clearly more in need. I used to commute and gave up my seat to pregnant women, people with obvious disabilities and the very elderly. I wouldn't give up just for a female though. Travelling up to Fulham last week, got on at Burgess Hill and there were a few standing. At H/H, a few got off and a lady that had been standing at the door linking to the next carriage got a seat and she was 26 weeks pregnant! Loads of others could have stood up but didn't. Before you ask, we only got seats at H/H as well.

26 weeks should have no problem standing Its not an illness

 

[Diego Napier]

A lot of good saying nothing then & spouting on here.
A loud 'would you like a seat?' Ensuring the whole bus heard wouldn't have either find the job and pointed out the ignorance of those that didn't offer to move.
Every time there is just 1 person working the till in B&Q, with others strolling around not caring about 10+ in the queue I shamelessly SHOUT 'TILL' and within a minute 3 are open

I don't think that the OP was "spouting on".

Perhaps, as not everyone is as brash or forthright as you, they wouldn't feel comfortable acting in the way you suggest?

What a delicious irony that the personal attributes that allow you to make your feeling known so stridently and boastfully (and also post such a dismissive response) are probably exactly those characteristics that others suspect are possessed by discourteous individuals, and which deter them from any form of remonstration!

 

[DumLum]

Expected to see Buster Bloodvessel on this thread by now.

 

[Hampster Gull]

Why didn't they ask them to shift ? Shame them into moving sometimes is the only way

A rare occurence but Big E is right

 

[BadFish]

We have created self focussed societies. Why are we so surprised that people are focussed on themselves?