{"id":27771,"date":"2023-09-08T18:28:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/?p=27771"},"modified":"2023-09-08T18:28:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T18:28:16","slug":"a-very-old-lady-entered-a-crowded-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/?p=27771","title":{"rendered":"A Very Old Lady Entered A Crowded Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"63d509947b33dea96ed9a09b2482b63d\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1554417\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>I was on a very crowded bus and an old woman with a\u00a0walker gets on.<\/p>\n<p>All the other passengers proceed to file on and take up\u00a0the remaining standing places but she stands close to\u00a0me, staring me in the eyes.<\/p>\n<p>After 5 minutes of this, I kindly ask, \u2018may I help you?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>She replies, \u201cyes, I have been waiting here for 5\u00a0minutes now and you have not offered to give me your\u00a0seat \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Can you give me a good reason why I should?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I can give you 5.<\/p>\n<p>I am an old woman of 86, I have near\u00a0paralysis in my left leg, a hip that has been replaced\u00a0twice, my husband died 3 days ago and every second I\u00a0stand up is pure agony.<\/p>\n<p>Can you give me as many\u00a0reasons why you deserve the seat more?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, only one. I\u2019m the freakin\u2019 driver.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on a very crowded bus and an old woman with a\u00a0walker gets on. All the other passengers proceed to file on and take up\u00a0the remaining standing places but she stands close to\u00a0me, staring me in the eyes. After 5 minutes of this, I kindly ask, \u2018may I help you?\u2019 She replies, \u201cyes, I &#8230; <a title=\"A Very Old Lady Entered A Crowded Bus\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/?p=27771\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Very Old Lady Entered A Crowded Bus\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":27772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funny-joke"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27773,"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771\/revisions\/27773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}