Reply To: How would you react?

a mamin: I understand your story, but what you did was also wrong. Kibud Av Vam requires YOU to give up YOUR chair. The other girl had no chiyuv of K’bud Aim, besides lefno savo tokum. True, the girl should have offered, but what are we teaching our children? That K’bud Av V’am requires to make OTHERS sacrifice for someone they do not know? You should have gotten up for your mother regardless whom is sitting next to you. Hopefully, if someone saw you standing they would have offered you a chair. But you need to set the example first.