Rudeness....

Helix

nikki2804 wrote: »

Should they be made walk for miles as its an inconvenience for them to take up space (which they have paid for) on a bus or train?

They pay for 1 adult ticket and take up the room of up to 4 - depending on how big the buggy is.

iceblue24

sookipeaspud wrote: »

You must live that armpit that is called Croydon! no-wot-amean ch'yea

couldnt agree more :rotfl::rotfl:

two-for-one

sweetstudent wrote: »

Lastly its not rudeness but i absolutely hate buggies, where they take up so much space on the bus or train and then they have a go at the bus driver when a pack of them all cant get on the same bus.....

Wait till you're a parent with a baby/ young chilld and have to catch public transport!!

kingfisherblue

I agree that people are less well mannered these days. In shops, I just refuse to hand over the money until I have the attention of the assistant. I have been known to point out bad manners before now.

Once, when I took my dad 9who had dementia) to his GP, the doctor carried on typing into his computer - with his back to us - and just grunted at us. I didn't respond. The doctor grunted again, something along the lines of, 'Well, what do you want? I haven't got all day'. My response was to politely explain that I was happy to wait until I had his full attention and was actually facing us and listening properly. The doctor turned towards us and gave my dad the attention that he needed.

With regards to buggies, I can see it from both sides. My youngest is now ten years old and I would have loved to have an accessible bus, but our route still doesn't always have low buses. But my older son uses a wheelchair and it is very frustrating when there are two or three buggies blocking the wheelchair space. This also means that he has to walk further up the bus, sometimes to the back, despite his difficulties and the pain he is in.

My daughter, age 18, often holds the door open for other people. If they don't say thank you, she says something along the lines of 'My parents brought me up to thank people' or 'Well, at least I have good manners'. Maybe this isn't very polite, but it gets the message across. And it tends to be pensioners who are the worst.

mumOf2wonderfulkids

Fuzzy_Duck wrote: »

As far as I'm concerned those seats are for the disabled, pregnant women and the elderly and if they need a seat, parents with prams should move.

when i was pregnant with my daughter, i worked full time right up till the end,
it was just before xmas so the bus was packed (i had my daughter early january so was at the point where i resembled a whale) , with a variety of different people, not one person offered me a seat, it wasnt until 45 mins into the journey and 2 stops from where i get off that someone offered me their seat. now i know its not an illness and blah blah blah but i always thought it was just courtesy? so now if i am ever on a bus the only people i will stand up for is pregnant ladies. and maybe old people, depends what mood im in

and the best ones are the people who aren't really that old who give you daggers if you don't move for them!

am so glad i drive now lol

Bufger

One thing that really gets on my giant mantits is when i let someone out of a junction whilst driving or when i give way to someone on a street with parked cars and they cant spare the fraction of a second it takes to put their hand up in acknowledgement.

I dont know why i give a crap about other people at all, its all just one big free for all nowdays anyway! If we ever had a massive crisis that would lead to food and water shortages i think we'd be worse that any other country in crisis ever, absolutely no respect or care for anyone else.

Rant over, im off to buy some razorblades from some unhappy unfriendly waste of air in a supermarket

Bufger

mumOf2wonderfulkids wrote: »

when i was pregnant with my daughter, i worked full time right up till the end,
it was just before xmas so the bus was packed (i had my daughter early january so was at the point where i resembled a whale) , with a variety of different people, not one person offered me a seat, it wasnt until 45 mins into the journey and 2 stops from where i get off that someone offered me their seat. now i know its not an illness and blah blah blah but i always thought it was just courtesy? so now if i am ever on a bus the only people i will stand up for is pregnant ladies. and maybe old people, depends what mood im in

and the best ones are the people who aren't really that old who give you daggers if you don't move for them!

am so glad i drive now lol

I dont get up for just any old person as they're so ungrateful anyway. I'll always give my seat for anyone genuinly in need (pregnant, obvious mobility issues etc). If they're just a grey haired miserable coffin dodger they can stuff it

Gingernutmeg

In one job I had, I was told off by my boss for holding doors open for people - they said it was 'demeaning' and I shouldn't do it ... I left that job and I take great pleasure in holding as many doors open as I want

Mupette

Bufger wrote: »

I dont get up for just any old person as they're so ungrateful anyway. I'll always give my seat for anyone genuinly in need (pregnant, obvious mobility issues etc). If they're just a grey haired miserable coffin dodger they can stuff it

only problem there is.. if i came up to you and asked if you would give up your seat for me... you'd tell me where to get off.... MS is invisible, i don't always use the wheelchair as i need someone with me if i do, but rather rely on my motability car to get me around.

fleagle21

Maybe there should be some kind of 'buggy driving test' - the number of times I've been rammed in the back of the legs with a buggy is unbelieveable! :rotfl:

One thing that really makes me nervous is mothers about to cross the road with a buggy, sticking it just a little too far over the edge of the kerb... a few times I've thought that was going to end badly!

As for general rudeness, if I hold a door for someone and they don't say thank you, I'll say it for them... albeit in a rather loud, sarcastic tone, "THANK YOU!!" and at times when me and hubby have been stood in front of a particular shelf in a supermarket, and someone just reaches through the two of us, saying nothing, I'll say to him (loudly and sarcastically, surprise surprise ), "I think we're in that persons way, do you?" which usually results some form of acknowledgement from them!