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

[Clunk]

That is smoking?

This happened to me again recently. Sat waiting for a bus, in a packed shelter, I got the last seat, and then a heavily pregnant woman waddled up, all out of breath, and I was just about to get up and give her my seat and she lit up a cig! - I stayed seated, and turned the other way to avoid the smoke.

What would you have done? Was I wrong?

P.S. I have to say that, normally, if I have a seat, and anyone else gets on, OAPs, women, children, anyone except other blokes, I will give up my seat normally.

[menthel]

If she is smoking, no. I would also report her to the autorities for child abuse.

[mart_haj86]

If the bus shelter was more than 3 quarters enclosed I would have told her she was breaking the law as well as not letting her sit down.

Edit: Not that I have got anything against smoking.. But I aint pregnant.

[chicken]

If she is smoking, no. I would also report her to the autorities for child abuse.

Would they really do anything?


I would also say you weren't in the wrong. If she doesn't care enough about her baby to stop smoking at least for the time she's pregnant with it, then why should you care about her comfort at all?

[99Flake]

If she is smoking, no. I would also report her to the autorities for child abuse.

Is that possible though, it isn't against any law to smoke when you are pregnant. I doubt that there is anything anyone can do about that.

[MadduckUK]

you did right clunk

[Fraz]

Jesus.

[Blitzen]

Right thing was done imho.

Makes me sick that people like me and my Mrs can have a disabled child when we did everything we could to give my daughter the best start.
Then you get some ole trout puffing away on her fags and will give birth to a perfectly healthy baby.

People like that woman just have no sense.

[mycarsavw]

A bus? How common

I have to agree though, she should be edumacted.

[menthel]

Would they really do anything?

That bit was slightly tongue in cheek. I think it is disgraceful when women smoke and drink to excess in pregnancy, especially as the effects are so well documented.

[Gr44]

I'd have done the same.

She doesn't care for her child if she can't go without smoking for ~9months. She doesn't care about YOUR comfort because she is smoking right next to you!!

So why should you care about hers?

[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.

[pauldarkside]

It maddens me that the children have no chance of avoiding the smoke. Disgusting and irresponsible

[schmunk]

My wife won't even take antacids whilst she's pregnant, and that's just chalk...

[malfunction]

I'd have probably gotten up but I agree that the woman in question is selfish / bonkers for smoking. 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]

[TheAnimus]

If the bus shelter was more than 3 quarters enclosed I would have told her she was breaking the law as well as not letting her sit down.