(23 Jan 2017, 11:16 pm)Jimmi wrote Had a bit of a incident with some old woman at Heworth Interchange today and I am wondering if this makes me a bad person:
I got off the 4 at Heworth Interchange and within seconds of arriving there was two service 27's come in bound for Newcastle, I noticed that there was a X36 to Newcastle due in about 10 minutes, so as I thought it would be a MPD, I decided to have a bash on that, just about everyone boarded the first 27 that came in but there was a old woman still in the bus shelter when the 27 left about 5 minutes later, I was convinced that she was waiting for the 'taxi bus service' which was due a few minutes after the X36, so the X36 came in and as it was pulling up to the stand, I moved forward to where the bus would stop, the woman was still sat there at this point, so I got on the X36 and sat in the sideways seat behind the drivers cab and as I sat down there she was putting her pass on the machine, I sensed that someone was behind me at the point I boarded but I did not think it would be her as I thought "who on earth would let two 27's go and wait 10 minutes to get on the X36... Who isn't a enthusiast?!" anyway, she was really not happy with me, when she walked past she was loudly tutting and she said summit to me as she walked past, I was not happy with this so I asked "is there a problem?" and she gave me such demonic stares the whole way to Newcastle, I swear she did not take her eyes off me for even a millisecond, thought about jumping off the sideways seat in front of her when we got to Newcastle but thought better of it and got off a few passengers before her and got myself out of the way to prevent escalating the situation even further.
Whilst I do admit I should have been slightly more observant in Heworth Interchange for if she was wanting to board the bus but do you feel she may have overreacted with me slightly? If she thinks just me doing it bad, I would love to show her the likes of Darlington Town Centre, she go on a rampage there no doubt. I dare bet she is saying to people about how ignorant I am and the youth of today, yada, yada, yada... But on a regular basis I am subjected to the same treatment from OAPs who are trying to sneak their way past me when I'm queuing to board a bus, had one old guy argue with me in Sunderland Park Lane Interchange when I was getting on the Pronto X20 to Bishop Auckland (this has got to be about 5 years ago now) and he claimed that I had pushed in, when in actual fact it was he who had pushed in, got the ignorance of youth of today speech as ever as well.
What do you's think about this situation I was in today, was I and/or her out of order?
At the end of the day, it's a bus mate. There's always going to be strange people kicking around.
At Stanley, the kids get on the 6 at Flint Hill, get off at Kyo. They then swarm down the street, attacking various structures (I think they once tried to kick a house down ?), and about an hour later wander in Stanley Bus Station. They start kicking the bins and structures, then flood onto the V7 back home.
Elderly people also knock about and start shouting and screaming when buses pull onto the wrong stand because the proper stand already has a bus parked up. One older folk also races his wheel chair up and down the bus station before heading out of the bus station to his kip hill residence.
If you go travelling with the mentality that you will come across stange people, all you do is shrug your shoulders at such oddities and laugh at their strange behaviour while reviewing the mass collection of odd people you see on a day-to-day basis.
Questioning strange behaviour isn't going to get a response that's worth having. If some random guy (or gal) came up to you asking if there was a problem - whilst going about your normal routine, you'd be like 'no..?' then spend the time wondering why somebody went out of their way to ask you that.
Don't let it bother you mate 😛
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