Goes a long way for everyone around.

I watched a scene unfold the other day on the other side of a crowded LIRR train.  A woman joined the crowd who was clearly pregnant and the train was crowded.

I will admit that I usually jump up for a pregnant woman on a train, plane or in an automobile.  I remember what it was like to stand for two all the way to Penn Station.  But I was on the other side of a crowded car.

And then I watched two commuters have a playful disagreement about which one of them would give up their seat for the young woman.  “I’ll get up” – “No, you sit, its fine” – “Really, it’s ok.”  Or something along those lines.

A small act, but small acts of kindness go a long way.

I believe in the idea of pay it forward.  Join me.

[And of course, Happy Halloween!]