Yo, people who ride halifax transit! If a person gets on the bus with a cane it probably means that person would love, and by that I mean needs(!!!) a seat. I’m so goddamn tired of getting on a full bus with my partner and having absolutely no one offer them a seat. I frequently see people offer their seats to elderly people on the bus and that’s so great, but people who are young have mobility issues too. So Halifax, please stop being such huge, inconsiderate jerks and offer your seat to someone who needs it. —In love with a babe with a babely cane
This article appears in Feb 5-11, 2015.
Ask?
No seriously, what are they going to say? “No, person-with-a-cane… you cannot have my seat!”
Sometimes you just have to ask…
THE THREESOME
“I’m so goddam tired of getting on a full bus with my partner and having absolutely no one offer them a seat.”
Offer “them” a seat? Were you a threesome? Was there someone else getting on the bus with you and your partner? Were they so goddam tired of getting on a full bus as well?
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
Just wait until canes and walking sticks become fashionable again and everyone getting on a bus is holding one. Let the games begin. Actually, this winter I have been almost ready to start using a cane to help get around
Maybe he should carry one of these:
http://www.swordsswords.com/images/product…
“In love with a babe with a babely cane” -OP
OP your a fucking idiot.Living with a lack of mobility isn’t sexy.
Now MM, from what I understand from the PC-use of pronouns these days, the pronoun “they” is used when referring to one individual when that person identifies as non-binary trans.
The partner must be identifying as non-binary trans and their partner is using the correct pronoun.
Yeah, “they”…
Man, I am out of touch with pop culture. When was it fashionable to walk with a cane? And was it so fashionable that we are at risk of this trend reappearing sometime soon? (Pimps not withstanding.) (See what I did there?)
“Non-binary trans?
oh god! I am ‘trending’
(cane user) and sometimes abuser.
Replying on human kindness on Halifax Transit is a crap shoot at best. Try an emptier bus, whether arriving at the stop earlier or a different route.
I want a John Steed cane. Handy for crowded buses and cutting salami.
my folks both use canes, great for poking people
Mr Peanut was smashing with his cane and monocle! On a serious note, I can empathize( I had a hip replaced at 34). I remember being in a wheelchair, trying to get into a public building where all three buttons to open exterior doors automatically, were broken. I could not reach the door handle or manage to open it from my chair. I watched dozens go around me to other doors, not a one opening a door for me. Finally, I bit the bullet ( it is not always easy to ask for help when one is in a position where they need to ask for help) but it took about 9 attempts at saying ” excuse me” to even get someone to stop before I could get in the building. Almost 40 minutes to get someone to open a door. I agree with other posters in saying you or your partner should speak up and ask but at the same time, it is a sad commentary on society that neither of you would have to if common courtesy were still widely practiced.
Yes, non-binary trans… I fool you not sir. Non-binary trans. They. To paint a picture: men’s jeans and a plaid shirt, short-cropped hair, earrings, lipstick. Non-binary trans…
^^ ha! sounds like a Saskatchewan farm woman going to town. I swear when I drove through that province I thought all women were playing on my team.
And I would love to have his derby, babyshambles 😉
A fine derby it is even though I’m more of a trilby fan.
I always thought that Mrs. Emma Peel was a fine role model for young women. No Lady Penelope was she. No strings, for one thing.
Non-binary trans = they?
That is what “they” prefer as a pronoun. As the person identifies as both male and female, the pronoun “they” has been adopted (vs. he, she or it). Now, I realize the head-fuck this creates, especially for those of us who prefer being grammatically-correct, vs. politically-correct. I assure you I am not making this up…
They.
THE THREESOME (II): THE CONCEALED OBSERVER
“I’m so goddam tired of getting on a full bus with my partner and having absolutely no one offer them a seat.”
The issue is not so much being “grammatically correct” as one of being simply coherent. Clearly, the alternative to “them” is not “he, she or it” as you suggest but rather “us.” But – and this is crucial – the use of “them” places the narrator out of the story. He (or perhaps she – it makes no difference) has assumed the role of a concealed observer, one who observes someone and their partner getting on a full bus and having absolutely no one offer them a seat but who himself (or herself) is not themselves observed.
That being so then, in addition to being incoherent, the claim that “them” is to be understood as a “non-binary trans” is, if not incoherent, then certainly problematic. In other words, the gender of the narrator or the concealed observer is irrelevant to the issue at hand except – and this is central to the matter under consideration – for those who are obsessed with sex and gender, whether orthodox or unorthodox. Indeed, I have noted this proclivity in you. Everything appears to be viewed through an unorthodox sexual prism. Of course it is not my place to speculate on just why this is so but you might want to seize the initiative and engage in a little public psychotherapy for our collective enlightenment.
Until then.
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!