Your thoughts on bus etiquette?

[lectrolove]

I find it bizarre these days that people would rather stand than sit in a free seat next to someone

 

Yes. But not as creepy as when you're on an almost empty bus and someone sits next to you.

[The Joker]

Yes. But not as creepy as when you're on an almost empty bus and someone sits next to you.

 

a pretty young lady did that to me once, back when I was young and pretty myself.

 

I had a pleasant chat with her on the journey.

 

It was nice

 

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I find it bizarre these days that people would rather stand than sit in a free seat next to someone

 

I used to stand a lot even when seats were free, to leave seats free for the OAPs, wheelchair users and prampushers that would inevitably board the bus as it snaked its way through Shiregreen, Firth Park, Fir Vale and Burngreave on the way to town . . . I was younger, prettier, fitter, and less of a sociopath in me youth

Edited February 18, 2018 by The Joker
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[redruby]

Some people seem to very anxious if you're sitting next to them and they need to get off the bus soon. Maybe they don't realise a quick, polite 'excuse me' is all that's needed. Instead there's lots of uncomfortable shuffling and fidgeting. That's enough to make me move to a free seat.

[The Joker]

Some people seem to very anxious if you're sitting next to them and they need to get off the bus soon. Maybe they don't realise a quick, polite 'excuse me' is all that's needed. Instead there's lots of uncomfortable shuffling and fidgeting. That's enough to make me move to a free seat.

 

That's because they read this 'ere forum and think anybody sitting next to them is a psychopath

[Automaton539]

I used to stand a lot even when seats were free, to leave seats free for the OAPs, wheelchair users and prampushers that would inevitably board the bus as it snaked its way through Shiregreen, Firth Park, Fir Vale and Burngreave on the way to town . . . I was younger, prettier, fitter, and less of a sociopath in me youth

 

Yea, but having spent some time living out that way myself, right on top of the 75/76 route there are - and I don't mean to stereotype, I'm just stating impiricles - there are hundreds of Romanians with huge, ever growing, families that you can't get on a bus out that way without at least 1-3 pushchair(s) or old person(people) getting on.

[Ms Macbeth]

Yea, but having spent some time living out that way myself, right on top of the 75/76 route there are - and I don't mean to stereotype, I'm just stating impiricles - there are hundreds of Romanians with huge, ever growing, families that you can't get on a bus out that way without at least 1-3 pushchair(s) or old person(people) getting on.

 

I think you mean Roma? In Sheffield they're mainly from Slovakia, they aren't Romanian.

 

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For me it depends how close to my stop I'm at If it's just a couple I see no point in expending unnecessary energy but if I have quite a way to go then I'll move. It's not that I mind sitting next to anyone and I find it bizarre these days that people would rather stand than sit in a free seat next to someone, but more space is more space especially when it's next to a window.

 

And this thread reminds of some Jasper Carrott

 

I agree, especially when they stand at the front and make it difficult to pass. I usually stay put unless a) I'm next to someone smelly or b) an older or frailer person needs the seat, and everyone else is ignoring them.

 

I'm surprised that youngsters don't automatically go upstairs on busy double deckers. My recollection of bus travel as a young person was always upstairs with my friends. We were taught quite firmly that older people needed to sit, but that seems not to be acknowledged quite so readily nowadays. There are clear signs on accessible seats on trams and buses that they are for people with mobility issues, either through disability or age, and yet they are regularly occupied by people fitting neither criteria. And yes, I do know about hidden disabilities, but when there's a bunch of school kids bouncing around, I think they could find alternative seating! Just as an example.

Edited February 19, 2018 by Ms Macbeth

[Automaton539]

I think you mean Roma? In Sheffield they're mainly from Slovakia, they aren't Romanian.

 

Meh. Same difference when they're crapping up the neighborhood (literally, the streets around there look like the local tipping point.) Though having spent time working in the job centres around sheffield and nearby cities, at least as many are Romanian as Slovakian. Though about 80% of them seem to have the family name of Horvath.

 

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I agree, especially when they stand at the front and make it difficult to pass.

 

Yes indeed, it's worse when there's more than one of them too. Had exactly that problem the other day. I've just moved house and I was getting on the buses with big boxes of stuff and cases of various things, and a somewhat larger woman got on in front of me and then just stood there in the aisle at the front of the bus on an occasion when I had two rather large, heavy cases to get through.

[Isabelle]

I fortunately don't catch the bus very often any more, but when I did I took to sitting next to someone even when there were empty rows. I'd gotten fed up of people squashing me into the window when I did take the window seat.