September 18, 2009

I didnt saw her....

Today I met a kind soul on the train, I boarded the train from Outram as usual, initially I were standing close to the door after reaching Redhill I manage to move in and stand in front of the 2 priority seat. If we do have pple who are kind enough to give up their seats to me, there will be the opposite.

A lady was sitting on the first P.seat while the man on the second. They look like they are in their 30s and are most probably office executives. They simply turn a blind eye. When they saw me and I were hugging my tummy. After a while this Chinese man (in the 40s) who were standing beside me saw tt no one offer the seats to me. He asked me which stop am I getting down and I told him BB station. To my shock, he went to ask the man sitting on the 2nd p.seat to give up his seat for me as Im going to have a long journey.

The woman on the 1st p.seat get up after this kind soul asked for the seat, well guessed she felt embarrassed. I Thank the Man who asked the seat for me and also the woman who "gave" up the seat. This gentleman even thanks the woman and the man who in the end nvr gave up the seat for me. Oh well I guess we just have to say it out of formality sake though we know they didnt wanted to give up their seats in the first place. When the gentleman say 10q to the man, he still have the cheek to say, "np I didnt saw her". >.<"" I were standing right in front of him and yet he still can say "I didnt saw her". Well at least if he say "I didnt know she is pregnant" was a better excuse than "I didnt saw her". Well after all the hoo ha, he decided tt he should slp and save himself from more embarrassing stare.

I really felt grateful to this gentleman who bothers to ask for seats for pple like us. There are pple who give up seats but there are also a lot of ugly pple who doesnt or probably think that they dont need. They either feign slping, meddling with hp, books, newspaper or simply ignore u. I really do not know how to comment abt Singapore's graciousness, some pple say becos its very tiring after 1 whole day of work, some pple work late the day before hence they are very tired so they need the seats. We pregnant woman suffer from extreme fatigue, wake up as usual in the morning and goes to work like everyone else, on top of the daily tiredness, we are exhausted becos we have certain hormones in us tt make us feel very tired. So do we need the seats?

I hope those pple who dont give up seats for pple who more in need, apply the same standard back to themselves and do not feel upset when no one gives up the seat to you when you are old or pregnant. Dont even complain no one give up the seats to your wife or urself becos you felt tt it was right tt there is no need to give up seats to them. Good luck to all these pple. 人在做天在看.

I believe in Karma, what goes ard comes ard.

1 comment:

serendipity26 said...

A coin has 2 sides. It's usually hard to debate "who needs the seat more". These days, I help myself to the piority seat so that I can put my bag beside me. Once, I took a train from SK to Punggol so that I can get a seat. At Buangkok, this 50+ year old guy with a walking stick boarded the train and stand in front of me. I looked around and figured I need this seat more than the young man opposite me and the office executive at the other piority seat. Alas, someone 3 seats away gave up her seat for him. I guess this guy didn't realise I was pregnant, so I actually got a stare from him!