People Who Sit In The Disability Seats When I’m Standing On My Crutches

lol, just a vent - Thanks!
I travel with my disabled sister (freak illness attacked when she was young) on the bus and people (including the drivers sometimes) only think about themselves. I have actually had to yell at a able-bodied person to move for her or to stop harassing her. I really don't have a lot of faith in humanity when I see this sort of thing. :P

i dont have to be sitting in a "designated seat" just to get up for someone holding a child/baby or who looks like they need it, but if noone is sitting in the designated areas, i'm not going to not sit there...

the homeless people usually sit in those seats on the subway...most of the time the seats are dirty or discolored

No one to blame but yourself. Are you kidding me? "Never noticed the stickers"?! No need to change the signage, just open your eyes. And now you know anyway.

Welcome to New York. Chivalry is dead.

The buses in SF are pretty well marked and for the most part people will get up for an elderly or disabled person. I do often sit in them because I have a spine deformity that causes incredible back pain and a chronic foot injury, but I always get up for the disabled or an elderly person because they need it more than me.

Although once I was sitting in a disabled seat on a bus and an elderly man got on, I was about to get up when he started hitting me with his bag screaming at me to get up. Of course I did but he still continued to scream at me and call me names from his seat for the rest of the ride. The poor elderly woman next to him looked like she was about to have a heart attack. Before I got off I just looked him straight in the eye and said "you need to learn to have some respect for yourself and for others around you. Please control yourself when in public, sir."

And thats my disabled/elderly seats story!

People don't care. Sign or no sign; they sit if no other seats are available. I hate when they get mad when people who really need the seat request that they move.

I guess that the guy in the photo above is mentally disabled...

You should move to Geneva, Switzerland. In the buses and trams, even when very crowded, whenever someone steps in with crutches or a cane, immediately someone will stand and give them their seat. Those who do it most often, fastest, and spontaneously are Africans and Moslems, both men and women.

amazing really... although there are some spare seats in some of the photos.

I can't even sit in the "old or disabled" seats on the bus because I get too nervous that someone who looks old will get on and then I might offend them by asking them if they want the seat when actually they're only 40 but look knackered!

Pretty incredible.