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I'd help.

Marc | 24.10.12 - 6:54 a.m. | #

I'd offer help.

Brendan | 24.10.12 - 6:57 a.m. | #

I'd offer help.

Andy | 24.10.12 - 6:59 a.m. | #

i would always help but probably expect abuse

Peewit | Homepage | 24.10.12 - 7:01 a.m. | #

I would offer assistance.

Peter | 24.10.12 - 7:11 a.m. | #

I'd offer to help and have done so in the past.

Barry | 24.10.12 - 7:21 a.m. | #

There's no harm in asking if they need a hand.

There are admittedly some unintentionally terrifying people out there who just grab hold and say "Here, let me".

Chz | 24.10.12 - 7:22 a.m. | #

I always offer help and have not had a bad experience. I don't anticipate a bad experience either. It's good manners and manners do matter.

Waterhouse | 24.10.12 - 7:28 a.m. | #

I'd help - always do as you would be done by..

FHall | 24.10.12 - 7:32 a.m. | #

I've offered to many people with the stairs and have always had a smile and a thank you. It makes me feel good too; part of the community.

But I must admit to judging some situations and walking by; petit people with big suitcases have got a mental "should have packed less".

Geo_rich | 24.10.12 - 7:39 a.m. | #

Having heaved my own kids in buggies up and down more flights of stairs at stations than I care to remember, I always offer to help people in that situation, if it looks as if they need it.

Claire in Osaka | 24.10.12 - 7:53 a.m. | #

Ask if she needed a hand.

Mark Garth | Homepage | 24.10.12 - 7:53 a.m. | #

I've missed trains before to help people with loaded buggies. So I'd help here.

THC | 24.10.12 - 7:54 a.m. | #

As a paranoid cynic, I'd be looking around for someone in the shadows. SWMBO recently had a bag snatched by 2 people using the old distract and grab routine.

If it looked safe, I'd offer assistance. If I spotted someone else nearby I'd walk on.

Andrew | 24.10.12 - 8:08 a.m. | #

I would go past her a bit and then quietly ask her if she wanted help, maybe using signs as she might not understand me (it's east London after all).

I've done it before, although the last one was a heavy suitcase which nearly knackered me. On a lonely station after dark though, I'd be fearful of a trick of some kind, maybe a pickpocket.

| 24.10.12 - 8:10 a.m. | #

I'd have asked if she needed help.

BorisTheLlama | 24.10.12 - 8:23 a.m. | #

Definitely help, it's a PITA to get buggies around the London transport system - did it once, and was so greatful that:
1) other people helped me, and
2) I live in a more of less 100% disabled (and buggy) friendly transport paradise!

Mark | 24.10.12 - 8:26 a.m. | #

I would certainly help, if she wanted it.

Dave | 24.10.12 - 8:38 a.m. | #

She might not need help, as it turns out, but I would offer it. I hadn't considered the distraction/mugging/pickpocket issue mentioned by a few others.

Andrew | 24.10.12 - 8:42 a.m. | #


This reminds me of an occasion at Holborn Station walking to the central line there was a woman at the top of the stairs with a buggy and a kid that was walking so i attempted to help and all the commuters that were rushing and bumping into us causing me to fall the last few steps down the stairs and the buggy to slam down on the steps

Rachel | 24.10.12 - 8:51 a.m. | #

Would help with a buggy, but a suitcase, you packed it you carry it.

mclm | 24.10.12 - 8:59 a.m. | #

Ask if she needs help

MOTB | Homepage | 24.10.12 - 9:23 a.m. | #

I help.

David | Homepage | 24.10.12 - 9:24 a.m. | #

I'd help if I noticed.

Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 24.10.12 - 9:26 a.m. | #

offer to help!

David | 24.10.12 - 9:31 a.m. | #

I would not hesitate to offer help.

Fishislandskin | 24.10.12 - 9:32 a.m. | #

I would help, unless I was feeling really unwell or I had something very,very, very urgent to get to.

I would help a man with a pushchair as well as a woman - anyone would find it hard to lift by their own, especially as it needs to be carried very carefully to avoid hurting the baby.

Richard | 24.10.12 - 9:33 a.m. | #

I would ask if she needed help

KissenMe | 24.10.12 - 9:44 a.m. | #

I'd offer to help.

allotmentqueen | Homepage | 24.10.12 - 9:51 a.m. | #

I always offer to help, if I have time. But not if it would make me late. I've been in the situation of lugging buggy and child up steps.

