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To the 30-yr-old man sitting on the metro train reading a newspaper:
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Anonymous
Please - you dems are so superior. |
Anonymous
It was a JOKE!!! Lighten up while you still can. |
Anonymous
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Things were getting heated, so here's my experiences and hopefully they show that there's some hope for this world, or the metro system at least.
When I was first pregnant and not looking it, I desperately wanted a seat. Never got it, too shy to ask, and didn't look like I needed it. With all the morning sickness, boy did I need it. Second trimester, starting to look pregnant (no, I will never eat for two again!) and amazingly enough, 9 times out of 10 someone on the metro always offered up a seat. I'd get on at Woodley Park and would be shocked by the people jumping up in the middle of the train to offer a seat. I didn't need it at that point, feeling pretty good, but I appreciated the offer. By third trimester, I needed that seat and it was always offered. Maybe not by the person in the priority seating area, but there would always be somebody. And it was lots of different types of people. I met a lot of nice people that way. The bus was harder- I got on when it was full and standing cheek to jowel, I'd cut people some slack because they couldn't see past the mass of bodies. One time I got on and it wasn't as crowded but there still wasn't a seat. No one offered. The bus driver began to pull away but saw that I was still standing. He stopped the bus and got on the intercom and said "Now somebody better give up their seat for our future mama or this bus isn't going anywhere. It's a sad day in my city when a pregnant mama has to stand. Now who's going to show the real DC?" Sure enough, lots of offers for a seat. I made sure to always catch that bus and I always got a seat. |
Anonymous
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Today was the worst ever on the 42 bus! No one offered a seat, and the driver kept telling me to move back, and I had to tell her 2x I cannot I'm pregnant and cannot balance without holding onto this pole. Finally a 50-something woman in the middle of the bus offered me her seat. Those in front who did not get up included a young couple with their baby (you would think the man could relate), and the tech guy from a place I used to work who is always very aggressive about saying hello to me, but he avoided all eye contact this morning. So I decided to be nice and say "thanks" to the driver on the way out, and she pretty much just grunted.
I WISH I was on that Woodley Park bus! And I WISH that telling the driver or saying out loud I can't balance well b/c I'm pregnant on a crowded bus would result in me getting help instead of more flak from the drivers. |
Anonymous
| PS has anyone heard the new METRO radio ads promising to improve customer service? They promise that drivers will be nicer to YOU. In the meantime, just this week in the Washington Post, the head of METRO denied there were any problems on the Redline. |