I live in London and know how hard travelling can be especially during rush hour, every day I take 3 trains to get to work and I am sure everyone who has ever been on the underground can agree that the central line is a nightmare. Now I am about to enter my 3rd trimester and so far I have been lucky as I haven’t needed a seat too often (expect during the heatwaves as I had pretty bad sickness). I don’t mind standing on the trains and I don’t expect people to automatically give up a seat for me, there are people who need it far more than I do right now. My belly does show and I am quite big for 6 months so I do get offered either a seat or the little back rest things on the central line, if I am on the train for less than 3 stops I tend to turn it down as I am not at the stage where I need it badly enough.
My question is how often have people pushed you out of the way to get to a seat?! Is that normal behaviour? I have been pushed and barged past in the station during busy periods, I don’t like it but I know there is nothing I can do about it. What does get to me though is people physically pushing past me to get to a priority seat.
For example yesterday after work I was on a train that was not particularly busy, I was standing near the seats exhausted but nobody got us so I was just standing and reading, not too bothered. One stop in a lady got off the train and I made my way to her seat (it was a propriety one) there was a man next to it who saw me so he moved his bag out of the way, there was also a man in front of the seat who waited until I was right next to the seat to turn around and sit down whilst reading his paper. Now part of me wants to say “maybe he didn’t see me” BUT I know he did as he physically had to manoeuvre himself past my belly to get into the chair.
Sorry for the rant, I just find it mind boggling and was wondering if this is normal behaviour that I have just never noticed before. I have been on trains with heavily pregnant women standing and people on crutches being forced to stand for multiple stops.
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AvoToast · 28/09/2017 12:17
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