I’ll give up my seat for the woman
I’ll give up my seat for the old man
Neither.
Depends…
I don't know 🤷♀️ I don’t take public transit
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I will judge the situation and will decide accordingly.
Situation-1: If the woman is young, I will offer a seat to the old man.
Situation-3: If the woman is young but pregnant/handicapped, I will offer a seat to the woman.
Situation-2: If the woman is old, then will decide based on the physical fitness of both of them.
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I'll give it up for the old man, sure. But I've offered in the past and been rejected cos their ego doesn't want to elaccept they look old lol
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This one is so easy! You give up the seat for the old man so he has a shot at getting laid by the woman! Help a brother out, especially those who helped build our great countries we see today. Also filial piety I suppose.
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Whenever I took a public transport, I always gave my seat to elderly people, cancer patients, people with disabilities, pregnant women and sometimes even to kids. Thing is, I would feel guilty if I don't give my seat and let them stand and be in discomfort or pain. If there are more than one who seems like they need to sit, I'd give the seat to patients/people with disabilities second comes elderly people because they cannot stand for too long, most have difficulty keeping balance and walking and third comes pregnant women.
It's nice to see the sentiments of the other posters, but here's a reality.
If I didn't manage to get a seat, I am the old man with a cane that's crouching on the floor because I can't stand for longer than 30 seconds. It's OK. I do it all the time. Unless I'm clearly flailing about due to the motion of the bus, I'll be all right.
If the woman is doing OK, keep your seat. It'd be more trouble for me to try to get up to take your seat, and then have to get up again to exit when we arrive at my stop.
Please don't even ask if I'd like to take your seat.
It makes me feel uncomfortable to be asked. All of the eyes in the bus are then on you and me for a while.
If I'm exhibiting clear signs of pain or other urgent needs, I'll probably be needing much more than your seat.
I consider offering up a seat to others unless they're clearly struggling in some way to be one of those social niceties that in reality is not as nice as one may think it is.
If I am on public transportation and any person, particularly Old Military Veterans (they have hats on that say so) and have crutches or canes, I say "Thank you, Sir for your Service" and give him my seat. But then, I'm biased. I served. I routinely give clearly older women (not Karen, in her pant suit, or women who are pregnant or has a baby in her arms, my seat. This, Snowflakes, is called respect and chivalry.
If the old man is decrepit, I'll give up my seat for him. If the woman is pregnant, I'll give up my seat for her. If she's hale and hearty, and the old man is likewise, I'm going to remain seated.
It's all about the visual condition of the two people. There are healthy old men and healthy women. If it's the end of a long day and I'm dead tired, I'm keeping my seat unless someone looks worse than me!
How old is the old man? If he's 95 and can barely stand I'd definitely give him my seat.
If the "old man" is my age, there is a decent chance I'd give up my seat to a woman of any age. I don't think I'd feel right sitting while a woman stood. Plus, somebody's gotta do it to carry on the tradition so it doesn't die out.
Nope. If I paid to get on the bus, that was a fee for temporary rental of a seat to sit in and transport to a location on the bus route. If they charged people for seats they did not have available for rent, then they have defrauded their riders of personal property. They have committed a felony in the third degree. It is not my responsibly as a paying customer to remediate the damages incurred by another rider due to the criminal actions of the bus driver and their parent company.
I voted "It depends". Is the woman pregnant or some other disability? In that case, the woman gets the seat. Otherwise, the elderly man wins the seat.
On a separate note, if it is just the woman but she is healthy, she can stand. Women want to be equal when it comes to benefits, but not when it comes to consequences.
It's called character in action.
When you see other people decline to offer an elderly person their seat it really reveals what caliber person they are. <<< as in low caliber/ low character.
Who looks like they need it the most? The old man has priority because he may actually NEED it, the woman just gets it as a nicety.
depends who looks like they need the seat more. I've offerred up my seat to a pregnant woman, old woman, and others.
most people I see are very reasonable...
I would just stand up and let them decide for themselves who gets the seat. Though if is crowded I tend to stand even when I was pregnant I would often choose to stand
I assumed you meant the woman was old and with the man. I'd offer to both and hopefully, unless he was infermed, he'd offer it to her.
If it was an old man and a young woman I'd offer it to him, first.
The hierarchy is:
Disabled/injured
Obviously pregnant
Elderly
Mom with infant
Adult women
My fat ass.
I’m Middle Eastern so I was always raised to give up my seat in a situation like that.
It actually baffles me how older people offer their seats to kids in European culture.
I would give it to the old man. Everything else being equal, he is in more danger of a fall and injury.
unless they're old, disabled, pregnant, look extremely tired or carrying a heavy load i wouldn't give my seat up for just anyone
I always give up my seat for the elderly. I rarely sat down in Korea because there are always elderly people using public transportation.
Probably the old man. Because you know, equality and all that. But if the woman is pregnant is the only time I would give up my seat to the woman but even then the old man probably still takes precedence over the woman.
I would defer the older gentleman, and offer him my seat.
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