Another Incident
I like to take bus 69 at around 0830 which is usually filled with Temasek Polytechnic students going to school. The main reason is beacuse I get to enjoy some eye candies during that short 10 minutes journey.
On my way home just now, as I could take the other bus services, I decided not to join the long queue for 69 at the interchange but chose to wait at the side instead. In the end 2 bus 69 came and I got to board the 2nd one. I was the last few to got on the bus together with an old ah-ma who is probably about 70 years old.
All the seats were taken already, including those supposedly reserved for elderly folks and pregnant ladies. I expected someone to give up a seat for the ah-ma (especially those on the reserved green seats) but no one in the first half of the bus did.
I was quite angry at the sight. Most of the people who were sitting down were obviously TP students on their way to school. I was wondering if I would do a HK bus uncle by making the person in the reserved green seat to vacate it for the old ah-ma. In the end I didn't need to as a Malay girl in tudung (probably a TP student too) gave up her seat near the exit door to the ah-ma.
Is it really that difficult to stand on a short 15 min bus ride for a 18 year old? It seems that the young people nowadays are very selfish. Maybe it's time to rethink what has went wrong in our civics education.
On my way home just now, as I could take the other bus services, I decided not to join the long queue for 69 at the interchange but chose to wait at the side instead. In the end 2 bus 69 came and I got to board the 2nd one. I was the last few to got on the bus together with an old ah-ma who is probably about 70 years old.
All the seats were taken already, including those supposedly reserved for elderly folks and pregnant ladies. I expected someone to give up a seat for the ah-ma (especially those on the reserved green seats) but no one in the first half of the bus did.
I was quite angry at the sight. Most of the people who were sitting down were obviously TP students on their way to school. I was wondering if I would do a HK bus uncle by making the person in the reserved green seat to vacate it for the old ah-ma. In the end I didn't need to as a Malay girl in tudung (probably a TP student too) gave up her seat near the exit door to the ah-ma.
Is it really that difficult to stand on a short 15 min bus ride for a 18 year old? It seems that the young people nowadays are very selfish. Maybe it's time to rethink what has went wrong in our civics education.
posted by shyh jie at 8:52 AM
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