{"id":10645,"date":"2025-11-11T15:01:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=10645"},"modified":"2025-11-11T15:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:01:35","slug":"stomper-says-woman-tried-to-force-him-into-giving-up-mrt-seat-exactly-the-way-i-predicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=10645","title":{"rendered":"Stomper says woman tried to force him into giving up MRT seat &#8216;exactly the way I predicted&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\"><span><b>Welcome to <\/b><\/span><span><a class=\"text-primary-500 hover:underline\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stomp.sg\/tag\/stomping-ground\" target=\"_blank\" data-discover=\"true\"><span><b>Stomping Ground<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><span><b> &#8211; a space where Stompers share reflections, personal essays and social commentaries that spark conversation and insight.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">A man expressed contempt for &#8216;self-entitled&#8217; commuters on the MRT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">He shared his experience travelling from Chinatown to Bedok Reservoir on the Downtown Line on Nov 8 at around 10.15pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Stomper <span><b>Me<\/b><\/span> said: &#8220;Has kindness became Singaporeans&#8217; soft spot?<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;A young man sitting besides me gave up his priority seat to this lady who was standing in front of him when suddenly, her husband who was carrying their sleeping child and a bulky backpack passed everything to her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;From the moment she stood in front of the young man, I could already predict what was gonna happen next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;First, she will claim the priority seat. Next, she will definitely expand her space to make me feel uncomfortable so that I&#8217;ll give up my seat, then her husband can occupy the seat I gave up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t caught by surprise when it happened exactly the way I&#8217;d predicted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;Why would a mother carrying a sleeping child put the bulky backpack on her lap and lay the child on the backpack? Why was the husband who was carrying everything when they first boarded the MRT become empty-handed when both of them were seated separately?<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;Too bad, I&#8217;m too used to such &#8216;patterns&#8217; that I stayed seated all the way till I reached my destination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;Guess what? As soon as I got up to alight, the wife call for her husband and the backpack was placed on the floor after the husband took my seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;I despise such self-entitled behaviour of inconveniencing others to get what you want and it causes me to detest such commuters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\"><span><b>Have your say on Stomping Ground! 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