Train Ettiquette
Posted by: LT17
22nd Feb 2011 12:10pm
However, I'm wondering if anyone else is frustrated with the following types of behaviours on the train, or whether it is just understood and unnoticed, that these simple gestures of kindness no longer exist
- People pushing in front of you to be first on the train, just as the train arrives, when you have been waiting patiently at that spot for some time
- Men sitting next to you with their legs spread far apart, so they take up half of your seat.
- High School students who pay a portion fare and still sit down
- People talking loudly on their mobiles
- People who have sat the entire trip, not waiting until those who have stood the entire trip get off the train.
Am I the only one?
Kris
- 17th Jun 2013 12:50pm
I am newly using Trains after moving to a new City, however, I have found people to be very rude on occasions.
Most of the time people are just doing the right thing. I have noticed that seats are not always offered to the elderly. One day travelling my father took a priority seat for the elderly/nursing mothers etc while I stood next to him leaving the other priority seat available next to him. A group of very rude, low socioeconomic, youths appeared and demanded my father give up his seat as one of them was a nursing mother who wanted her friend to sit next to her. We were both shocked by the rudeness, but also frightened and threatened. Fortunately for my father many onlookers were appalled and offered him their seat.
This makes me feel like 90% of people are doing the right things, its just the 10% that don't really stand out.
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