Tag Archives: Priority Seat

Whose fault?

A netizen saw this photograph of an elderly woman who was forced to squat down in an MRT cabin because she could not find any seats to rest her tired legs.

A netizen, Benedict, shared a shocking incident where a PRC man told him off when he asked politely for a seat for his elderly mother.

Today I brought my 3 years old daughter went in MRT. This woman sit on reserve seat and mean while my daughter tell me she is tired and wanna sit down (actually is almost her nap time).

A reader has sent us a photograph taken of an unidentified person sitting on the priority seat in the MRT. According to our reader, the person appears to be a man who had zipped himself up in a jacket to cover his head, possibly to prevent others from taking photos of him while he sat and rested in the priority seat.

Sitting along East West Line on the boring thursday morning, I saw this man sitting at the reserve seat, alone yet not alone. He looked like a foreign worker, dreaming home on his hard earned throne. As we kaopeh about the stressful days with friends and family, let us spare a thought for the foreign workers who have left their families behind to work in a distant land.

He pointed at the reserved seating sign and stared at me wide eyed.. I said yes, I am pregnant. HE ASKED ME FOR PROOF!?!?!?

Mother to be thinks it's really ok to take photos of a random stranger on the MRT and started to shame her and insulted her by calling her fat " I hope your chunk of fats drown you one day".

An old man was seated on the priority seat, where he noticed right across on the opposite of the train aisle was an old lady who had fallen asleep. She had selfishly placed a pile of plastic bags beside her on one of the MRT seats.

This reserved seating is really pissing me off. Why is it only people on the reserved seat have to give up their seat? Yes I'm on reserved seat & I do note that your kid is in front of me. But to be honest, I don't think your kid needs the seat more than I do when I'm sick & when I have the tendency to faint. If you could have asked me politely for the seat, I would certainly give my seat up for you. Not "Eh you on the reserved seat. You cannot see my kid here?" I have already told you that I'm unwell & I'm feeling giddy but you still insisted on me giving up the seat as I'm on the reserved seat.