Veronica | 24.10.12 - 9:57 a.m. | #

I would certainly offer to help

gilly | 24.10.12 - 9:59 a.m. | #

I'd offer to help. She can say no if she wants to. I cerainly wouldn't "grab hold of one side of the buggy" without knowing that's what she wanted.

Alan | 24.10.12 - 9:59 a.m. | #

Help out.

Silent Hunter | Homepage | 24.10.12 - 10:00 a.m. | #

Commuted to Whitehall for years with baby/toddler. Offers of help invariably came from other women.

Karen | 24.10.12 - 10:06 a.m. | #

I would offer to help.

gt | 24.10.12 - 10:13 a.m. | #

Would have asked if she wanted help.

RogerW | 24.10.12 - 10:13 a.m. | #

Yes, whenever I've offered to help in that situation I have felt ever so good about it afterwards.

Bob Lindsay-Smith | 24.10.12 - 10:32 a.m. | #

I always offer to help, but never help without asking (learnt that the hard way a few years ago, and got hit by a woman with a pram who thought i was taking the piss or trying to steal her pram, despite her obviously struggling against a steep staircase and gravity at the time)

Rich | 24.10.12 - 11:22 a.m. | #

A simple do you need a hand there?

Kevin Hennessy | 24.10.12 - 11:47 a.m. | #

I'd ask if she needed help, Been in the same position myself and it's (usually) gratefully accepted.

CornishCockney | 24.10.12 - 12:05 p.m. | #

Mother of four. I'd offer assistance.

Mary | 24.10.12 - 12:45 p.m. | #

I often help persons with pushchairs and/or cumbersome impedimenta.

Caravelle | 24.10.12 - 1:01 p.m. | #

Nearly always stop and offer help

Tim Burns | 24.10.12 - 2:08 p.m. | #

I'd help.

Lorenzo | 24.10.12 - 2:13 p.m. | #

ask if you can help

pete | 24.10.12 - 2:28 p.m. | #

I'd ask if she wanted a hand. It's a simple courtesy

| 24.10.12 - 2:39 p.m. | #

Obviously I'd help.

Richard | 24.10.12 - 4:09 p.m. | #

Of course I'd offer to help.. I've done so several times while on British Rail trains. Last time my wife and I visited London (from WashDC)we had two large roll bags. At South Kensington no one offered me any help up the long steps from the Piccadilly line to the Circle line. I'm elderly and it was quite a struggle. Wish some of your helpful correspondents had been there. As it was, only you and your like minded who walked on by. Shame on you.

Garth Burleyson | Homepage | 24.10.12 - 5:44 p.m. | #

I'd stop and help (and I'm not a bloke). When I blogged about this myself, all the women who replied said they appreciate the help, and don't think men are all out to kidnap their child (and how could you anyway, by grabbing the front of a buggy? What are you going to do, drag it up the steps?)

disgruntled | Homepage | 24.10.12 - 7:24 p.m. | #

Help, without hesitation.

| 24.10.12 - 7:49 p.m. | #

I would offer to help, unless there are other and stronger-looking people about. I've often been offered help myself, when facing a flight or two of steps with a heavy case, and usually I accept and say thank you.

Suse | 24.10.12 - 9:14 p.m. | #

Help!

Ayoob | 24.10.12 - 10:17 p.m. | #

I always offer to help.

Feargal | Homepage | 25.10.12 - 12:19 a.m. | #

Always help... what does it say about a person when they don't !!!???

What goes around, comes around !!

ChrisW | Homepage | 25.10.12 - 9:32 a.m. | #

id help. or at least offer.

one day it could be you that needs help

roym | 25.10.12 - 10:13 a.m. | #

I would offer help

BillK | 25.10.12 - 11:50 a.m. | #

I'd help. It's rare I don't offer, if I see someone with a big load

Steve | 25.10.12 - 2:16 p.m. | #

Help. I always help. But then, that's also my job.

QuentinX | 25.10.12 - 2:37 p.m. | #

Of course help - why would you not? It takes one second to say, 'do you need a hand?'. It's up to them, innit.

Tom L | 26.10.12 - 8:55 a.m. | #

I always help.

Pepe | 29.10.12 - 1:44 p.m. | #

Definitely help in that context!

Marvin | 30.10.12 - 11:20 a.m. | #











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