Did your parents make you stand up for adults on public transport?

It’s no wonder that some children grow up thinking they are royalty

Especially when someone buys them a silly tee shirt with the words ‘The whole world revolves around me’ which I saw on a little girl in the street.

“No it doesn’t” I thought.

Yes, stood up on buses and trains. I rather enjoyed hanging on to the grips as we hurtled along.

We also stood up at school when an adult came into the room. At home the TV went off when visitors came and they had first dibs on chairs. We held doors open as a matter of course.

I remember my brother being very disgruntled when an aunt arrived just as the FA cup final was about to kick off. She had come for a chat while her husband watched the football. Luckily her husband took pity and let my brother in to watch with him!

100 per cent they did. Quite rightly.

I've noticed recently that some people expect you to walk in the gutter, so they can walk side-by-side, and continue their conversation. A older couple, 2 young mums with buggies last week. Grr.
I was taught one person should walk behind if there is limited space, and taught my kids to. (And my DGD)
I hold the door for anyone behind me.

My son took his family to London to a show as a Christmas present. They travelled on the tube. It was busy on board and my youngest DGS 10 asked an older lady if she would like his seat and she gratefully accepted. He hadn’t been told to do this. I’m so proud of my lovely lad.

I use buses a lot, and very often it’s young people - almost always apparently perfectly able-bodied, who plonk themselves in the disabled/elderly/heavily pregnant seats, even when there are plenty of seats further back.

And then are so glued to their phones - or pretend to be - that they don’t notice some doddery old person needing that seat. So someone (often me) has to tell them.

Re people who dump their bags on the seat next to them, in the hope of keeping it free, I never have any hesitation about asking them (politely enough) to move it. I do get the odd eye-roll, but that bothers me not at all.

That made me smile Chocolatelovinggran as I saw the same thing happen on a train about six months ago!
#comeuppance

I always have, even now I’ll give up my seat for someone who needs it more.

Whiff I loathe the massive pushchairs on public transport. It makes me want to shout fold it up!
... some of them probably don't actually fold though - in which case they should get a different one

Yes another that was brought up to give my seat up to anyone who might need it more - and that included healthy adults when I was a child. Buses and trains go faster now so little ones should be safely tucked in a seat or on an adults lap ( or held by their parent if too big for a lap). When my disabled son got too heavy to sit on my lap I would stand and hold him on a seat if only one was available. I would not expect to give up my seat to a healthy able 10 year old! I would not mind moving to an alternate seat to keep a young family together especially if there was only one adult to care for several children. I often need a seat nowadays- ( it must show!) its usually older men - or polite overseas visitors who offer me a seat.

We noticed how polite young people in Singapore are in trains compared to our young ones here.