(20 Sep 2015, 11:42 am)Charles41 wrote Waiting for the bus at Wideopen. There's only me and this this chava at the stand. He's sitting smoking a roll up. Bus approaches and he stays sitting in the stand.
So I hail the bus thinking he doesn't want to get on. He calls me a cheeky c**t and accuses me of stealing his place in the queue!
I ask him to get off with me at the next stop so we can have a polite discussion about his manners.
He refuses to get off the bus. Chavas who are loud mouths and do not have the guts to back it up really get my goat.
Charles
Annoys me when you get anyone at a bus stop who looks like they don't want a bus then are quick to move if you try to get on before them.
The worst "queue jumping" incidents I have had was in Sunderland, Park Lane and I was waiting for the X20 to Bishop Auckland and there was only a few people in front of me when I got there who all got on the 20 but this old bloke appeared at the front who wasn't there when I was so I decided to be a prick and try and get on before him and he shouted at me claiming I was queue jumping when in actual fact he doesn't understand what a bloody queue looks like.
Another incident again in Park Lane was when a 20 arrived late and the 20A arrived at around the same time with one of them pulling onto the next stand along and either someone from Nexus or a Go North East driver shouting that the other bus was going to wherever from the next stand and these women got out of the queue for the 20A on its usual stand and started walking towards the bus on the next stand along then turned round and tried to get back where they were in the queue for the 20A (in front of me) and I has having non of it and they stated that I was queue jumping when I did no such thing, in my opinion they left the queue so I was of the opinion that they should have joined the back of the queue, I'd get the same reaction if I went into Greggs and tried to get back where I was originally in the queue. Once on the 20A I ended up sitting in the quadrant seats and they joined me and proceed to angrily stare at me until they got off in Houghton-le-Spring.
Oh and a follow up reply to what someone said about a old person jumping past seven people in Concord yesterday, that's nothing! There is times the queue for service 7 has been close to stretching out of the door in Durham Bus Station and this old bloke who always seems to get on/off in Chilton will always sail to the front of the queue for the bus. Now, I will allow elderly to go in front of me at bus stops if I think they will politely reply or ask politely but I won't for arses like this, that plastic pass does not give you the right to be a ****.
By the way I'm not ageist, the same applies to people of all ages.