What really gets me, is how people are so quick to offer their seat to a little child, as if s/he is the infirmest person in society. & then the kid spends 1/2 the time standing up, but no-one dares take the seat in case this child decides to reoccupy this seat.
Even parents will stand up for their child to sit.
Have we arrived to the description on last Daf of Sotah of the Generation totally devoid of respect by the young for the old?