Monday, 16 March 2009

Ignorance

So I've seen a few displays of this lately and it made me wonder whether many people react in the same way as I do when I see them, or even if they notice the same displays that I do. I don't know if it is to do with upbringing, schooling, personality or a combination of all of these things - but there are some right ignorant b*ggers out there at the moment. Recent displays (mostly tube-based to be fair) include the following:

  • A man eating a Burger King at 8.30am - the carriage was rammed. This is downright wrong, in so many ways?
  • A child sitting on a chair on the tube (I actually think it was the same tube) whilst its buggy was next to the chair and the mother was sitting next to the child. The child could have sat either on the buggy or the mother's knee..to make matters worse there was an elderly lady standing next to the buggy. But to some mothers their child deserves hero worship, or at least its own independent adult chair, at the age of 18 months.
  • Suitcases on the left hand side of the escalator at rush hour. (Don't visit London if you don't know the rules.)
  • A woman remarking loudly "I WILL FALL OVER IN A MINUTE IF YOU KEEP PUSHING ME" on the overland the other morning. Yet somehow she still had enough room for her massive bag on the floor in front of her and also enough room to play one of those electronic mind exercise games. Incidentally, everyone else around her were like sardines but it was worth being a sardine in case you were verbally abused again.
  • A few people I have spotted leaning against the only pole on the overland train, which is in the centre of the carriage - the only pole that everyone who is standing needs to use. At what point does that individual think "oh goodie, a nice big pole to lean against while everyone else train surfs their way to central London."
  • There are also a good few people who launch themselves into the carriage when the doors are shutting. At Waterloo and Westminster this is especially funny (as long as you are not hit by the launchee) because they often get stuck in the double doors. A man with a very red face gothis head stuck the other day and it was ace.
Ah, that's better already.

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