Dear Students: When you are on a crowded bus, look up from your phones, and when you see an older commuter on the bus standing, get up and offer them the seat! It is called being polite. It won’t hurt you, and it might also make you feel good as the older person sits and you, with better balance, ride the next few stops. Also, a bit about bus-stop etiquette: the person who is at the stop first gets on first. If you get there after six people have already been standing around waiting for the bus, you are the seventh to get on, not the first because you moved the fastest or barged ahead. Again, it is called being polite! Try it, you might like it. —Talkin’ Transit
This article appears in Jan 9-15, 2020.
And dear students,
When I’m sitting on the inside seat and you’re sitting on the aisle seat and I want to get out, don’t swivel your legs outward so that I have to climb over you. Get TFO of the seat so I can easily depart.
I’m old and I fucking KNOW those little shits aren’t going to get up for me even if I was dragging one leg behind me. Expectations are planned disappointments.