On the way to work today, I heard a strange flushing sound.  I realized it was civilization rounding the drain.  Two elderly, infirm people were standing on a crowded subway (as was I) and no one offered up a seat.  How do young able-bodied passengers not see the infirm or pregnant passengers?  Do these young able-bodied passengers think they are themselves invisible to the righteously indignant third party observer (me)? 

Of course, there are people who get up for an older, infirm or pregnant passenger.  Sometimes, these people go overboard, though.  Just in the last two months, two young women have offered to get up for me.  Now, I have gray hair and have a few lines on my face, but I am fit AND I act like a child (ok, the latter is not that relevant).  Because these two young women were so earnest, I didn’t have to heart to torture them and ask, “do you think I am pregnant?” 

Actually once I got up for a younger woman who looked pregnant.  Then she realized that I was older and got up for her and she asked, “do I look pregnant?”  Thank G-d it was winter so I said that I wasn’t sure since she wore a bell shaped coat.  Actually, it wasn’t the coat; she really did look pregnant.  She was too young to have developed a beer gut but if she weren’t pregnant, it was not a pretty sight.  Yes, I can be snarky even in this situation.  I am not a very nice person.  I knew that.