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Friday 31 January 2020

Old Fashioned Consideration is not dead....phew

There is an old phrase, 'good manners never hurt anyone' but to witness it is still a pleasure and to witness it in someone under the age of 18 is even better.
Buses do get crowded, especially on single deckers and especially when students are leaving school, mums are attempting to get toddlers and prams into restricted places and pensioners are going home after socialising for a few hours.
I was happily standing watching this mayhem when a young student of no more than 11 or 12 stood up for a pensioner. She did it without hesitation. Strangely enough she looked over at me and without realising, the teacher hat went on and I nodded approvingly. She smiled and stood further down the bus.
Later, on, musical chairs began as men and women under 50 stood to allow the older community to sit down.
Each passenger thanked the bus driver; even the students thanked the bus driver!
Is politeness coming out to combat something less so in society today? If it is, and whatever has caused this to resurface, all I can do is applaude it. Long may it continue.