With you, through thick and thin, health and illness ...

In all metro train compartments here in Japan, some seats are marked "Courtesy seats".

These are intended for the elderly, physically challenged, women with kids and pregnant
women. These seats have the following sign above them, with a pictorial description of
who is eligible to sit there.



One of my colleagues took a photo of this sticker and showed it to his wife, telling her that he
has been with her while she went through all the 4 stages depicted in the sticker. He was by
her side when she broke a leg, stood by her when she was pregant, and then when she was
with baby and finally now when she is getting old. :-)

I am sure she (like any other woman) would'nt have found the 'getting old' part very amusing.
More so, because she is only in the early thirties, which is not really what you would call old.

But then, I am sure he was just kidding.