Role Confusion

Question: If a lesbian couple gets onto a crowded metro and there is one seat left, which of the two gets to sit down?

This is the exact situation that happened on the metro the other day. A couple was arguing about who got to sit down in the seat next to me while the other one stood.

I guess if I was a part of a lesbian couple I would make sure that we decide these things beforehand so we don't make a scene in public. How embarrassing for them. Of course a lot of things would have to be very different in order for that scenario to involve me anyway...

Time

It is said that "Time heals all things." I think that of all the things in the world that are tricky and fluster me in any way time is the most obstinate of them all. When you are happy and having fun time speeds up so you don't get to enjoy the fun as long. When you are grieving, time is the only thing that can make you feel better but it goes so slowly that being healed and happy again seems a million years away. In my mind it should be the other way around. Time should fly by when you are grieved and slow way down when you are having fun. That way sadness will seem to last only a moment and your happy times will seem to never end.