Give up my seat?! NOOO! :(

If you were ill then IMO its okay not to give your seat up.

Personally, no matter what I'm feeling I always give my seat up when it's needed or if I see someone who I think deserves a seat I offer it up. But that's just me, everyone's different. Don't worry about it, not much you can do about it now and you were ill.

If you were ill then IMO its okay not to give your seat up.

I don't give my seat regardless if I'm ill or not because where I sit on the bus elderly people don't know how to get there.

The fact you even try to explain yourself by going "Sorry, I'm sick" just makes them think it's an excuses and hate our generation of 20 something even more for not giving up the seat to an elderly.

You're right not to in some sense's, id of been tempted to cross my legs and place my hands behind my head and go "Ahh, sitting down is the life!" if people did that to me on the bus. I wouldnt, but still.

Its become a culture taken too far, sure you should give up your seat to those in need, I.e. frail elderly people, heavily pregnant, those who can barely stand. The counter argument is that they've managed to get out of the house perfectly well, and that the overpoliteness is being taken too far. I mean even 50 something year olds are getting seats now. Disgraceful how caring we are as a population.

So today I was on the bus and it was unbelievably packed. Luckily I managed to snag a seat. I look up and there is an elderly lady standing nearby and just by her side is an equally (if not more) elderly man. What to do? Now I am seriously ill today, I'm in bed as we speak. I felt like I was going to faint on that bus! The lady next to me got up and offerred her chair to one of them and looked at me expectantly. I just smiled and put my headphones in. She tsk'd and the elderly man left standing shook his head at me and muttered something or other (probably about "youth of today") making me feel very ashamed . The bus ride was quite long and there was an unusually high number of elderly people. I got a lot of dissapproving looks. I think at some point I said sorry I'm ill but alas to no avail. Nobody cared.

I wasn't sitting in the assigned "give your seat up" zone! just because I'm young I'm expected to be in top form health wise 24/7?! Why can't a young person be one of the "less able to stand"??? Don't get me wrong, I do give my seat up to the elderly/pregnant etc but not when I'm ILL shheeshh!

Do you give your seat up? Or do you believe you shouldn't have to? have you ever received abuse for not doing so even though you couldn't

EDIT: I don't understand why I'm getting negged; I spent the day in hospital (mostly in the waiting room but still!)and I actually was genuinely ill. I'm just pointing out that people on buses shouldn't "judge a book by it's cover" as it were...

why didn't you tell them then, instead of ranting on tsr about it?