{"id":1418,"date":"2024-01-06T01:22:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T01:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2024-01-06T01:22:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T01:22:06","slug":"a-very-old-lady-entered-a-crowded-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/a-very-old-lady-entered-a-crowded-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Old Lady Entered A Crowded Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A Very Old Lady Entered A Crowded Bus<\/h2>\n<p>I found myself on an extremely crowded bus when an elderly woman with a walker boarded. As the other passengers hurriedly filled the remaining standing spaces, she chose to stand close to me, locking eyes.<\/p>\n<p>After enduring this gaze for about 5 minutes, I politely inquired, &#8220;May I help you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To my surprise, she responded, &#8220;Yes, I&#8217;ve been waiting here for 5 minutes, and you haven&#8217;t offered me your seat. Can you provide a compelling reason why I should receive it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I retorted, &#8220;I can give you five reasons. I&#8217;m an 86-year-old woman with near paralysis in my left leg, a hip that&#8217;s been replaced twice, my husband passed away just three days ago, and every moment I stand is excruciating. Can you give me as many reasons why you deserve the seat more?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Regrettably, she had just one: &#8220;I&#8217;m the driver.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Very Old Lady Entered A Crowded Bus I found myself on an extremely crowded bus when an elderly woman with a walker boarded. As the other passengers hurriedly filled the remaining standing spaces, she chose to stand close to me, locking eyes. After enduring this gaze for about 5 minutes, I politely inquired, &#8220;May [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1162,1176,786,1179,784,1177,1157,383,1178],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","tag-bus-ride","tag-crowded-bus","tag-elderly","tag-everyday-life","tag-old-lady","tag-passengers","tag-public-transportation","tag-senior-citizen","tag-social-interaction"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.fnymonster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/A-Very-Old-Lady-Entered-A-Crowded-Bus.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}