Thursday, February 27, 2020

Doomed

Does anyone else ever get the feeling society is doomed by social media? It seems like any misstep is immediately recorded and posted so people can either be shamed or in some cases defended. Today's example is a woman who stretched out on the floor at a gate in the airport so of course people had to take pictures and shame her for blocking two seats,never mind that in the background other seats are available. In my travels I've seen people,actually an entire family of five sleeping at a gate,the woman and two kids stretched out over a line of seats,another child on the floor in front of them and the man seated across from them trying to sleep. I didn't think a thing of it,though the man was terribly embarrassed and insisted on explaining how he had booked a cheap flight without realizing that it extended their travel time to two days with all the layovers. I guess a fitting adage would be "don't judge another until you have walked a mile in their shoes."
 Couple waiting for flight at the airport due to delays

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