She looked around, saw there were no free seats, and for some reason fixated on me immediately, even though there were plenty of healthy men around us calmly sitting and scrolling on their phones.

— Have you no shame at all? — she said loudly. — Young people today are completely disrespectful. Is it that hard to offer your seat to an older person?

My hands were shaking, but I had no strength to explain. On any other day, I would’ve stood up. But that day I could barely sit.

— There are men sitting over there, maybe they could… — I tried to say quietly.