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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Yeti on January 13, 2015, 05:36:05 PM

Title: bus seat etiquette
Post by: Yeti on January 13, 2015, 05:36:05 PM
Door etiquette is easy to suss out, it is only in the crucible of a crowded bus where seats are in short supply that souls are forged and a man can truly know his own heart. LET CHAOS REIGN, WHEN DO YOU GIVE UP YOUR BUS SEAT FOR ANOTHER??!?!?
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: Mr. Nobody on January 13, 2015, 05:40:11 PM
Old folks only this time.

And to be completely honest, if I'm particularly tired, I'm not moving. (http://i.imgur.com/SayDaqI.png)
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: Yeti on January 13, 2015, 05:46:19 PM
I would like to say I would give it up for a pregnant woman, but I sometimes have trouble discerning when a woman is pregnant or just carrying extra weight. Best not to risk it and just pretend to be too engrossed in my cell phone to notice.
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: king of the internet on January 13, 2015, 05:49:12 PM
I would like to say I would give it up for a pregnant woman, but I sometimes have trouble discerning when a woman is pregnant or just carrying extra weight. Best not to risk it and just pretend to be too engrossed in my cell phone to notice.

Plus does she really deserve special treatment cause she let some dude bust a nut up inside her?
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 13, 2015, 05:58:31 PM
I've never given up my seat to an old person, but I have thought about doing so on a number of occasions. 
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: chronovore on January 13, 2015, 06:50:30 PM
On buses or trains, I will give up my seat for elderly or pregnant people; I’ll also tap young people who are in elderly/infirm reserved seats when they’re pretending to sleep while the rightful are standing in front of them, waiting.

It’s easy to get away with that in Japan, I’d probably get shot by some Stand Your Ground sumbitch in ‘Murica.
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: nudemacusers on January 13, 2015, 07:27:08 PM
needs a poll option for those of us who are american men who drive gas guzzling trucks instead of fairymobiles packed to the gills with dirtpersons
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 13, 2015, 07:38:26 PM
since Rosa Parks isn't it against the law for a white man not to give up his seat to a black woman? ???
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: Beezy on January 13, 2015, 08:16:35 PM
since Rosa Parks isn't it against the law for a white man not to give up his seat to a black woman? ???
yes
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: TVC15 on January 13, 2015, 08:18:46 PM
If you are bringing a baby carriage/stroller onto a bus, get the fuck off. You are fucking rude.
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 13, 2015, 08:29:26 PM
Ya its called stay at home mom for a reason.
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 13, 2015, 10:46:44 PM
Women over the age of 34, all pregnant women, and the elderly.
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: Rufus on January 14, 2015, 12:10:15 AM
Preggo ladies, disabled people and old folk.

If people are in a group and want to sit close together I'll swap, too, though that's only happened once.
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: nachobro on January 14, 2015, 12:19:23 AM
grayhairs only. everyone else can go blow. cripples have their own special seats here so they're good.

this is for the train btw. i don't ride a bus cause i'm not a filthy animal.
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 14, 2015, 12:42:23 AM
Yea if you're crippled and hobble yourself all the way to the back of the bus where I am, you're well enough to stand. They have special seating in the front for you, Hobs.
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: TVC15 on January 14, 2015, 12:45:12 AM
If you're bringing young children on a bus, you better either have them on one of those kid leashes or be prepared to beat the shit out of them if they make noise.
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: dkdk on January 14, 2015, 01:14:18 AM
yeah im not getting up. go find someone else to give up a seat for ya ass. it's usually gotta be a shit reason for me to be on the bus anyway so i'm damn sure not standing up on one.
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: archnemesis on January 14, 2015, 01:24:22 AM
I give my seat up to people who need it more than I, regardless of their demographic profile. Bags are fine on the floor though. I have empathy for living creatures.
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: mormapope on January 14, 2015, 09:02:04 AM
The only time I've rode buses that were packed was during middle school and high school. City buses picked kids up and dropped them off, pretty sure its been that way for a lot of schools for a while. Bus would be packed when I would get picked up in the morning, getting a seat for the ride back meant getting to that shit early.

I would have to stand up every day in the morning since I was one of the last stops, so if I gots mine on the ride back, no fucking way I cater to any other asshole kid. Cripples never rode the bus, didn't give a shit about the girls riding the bus. Getting a seat and being able to relax for 10 minutes after school shit was a highlight of the day.

Outside school busing, every bus I've rode has under 20 people in it.
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on January 14, 2015, 10:55:45 AM
Always give my seat to really old people, pregnant women and ladies with babies.

Just how I was raised.

People that dont do this are scum.
Title: Re: bus seat etiquette
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on January 14, 2015, 10:58:04 AM
If you are bringing a baby carriage/stroller onto a bus, get the fuck off. You are fucking rude.

what am I reading here