INSENSITIVE DOUCHE BAGS.
On the subway today - massive cattle cart. Elbow to elbow. Suicide rush hour. Traffic - Slow crawl.
A guy stumbled on the subway today as it made its stop into a station. He literally went flying across several feet (toes) and fully sitting bodies, almost hitting the end of the cart. He apologized. No one batted a lash. It was as if it never happened. I asked, "Are you okay?" The mildly to severely shaken man nodded and whispered, "Thanks."
But it didn't stop there.
A few short stops later, a very visible pregnant woman walked into the train. She must have been 8 months along. No one offered her a seat. I was sitting too far away to give her mine.
The herd does stick together. Like a stack of cards, they fall or stack accordingly. How did we get to this point? Have we raised ourselves to be this unfeeling, fickle mass of inhumanity? Have we forgotten what it means it be civil? I've written about this a few times, and it never fails me that I write about it time and time again.
When the last civil heart stops beating, what the dang-hell is going to happen to the generations coming up? The tiny fingers and toes that will walk and wave a nation to keep on spinning.
I don't want to think about it.
Toronto the kind...now bone-chill-cold. And it's only September.
