Its summer, hay fever is around...

This is more of a general thing. I had this person sitting next to me today in tube, sneezing continuously. I am quite sure he wouldn't want to do it if given a choice and wouldn't want to discomfort his fellow passengers. But the poor fellow was helpless. I think it was hay fever that was haunting him and with his eyes very red, nose very busy and his face almost constantly covered with tissue.

What i noticed is that while he was struggling with himself, the passengers around him, especially some beauty pageants were giving a very strange and disgusting looks. I felt very much compassionate for that chap because there was hardly anything he could do. He actually got up from his seat and went near the door to cause less hassle to others but still these 'freaks' kept looking at him as if he was a terrorist or someone from a another planet.

Just wanted to ask my readers, is this fair? That poor fellow cannot afford the congestion charge and heavy parking fees to bring his car to central London, if he had one. So what else he could do. He can't ask his boss to allow him to travel after peak hours. He was doing his best to cover himself and cause as less hassle as possible to people around him, but we must realise that the looks we give him in that troubled state is going to give him more pain then his actual hay fever.

So guys, next time you find someone suffering like this, please don't at least given him a frown or bad look unless he is behaving irresponsibly.