sam_gordon
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- Jun 26, 2010
Maybe he just wants to "check you out" as you're heading away from him.If he makes sure to hold it for women and cares less when it's a man... that's not logical to me.
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Maybe he just wants to "check you out" as you're heading away from him.If he makes sure to hold it for women and cares less when it's a man... that's not logical to me.
I just asked my DH if he gives up his seat on the bus because he thinks women are the 'gentler' or weaker sex. He just laughed and said *expletive* no! Please, he has seen me give birth twice with no drugs, BF 2 babies through the age of 2. Suffer a miscarriage on my birthday. Go through many other trial and tribulations in our 16 years together as well as fight for my family and children tooth and nail. He has seen his mother battle cancer twice and win. Does he give up his seat because he thinks women are weak? No way! He respects women too much to think they are weak. THAT is why he gives up his seat.
One father even told me he intends to stay with his family in case he's needed...seriously? It's a 10 min bus ride!!!
I don't need a seat or a door held open for me just because I'm a woman. Being chivalrous is about thinking that women are the weaker sex, not about respect.
Our last trip it seems like we were always standing on the buses. It was always just me trying to keep two two year olds upright. There were quite a few times I wished someone would have offered us a seat. One seat would have gotten all 3 of us sitting and in a safer position. Kids that young really had a hard time standing as the bus moved, turned, braked, etc.
Next trip I'll only have one 2 year old and two 5/6 year olds so I think they'll be able to manage better. But I definitely would not turn down one single seat that's get us all sitting!
September is still extremely hot. Even at night. Perhaps more so to us since we are Canadians. We are in tees and tanks at 50 degrees add a hot heavy kid and our body temps increase hugely since I was holding her.I'm having a hard time putting these statements together. I mean, I'm sure it was cooler on the bus, but wasn't the sun down AND you're undercover at the bus stop? What heat is there?
So your solution is that I should stand, holding her, in the heat instead? Like a PP said, you can't dictate common courtesy, it's a shame it's long gone away. Your attitude perfectly demonstrates the entitlement I was speaking of. And I don't judge anyone for sitting, I merely said I was a little miffed, because, as I said, I am the type that would offer my seat in a heartbeat to anyone who looked as though they needed it more than me. Not that it matters, but it was at the end of the MNSSHP, the only late night we did on any of our 4 trips. I've already told DH that when we do MVMCP this year, we are taking a taxi home, however I traveled to the park empty handed and bagless, which means no cash for a taxi. It's not a matter of me expecting others to take care of me, SMH, some people are so ignorant. And heartless. I'm sorry, but in an entire bus, you can't argue that EVERYONE has an ailment. Forcing a mom to stand with a sleeping child is a jerk move, I don't care who you are. I will continue to give up my seat and see the positive in anything. I hope when you are in need of a seat you are given one, and not forced to deal with others with your same attitude.
The rudest thing I ever saw on a Disney bus was a woman, her litter of kids and her packages all firmly planted in seats while people stood. So I am firmly opposed to people using seats to hold their shopping bags while people stand.
I'm one who if I really want a seat then I wait for the next bus, if I don't care whether I stand (eg getting back to my resort or to my ADR is more important than resting my aching feet) I make that decision when it's obvious the seats are all taken and I get on anyway expecting to stand. We also don't tend to try getting around at very high crowd times, except the occasional park closing. The waiting for the next bus would be a lot easier if they gave us more seats to sit on while we waited or things to lean on.
That's a good reason for you to rent a car, take a taxi or take the bus long before or after the crowds.Well, as a pregnant woman, I can say that I'd rather not have a bad fall being pregnant were the bus to slam on the breaks. You're safer sitting. Pregnant women aren't fragile, and I don't think anyone is saying pregnant women are fragile. But growing a baby is a ton of frigging work- most people know that, which is why they offer to help.
That's a good reason for you to rent a car, take a taxi or take the bus long before or after the crowds.
Not really sure what your response has to do with what I wrote. I was responding to a poster who said she preferred standing while pregnant, and other poster who was kind of offended that offering your seat meant women were the weaker sex. I don't expect anyone to give up their seat for me- and I never said that I did. I'm quite capable of figuring out how to get to and from where I need to be safely. That being said, I still believe offering up your seat to the elderly or a heavily pregnant woman is good manners, but I would never expect anyone to do that for me.
No problem with that...but if a dad, or any other person, decides they 'have' to stand there, with stroller, in front of his family, and blocking off access to the area behind them? Yes, there's a problem with that. And those are the people I'm talking about. At the busy times of day, opening and closing, there always seems to be 'that' family....kid in the stroller until they get to the bus door, then hold up those behind them while they remove the child, empty the stroller of all the bags and such, fold it up and then get on the bus. Then, dad stands, with the stroller, in front of mom and the kids, and when the driver asks people to move to the back of the bus, he doesn't move. Which tends to block the aisle since others with strollers can't get by....then you end up with an empty space, that others could have filled, but are now left at the bus stop, waiting for the next bus.I can't speak for that particular family, but if you were talking about my family, I would say yes, seriously. My son was very good at the parks and hotel on our last trip, but he was not a fan of the buses. Half the time he would squirm and try to get out of our laps; he was out of his element because normally in the car he would be strapped into his car seat. So yes, my husband needed to be with us in order to help out. We tried to move as far back as possible when the bus was full, but you should not expect parents with young children to be okay with being separated just because it's only twenty minutes or less.
What is your opinion-should it be Disney policy for women and children to sit first?