When not pregnant would always offer but if they say no I wouldn't feel guilty - some people have been sat all day and prefer to stand. Now am pregnant I always take a seat if offered, and if I saw an old person who thought needed a seat would be more likely to ask someone else to move than move myself (have never been in situation where everyone is more in need than me), is not that I can't stand but is more that trains and trams in particular often jolt and judder and don't break smoothly - other people fall over into you etc. so it is a stability thing and risk of a fall why I sit rather than an issue standing. I always ask if people don't offer and I think most of time people just haven't realized rather than are being rude - and have had opposite experience to PZ, in that often have many people trying to give me their seat, or old ladies instructing others to get up!
I offer to the elderly, disabled, pregnant etc unless I'm heavily pregnant during which I'm pretty unstable, so others have to stand for me. Saying that, I rarely use public transport, so it doesnt come up much.
Poor Dh once offered a seat to a heavily pregnant woman. She kindly refused, saying if she sat down she wouldnt be able to get back up again. He felt so guilty, that people around him were judging him for not getting up for a pregnant woman. But it's not like he could push her into it
PZ - good come backs. Do you get that kind of age discrimination much? What a tool of a woman!
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