Thursday 4 July 2013

Is Chivalry Dead?


What's wrong with these twenty, early thirty year-old these days?  They pretend they don't see with their eyes wide opened.  

I am talking about being chivalrous in giving up seats on mass public transports.  I have taken a lot of trains and buses in Asian cities to conclude that Hong Kong is the worst I have seen.   It is saddening to see my home city's civilization retreating backwards.  

The old, incapacitated, pregnant or distressed deserve your seat more than you.  Give yours up!   Don't they teach that at school any more? 

Next time, if you notice a seated person so absorbed in their game of Candy Crush or Fruit Ninja that they haven’t seen the 93-year-old.  Intercede, or they will never learn.    

Oh, and since we are on the subject of etiquette on public transports - I will add one more commandment: Invest on decent headphones, I mean, any masterpiece that leaks out just becomes noise disturbance when emanated from that lousy headphones of yours.  



1 comment:

j c said...

They have another word for that bad behaviour in my days: spoilt brats!