Public Transportation - One ticket, ONE SEAT.

I was annoyed this morning. I missed my normal "earlier" train which always has seats available. The next train is generally packed, back to front, with a standing wall of humanity. So, I get on the train and notice that the majority of seats are full, double-occupancy, no room at the inn; however there was one late 40's woman sitting on the outside portion of the 2-seater with her handbag, her NORMAL-sized handbag, occupying the 2nd seat. This excuse for a human avoided all eye contact, read her book and kept her head tilted so that no one could catch her eye.

OK, so I am relatively healthy, and thank goodness standing for the 15-20 minute ride won't hurt me...problem here is that there are a number of people who could take the seat her fake, crappy kate spade knock-off from outside the Gallery is sitting on. The older woman hanging on for dear life every time the train sways to one side or the other? No, this selfish, horrible ass-hat of a person just chooses to pretend that she's in first class heading somewhere exotic instead of on an electric train heading out of NJ into Philadelphia, with dirty floors, mildly stained floors and a crush of people trying to get on and off at every stop.

Some days it's hard for me to control the impulse to flick people....i really REALLY wanted to flick this lady. I gave her the stink eye every chance I could, but she wasn't having it. She just averted her gaze and read her book.

I hope that I see her one day struggling to stay on her feet on the train. I will offer her a seat, and then I will put my purse on her lap.

Ass-hat.

Hypocrite....that's me.

Today I was in a ware-house type store. As I was leaving I saw a young family, father, mother and little boy, probably 3 or 4. The little boy had his ear pierced. My immediate reaction was "WTF??? WHO would do this to their little boy before he even had a chance to decide if he wanted his ear pierced."



I am a hypocrite.



I have a 2.5 year old daughter. My husband and I got her ears pierced at 3 months. I did it because in all honesty, I wanted her ears pierced. Now I do realize that the majority of young girls decide to get their ears pierced and in the US it's a cultural norm to do so eventually; however, what if for some reason she doesn't want such a thing when she is older? And who am I to make that decision for her? (well, truth be told I am her mother and she's going to blame me for a whole lot of things so at least this one I am the cause of LOL).

Add to that the absolute fact that if my 6-almost 7 year old son were to ask for his ear to be pierced, my answer would be an unequivocal no. No way, no how, not until he is older. I am not against piercings. I personally LIKE piercings, ears, nose, labrete, I like both ears pierced on a man (my husband has NO piercing) but there is no way in hell that my son will have it done before he's old enough to realize the decision he's making.

Ultimately, my daughter, she loves her earrings. For that I am grateful and I hope that she will continue to love them. My son, I am sure he will survive the "mean mom" that I am....of course he doesn't want ears pierced at this point since he believes that it is girly to have your ears pierced.

Oh well.....what can I do? :-)