AIBU to think if there is empty seats on a bus you should go and sit in them rather than standing at the front of the bus?

[Allthingspretty]

...and making it more complicated than it should be to get off the bus?

I don't think there's any should about it.

Maybe they were only planning to go a few stops. Maybe they just like standing. Maybe they are worried about things being spilled on the seats. Maybe they are worried that if they go and sit down it will take them a while to get to the door again and when they get to their stop the bus will stop and then go again before they've got off.

Other than "get out of the wheelchair/buggy space if someone needs it" or "offer seats to people who are less able to stand" I think you can sit or stand in any of the places where you are allowed to sit or stand.

Yabu. I like standing.

YABU. Standing is easier if you're only there for a few stops or if you have loads of stuff to manoeuvre everywhere.

yanbu. this is a major bugbear of mine! when people are swaying around near dd in her buggy - I feel like telling them to go and sit fucking down.

YABU for all the reasons Trill said.

when people are swaying around near dd in her buggy - I feel like telling them to go and sit fucking down.

Ladies and Gentlemen I give you the winner of the P(F)B statement of the year. Tell me Doctor are people allowed to breathe near your DD? I mean as long as they don't actually knock her, where's the harm?

Yabu. I like to stand. It makes it easier to get off. And I can put my laptop case in the baggage area but keep it safe.

YABU I have a really bad back and standing is the most comfortable way to travel for me on te bus and the tube. Of course if I saw a buggy with a pfb in it I would get off said transport and take a later one rather than sway near a child

Arf GogoGobo

Gogo

YABU. I also stand because I have a very bad back and sitting down often isn't comfortable. I do make sure I'm out of people's way when they're getting off.

Anti - pmsl :)

Agreed with gogo. I have two slipped discs. I am more comfortable standing than sitting. If I have to sit I sit cross legged & I'd have to take up two seats, surely that's more inconvenient to passengers? (& I'd look like a sullen teenager rather than a middle aged woman, although I may prefer that!)

yabu,find something else to moan about!

& gogo :-)

I stand on the bus

Sitting in them cripples my back and I wouldn't be able to stand quick enough to get off

Antisecco People do knock her, that's the problem. People have stumbled into her pushchair and swung their backpacks in her face. And inevitably there has been a bus full of empty seats they could have been sat in. I really don't think I am being PFB by not wanting people falling into my baby when they could be sat down.

I am amazed at the number of people who prefer to stand (except those of you with back problems). A friend's son was killed in a bus crash several years ago. He was standing at the front of the bus when it ploughed into a lorry. None of the other (seated) passengers were seriously hurt.

I just think it is odd to stand when there are seats available and surely it is safer to sit?

Schoolkids NEVER sit down. Think it must be seen as seriously uncool or something?

YABU and YANBU. If you are jumping off at the next stop why go and sit right at the back of the bus just because there are empty seats/go upstairs, makes no sense. However if you are staying on for a while then yes it makes sense. What annoys me are the people who stand by the exit doors when they are not getting off for a number of stops and get in everyone's way who is trying to get off.

"Schoolkids NEVER sit down. Think it must be seen as seriously uncool or something?"

They have to on DD's bus as there just isn't enough room for everyone to stand. The bus is packed even when all the seats are taken. It trundles around some nasty bends on our country roads so standing is hard work.

DoctorRobert you need to be more assertive. I don't care if they stand wobbling about and I've perfected the hand block. When someone or someone's bag is heading towards DS or DD I shove my hand out like a lollipop lady and they whack into it and look daft. If they turn to challenge I just raise an eyebrow and look pointedly at the child they were about to flatten. They usually look embarrassed and apologise.

School kids I just tell to move. "Excuse me, please move away from the pushchair, you nearly knocked into it."

Problem solved.

YANBU. Obviously some people might now and again have a reason to just stand - bad back, only going a couple of stops. But a lot of people standing up around the door make it really difficult for other people to get on and off the bus or for the driver to guage how much room is left and how many more passengers to let on. Here in Dublin the middle doors of the bus aren't used and everyone has to get on and off at the front. When the bus is full the drivers are constantly shouting for people standing to move back down the bus and spread out a bit but no, they insist on standing in a big cluster at the door forcing everyone getting on and off to push their way through them.

I think they should sit or stand as they wish, as long as they're not in a dangerous place or blocking the exit or entrance or likely to hurt someone such as a child in a pushchair.

I sometimes stand if the bus is busy as it's just easier than the 'should I shouldn't I' of trying to work out if someone who has just got on might need my seat.

Thats the point people stand at the front and block the entrance!

Fairplay to you Doctor but that isn't what you said! However you can well see why someone with a back pack would not want to faff about taking it off and putting it on again for the sakeof a short ride!

However, the world hardly turns on such matters (I mean to sit or not to sit: of course it's important that babies travel without fear of mortal injury

People standing with big backpacks on their back are a PITA. Everytime the bus swings around the corner anyone in the vicinity is likely to get a belt while people trying to move down the bus have to go into all kinds of complicated manoevres to get past them. Yes, it might be more inconvenient for the owner to take it off and put it in the luggage rack, but tough!