People don’t give up their seats for elders?
A new standard announcement on Southern Rail today; you know, those that have been recorded at a calm moment by some stoical standard English speaker, as opposed to the verbal incomprehensibility of harrassed Southern staff. They are offering a ‘priority card’ for people who because of age or disability are entitled to have first go at a seat to show rude youngsters to get them to give up the priority seats. According to the Southern website, people apparently don’t like asking.
This might be a sign of modern society and an unwelcome one, if it were not for the fact that quite a lot of people my age comment on the frequency with which people give up their seats even if you’re only a little bit grey.