Archive for April 13th, 2011
Give up your seat
by Leion on Apr.13, 2011, under General
Today I witnessed a very disappointing scene on the train.
I boarded the train but could not find a seat. The train was not very crowded, but I noticed a pregnant lady standing near the side seats. She seemed to be in an advanced stage of pregnancy. Usually the side seats have stickers requesting people to give up their seats. All the seats were occupied. I looked at the person on the side seat. She was another lady with baby bump – smaller but surely one. I was getting annoyed with the next nearest person for not giving up his seat. He was a youngster at most in his twenties. How could he have just ignored the poor mother to be?
Just while I was still fighting my internal struggle to request the young man to give up his seat, the seated pregnant lady have up her seat! The bigger lady said you are pregnant too! She replied nvm and walked towards the other cabins. I saw her found another seat which was good. The bigger lady took the seat. All the while, all the other seated passengers appeared not to have saw them.
I was really angry and ashamed of myself for not acting what I should. How would the 2 ladies think?
