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I was on the LRT train chatting happily with my girlfriend when I overheard someone in her 60s (although still healthy looking, and very fit), thanking someone else for giving up the seat to her, and commenting aloud (more like announcing) that old people give up seats for other old people, and that young kids nowadays cannot be depended upon to give up seats.

On her newly acquired throne on the LRT, she went on to lecture the entire LRT worth of passengers about how kids nowadays pretends to be sleeping when they see old people boarding a public transport, how she once gave up a seat to some one who is old but actually younger than her, how she felt about it, and how Singapore is doomed to be run by youngsters who only knows how to pretend to sleep on a public transport went an old person enters and has no seat, all in perfectly sound and fluent english, and while giving my girlfriend and I weird stares that I almost thought her eyes needed medical attention.

Just to clarify, I wasn’t sleeping, I was chatting with my girlfriend. And also I do not have my attention on both the doors of the LRT at all time, at high alert, with my muscle tensed, ready to spring up and give up my seat to any old person who care to enter the transport vehicle.

That aside, I certainly don’t feel like giving up a seat to someone who is damn healthy and can make a public announcement in English much better than mine in a crowded LRT train for 20minutes.

Perhaps I should give up suggestion to LTA went they are importing the next batch of public transport vehicle. Senior Citizens can apply for a new membership called “I want my seat”, which is billed right off from their CPF (if there is any left), with which they will all be issued with special EZ-link cards. When a senior citizen boards a bus with the said ez-link card, the bus will automatically detect if there are any seats available for the senior citizen. If there is none, the bus will automatically detect which seats were occupied by youngsters, randomly pick one poor soul, and give him or her an electric zap so that he or she will spring up from the seat and make a physical contact between the floor and his or her forehead. Then the senior citizen an then calmly waddle his or her way through the crowd and settle upon the seat, resting his or her feet upon the remains of the poor kid.

Patent pending. Please do not steal my idea!

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Maybe if the old lady and me were to switch role, this is what she would write:

I give up my seats to senior citizens who obviously look too fragile to withstand the rock and roll of a public transport vehicle. However, I do not have my eyes on the doors at all time. So when a perfectly healthy and well-educated old lady notice that I didn’t give up my seat to her when I didn’t even notice her presence, she gave the entire LRT a good 20min lecture about the importance of giving up seats and how it helps to build a strong country. As a youth contributing greatly to government tax once I join the work force, I often wonder why should my money be spent on keeping such irritating old ladies alive. Economy would be happier if she was not alive.

(I mean no offense to senior citizens who need seats. But making such a big fuss because I didn’t notice her entry, and carrying on to lecture all the passengers on the LRT while gluing her eyes to me is really one reason why senior citizens who had ate more salt [and maybe because of that suffered from diabetes] than the amount of rice I ate [I prefer noodles] are bad role models. Shoo! Go and be an english teacher or something.)

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