Usually, I quite enjoy the commute into Toronto, no one on my train is overly weird, talks to you or any of the other usual things that annoy people on other GO Trains. Its too buy for saving seats etc that people write about in the free newspapers etc, but yesterday just made steam come out of my ears.
It was a very busy train, people standing by the time we got to Oakville – not at all unusual (GO Transit, if you are reading, put an extra morning train on the Lakeshore West Line!). At Clarkson, a very pregnant woman got on the train (just after some guy almost pushed her off to get on in front of her). I was sitting near the door and got up to let her sit down, and said jerk took the seat! I mentioned to him that I had got up to give my seat to the woman and he said he paid just as much for his ticket and didn’t budge – and neither did the two guys who were sitting next to me!
Finally, one of the other men standing made a huge deal about insulting them and saying he hoped no one ever made their pregnant wives or elderly relatives stand and the guy who was sitting next to me got up (not the jerk who took the seat who was still mumbling on about paying as much for his ticket) so the woman could sit down – we were at the next train station by this time so this fiasco took over 5 minutes!
Have we lost all sense of respect and decency to let someone who needs a seat more than us sit down? UGH
To the jerk and the two who were already seated *yes including you, the one who finally got up when embarrassed by the person standing* – you should be ashamed of yourselves.
To the man standing, who asked people to give up a seat for her and told the jerks what he thought of them – thank you!
And to the older man at the other end of the train, who heard the comments and shouted down that he would give up his seat (he had two walking canes) – thank you but I don’t think she would have made it down the crush in the aisle since no one on the train is polite enough to move anyway!