A family — dad, mom, baby in stroller, four year old boy — walk into the street car.\u00c2\u00a0 I am sitting on one of those “loner” seats.\u00c2\u00a0 The boy calls out, “I Wanna Sit down!”\u00c2\u00a0 I begin to pivot over to rise up and offer the boy a seat, before edging back and correcting course.\u00c2\u00a0 The dad tells the boy, “No.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re standing.”\u00c2\u00a0 With that I remain seated, never mind I am getting off in two stops — this is an important life lesson for the boy.<\/p>\n
The boy whines a few more times that he wants to sit down.\u00c2\u00a0 The mother scolds him, telling him he was the one who wanted to ride the street ca.\u00c2\u00a0 I get off a stop after I meant to, my way of accomodating the situation.\u00c2\u00a0 Had I stood up, the kid surely would have become a juvenile delinquiet as a teenager and gone on to be incarcerated as an adult.\u00c2\u00a0 As it were, I have put him on the path to an advanced degree and a six figure income.\u00c2\u00a0 On the other hand, there is no telling what the baby in the stroller picked up from the seventy-year old stranger grandma figure who was waving and making smiley faces at him\/her.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing but trouble for that kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A family — dad, mom, baby in stroller, four year old boy — walk into the street car.\u00c2\u00a0 I am sitting on one of those “loner” seats.\u00c2\u00a0 The boy calls out, “I Wanna Sit down!”\u00c2\u00a0 I begin to pivot over to rise up and offer the boy a seat, before edging back and correcting course.\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}