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My brother... What a Hero
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13-02-2008 3:33pm#1Funny story my brother told me last night....
He was on the Luas and actually had a seat. It was full considering the seats and on the next stop an elderly lady came on (60+ he reckoned). My brother decided to get up and offer her his seat because like he said to me, "it has to be done". He tipped her on the shoulder and offered her the seat. At this she freaked out. She gave out saying what age he thought she was and he was very rude to offer! My brother is a no bullsh!t kinda guy so he just said "well do you want the seat?".
At this she said "Of course!". My brother could not believe how unnecessarily rude she was about taking the seat but just as she was sitting down (about 1cm off the seat as my brother put it) the luas pulled off. At this she fell over and landed on her face!
Now I'm not delighted she fell but at the same time couldn't help but think karma might have had something to do with it!!!:):D 0
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Lawless_Samurai wrote: »Funny story my brother told me last night....
He was on the Luas and actually had a seat. It was full considering the seats and on the next stop an elderly lady came on (60+ he reckoned). My brother decided to get up and offer her his seat because like he said to me, "it has to be done". He tipped her on the shoulder and offered her the seat. At this she freaked out. She gave out saying what age he thought she was and he was very rude to offer! My brother is a no bullsh!t kinda guy so he just said "well do you want the seat?".
At this she said "Of course!". My brother could not believe how unnecessarily rude she was about taking the seat but just as she was sitting down (about 1cm off the seat as my brother put it) the luas pulled off. At this she fell over and landed on her face!
Now I'm not delighted she fell but at the same time couldn't help but think karma might have had something to do with it!!!:):D
As my mates would say..clisics!
I hate old women on buses, there the rudest fcukers a decent joe can meet. They constantly have to be first on the bus, skipping the rest, even when there's only 8 or so people in the que!!! Grrrrr you'll still get your seat Agnes!
I'm convinced many of them just spend there days riding in an out of town on there bus pass, seeing how many people they can mug off in a day.0 -
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Lawless_Samurai wrote: »Funny story my brother told me last night....
He was on the Luas and actually had a seat. It was full considering the seats and on the next stop an elderly lady came on (60+ he reckoned). My brother decided to get up and offer her his seat because like he said to me, "it has to be done". He tipped her on the shoulder and offered her the seat. At this she freaked out. She gave out saying what age he thought she was and he was very rude to offer! My brother is a no bullsh!t kinda guy so he just said "well do you want the seat?".
At this she said "Of course!". My brother could not believe how unnecessarily rude she was about taking the seat but just as she was sitting down (about 1cm off the seat as my brother put it) the luas pulled off. At this she fell over and landed on her face!
Now I'm not delighted she fell but at the same time couldn't help but think karma might have had something to do with it!!!:):D
I was on train one afternoon and offered my seat to American lady who i thought may need it, she took offense at first when i mentioned it, but she acutally laughed and said she wasnt as old i may suspect :rolleyes:.
I generally dont offer my seat anymore. ( safer me thinks )0 -
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Sir Gallagher wrote: »He should have told her to f/uck off when she said she wanted the seat, cheeky bitch.
He said he was in semi-disbelief at her reaction. Afterwards when he thought on it he said he should have alright but...then he'd have missed the karma moment
Lol, that would have been a great thing to witness.
Fcking old people.
I would have loved to have seen it too. Although I would have missed out on my brother telling the story. He is one of those people who are really good at telling stories. Think he has got ambitions to become a comedian!!! I hope he does one of the funniest people I know 0 -
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I just ignore them.. I've tried being nice and showing respect to the elderly for most of my life. A lot of them are not very appreciative. Ok, granted I can see who's genuinely nice most of the time and I'll gladly give up my seat but most don't deserve it. When I see the ones that don't "deserve" it, I've said numerous of times: "Sorry love, you've had your turn down the years, now it's mine". 0
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Yeah I was on a particularly busy bus from Dublin Airport a few weeks ago and this elderly-ish woman started bitching loudly about how people don't offer their seats any more. She was probably heading towards 70 but looked really youthful for her age. No granny-ish clothes or hairstyle. She was dressed really smartly and had her hair in a relatively "young" style - she looked the kind of woman who would never let age stop her from looking glam. So after listening to her bitch that bit too much, I pointed that very thing out to her, that it's probably the reason why nobody offered her their seat - there's a chance they thought either (a) she's not elderly, or (b) she'd be insulted. And she should maybe consider it a compliment - it's exactly what she's been striving for anyway. She shut up then 0
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I'd offer my seat to elderly people on the bus only I generally don't have a seat because 20 of them have skipped the queue and taken up two seats each. (One for their sad little bags full of nothing but the 50s from their pension.)
They need to learn that you can't reward greediness!
A dwarf ("person of low stature" to be PC) got on the bus and a student got up and offered him his seat. The dwarf got really offended by this and started shouting/cussing at the student for a while. The student was really embarrassed and slunked down in his seat again.
If true, that must be Seamus aka KD (Knacker Dwarf), subject of many a locked thread in the Galway City forum. He likes loitering and terrorising people.0 -
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She took offence to him thinking she was old.
That didn’t give her the right to hurl abuse at him and then still take his seat without a word of thanks. I don’t care what age you are that’s just wrong.I once had an old hag, stare me out and make loud very rude and insulting remarks about me when i didn't get up to offer her my seat on a bus a number of years ago( bus was packed and she was standing right next to me) The look on her face was priceless when i picked up my crutches and hobbled off the bus at my stop, I don't think i've ever seen anybody that embarrassed before or since.
HA! Brilliant! Should have turned around as you were leaving and said “Oh you can have my seat now” turn back around and leave :cool: 0 -
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Ya know old people can be demons for shop lifting too. Worked in my dads shop for five years and it was something he told me over and over again. "Watch that old wagon..." Ah good times
Besides that and public transport I generally get on well with OAP's!
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Everyone else laughed and if its in majority then its A OK!
As for the two lads you should have kicked the bigger one square in the bollox!!! People on the bus might have thought you were terrible but you would have felt much much better afterwards!!!:):D 0 -
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artanevilla wrote: »I give my seat to women young and old.
I only gave my seat once to a young woman. On a packed bus and was fighting with my then girlfriend. Just could not take the fighting anymore so I stood up and offered my seat to a woman with a load of shopping bags. Well I offered it to her because she was closet to me. She was really grateful, my girlfriend wasn’t!!! In the end though just added another fight on top of a fight because she figured I only offered the seat to the woman because I must have fancied her… Gotta love women’s logic 0 -
Lawless_Samurai wrote: »Funny story my brother told me last night....
He was on the Luas and actually had a seat. It was full considering the seats and on the next stop an elderly lady came on (60+ he reckoned). My brother decided to get up and offer her his seat because like he said to me, "it has to be done". He tipped her on the shoulder and offered her the seat. At this she freaked out. She gave out saying what age he thought she was and he was very rude to offer! My brother is a no bullsh!t kinda guy so he just said "well do you want the seat?".
At this she said "Of course!". My brother could not believe how unnecessarily rude she was about taking the seat but just as she was sitting down (about 1cm off the seat as my brother put it) the luas pulled off. At this she fell over and landed on her face!
Now I'm not delighted she fell but at the same time couldn't help but think karma might have had something to do with it!!!:):D
When people start offering their seat for you on public transport, you know it's pretty much curtains for you. If everyone else thinks you're an old fart then the chances are you are!
I don't use public transport so I should be ok if I ever make it to old fart stage.0 -
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