[Sunday Times] Unhelpful students on bus
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regardless of uni students, snubbed or not, or bus service still have to give up seats i reckon.
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Being gracious, you just give up seats to younger children or snr citizens w/o being asked or looked at
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yea, I find it to be just basic courtesy. Dunno why people are having so much trouble wif it
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its just life, anyway sometimes i do feel happy that i give up my seat to an really elderly person or even to a needy person.
i think upbringing also important. -
war, there is a similar thread in aunt agony. is giving up your seats or not a big dilemma? what is the fuss about?
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Different generation, different teachers.Originally posted by rainee:yea, I find it to be just basic courtesy. Dunno why people are having so much trouble wif it
Parents play a part as well. I see more parents rushing for seats on trains to make sure their ABLE-BODIED KIDS get a seat. Some allow their kids to laze across 3 seats and deny others of a place, oblivious to the stares of other commuters.
And on buses, people like to sit on the aisle instead of the window seat, making it more intimidating for a person to ask and then squeeze inside.
All this counts towards courtesy without being asked. -
Let's hope you don't have to do it one day.Originally posted by rainee:First of all, u shudnt be doing those things in the bus anyway
Good luck. -
How about you falling ill, no energy to stand with the crowd?
How about you working all day and feeling you have no energy to stand?
How about you have not been sleeping all night because you are rushing for reports and is too tired to care for anything?
How about after a vigorous training, your leg and body simply give way?
....etc...
What would you do then? -
ask ur conscience
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Good. This word is better used here than other words used here!Originally posted by cacaca:ask ur conscience -
Then I will ask for a place to sit, I have no qualms about doing that here, cos people will definitely give a seat if they know I am not faking it.Originally posted by The return:How about you falling ill, no energy to stand with the crowd?
How about you working all day and feeling you have no energy to stand?
How about you have not been sleeping all night because you are rushing for reports and is too tired to care for anything?
How about after a vigorous training, your leg and body simply give way?
....etc...
What would you do then?
And the bus shudnt be taking too many ppl in oso, sometimes I have seen bus so choked full until they seem to want to burst -
actually hor... sometimes on a bus or on mrt and i feel very unwell, and i start to squat down, sometimes got people give their seats to me one leh... there are nice people around lah... really loh...
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last time back home, got bus took so many passengers that when it moved, the bus suddenly looked lopsided and like it will collapse to its left
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wah... so yan zhong??!!Originally posted by rainee:last time back home, got bus took so many passengers that when it moved, the bus suddenly looked lopsided and like it will collapse to its left
i know when the bus is super crowded, then it wants to start moving from a stop, it will groan under the weight one... haha... okok, back to topic....
actually i think people still give seats lah... but u must look like the type who will be grateful for it, and not seem to take them for granted. who likes to be taken for granted right???
let us all at starblue's heaven start a trend for gracious singapore. -
this is the topic mah, I am trying to say that those bus drivers oso, dun just think about making a profit la, when really cannot fit in oledi, dun force people to go in, of cos will make those oledi inside very uncomfortable and those standing feeling even worse...Originally posted by starblue:wah... so yan zhong??!!
i know when the bus is super crowded, then it wants to start moving from a stop, it will groan under the weight one... haha... okok, back to topic.... actually i think people still give seats lah... but u must look like the type who will be grateful for it, and not seem to take them for granted. who likes to be taken for granted right???
let us all at starblue's heaven start a trend for gracious singapore. -
actually the bus driver isnt realy thinking about profits for himself right??? maybe he's just asking people to move inside so that people can come in and they wun be late for school or wadever they are going for.. i always thought liddat leh... and i appreciate busdrivers who ask people to move inside, and not merely driving off like that with lots of space inside the bus... especially when i am the few poeple stranded outside the bus, 5 minutes late for lecture.Originally posted by rainee:this is the topic mah, I am trying to say that those bus drivers oso, dun just think about making a profit la, when really cannot fit in oledi, dun force people to go in, of cos will make those oledi inside very uncomfortable and those standing feeling even worse...
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I think they got profit one...eh actually I dunno the way it works for Singapore bus drivers la, but my Dad works in a bus company, so I know how it works back home...those drivers would get a commision based on how many passangers they have in their bus...Originally posted by starblue:actually the bus driver isnt realy thinking about profits for himself right??? maybe he's just asking people to move inside so that people can come in and they wun be late for school or wadever they are going for.. i always thought liddat leh... and i appreciate busdrivers who ask people to move inside, and not merely driving off like that with lots of space inside the bus... especially when i am the few poeple stranded outside the bus, 5 minutes late for lecture. -
but still... i think that is to just prevent them from just zooming past bus stops with only one person waving the bus down mah. i always tot so.. haha... anyway, i still appreciate drivers who bother to make people go in so that poor people outside can get in... being late for lectures isnt something i like to do, especially when it's because i cant get into a damn bus cos people at the back dun wanna move in.Originally posted by rainee:I think they got profit one...eh actually I dunno the way it works for Singapore bus drivers la, but my Dad works in a bus company, so I know how it works back home...those drivers would get a commision based on how many passangers they have in their bus...
moving in is an act of graciousness in my opinion... -
but sumtimes really no place to move in le then how?Originally posted by starblue:but still... i think that is to just prevent them from just zooming past bus stops with only one person waving the bus down mah. i always tot so.. haha... anyway, i still appreciate drivers who bother to make people go in so that poor people outside can get in... being late for lectures isnt something i like to do, especially when it's because i cant get into a damn bus cos people at the back dun wanna move in.
moving in is an act of graciousness in my opinion... -
but at least driver got do a part right? if no place le then driver got go and SQUEEZE people in meh?? no right? he just trying to bring to attention to people at the back that there is a demand for space in front mah...Originally posted by rainee:but sumtimes really no place to move in le then how? -
yea, but sumtimes really no place le then the driver still ask us to move in and move in, really uncomfortable lor, and no place to breathe oso...Originally posted by starblue:but at least driver got do a part right? if no place le then driver got go and SQUEEZE people in meh?? no right? he just trying to bring to attention to people at the back that there is a demand for space in front mah...