On the bus.

Here's a story for you from Tuesday, July 5, 2011.

This happened on the autotune bus (the minibus I took in Hong Kong was number 808 hehe).

So the minibus seats in HK are not individual seats but rather, they are like a booth seat, so the seats are like a soft bench. I'm at the window seat and a young lady is beside me. The bus fills up and finally, this one lady gets on and there's no room left for her to sit but she said she'll just crouch even though many people suggested for her to sit. So this lady crouched in the aisle. Then the bus starts moving because the driver already waited quite a bit for the passengers to arrive. Now, where she crouched was by the stairwell; there are 2 steps of stairs to be taken before reaching the raised seating benches so with the added height, and speed of the minibus on this rainy day, it was quite an unstable place for the lady to crouch. Anyway, so I just watched while all this happened, from my comfortable window seat.

Then the young woman beside me moved over in what little room she could and pulled the lady's arm. The lady, still crouching, refused. So I scooched over a bit too and the young woman pulled at the lady's arm again and this time, the lady came up and sat with us.

I just had to smile a bit. Couldn't help it. The young woman beside me smiled too =)

After all these videos of rude, young Chinese people on busses and around HK, this was quite nice to see. Hope is not lost in Hong Kong =)