This makes me angry!

I use public transportation all the time. I offer my seat whenever I see someone with kids, with an injury, or are pregnant. It really irks me when others don't even bother to offer their seats.

There are a lot of insensitive people out there. You may have come across just a few of them but you will be surprised how many they are just waiting to show their true colors. Don't fret! There's nothing you could do with this people. Remember that there is still good in everyone. We may not know what that kid is thinking. Maybe he didn't see the mother holding a toddler in her arms. Maybe he didn't see that the old lady gave up her own seat for the mother. Maybe he realized the very essence of the whole thing after the incident. We will never know. At least you know yourself, that when that kind of thing confronts you, you wouldn't have second thoughts of helping other people. I think that's the most important thing!

Rudeness just really bothers me. And that is what this teenager was and is - rude! What happened to common courtesy in society? It is just so sad that no one seems to care about others anymore. I am so glad to read here that most of us do the right thing! These selfish attitudes are just wrong today!

You are kind, and be proud because you are. Somehow this days a few kind people exists, I am very happy you did. Continue on being such, will never know where it will spread, perhaps on the boy with the racket.

I agree with you. I believe that the problem probably started with my generation. My husband and I were depression babies, so we wanted our children to not have as hard time as we did. We forgot that it was those hard times that made us strong. We gave our children everything. They eventually grew up and became pretty good citizens. They wanted their children to have the good life,so they, too gave their children everything they wanted. We started a vicious cycle, it seems.

hi catmint .. i do agree with you ... younger people should give away their seats to the older ones in public crowded buses.... but the last two years durin which i travelled by the bus almost everyday..often i came across elders who refused to take my seat when i stood up may be because of their modesty .. but they would readily be seated when anyone else offers them.. phew....i cant figure this..WHY

I agree with you. I've seen the same, even seen no one give up a seat for even very old women. It seems parents don't teach their children manners anymore. And they don't learn it from society either. People are not looked down on if they misbehave. I also think this kind of thing contributes to the rise in crime -- just that people aren't taught manners, right from wrong. In fact, it seems a lot of kids aren't even taught to cook and clean for themselves these days! I recently moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the Northeast of the US, a very big city. It was terrible there! So much rudeness and no one helping, a lot of people going out of their way to cause you trouble sometimes. But now I live in North Carolina, Southeast US. It is much better. It is still moving toward the rudeness and unpleasantness I saw in the North, but for now at least it still resembles the South that I grew up in where people are more friendly, stop to speak to you, chit chat, open doors, give up seats for older people, etc. But I can see the signs that this is passing even from the South.

It all comes down to manners, this kid obviously was never taught any. It is a real shame.

That boy obviously has no manner at all. I feel disgusted at people like that. He didnt have shame anymore. That lady has a child and that old lady give away the seat for her because she has a child with her. For him to smirk coz the seat was not given to him is an attitude of a person with no manners at all. I would be upset too if i happen to witness that myself.

I have no car and if I can't walk to where I need to go I have to take a bus, which is usually late. I have been fired from jobs because of the bus being late. I hear the bus drivers in my city are threatening to strike. Maybe the city cares so little about them they don't even care if they're on time anymore. I swore I would never ride the bus again after a grown man, a dirty Mexican with dirt on his pants, actually SAT on me when I refused to move my shopping packages because there were too many and no where to put them(I had gone to the mall and the packages were gifts for my family-I had spent a lot of money on them and didn't want to try to fit them all on my lap, and I really didn't want him sitting next to me because he was rude and TOLD me to move them while he called me 'Lady.') I happen to be a disabled veteran(although You can't SEE my disability). Instead of holding onto the railing(the man was maybe 35)the bast@rd fu(king SAT ON ME! He tried to get the bus driver to make me move and the bus driver told him to stop be an as@hole or he would kick him off the bus. This guy was FAT too. That's all I want is a dirty fat Mexican sitting on my lap. If ANYONE were to sit on my lap-they had better be Johnny Depp!

That would make me very angry too. If you are young and healthy without anything keeping you from standing, you should be the first one to offer your seat (and I'm not that old, so I'm not just coming down on young people). I think it's important to at least offer, whether the person wants the seat or not. I would offer my seat to anyone who needed it.

i am 49 years old now but from the time i first started using public transportation which is a good many years ago ,i always ,even as a teena-ager gave my seat to anyone i felt was in more need than i was.I would get up and give my seat to an elderly person,pregnant person,someone with cane or cast etc. happy mylotting

I am sorry about the mom when nobody is willing to give up their seats at the first place, and I am also sorry about that young man since he has no shame of grabbing the seat from a lady with a baby. Buses in my city have seats designated to the elderly, disabled and pregnant women, and I do see people vacate their seats for people really needs help. Sometimes, the bus driver or the bus conductor will encourage people to do so if they see no volunteers

I understand what you mean, but hey, sometimes, those are just the kind of people we have to deal with. Life experience. ;)

i also ever came across a matter like you.in that matter,i gave my seat to an old woman,but once i stand up,a teenager took my seat.i really angry at him.

by and large kids nowadays dont have manners and have no respect for their elders..and often young men have no respect for women either. its disgusting that the "gentleman" sure seems like a severely endangered species!! if i was the old lady you got up, i would have stopped him and said "dont even think about it..mind your manners" and pointed him back to where he was. course i might do that now lol! though i must say that the last time i rode the public bus, i was witness to something amazing, rare and sun bright in society!! a young man..probably no more than 15 MAX! gave up his seat on the bus to an elderly man! in fact the boy walked to the front of the bus where the man was very slowly trying to make his way back in hopes of a seat...then proceeded to help the man keep his balance as the bus took off, and put him safely in the seat!! i wanted to hug that kid! shoot i have no idea who he was, never saw him before, never seen him again, but damn if i wasnt proud lol!!

You find these kind of people all over the world. They think whatever they do is the correct. They are inconsiderate for others.