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sandraoh · 20-07-2006, 14:50

I used to commute from Mullingar to Dublin and I was on crutches at one stage for 2 weeks. People just wouldn't give me a seat. I used to get a bus out to UCD and it was the same on that.

I used to have to stand in a crammed train until a seat came free usually around Maynooth. Even when a seat came free it was like a race to get to it before someone else took it. The worst thing was where a woman said to me at connolly that I could have her seat when she got off in Maynooth. Thanks a million!

I remember also being on an extremely quiet, almost empty lunchtime train and putting my heavily bandaged leg up on the seat opposite. No shoe, just bandages. A grumpy IE man in an orange jacket came and shouted at me and told me seats were not for feet.

20-07-2006, 14:50	#30
sandraoh Regular Poster Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Portlaoise Posts: 145	I used to commute from Mullingar to Dublin and I was on crutches at one stage for 2 weeks. People just wouldn't give me a seat. I used to get a bus out to UCD and it was the same on that. I used to have to stand in a crammed train until a seat came free usually around Maynooth. Even when a seat came free it was like a race to get to it before someone else took it. The worst thing was where a woman said to me at connolly that I could have her seat when she got off in Maynooth. Thanks a million! I remember also being on an extremely quiet, almost empty lunchtime train and putting my heavily bandaged leg up on the seat opposite. No shoe, just bandages. A grumpy IE man in an orange jacket came and shouted at me and told me seats were not for feet.