Rudeness

So I was on the train into work today, and they were running the route one train short, so same number of people (seemed like more than normal, but whatever) in less space. Well, soon there were many people standing, and I, being a young man, and able to stand, offered up my seat to one of the ladies standing.

I didn't mind, it's how my mom and dad raised me. They taught me that chivalry is not dead, and it's good and important to be polite. I don't mind standing, but I looked at the men that were just sitting there, young men like myself, sitting in their seats reading the newspaper and staring into space.

Had this been their wife, or their sister, or their daughter, they would have moved, but they just sit there, even though these women are someone else's mother, sister, and daughter. What a bunch of bums. I don't want to force my point-of-view on anyone, but I really do think that it's a fine and good thing to give up your seat to those older than you, or, as a man, to give up my seat to a woman.