I’m traveling and considering taking my drone along with me. I am sceptical if they may confiscate while I return due to the current situation.
I have the certificate and the drone was purchased one year back.
Please advise, if anyone has personal experience.
Today something small happened on the Dubai Metro, but it’s been sitting in my head ever since.
I boarded the Gold Class during rush hour. Every seat was taken. I had a medium-sized bag with me, not huge, but heavy enough that carrying it for a 40-minute ride didn’t sound fun. So I kept moving around the coach, looking for a corner or a spot where I could at least rest the bag and stand comfortably.
A woman noticed me moving around. She was seated with her toddler, probably 3 or 4 years old, sitting in the adjacent seat. Without saying much, she picked up her child onto her lap and vacated the seat.
I didn’t think much. I thanked her and sat down.
But within seconds, I realized what had just happened.
She now had to hold her child for the rest of the journey, and the kid didn’t exactly look lightweight either. Meanwhile, I was sitting there because of a bag.
That realization hit me slowly. I started feeling incredibly inconsiderate. Like I had accepted kindness too quickly without thinking about what it cost the other person.
Two stops later, someone got off and another seat became free. I immediately moved there and politely gestured to her that she could let her toddler sit back on the empty seat I had vacated.
She smiled… but didn’t move.
And somehow that made me feel even worse.
Then, at the next stop, another woman got into the coach, noticed the mother holding the child, walked toward the empty seat beside her… paused… and instead chose to stand near the door instead of taking it.
At that point my guilt was in overdrive. In my head I was thinking, “Wow, everyone here seems more socially aware than me.”
A stop later, another slightly older woman boarded and she took the seat without hesitation, which weirdly made me feel a little less terrible because at least now it didn’t seem like some universally understood moral situation except to me.
But for the remaining 25–30 minutes, I kept replaying the whole thing in my head.
Should I have refused the seat from the beginning?
Was accepting it rude?
Or was I overthinking a simple act of kindness?
Curious to know what fellow Redditors think.