Should You Get Up From Your Seat To Let A Heavily Pregnant Woman Sit Down?

I once got up and offered my seat for two old people, like i look a bit of nutter sometimes with semi-long hair listening to some heavy metal which everyone on the bus stop could clearly hear thru the earphones and a tshirt with some kind of skulls or demons on it. I got up and offered my seat and the old dude was very thankful and i got a few surprising looks from the rest of people at the bus stop anyway he let his wife sit down (what a gentleman) however there was no seat for him next to me at the time was two teenagers so i said to one of them "oi you were just about to get up wernt you" and he got up and was like pfft so anyway the old dude sat down next to his wife happy as can be still it felt good to myself cause the bus didnt come for like another 25mins....

Anyway about the pregnant women i woulda proberly got up but i would have said "il give you my seat if you put that ciggrette out deal?" :rolleyes:

Carry pictures of black lungs and deformed babies, then sit her down and perform a lecture on the harms of smoking to both herself and her baby..

..you'll get your seat back when she has to go and be sick :D

Win Win.

she deserves a kidney punch for that





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Originally Posted by malfunction

As an aside I think it was Margaret Thatcher (not exactly one of my role models) who said that if you're still catching the bus to work by the time you're 25 you'll never amount to anything in life. (Has that cheered up your friday afternoon?)

[edit: according to wiki it's a misquote but hey]

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Nevermind, she's nearly dead anyway :)

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Originally Posted by Clunk

Nevermind, she's nearly dead anyway :)

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Pity she did not smoke then she would be gone by now.:)

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Originally Posted by nichomach

I don't like the idea of women smoking during pregnancy, but even if they are that doesn't absolve one of the duty to be courteous. I'd have got up.

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Yup.

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Originally Posted by Stewart

Yup.

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She's not being Curteous. Thats reason enough for me to not bother either.

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Originally Posted by badass

She's not being Curteous. Thats reason enough for me to not bother either.

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But just because someone else isn't being courteous, doesn't immediately absolve you of any need to be courteous. Otherwise it's a downward spiral. Someone will then ignore you, because you're not being courteous.

I don't approve of the smoking during pregnancy, but if I'm still more able to stand than she is, and if she is pregnant then this is the case, I would have given up my seat.

I would have tutted loudly, gave her a look of disgust, but then let her have my seat.

How about, if she was drinking a can of special brew as well?

Then she would be pissed up and beat you like a Burmese monk, if you didn't give up your seat.

I probabily would of done the same as you clunk, no offence to anyone but smoking is disgusting let alone doing it whilst your pregnant, doing god knows what to your own child.

The fact she was inconsiderate enough to smoke in a bus shelter with other people around means she waived her right to any chivalry from me.

You did right, Clunk :)

Cheers,
Stephen

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Originally Posted by Stewart

Then she would be pissed up and beat you like a Burmese monk, if you didn't give up your seat.

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QFT!
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I'd probably have stood up and offered her the seat, and when/if she said thanks I'd then make some comment about smoking when pregnant, trying to make it not sound as if I'm having a go though.

Well I'm an arch feminist and believe that women are wholly equal to men in every way, pregnant or not. Regardless of whether she was smoking or not, she wasn't early enough or quick enough to get a seat. Tough, she should have thought about it before having a sprog, none of my business, let her stand.

They can't have it both ways!











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