My issue is that they could literally take the bus 30 minutes later and be alone on the bus. It's just fascinating that they use them at a time of highest ocupancy.

Nope. Because they would not have the free red ticket for retired people

Sure, but if they're boomers and still couldn't make it, I'm not sure what the issue was. The generation that took everything and then pulled the ladder up behind them should be stable in the modern day.

I'm really not trying to be an asshole here, but my experience with this is my girlfriend's dad. A boomer who lives in his car. He lost his six figure job in the late 90s and then did nothing. He made no effort. He was a horrible father. My girlfriend's mother died and he STILL never picked his life back up. And now he's just become a nuisance in our lives. I have absolutely no sympathy for people like that.

Whereas my parents, also boomers of the same age, are retired and looking at finding their final home. All you had to do was keep doing what you're doing.

Whereas us, now, that's not good enough, anymore.

It is very hard for me for feel sympathy for the generation that got everything, when my friends and I are struggling to exist, and with decent jobs.

Is it though? I am not saying they are not allowed to use them or anything. I just wonder why they use them when everyone else does as well. I have taken buses outside those times and not many retirees or old people take them. If I had the whole day I would probably not take the most crowded bus and take the one that is almost empty.

If I'm late to work I can't pay their pension.