"Ladies and Gentlemen, courtesy is contagious and it begins with you," says the automated announcement on my 5 train. Bullshit. Here is some unPC profiling/giving up your seat for me stats.
Black Women 3
Black Men 2
White Women 1
White Men 0
Asian Women 1
Asian Men 0
Oh, a few people also wished me and the baby well. You can draw any conclusions you want. All I need to know is if I park myself by a seated, well-fed Caucasian male from the Upper East Side, I will keep standing for the rest of the ride.
Because you see... courtesy, common decency, and general manners, they are not contagious, they are cultivated...sometimes by a gentle smack on the head at a tender age. So my little fetus, when she grows up, she better get her butt off the seat and offer it to some exhausted pregnant lady (wishing her well is optional, you gotta be outgoing and sincere with a slightly raspy voice: "Good luck to you, baby. Be careful out there...")
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Yeah, people can be assholes. I remember when I was pregnant, no one ever gave me a seat; I would just stand there on the train, wheezing and whining and gyrating my hips, and no one would even have the decency to come over and smack my ass.
Anyshits, hopes it gets better for ya'll. Big Love GF!
OK, so the public transportation is not for the pregnant. But what if you try hunching, panting, and oh oh talking to your stomach, and oh oh getting yourself a walking stick, and oh oh do the things real pregnant ladies do? ...Darling, I'd give up my seat any time for you.
Hopefully you'll keep updating the stats--I find it pretty interesting, especially as I consider myself a seat-giver-uper but cannot specifically recall a time when I moved out of one for a pregnant lady. Perhaps elderly people are just more noticeable (or more abundant). I hope you get good at picking out a likely Good Samaritan!
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