Occurrences on the bus yesterday.

A group of people were standing waiting for a particular bus, including a elderly woman with a cane, and father and his young son, a single guy, and a married woman (i.e under 40). When what appeared to be their bus arrived, the men stepped aside to let the woman with the cane get on first.
But did she?

No. Instead the married woman brushed her aside and got on when the door opened. And this happened while someone in the bus, was still paying. And it's not like there weren't seats available, I observed you could fit a whole town in there.

Eventually the woman with cane got on, and so did everyone else.

But wait, I can top that.

When my bus arrived (I was the only one that got on), the bus seats were filled. There were a couple of people standing and I couldn't get by, so I stood at the front. All the people sitting at the front were female.

Eventually one of them got up and got off at a stop and I sat down in the empty seat. Wow, the looks of scorn from the remaining women was immense but otherwise not worth the time.

A bit later in the ride an elderly man got on the bus. But did any of those woman bother to give up their seat? No.

But I did. And I moved on to the back because frankly I'd proven to myself that I could tolerate the stench of feigned moral superiority from those females. I didn't need to prove it any longer.

And I learned something - about these particular women (both on my trip, and the one I observed at the stop) - They simply felt they were morally superior to any man, or really anyone in particular.

And ... I learned something else - something about why people consider themselves morally superior to everyone around them

People who usually believe themselves better than everyone around them do so because they are almost always never held accountable for their actions (or in this case lack thereof).

I'm not saying all woman are like that, or that somehow I'm better then them, or other people for that matter - because I'm not.

But one thing I can be sure of - yesterday, I let that person sit down because they needed to and it was the right thing to do.