[azalemeth]

It's not just elderly people who need to sit down – I fractured my T11 vertebral body (amongst lots of other back-related woes) and find standing up for a prolonged period of time moderately excruciating.

[GloucesterBoy]

That's true - and then there's pregnant women... and sometimes having a seat can make managing young children that little bit easier!

A lot of the new hostile architecture does a great job at making ordinary people suffer.

[illiarian]

As this always comes up, disability is not an on/off, it's a spectrum. And we all will disabled in one way or another sooner or later.

Even if you're young and healthy, but you pulled a muscle helping a friend move their couch, you will likely want to sit down on a bus.