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Originally posted by Trepidation_Mom
So, someone offered me a seat for the first time on the subway this morning.
She wasn't sitting in it at the time, she just pointed out an empty one about 15 feet away, but still...
I'm 7 1/2 months preggers, and this is a first.
New Yorkers are savages. Just for the record.
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When I lived in NYC and took the subway to work every day, I routinely got up from my seat if I saw a pregnant woman or someone with a child (because it's better to have a kid sitting down than getting in the way when people push in and out of the cars).
As to whether New Yorkers are savages, you might find this
article interesting.
One of the things that I cannot understand is the behavior of New Yorkers on elevators. Normally, New Yorkers are rushing past you on the street, on the escalators down to the subway, etc. These same New Yorkers, when they are in an elevator, appear to completely change their perspective on civility: If people pile into an elevator, and if some women are standing in the back and some men are standing in the front, when the elevator reaches the ground floor, the men do not get off first but try to stand to the side WITHIN the crowded elevator to let the women out first. This typically results in some awkward shuffling and needless delay while the women push their way out from the back of the elevator to get out first. Whenever this happens, I usually want to scream at the top of my lungs to the men who are standing aside: "Get the fuck out of the damn elevator first you retards!" Have New Yorkers simply not heard of the "Last In, First Out" method of exiting from crowded elevators?
