Thursday, 2 July 2009

Why are people so inconsiderate?


A woman on my bus this morning decided to eat a huge Sharon fruit. These are big, orange , tomato-like things that are really juicy and so really messy and wet. We were sitting in the "bunch of four" seats at the front of the bus. She was facing me. She slobbered the fruit for about 10 minutes - picking off little black bits and flicking them on to the floor, dripping juice... then realised she had nothing to wipe her hands with. She got up, staggered over to the wheelchair bay and picked up a USED baby wipe that some inconsiderate slummy mum had dropped, staggered back (still dripping juice). Naturally the bus lurched at that moment and she went flying with both hands out into the lap of the poor man sitting next to me. Sharon juice and bits of Sharon fruit skin ended up in a huge mess over BOTH of the poor guy's trouser legs. I was so glad she got him instead of me. She followed up by dropping the re-used baby wipe into the puddle of juice and bits to make sure that the guy (who was on crutches) would slip over as he got up. Why are people so inconsiderate?

On the way home a teen girl had one of those bilious-looking drink-in-a-cup things that they sell in sweet shops. The smell was unbelievable - a mix of passion fruit, cough mixture and something chemical and throat catching. The smell filled the (really hot) bus. Why are people so inconsiderate?


It is hot and I hate it. They promised that the heatwave would break today. It hasn't so far, but the satellite signal is breaking up, making it hard to watch Numb3rs. Satellite breakup usually means a storm, so maybe there is one on its way. At work I would normally have my french window open in hot weather, but we have workmen in tarting up the outside of the building, so it's too noisy. The only way to get air into the room is to have the corridor door open. Of course the hot weather and builders have to coincide with the foreign-language summer school. Overseas teenagers shrieking in many languages outside my room. Why are people so inconsiderate?

On Monday Bex and I went swimming for the first time in ages. Wonderful cool water. Bliss. But when I got back to the changing rooms what did I find? Mud on the floor (where the leisure centre have obviously cut back on cleaning staff) and DIRTY NAPPIES on the benches. Why are people so inconsiderate?

1 comment:

Bekky said...

They just are. My considered opinion is that 99% of the population are inconsiderate, self-centred halfwits. Who smell.

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