Hello everyone. Sorry about the lapse in time from my last post. I have been on vacation, sick for about a month, and work has been keeping me busy. I have a lot of things I want to discuss but will only hit the big one today.
In the first week of April, the family and I went to DisneyWorld. It was the first time I had been there. It is pretty overwhelming! However, the mass transportation system Disney is amazing. I can't imagine how many people the busses transfer each day. There are many different types of people on the bus at any time: people from the city, people from the country, people from another county, people with disabilities, men, women, mothers, fathers, and children. It seemed to be a good blend of everyone and everything.
One night at about 10:00pm, the family and I were heading back to our hotel. My wife and children were sitting on one side of the bus and I took a single seat on the other side. The bus driver was loading the bus to capacity. People who were lucky had a seat while others were holding on to the poles. I looked up and saw a mother getting ready to have to hold on to a pole with one hand and her two year old daughter with the other hand. Having ridden the Disney busses a lot prior to this trip, I knew it would be impossible for her to do it without major problems. I caught her attention and offered her and her daughter my seat. She started to cry and her husband offered me money for giving up my seat. I declined the offer and she took the seat. Everyone on the bus applauded. I guess I didn't understand and was embarrassed. Doesn't every man offer his seat to someone who needs it (e.g. mothers with children, senior citizens, someone on crutches)?
Of course, when there is a silver lining a black cloud has to be nearby. When the mother took the seat, a lady who was holding the pole beside my seat started screaming at me. "Why didn't you offer me the seat?" she screamed loud enough for my family and half of the bus to hear.
"Because you didn't need it," I said, "she did."
She asked if it was because she was overweight and had tatoos. I told her no that it was because she was young, didn't have a child to hold on to, and she wouldn't have a problem holding on to the pole. So much for being a gentleman.
I believe that if you do good things, good things will happen to you. Some call it karma, I just call it doing the right thing. So of course when my 8 year old daughter and I were holding the pole the next night, did anyone offer their seat to my daughter? Of course not. I guess they thought she was young, didn't have a child to hold on to, and wouldn't have a problem holding on to the pole. And they were overweight and had tatoos.
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