Friday, January 2, 2009
One of my so-called resolutions was to try to eliminate the need for lunch. It's only a conditioned reflex, as my uncle says, so I didn't eat lunch today.
BUT I gave in to temptation, by buying a chicken-and-mushroom puff from Old Chang Kee on the way to the bus stop. Oh the shame!
On the bus, which stopped right in front of me as it arrived, I was the first in line and quickly got one of the seats facing backwards, as there were two empty ones. Then there was this grandmother, mother, daughter and little son. The mother carrying the son sat on a seat facing the front.
The grandmother sat beside me, with the small daughter standing beside her, so I got up and let the little girl sit down. The grandmother looked kinda surprised, which I suppose is a bit sad, since we shouldn't be surprised at people being willing to give up their seats.
Incidentally, they're Korean. At least I heard the mother calling the grandmother something like Haelmoni. Later on I heard the little girl talking to her grandmother both in Korean and English, but rudimentary English. And she had something that looked like a guinea-pig pencil box.
On the other side of the bus, in front of the mother and son, there were four girls already there when I boarded. Two of them were wearing ACJC t-shirts, so I guess they're JC2 this year, since school starts later.
I know it's not any of my business, and it makes me sound like a self-righteous prig, but none of them even tried to give up a seat for the older people standing in the bus. When I boarded, there were at least two women above the age of 50 standing up.
It's true there wasn't any pregnant lady, or white haired balding wrinkled old man with a walking stick or something, but there were older people who would appreciate the seat much more.
Lastly, this morning when I boarded the bus to go to the clinic I didn't notice the beeping. But just as I was going to alight I remembered that it was already 2009, so I beeped my card, and it only beeped once! I did it again on the way home, and it took about $1.10 for the trip! It used to only require 45 cents!
You know you're old when you lose your student concession on the bus. Hmph.
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