Posted by sigismund on August 9, 2010, at 3:41:51
In reply to Re: Lessons from Bob » Dr. Bob, posted by BayLeaf on August 8, 2010, at 23:52:33
>> > A blind man got on at one station, people helped him to his seat, after a few stops he pulled what looked like a fob watch out of his pocket and did something. At the next stop he walked to the door and there was a rail official to help him off. That is infrastructure.
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>> It would never happen here.
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>> fayeroe>If the conductor asks other passengers to help someone on or off, is that an attempt to manipulate them? I'm not saying she was blind, but fayeroe just got off the train. Was it her stop?
Japanese trains do not have conductors, surprisingly perhaps. I don't know how that worked, but evidently because the Japanese have not abandoned the public, unlike the governments of the Anglosphere.
Like Pat said, that wouldn't happen here or with you.I think it was Pat's stop. Her sense of right and wrong precluded apology.
Didn't she say something like that? I'd hate to misrepresent her.
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