Comments on: TKOG Who practically sits in your lap

By: Katherine

Katherine — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:48:12 +0000

I’m the girl who puts stuff on the seat next to me when I sit down, but as soon as I even see a decent amount of people getting on and the doubles becoming singles, I move it to avoid the awkwardness of people needing a seat.

Seriously people, we can’t even give up seats for each other? No wonder we can’t get anything done for the good of all!

By: Qoddess

Qoddess — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:25:35 +0000

You’ve been quoted!

http://qoddessquotesblogs.blogspot.com/2010/06/quotes-june-20-2010.html

By: kathryn

kathryn — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:02:14 +0000

My friend has a great story about something that happened on his train once. The trains here have seating in groups of 6 – 3 seats facing forward, 3 facing backward. Someone had put their briefcase on one of the middle seats. A guy got on the train and asked to sit down… no one moved the brief case, then he asked again.. then was like “who owns this brief case?” No one answered so he threw it out the train window! Priceless.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 02:02:28 +0000

oh your like a superman! i would have punched them in the face but you just were like justice woman ftw

By: Nina

Nina — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:49:14 +0000

this topic makes me so angry!
why is everyone an arsehole on public transport?
i’m the girl who got a letter to her CEO commending me for offering up her seat to 2 elderly ladies. i also felt guilty once for taking up a priority seat on a train after getting heatstroke at the station that made me very dizzy, having to be pushed on the train by a nice stranger while my eyesight was all blacked out and then having completely spasmed hands that i couldn’t un-flex.

but unfortunately, as much a i wish it to be otherwise, i never get the guts to say anything to people taking up all the seats and not moving down the carriage. as far as i’ve gotten is to glare until i get a seat and having a very loud conversation with a mother with a pram (whose hubby woldn’t back her up) over how god damn rude all the other passengers were for pushing ahead of her so she almost couldnt get on.

not just the passengers though. if it wasn’t for the fear of not being allowed back on my morning bus i would’ve shouted back at my driver for telling me to press the bell earlier that he couldn’t talk, he’d missed a stop earlier.

that’s it! next time i will call people on it. you want to take up 2 seats? you will have t give me proof that you paid for 2 seats

jerks.

yeah, i ned a car

By: Clare

Clare — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:32:52 +0000

Well done for this!

I got on my bus a couple of days ago and some stupid cow had put her wet umbrella on the only spare seat. I asked if she had a kleenex so as to dry it, but – she was getting off at the next stop. So I had to explain to the next four people who were about to sit on it that it was wet, and then they gave me an evil look! Grr!

I was incredibly proud of myself a few months ago when I asked some dodgy looking lads to turn their dreadful music down. And they did!

By: Kori

Kori — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:10:05 +0000

Whatever the outcome, I’m glad you did it. I hate people who take up two seats at rush hour. COME THE EFF ON.

By: Caz

Caz — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:05:50 +0000

As a frequent user of Public transit, I don’t think it’s EVER occurred to me to be a huge asshole about it. Sure I’ll occasionally sit in the outside seat with a free one beside me, or snag a newly vacated seat before the girl next to me even though I’m in flats. But if anyone ever asked or made a move to sit beside me I’d automatically let them. I stand for the elderly, pregnant and kids. I move in from the doors, don’t play my music obnoxiously loud, and silently glare at all the people who pretend to ignore the little old lady with her cane hanging onto the pole for dear life.

But I’ve never had the guts to do what you did. Way to go!

By: Jay Levitt

Jay Levitt — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:06:15 +0000

Way to break free of rude social constructs! Maybe we can all go walking through crosswalks this summer, with our keys out at arm’s length, daring the Massholes.

“Dude! You keyed my car!?” No, actually, looks like you carred my key. See? It’s all bent. Now it’s a moving violation AND property damage, too.

By: Paula

Paula — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:52:32 +0000

I used to get the bus to work a few years ago and it would infuriate me the way people would sit on the outside of seats like that, especially when the bus always appeared full as a result of this behaviour. I would ask if I could sit there, meaning could I sit on the inside (assuming that they were planning to get out in a few stops) and they would make such a fuss of moving into the window so I could sit down, only for me to have to let them off a few stops later, as I had suspected.

Friday girl = total beatch, by the way!