PUBLIC Transportation

It is so easy to judge or make assumptions about others before we really know the facts. Today on the bus, a young couple with a small child boarded. The young woman was also very pregnant, to which an older woman remarked under her breath, 'Our tax dollars at work!' making the presumption that the young mother was on welfare. How are we to know whether this young woman works or is a student? We don't. The same woman sighed and frowned unapprovingly when another family boarded having a young son with obvious respiratory issues. He coughed every few minutes with the type of cough that is not contagious, but chronic. Instead of compassion for his pain, she was bothered by the possibility of his germs affecting her. Valid concern, but one look at the child confirms he has more than the common cold. To be fair, I don't want to judge her harshly and impatiently either. But the basic truth of public transportation is that it is PUBLIC! If we don't want to be bothered by or with others who may be different from us in many ways, stay in your car, or better yet, stay home. Just saying...