What is the right etiquette for giving up your seat on public transport?
It was once considered common courtesy to stand up for people who are elderly, have a disability, are pregnant or have small children.
A woman in New York has shown that common courtesy has taken a back seat after it took almost two entire pregnancies before a man offered her a seat on the subway.
Yvonne Lin, a 38-year-old designer, said she had gotten plenty of seats from women, but not men.
An article published by DNA Info said Yvonne decides when she finally got a seat from a guy she would celebrate it by giving them card she had purchased.
She never had the change to hand over the card in her first pregnancy.
When she got pregnant again last year,Yvonne said she decided to continue her “social experiment,”but raised the stakes: she carried around a 7-inch trophy inside her work backpack, DNA Info reported.
The bronze statuette — which appears to depict the “Incredible Hulk” tearing his shirt — atop a plaque that reads “#1 DECENT DUDE. First man to offer subway seat to pregnant woman throughout Two Pregnancies.”
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Yvonne found her winner on February 24.
She stood in front of a seated man who was playing on his smartphone before he glanced up and noticedYvonne standing directly in front of him.
“He looked up at me and looked super startled and embarrassed and he immediately stood up and said, ‘Please take this seat, I just noticed.'”
Yvonne never learned the man’s name but they did speak briefly and she snapped his photo with her statuette and the gentleman revealed he was a father of two.
Lin said she hopes experiments like hers raise the bar for how New Yorkers treat one another, pregnant or not.
Starts At 60 hopes this experiment raises the bar for people all over the world, to bring back the values of etiquette.