MONEY MORAL DILEMMA. Would you give up a £50 train seat for a pregnant woman?

hislan

ghostmadlittlemiss wrote: »

Well, since I'm a student (read 'state-subsidised scrounger' :rolleyes: ) and presumably she's a tax-payer, by your logic she deserves my seat more anyway.

Seriously, what a load of selfish !!!!!! you lot are. You pay for the journey, not the seat, so it doesn't matter if your ticket was £50 or £500. I thought you Daily Mail readers were all for bringing back old fashioned values. Well, unfortunately for you, manners happens to be one of them. How about learning some? If you're able, you give your seat up. If you're not, you explain why not. And there was me thinking the older generation had respect for each other. :mad:
Kayleigh

......liking the use of the word '!!!!!!'.....spot on description!!!:rotfl: :T:rotfl:

Lisa_d_2

Of course i would, its just common curtisy isnt it!

As a heavily pregnant woman myself i have a new sympathy for anyone in the same position (due tomorrow, please dont go past your due date bubs!) The idea of standing for 5 hours doesnt bear thinking about! I travel regularly by train and always pre book my tickets but id like to think that if i did have to travel last minute that someone would be kind enough to offer a seat.

MadamMim2013

Treat others as you wish to be treated yourself!
To give up your seat for a pregnant lady is just a small gesture of kindness, regardless of how much the seat cost you.
We ALL find ourselves in need at some point in our life, you never know when or how your kindness will be repaid!
Just a thought, perhaps her journey was an emergency one with no time to pre-book?? What then, you stay seated anyway and watch her discomfort?
After all she could easily decline your offer if she so wished!

dopolous

Yes I would!! I would hate for anything to happen to that lady if she fell over. I would try to get the attention of a guard or failing that sit in 1st class and take my chance!!

mrs.b_6

Without hesitation and if you need to hesitate to consider why a heavily pregnant woman may not have a ticket then you are just bloody selfish.

jamesel

One of my friends recently came to visit at 30 weeks pregnant and the conductor from London to Manchester told her that on Virgin trains, they always upgrade obviously pregnant women into first class free of charge if there's space, so you probably wouldn't need to move anyway and she'd get the comfiest seat.

mohthom

I have done and would do again.

Anecdotally, however, whenever I've been in/seen this situation in the past, I've only ever seen this go one way. I've never seen someone in need of a seat go without one (partly because I don't mind giving mine up the majority of the time), but I've never seen a woman offer. It's almost ALWAYS a 'yoof' - a male, aged 15-25, normally looking pretty objectionable, who offers up his seat and then receives not a word of gratitude, or an merely off-hand 'thanks.' More than a dozen times I've seen this happen, on buses/trains all over the country.

Also, if the woman were in a position that she needed a seat, she should have no problem in asking for it.

Anyone else found this, or have I just been on the wrong trains?

grufter6569

HeimRoller wrote: »

A simple yes.

That said, it is now policy on South West trains (and I am sure many others) that pregnant women can be put in first class if they do not have a seat.

I've seen a similar policy on first transpennine, if there isn't a seat reservation ticket (above the head rest, saying the seat is reserved, there rarely is!) on your seat and there's someone sat in the seat, then they'll upgrade you to first class if there aren't any other seats ( possibly at the conductors discretion), so why not give up your own seat and then get yourself upgraded in the process? win win situation? :A

Obviouslly i'd give the seat up anyway though!

mitch74

Yes i would, if this had happened whilst i had been pregnant it would of been nice to have had the option although i might have wanted to stand, i think in this day and age we have lost respect and thoughtfulness and then we moan about the children, if we as adults are unwilling to do this what can we expect from the younger generations.:p

moneyandmountains

Of course I would give up my seat reservation.

ellawaude wrote: »

The seats are seldom enforcable. You will find nice people who just didnt realise, or thought you'd missed the train. Although you will also find the ones who have a 'So What?!?' attitude. Train staff will often try to help, but they want to avoid conflict and disruption.

Nowadays I will take a look to see if my seat is free, if it is not I try elsewhere, although more often than not I end up sitting cross-legged in the corridoor. At least its quiet in between stops! !

However, as to people in your seat the National Rail Conditions of Carriage should either guarantee your seat or give you some compensation.

40. Reserving seats

Seats in some trains can be reserved before you travel and you may have to pay a fee. Unless you have a seat reservation, the Train Companies do not guarantee to provide a seat for your journey. You must have a valid ticket for your journey before reserving a seat. This ticket allows you to reserve no more than one seat per person for each part of your journey.

41. Refund of reservation fees

If a seat reservation, sleeper reservation or cycle reservation is not honoured, the Train Company responsible will refund any reservation fee paid. If the Train Company is unable to provide alternative equivalent accommodation for you or your cycle, you will be compensated for the inconvenience. The value of the compensation will be no more than the price of the full single fare for the journey. If you are unable or have decided not to travel you will be entitled to claim a refund under Condition 26 for the relevant part of your journey.
To be eligible to receive this compensation you must make a claim to one of the Train Companies' ticket offices within 28 days of completing the relevant journey, stating the timetable departure time of the train or trains you used, or intended to use, for the journey. When you make your claim you must provide a ticket (or other authority to travel) which was valid for the journey.