What, you’re saying that if you were sitting in seats for the disabled, you would harass disabled person who asked for the seat, planetcory?
In my experience (when on very visible crutches after knee surgery), a general request for a seat would result in everyone in the handicapped area looking vaguely guilty and refusing to meet my eye, but no one moved. If I asked someone specific, I almost always got a “oh, sure, take my seat!”.
Not that it has anything to do with what they said, but it seems pretty dumb to expect two people to move for one person to sit down.
If they want to continue to sit together, it’s not.
Well, no. That was Aretha.
What the fuck?
Oh to be a fly on the wall at their home if they did…
I’ve had the same experience. And IME it’s almost always the middle-aged women (of whatever race) who are the first to offer a seat without being asked.
Sometimes it’s all in the asking. I was recently standing in a crowded subway car, when a man came in, having some difficulty leading another man who looked to be developmentally delayed. No one was budging, so when he happened to catch my eye, I put on my best drill-sergeant voice and barked, “WOULD YOU LIKE A SEAT, SIR?” Two people popped right up.
Being tired isn’t a disability.
Nice!
“I know you ditint.”
Read the post a little more closely, and you’ll see that she never suggested it was.
The point was merely that, if there are a bunch of people sitting in the reserved seats when a disabled person comes on board, and some are younger than others, it shouldn’t automatically be assumed that the youngest person must be the one who least needs the seat. I’m 44, so hardly young anymore, and there are times when i’m tired enough that i would really like a seat on the bus or the train, and times when i’m quite happy to stand.
I was on your side until I heard this. So you are a racist. Thanks for sharing.
I’m going to try and see things from the kids’ point of view.
First of all, the OP had a wrist disability - which means that she wasn’t *visibly *disabled, at least to the casual viewer (and I’m not saying this to belittle her handicap; it’s obviously a real thing, just not an obvious thing).
Second of all - I don’t know how old the OP is, but I know that personally, as a white guy, I sometimes have a hard time estimating the ages of non-white people. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the same thing with black people assessing the ages of white people. My point is, the kids may not have seen the OP as “elderly” - especially in this day and age, when Boomers in their 60’s still insist on thinking of themselves as middle aged at best.
So what they may have seen was a healthy, middle-aged woman singling out the only black people in the front of the bus, spouting some BS about a “disability”, and demanding they move to the back. If that’s the case, I can sort of see where they’re coming from.
Not necessarily, she could just be an ageist.
They sure seemed to have been raised poorly. It’s just a guess, but lack of parental involvement can impede socialization.
What is wrong with your other wrist?
I missed this until you pointed it out. A wrist injury? Thats a ridiculous reason to demand someone else get up.