Blind pregnant lady standing on the subway?! I'm ANGRY.

[Mellyrose]

So, this week I've been getting to work at 7:45 and therefore leaving the house an hour earlier. This means a different crowd on the train. On Monday, I noticed a married couple standing on the platform with seeing-eye dogs. I thought that was sweet. Even sweeter (and remarkable in my opinion) is that the woman was pregnant (definitely in her 3rd trimester....very obvious belly). The man wasn't visibly blind as his eyes looked normal, but the woman's eyes looked very badly damaged and it was apparent that she had no vision whatsoever.

This morning, we wound up on the same train car for the first time. I let them enter the train before me, though others tried pushing me in as if I was just hanging out by the door (people are SO oblivious!). Once on, I expected people to leap from their seats seeing a visibly blind, very pregnant woman with a seeing-eye dog (on a very wet, slippery train no less). But no. People just stared, like it was a freak show. Her husband even said "Honey, try to find a seat" a couple times and she bumped around the train car, but no one budged. I got angrier and angrier. I said out loud "She's pregnant and no one can stand up for her?" JUST IN CASE people didn't notice. Finally, 4 stops later when people got off the train, she got a seat.

What the **** is wrong with people? You should always give up your seat for a pregnant lady...especially an 8 month pregnant one - let alone the fact that her eyes were totally ****ed up and she had a seeing-eye dog. COME ON!

I think you know the moral of this rant.

:x

[RDU-JFK]

Unfortunately your story doesn't surprise me one bit. If you take the Q you can be crawling on with one arm and bleeding and no one would give up a seat for you.

Lotta inconsiderate *******s in this city.

[Mellyrose]

See, I know that...but this just took the cake for me as most blatantly inconsiderate.

[Midnight Mike]

So, this week I've been getting to work at 7:45 and therefore leaving the house an hour earlier. This means a different crowd on the train. On Monday, I noticed a married couple standing on the platform with seeing-eye dogs. I thought that was sweet. Even sweeter (and remarkable in my opinion) is that the woman was pregnant (definitely in her 3rd trimester....very obvious belly). The man wasn't visibly blind as his eyes looked normal, but the woman's eyes looked very badly damaged and it was apparent that she had no vision whatsoever.

This morning, we wound up on the same train car for the first time. I let them enter the train before me, though others tried pushing me in as if I was just hanging out by the door (people are SO oblivious!). Once on, I expected people to leap from their seats seeing a visibly blind, very pregnant woman with a seeing-eye dog (on a very wet, slippery train no less). But no. People just stared, like it was a freak show. Her husband even said "Honey, try to find a seat" a couple times and she bumped around the train car, but no one budged. I got angrier and angrier. I said out loud "She's pregnant and no one can stand up for her?" JUST IN CASE people didn't notice. Finally, 4 stops later when people got off the train, she got a seat.

What the **** is wrong with people? You should always give up your seat for a pregnant lady...especially an 8 month pregnant one - let alone the fact that her eyes were totally ****ed up and she had a seeing-eye dog. COME ON!

I think you know the moral of this rant.

:x

I understand your anger, in fact, I would have been shouting as well... But, not all people are savages, I have been people give up their seat many times for the elderly or pregnant women. At least you know 1 person, ME!

[Derf]

I have a lot of those stories Mel. It is sad to see when people just give up on caring about someone they do not know. Courtesy can go a long way, but people today do not show what our parent taught us. In a driving situation I would let go of a good F word to go along with it. I had problems with people doing really stupid **** in cars and would get really mad until the day I realized it. Now every time some old hag in a car that can not drive cuts me off, I just think of my lovely mom in that car doing said stupid act and smile and cheer her on...

You situation, I am actually supprised that there were not more yelling at the people in seats. That is an all time low, kind of like a guy I watched that got mad at the preganat woman and blew cigerette smoke in her face..... That got my attention and reaction!

There are still lots of people like you and Phil that actually care, the percentage drops dramaticly as you go towards the city. Find a small town upstate and watch the same drama unfold and you will have a riot towards the only person that did NOT stand up when she ENTERED the train. I really think that you and Phil need to take the train from the city in any direction for the day. Enjoy L.I. or Upstate or NJ....i think. Phil gets away, do you?

KEEP THE FAITH

[adam613]

I almost got into a fistfight over something like that once. Semi-crowded train, rush hour, you've all been there. Very pregnant-looking woman gets on the train. I get up (I very rarely sit on the train even when it's empty, but I did something funny to my ankle in the gym the previous night) and some other guy dashes into my seat before the pregnant-looking woman has a chance. I told him that seat was for the pregnant lady, and he says something to the effect of "If women want equality, they have to wait for seats like the rest of us" and told me to mind my own business. I called him a few nasty names, he threatened me, and tall muscular gangsta-looking guys intervened on my behalf, and the rude guy got the hell out of the train.

Definitely one of my more colorful subway experiences...that topped the time the crazy woman started screaming at me for missing my stop because I was too busy playing video games, or the mother who yelled at her kid for throwing up on the subway after the kid had been complaining that she wanted to get off the train for several stops...

[T-Bird76]

It’s a shame people don't have manners anymore. I see this allot at the airports when I get on the rental car shuttle. I generally stand but I see professional men all the time look elderly woman in the eye and not offer their seat. It’s just rude and upsetting to see.

[PhilDernerJr]

I got my ass KICKED once when I tried to stick up for an old lady. I opened my mouth to a guy much bigger than me and got laid out when he stood up.

[Tom_Turner]

That couple would've had a hell of a time back in the day....

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