Update

[waterspyder]

1. I can't figure out how to use Facebook. Seriously. Is this a sign I'm getting old? Of course, I can also wait 10 years and have my kid explain it to me.

2. Yesterday a woman on the bus was sitting next to me and saw a man with a cane. She asked him if he needed a seat, he accepted and she turned to me and said "Well, get up!". I replied "Since you asked so nicely... No." I mean, now I have a disability and I'm pregnant, and the pregnancy has just plain made me belligerent about these matters. Someone else nearby ended up giving up their seat.

3. I eat like a hobbit. No. Really. Second breakfast and Elevenses are real meals.

4. Nutopia was fantastic. I've already deleted Saturday from memory and replaced it with reruns of Sunday. I'm down to 160 mosquito bites. I definitely needed to see everyone and recharge the batteries.

5. My dog looks like a large shaved rat. She's happy with it.

6. I'm sleeping a lot too.

7. I'm going to do the Citychase this weekend with zenten . I promised I wouldn't play to win.

Comments

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Not impressed by "helpful" lady on bus. The really courteous thing to do is not even to ask and give up one's seat if the response is yes, but to simply recognize that he almost certainly needs a seat, and stand up and offer it to him. Giving up someone else's seat is off the bottom of the scale, close to saying "don't you wish you had a seat, sucker?"

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

Since I'm not able to give up my seat, when I see someone who is in obvious need, I usually say "I have a disability and cannot stand on a moving bus, is anyone here able to help this person by giving up their seat?" and more often than not someone does.

Of course, when I was still using my cane, I got on one of the articulated buses, and couldn't even get near a seat, when a very pregnant woman who was also standing said "For god's sake people are you so inconsiderate that you won't offer your seat to a person with a cane?"
The front half of the bus cleared out (That's what I call efficiency). I sat down, thanked her and asked her if she was going to sit down too.
"Naw, I don't need a seat"