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Offline Scunner

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Re: Look out for the bump
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2013, 16:31:58 PM »
I am, but more and more these days they politely decline! I assume they think I look like I need it more than them :D



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Re: Look out for the bump
« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2013, 17:17:39 PM »
I'd take your seat any day Scunner!   ;D  ;)

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Re: Look out for the bump
« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2013, 17:22:59 PM »
Hmmm... If you knew the mosquito story, you'd probably be helping him. .

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Re: Look out for the bump
« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2013, 17:41:09 PM »
I am certainly not in the first flush of youth but am relatively fit and agile so when travelling on the dolmus I always give my seat to people who look as if they need it, young or old, male or female.  Never really use public transport in UK but would do the same

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Re: Look out for the bump
« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2013, 18:03:50 PM »
Our big problem with the dolmus was that when we visited the UK, we had to remember to keep an eye on our kids who would automatically sense when the bus (especially the airport buses) were full and go to jump onto some old boy's lap!!!

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Re: Look out for the bump
« Reply #15 on: July 14, 2013, 18:11:09 PM »
I don't think it is just the Underground; I think everyone in London is rude wherever they are. It takes wild horses, or sometimes Hilary, to persuade me to go to Great Wen. Filthy, obnoxious pit of a place.

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Re: Look out for the bump
« Reply #16 on: July 14, 2013, 18:32:18 PM »
Hmmm... If you knew the mosquito story, you'd probably be helping him. .

Haha don't worry Lotty, I've heard that one  ;D

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Re: Look out for the bump
« Reply #17 on: July 14, 2013, 18:44:31 PM »
Our big problem with the dolmus was that when we visited the UK, we had to remember to keep an eye on our kids who would automatically sense when the bus (especially the airport buses) were full and go to jump onto some old boy's lap!!!

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Re: Look out for the bump
« Reply #18 on: July 14, 2013, 18:52:46 PM »
Some time ago, I can't remember exactly when, Brenda and I were on an over-crowded (is there another sort) dolmus on our way to Fethiye.

Seeing that were several young ladies standing in the crush, I used sign language to offer one of them my seat.

Just as the young lady went to accept my offer, an elderly Turkish gentleman standing next to her, gentle took hold of her arm. Looking sympathetically at the young girl, he started stroking his chin while motioning in my direction and politely shaking his head.

I could soon tell from Brenda's strangulated laughter that the old gentleman was clearly telling the girl that I was in far more need of the seat than her :(


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Re: Look out for the bump
« Reply #19 on: July 14, 2013, 20:56:24 PM »
Using a very crowded dolmus on our last holiday to Turkey we were most impressed with the local youths who gave up their seats for any female, young or old, seemed to us they had been brought up to have good manners.




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