Unpleasant bus journey rant

[Bumpins19]

So, there's not very much point to this. I'm just in a bad mood and needed a rant.

I'm about halfway through my second trimester a 'below average' pregnancy healthwise (to summarise, nothing overly dramatic but more trips to the hospital and more problems with pain than most have probably dealt with by this point). I'm sat in one of the priority seats when an elderly gentleman with a stick gets on and goes to take the empty seat next to me - oh, but not before telling me that he needs a priority seat because he is genuinely disabled and I am 'just fat'.

To be honest, I just ignored him because he didn't speak to me for the rest of the journey and he also had a rather charming racial slur for the bus driver when he asked to see his bus pass so wrote him off as an [insert four letter word of choice here].

However, I am going to seeth and rant about this because:

a) I was sat in the priority seat purely because it happened to be free when I got on. Nobody offered it to me. I didn't ask for it. Heck, because I was having a relatively ok health day and there wasn't much longer left to my hour long commute, I would have even given it up for him if the other three seats were occupied (you know, before he opened his mouth). So I hate the fact I got a 'mini lecture' about how I didn't deserve to be sat where I was sat.
b) Even if I had asked/been offered it, he's not my flipping doctor so how does he know whether or not I need to sit down? I get particularly annoyed about this one because, about five years back, I had a hidden illness which made commuting rather uncomfortable even though I 'looked fine' so I'm always mindful myself not to think things like 'Wow! I can't believe that lady isn't giving up her seat to that elderly person/pregnant woman/woman with a toddler because, look at her, she's clearly healthy'.

...I feel a bit better now I've typed all that out.

[Hannabee123]

I used to drive Buses (glad I don't now) and elderly people were by far the worst passengers. I'd take a bus full of lads with special brew at 9 in the morning over s bus full of elderly people. A few times I have experienced them kicking off over having the front priority seats. Rude and ignorant!

[Thingymaboob]

That guy just sounds like an arsehole. I wouldn't give it another thought.

[ELFR]

I'd have just told him to f* off.

Wouldn't give him another thought