Pregnant Women on Tube Trains...
Meet my unborn son or daughter. God willing, he or she will be joining us a couple of weeks into October. We both are so enjoying this phase of our lives, but seeing as I'm not carrying the extra weight during this heat wave, I'm enjoying it more than my wife.One aspect she really hates is the fact that since she started showing about three months ago, not one soul has given her a seat on the packed London Underground Tube system. She only tends to get a seat if:
a) it's already empty when she boards the train, or;
b) someone gets off the train.
Don't get me wrong. I give up my seat, but I too have gone through a "is she pregnant or just fat?" thought process. My wife is one of those lucky women who is only showing in the belly. Like a brother in a pub in Cornwall full of White people, she stands out. No dilemma there as far as I'm concerned.
It's amazing how newspapers suddenly rise to full fast and peoples gazes are averted when a pregnant, old person boards the tube.
Can anyone explain this phenomenon...?
posted by britishbrother at 14:14
2 Comments:
Congrats on the little one. I've notice for some years that people don't offer seats and it's not just pregnant woman, but the elderly and people with injuries that make it hard for them to stand. Unfortunately the time where people are polite seems to have gone. Tell your missus to ask for the seat, she's entitled to it, hopefully people will be too ashamed to say no....
I let a pregnant woman sit on my knee the other day whilst on the tube - i thought that she could do with taking the weight off her feet.
I got a little stiffy, she slapped me in the face and a big bloke chucked me off at King Cross.
This is what happens when you try and help people.
Never again.
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