People must always make compromises — it’s part of being human. Unfortunately, it is innate in humans to be selfish and see only the option that best suits them.
From an online forum, this story involves a mother, her child, and a man in a wheelchair. Now, a bus scenario has her wondering if she was wrong and set a bad example for her daughter. Here’s what happened.
This woman, whom we’ll call Stacey, was on a bus with her 5-year-old daughter, and they both got on at a busy stop. No empty seats were available, except for one near a middle-aged man in a wheelchair.
Asking someone to leave their seat for you is rude and uncultured, but Stacey thought it was different as had a wheelchair he could sit in. So, she asked him if he could move his chair to another spot so she and her daughter could sit together.
As expected, the man refused, saying they needed space for their mobility device. At least the man was polite enough to explain his refusal, so he didn’t appear rude, even though Stacey was wrong to ask.
Well, Stacey didn’t just ask to be rude, either. She had a reason for requesting the man to move, and she was “taken aback and frustrated by his response.”
She explained to the man that her daughter was young and needed to sit beside her for safety reasons.
Still, the man refused to move. That left Stacey with one option.