A SHOCKING video shows an old lady in a heated argument with a fellow bus passenger over a priority seat at the front of the vehicle.
Vinay Kumar Parbot captured the intense exchange whilst on his way home on a bus in Barnet, London last Tuesday.
The 31-year-old couldn’t believe his eyes when he hopped on board, only to be greeted by an elderly woman in a fierce clash with a woman and her son.
The video shows the old lady, stood at the front of the bus, presumably on her way home with groceries as she stands beside a plastic Tesco bag.
The OAP is seemingly mid-argument with the mother over her refusal to move herself and her child from their seats.
She can be heard shouting: “It’s not your seat! He shouldn’t be there” whilst prodding a finger in the direction of the woman’s son – who is not visible on camera.
The video then cuts to later in the argument as the woman continues: “Some drivers will tell you, they’ll make you go to the back of the bus because they say that they’re priority seats.”
The mother can be heard saying “Shut up” in the midst of the old woman’s spiel before incredulously replying: “Priority seats?”
The mother is cut off mid-sentence though as the elderly woman explosively interrupts whilst thrusting her hands in the mother’s face, causing her to visibly recoil in shock.
The OAP angrily shouts: “Well then you obviously don’t even understand the bloody pictures!”
The video then cuts again to another point in the altercation.
The old woman shouts: “If you were a nice lady you would have moved over for me and I would have said thank you” whilst pointing at two empty seats on the other side of the bus.
The mother appears to shout back: “Move me, move me there!”
The OAP then turns towards the front of the bus and says: “Get off here driver.”
As the bus approaches its stop, she turns back to the mother-and-son duo and says: “Just remember next time you get told, don’t think of yourself and your [child].”
The footage then ends abruptly before the mother can respond.
Category manager Vinay uploaded the video to TikTok last Tuesday with the caption “Feel really sorry for this old lady requesting for the priority seat so she can sit next to her shopping bags…”
The post has since received over 24,000 likes and more than 1,800 comments.
One Tiktok user wrote: “Respect is earned, no matter how old you are. Some older people can be the rudest, most entitled people I’ve ever met.”
Another said: “I’m all for giving up priority seats but like… there was an empty priority seat right next to it?”
A third commented: “That old lady is way too aggressive. Like there are seats next to her.”
Another added: “Priority seats aren’t just for elderly people they are also for pregnant women and people who are less able to stand.”
A fifth replied: “In all my time in retail I’ve never been verbally abused by anyone younger ever. Always older people.”
Speaking today, Vinay said: “I got onto the bus, and an argument was already going on between an old lady and a young lady and her child for the priority seat.
“At first I felt pity for the old lady who had to request that the young lady and her child move so she could have a priority seat.
“But later I thought the old lady was a bit aggressive and stubborn because other seats on the bus were available.
“As you can see from the video, there was a priority seat next to the one she requested. But she was so stubborn that she wanted to sit next to her shopping as someone had previously stolen her groceries.
“But again, it was a bit outrageous because the seat available was close to where she had kept her shopping bags, and she could keep her eyes on it.
“Later on I found out that this old lady is quite well-known in this area for creating problems as I was speaking to some of the other passengers on the bus.
“This made me angry at how some people try to make things look bad for others like me – when I first got on the bus, I was disappointed with the young lady because she could have moved.”
