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Sometimes, I take advantage of looking older than I am. So do lots of people.
Most of them want to buy alcohol. I'm getting seats on mass transit.
I'm offered seats fairly often (in both Montreal and New York). I accept them when I feel I need it—for example, lately when my knee has been bothering me. I do my best to decline other times, when I don't: the person offering may also be tired. Sometimes I will say "no, thanks, I'm getting off soon" because that seems to be the smoothest way of declining that offer.
On an afternoon like tonight, I say "Thank you very much." I wouldn't even have been taking the crosstown bus if I was feeling well (it's half a mile to the nearer of the two good subways, maybe three quarters to the further, and by the time I've waited for the bus it doesn't save much time).
I've noticed that while people offer me seats even when I'm feeling fine, or when I am pleasantly tired on my way home from lifting weights, the offers are more consistent when I feel as though I need the seat.
[That userpic is from a couple of years ago, and my hair is whiter from the front than in profile.]
Most of them want to buy alcohol. I'm getting seats on mass transit.
I'm offered seats fairly often (in both Montreal and New York). I accept them when I feel I need it—for example, lately when my knee has been bothering me. I do my best to decline other times, when I don't: the person offering may also be tired. Sometimes I will say "no, thanks, I'm getting off soon" because that seems to be the smoothest way of declining that offer.
On an afternoon like tonight, I say "Thank you very much." I wouldn't even have been taking the crosstown bus if I was feeling well (it's half a mile to the nearer of the two good subways, maybe three quarters to the further, and by the time I've waited for the bus it doesn't save much time).
I've noticed that while people offer me seats even when I'm feeling fine, or when I am pleasantly tired on my way home from lifting weights, the offers are more consistent when I feel as though I need the seat.
[That userpic is from a couple of years ago, and my hair is whiter from the front than in profile.]
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