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To want to tell this woman to fuck right off

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grumpasaur · 13/10/2014 18:03

I grant I am cold and wet and not in the best spirits. However I seem to have a habit of attracting annoying folk whilst going about my business.

Just now- standing at bus stop- no room in shelter so standing in rain. Check the bus times on my phone. An older lady eagerly catches my eye and asks when the 249 comes. I tell her it says 8 minutes. Then she says, what about the 432? I say it says two mins. Go back to listening to music on my phone. She catches my eye again- I stop music just so she can point out that it's been a "long two minutes", looking at me as if I have any control over the buses whatsoever. I check the times again- and tell her now the 249 says four minutes, the 432 says 11. She crossly tells me "so your information isn't infallible then?!". Well obviously not you stupid woman, have you never taken a bus in South London before? Instead I say "no- they often change". Then the 432 comes, she isn't paying attention. So I tap her and point out the bus. She snarls at me "well it's the 249 I really need". Then glares at me.

Honestly.

Why do I bother?!

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thelastthneed · 13/10/2014 18:06

You must be my neighbour Grin...I'm currently experiencing bus rage on a packed 322...

Charitybelle · 13/10/2014 18:09

You're nicer than me OP, I wouldn't have tapped her after the first snarky comment. Fucking commuting in London sucks ass!

LadyLuck10 · 13/10/2014 18:09

I find the 'infallible' hard to believe.

LittleBairn · 13/10/2014 18:12

Never talk to someone on London transport or waiting for it! And Never make eye contact again that's only asking for trouble.
At least these were the unwritten rules when I lived in London.Grin

ithoughtofitfirst · 13/10/2014 18:16

Omg that's so annoying!

Bailey101 · 13/10/2014 18:19

Ladyluck, why is infallible hard to believe? I use it every now and again, there's nothing unusual about it. Unless you think I'm made up as well Hmm

BoredPanda · 13/10/2014 18:21

I remember a woman properly yelling at me to 'get the fucking 150' when she attempted to barge in front of me into a packed bus, and then swore and said she hated the fucking 275 and hated the fucking bus driver. Hmm

FruVikingessOla · 13/10/2014 18:38

I understand your annoyance, grumpasaur. But I am a frequent London bus user (as a resident) and most bus stops have dot matrix information at each bus stop giving information about the next bus/es to arrive.

I usually point fellow 'queuers' to the dot matrix doo-dah Grin

DragonReena · 13/10/2014 18:54

I had a woman try to push me forward to get on to the tube while people were still getting off. I just stayed standing in the same place so she had a right go at me, accusing me of pushing her! Confused I pointed out to her that I wasn't pushing her, i just hadn't started moving yet as people were getting off. She threatened to stab me!

A couple of stops down the line and she was trying to get off and seemed to think she could walk through a man. Turns out she couldn't and he didn't move so she had a go at him. He told her she needed to stop pushing so she has a go at him and swung for him...only she punched the wrong person and ended up person a random woman. She was very apologetic to her saying 'sorry love, but I was trying to punch him'.

Gotta love London!

This was quite a smart looking woman who looked like she was on her way to work.

BakerStreetSaxRift · 13/10/2014 18:59

Dragon Shock

Great stories Smile

taxi4ballet · 13/10/2014 19:03

I happened to be in our high street a few years ago, and to my total amazement along came some police motorcycles... and a large black limousine containing the Queen.

The whole high street ground to a halt, and we stood in goggle-eyed surprise as the whole cavalcade swept regally past, and I took some pictures on my mobile.

Then an older lady, standing next to me and seeing my phone, asked to borrow my phone to quickly ring her husband. Sure, I said, no problem, thinking that you don't get royalty round here too often and she was going to tell hubby.

So... she made her call...and asked her husband to come and pick her up as the bus hadn't turned up and she'd been waiting in the cold for ages!!!

ChippingInLatteLover · 13/10/2014 19:03
Grin

I know how you feel, I swear I'm a magnet to people like this too! However, I think I bring it on myself because I do always want to help people, so I think I send out that sort of vibe. I just wish it had a filter to stop rude & stupid people asking Grin

ChippingInLatteLover · 13/10/2014 19:05

God I miss London :( It's boring in the 'burbs.

taxi4ballet · 13/10/2014 19:08

We're in the rural BackOfBeyond, Chipping, and we still get the Queen drive past!

Loftyjen · 13/10/2014 19:13

FruVikingessOla - the dog matrix things are being phased out with preference being the text/smartphone bus checker, round my way in SE London, the few stops still with the dot matrix signs are normally less accurate than countdown site on my phone.

HappyAgainOneDay · 13/10/2014 19:14

Our local bus service wins national prizes for its service. SmileGrin

grumpasaur · 13/10/2014 19:16

Ha, these stories have made me deal better!

Chipping i am like you- I have travelled loads and depended on the kindness of others, so do like to pay it back (and therefore must give off a vibe). But twats like this lady today give me the proper rage!

Lady- why on earth would I make that up?

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MissBlennerhasset · 13/10/2014 19:17

I love your second story, Dragon.

I think London public transport can turn ordinarily sane people into raving monsters. I am usually very laid back but recall an incident when I shouted at a TFL worker for being 'a condescending fuckwit'. He really was an arse but he didn't deserve the level of wrath I unleashed. I had an old friend from out of town with me at the time and she had her mouth hanging open watching me. I took him chocolates to apologise the next day but I still burn thinking about the incident.

RiverTam · 13/10/2014 19:23

I'm now a south London bus commuter (trains up until now), thus far it's been fine but I do think you get a special brand of person on buses south of the river, you can feel the atmosphere change as you go over Vauxhall Bridge!

grumpasaur · 13/10/2014 19:53

River Tam- god, I know! I don't know what happens south of the river, but it isn't good... There are so many delays, diversions, cancellations, early terminations... And no alternative routes.

I am normally able to go with the flow... But when there is not only a lack of flow but a flooding river in the wrong direction for hours on end, it brings out the stab in me!

On Thursday it took me over three hours to travel what is normally twenty minutes. Don't even get me started!

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ModreB · 13/10/2014 20:05

You should try using public transport outside London. When there is 1 bus an hour, from 7am until 9am and then 4pm until 6pm, and in between it's 3 buses to get you where you need to be, and the powers that be decide to change the route without any notification.

And I'm not talking about a small town or village, but the 3rd biggest city outside London.

FatMumSlim72 · 13/10/2014 20:06

I wonder if Lady Luck meant she couldn't believe the woman's use of 'infallible'? It certainly seems bizarre the woman used it! Like you were setting yourself up as some sort of bus oracle, which you weren't!!

LittleBairn · 13/10/2014 20:26

You haven't really expereinced bad public transport until you have had to deal with Scotrail.
Once at the station train pulled in,my usual train but there had been delays, doors opened conductor got out as I tried to get on he said aid "sorry hen but were not stopping just need to secure the barrier" Hmm really because I could have sworn the rain was stationary in front of me!
Nope I wasn't allowed on and had to wait another 40 mins in torrential rain.

LadyLuck10 · 13/10/2014 20:31

FatMumSlim that's exactly what I meant. I find that word odd in this situation.

LittleBairn · 13/10/2014 20:32

Lady the woman was odd, she was having a go at a stranger over bus times!

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