Standees?!

[Euphemyknifeinyourback]

The bus I take to and from work has printed on the wall how many passengers are permitted "seated" and how many "standees".
Standees?!
Who made up that word? I think the best solution would have been "X seated and Y standing" or "X sitting and Y standing", but since when was there such a thing as a standee?
Standee makes it sound like something being done to you, whereas I would argue I am a stander! If I am a tutee I am being tutored, if I am an employee I am being employed, but I am not being stood/standed so I am not a standee!

But it does make perfect sense to think of yourself as a standee if you're the kind of person who says "I was stood at the bus stop"

at 'stood at the bus stop'. It makes me think of those life-size cardboard cutouts. Do you think you are a standee if you are stood up on a date? If there were a free seat for your tragic bus journey home, you could be a sitting standee.

There is verrrry special grammar in evidence on all forms of public transport in London.
Trains: "Please do not leave personal items in the train or on the station".
Also "Please do not leave parcels unattended". While that may be grammatically correct, has anyone actually had a "parcel" since 1964?!

Dead right, Heartsease. I feel a Wendy Cope-like poem coming on, or maybe a John Lee Hooker song- Can't Get Sat Down For Being Stood Up...