Metro Tales
Notice in Metro: Please offer your seat to anyone in need
Why do we need to be reminded to extend these basic courtesies to our fellow travelers? While traveling in buses, I get up to offer my seat to older women and old men who are standing (except on way to college which is a freakin 30 kms from home!) when in Mumbai, I found this concept entirely missing amongst the local train passengers who were willing to fight for a seat with women their grandmother's age!
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Besides those who can't figure out how to use an escalator, another type of people who prefer stairs are the health conscious lot. They inspire me to do the same. And I shall. Soon. Hopefully.
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The seats hurt after some time.
It is amusing to watch your reflection in the glass in front of you. However, do not make faces. People will stare at you.
Time can be killed by reading newspaper, completing homework and scribbling blog entries (which you hope to post someday!)
5 Comments:
In London, they will not only give old ladies a seat without having to ask, but will also pick up her heavy bag and carry it up a flight of steps and say "cheers" and vanish before she can say "thanks" (leaving the bag at the top of the stairs)
I hope the lady wanted to go up the stairs :P
a post like this forms in my mind everytime i take the metro here....but somehow never gets typed out!!
read about the delhi blasts last nite... :-(
true it is lacking every where.. i once got up to give my seat to an old gentleman, when another idiot pushed both of us aside and sat down. how i made him get up is another story...:-) *GRIN*
Shub, i carry a diary and paper so that i make sure i scribble it own. my blog is seriously starved of posts! delhi blasts, sad indeed.
Joker,
Today a guy got up and gave me a seat that wasn't even reserved for ladies!! later i found it was broken, but sweet of him nonetheless!
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