seiberwing

We had an interesting incident on the bus today.

My granma is definitely up there in the age department, so she has trouble walking around on her own and generally uses a walker. We got on the bus and almost immediately several women attempted to make another lady give up her seat for her. This would have been sweet, had they stopped after the woman said 'I'm old too and I need to sit!'. But they kept pestering the woman and threatening to tell the bus driver about her until finally another lady gave my granma her seat. $DEITY save us from people trying to be nice. I'm halfway certain the bus driver could hear all this going on and just wanted to stay still until it went away.

Oh no, but it did not stop there. The woman asked to give up her seat, now free of pesterings and being generally ignored, began to complain about the rest of us. She had sciatica, she was on her way to the doctor, she's 'old just like you' (said to my mother, which made most of our end of the bus start laughing) and she doesn't deserve to be mocked ~~although at that point, she really did~~. The dumb thing was, at no part in this did my granma, my mother, or me get involved in any part of the argument. We just wanted everyone to stop fighting.

However, I do know for a fact that the complaining woman was not going to see her doctor, at least not right then. Why?

Not an hour later, we saw her again at the Museum of Modern Art. I noticed she moved away rather quickly when she noticed us.

On the other hand, I've lost a bit more sympathy for my granma again. She said the man downstairs was having a 'fagale' party. For those who haven't seen 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' and don't speak Yiddish, the approximate cultural translation is 'fairy' or 'fag'. Mel Brooks is allowed to call people fagales, she is not. *is totally going to have a surprise coming out next time she does it, see if I don't*