Post #2123001

on my first day of living in new york; i was carrying my worldly possessions in a trio of jumbo suitcases and i was having difficulty carrying them up the subway stairs to the street and blocking the path for everyone else. two people -- wordlessly and zero eye contact -- each took a suitcase out of my hand and carried it up to the top of the stairs, dropped them off where i can resume rolling them and walked away. not a single "let me help you" or "do you need some help?"; they saw the situation and decided that helping me would help everyone else and simply did it. this was before smartphones became a thing so i doubt that this could still happen because people's faces are too buried in screens to notice others anymore.