Last night I was continuing my love affair with 29C. The bus was the right quantity of full (or should I say empty)? I was observing the masses around me and going over the rules of the unwritten 'Bus Code' i.e. in the event a particular seat falls vacant the person standing exactly adjacent to that seat has complete claim over it. Of course you can choose to give up that claim to someone more deserving but hey, who thinks like that nowadays?
I had received the right signals from the 'outgoing' passenger and just when I was gearing up to be seated I observed an older woman (lets call her X) to my right. I knew I had to give up my claim. It's that ingrained goodness from the family I have been brought up in. Sigh! So instead I was patting myself on the back and feeling proud of my selflessness when I was pushed onto Woman X by Woman Y ( from left). She pushed, she shoved and she was seated.
Empty seat again but further back. I rushed over and sat down for exactly two minutes only to give it up to another old woman Z. They were out to get me! She offered to hold my bag while I stood their pretending to read my book. Half way home, I finally sat guilt-free. A woman got onto the bus and gave me her child to hold. Woah! How am I supposed to explain to mommy that I am not very child- friendly? They scare me! I had no choice, so I sat there with a bag on one knee and the kid on the other. The little one had special fountain ponytails for the outing and these were permanently in my nostrils. Then it happened that out of body experience that makes you see the humour in it all. But instead I was Shahrukh Khan having one of those ridiculous We, The People Moments.
I had received the right signals from the 'outgoing' passenger and just when I was gearing up to be seated I observed an older woman (lets call her X) to my right. I knew I had to give up my claim. It's that ingrained goodness from the family I have been brought up in. Sigh! So instead I was patting myself on the back and feeling proud of my selflessness when I was pushed onto Woman X by Woman Y ( from left). She pushed, she shoved and she was seated.
Empty seat again but further back. I rushed over and sat down for exactly two minutes only to give it up to another old woman Z. They were out to get me! She offered to hold my bag while I stood their pretending to read my book. Half way home, I finally sat guilt-free. A woman got onto the bus and gave me her child to hold. Woah! How am I supposed to explain to mommy that I am not very child- friendly? They scare me! I had no choice, so I sat there with a bag on one knee and the kid on the other. The little one had special fountain ponytails for the outing and these were permanently in my nostrils. Then it happened that out of body experience that makes you see the humour in it all. But instead I was Shahrukh Khan having one of those ridiculous We, The People Moments.
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I really do admire your courage. You still seem to have faith in public transport :)
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