People: The interesting thing about bus culture.

[seriousphan]

It is interesting the respect that is given and not given on public transport. People refuse or do not acknowledge the fact they ought to give up their seats to those older or in more need of the seat (e.g. someone who is pregnant, someone who is disabled) than them. This is not true of all people, I am sure, but it strikes me as odd that respect

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[red_elf_49]

I usually stand on the way from the bus port and take any remaining seat near the door as I get off at the second or so stop. I'll stand up for pregnant or disabled people and the elderly if they seem semi-disabled but I wouldn't get up for anyone else for instance a businessman just because he's older than me.
Actually I'd probably have given my seat to the mother, even though I think the kids would have stolen the seat.

[javelinface]

Annoyingly on the train home from work, adults never take me seriously as an adult, and never give up a seat despite the fact that I am clearly a lot more in need of it. I have been carrying a trombone, trumpet, french horn suitcase of music, and a back pack, and had to balance everything in a Jenga pile in the middle of the train corridor, thus having to resort to a massive reshuffle to let people pass by.
It's times like this that I actually do feel that I almost have a right to sit in the priority seating, yet still have some stigma against doing so.

Other things that are awesome: The following passage...

[gyges_ring]

When any Ephraimite who was trying to escape would ask permission to cross, the men of Gilead would ask, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No," they would tell him to say "Shibboleth." But he would say "Sibboleth," because he could not pronounce it correctly. Then they would grab him and kill him there at one of the Jordan River crossings. At that time forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites were killed.