Wow, for about 26 hours, we were very, very popular. My last post regarding Wife's incident on the subway was picked up by some blogwatchers and posted in a couple of different spots. This is a blog that generally gets 10-25 unique visitors a day. In a time span of 26 hours, this blog received nearly 7,500 hits. These came from all fifty states, 79 countries and 2,063 cities. According to our "meter" in the typical day, we are about the 4,000th most popular blog. Yesterday, we were 13th.
Our visitors were rather opinionated on a couple matters. First, several people were upset that I titled the post, "Wife Gets Inconsiderate Jerk Arrested," when a more accurate title would have been, "Wife Gets Inconsiderate Jerk a Citation." I think you complainers really should lighten up. I especially appreciated the message from a reader telling me that I need to learn more about the law since I don't know the difference between an arrest and a citation - yeah, that's me...an ignorant idiot that knows nothing about the law. From the first moment the post was published, the first line of the post notes that my title is hyperbole because nobody was arrested. Our usual visitors to this blog, mostly friends and family members, do not visit this blog because of my scintilating titles. Our visitors come to read about what's new with us, and I try to provide people already here with an interesting read. My titles are in no way intended to falsely draw readers to this blog (our intended readers are already here when they first view the title). I'm sorry to those of you who feel that you were led here due to deception, but you should understand that I never intended for the blog title to be posted as a link all over the internet. Moreover, those of you who think that this blog is intended to be serious journalism have another think coming.
Another hotly debated topic with our readers whether a pregnant woman is "disabled." Frankly, I don't know the answer to that. Maybe the actual citation was given because the woman had her bag taking up three seats, which is clearly a violation of city ordinances. But when the cop chastised the sitting woman, he did state that the person that was unable to sit was PREGNANT. The point of the post was certainly not to claim that a pregnant woman is legally disabled. Frankly, I don't think there should need to be a law saying give a pregnant woman your seat. But if you're completely healthy and a pregnant woman, elderly person, disabled person, or anybody else looks like they really need that seat more than you do, I think it's pretty bad manners stay in the seat and even worse manners to keep your stuff in an open seat. Should there really be laws against bad manners? Probably not, but I can still think such a person is a jerk.
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