Let’s all get on board with journey etiquette | Social etiquette

Re your article on journey etiquette (The final information to journey etiquette: the way to deal with 36 tough conditions, from manspreaders to smelly armpits, 4 August), it’s completely fallacious to advise folks not to surrender seats for a girl any extra. Women might be menstruating, within the first trimester of being pregnant (probably the most exhausting time, and never one you promote with badges saying “Baby on board”), perimenopausal, menopausal or have endometriosis (excruciating ache). Women dwell with a degree of ache and discomfort as routine, for a lot of their lives. Yes, after all males may be struggling with particular illnesses at particular occasions, however it isn’t half and parcel of being a person. Gentlemen, please simply do it.
Helen Walker
London

To your checklist of doubtful journey behaviours, I’d like so as to add fixed sniffing and its extra guttural and nauseating relation, snorting. It appears that handkerchiefs, tissues and even the idea of blowing your nostril have gone out of vogue. I’m often nauseated by this on planes and trains, and if I don’t have headphones with me I’ve to resort to blocking my ears. I’ve not but had the braveness to talk to a perpetrator (though I’ve usually been tempted to go them a tissue).
Judith Milburn
Hartlepool, County Durham

I loved your information to journey etiquette. It was very smart and reflective of our trendy society. I needed to smile on the steerage for providing your seat to aged folks – as a person in my mid-50s who’s (fortunately) match and wholesome, I all the time need to remind myself that individuals providing me a seat aren’t commenting on my bodily state, they’re simply being form to a stranger.

Given the rising incidence of harassment on public transport, significantly of girls, it could be useful to offer some steerage as to what to do for those who see somebody being harassed – that’s a tough steadiness of guaranteeing the protection of your self and people round you, however it’s (sadly) a mirrored image of the occasions.

However, you didn’t go into sufficient element about one among my greatest bugbears – individuals who insist on preserving their backpacks on on crowded buses and tubes the place standing house is at a premium. It’s irritating, and sometimes very problematic, when folks aren’t conscious that the house they’re taking over by preserving the backpack on is far bigger than their unencumbered physique. As they transfer or flip they stumble upon no matter you’re holding, and it reduces the chance for others to hitch the service.

It’s a easy rule: take the backpack off and have it at your ft – all the time – to keep away from encroaching on different folks’s private house and to release house for others. Or possibly my middle-aged grumpiness is simply getting the higher of me on this one.
Peter Antolik
London

Recently, after a 3 day-visit to London, I returned dwelling to Devon and jokingly complained that Londoners always made me really feel previous. Every journey I made on public transport, somebody provided me a seat. On two events a girl provided me a serving to hand as I descended the steps on a bus. I’m a six-foot, wholesome 80-year-old and might simply handle to face for a brief journey however, as my spouse identified, it’s a lot nicer to smile and settle for the gives. On one other bus, a girl provided to maneuver in order that my spouse and I may sit collectively. In conclusion, I felt I ought to level out that Londoners, in my expertise, do probably not want a lot of your recommendation. They have already got a humiliation of politeness riches and made me really feel a lot happier in regards to the human race.
Paul Wesley
Totnes, Devon