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not to feel even slightly guilty

143 replies

bakedpotato · 27/03/2007 21:59

about ripping a hole in a stranger's nasty jacket -- if anything, getting a bit of a kick out of it?

I got on a very full bus with 2 DCs this pm. Most people moved aside, with varying degrees of grace, to let me get the buggy down the aisle. Not one lady. She left her bag in the way so I thought, sod you, madam, and rammed the buggy into it, and past it like a Sherman tank and as we went by, I heard this satisfying rriiiiiippppp and realised somehow her apparel had snagged the buggy. She kept looking from me to the tear, daggers, but I was too busy discussing spring blossom with DD to notice.

I am not wrong, am I?

OP posts:
Blu · 27/03/2007 23:39

Streatham / Brixton.

It's actually very civilised.

But VVVV's comment rang true - when the nail bomber bombed Brixton and left the bomb in a sports bag at the bus stop, someone took the bomb out of the bag and ran off with the bag

Pann · 27/03/2007 23:39

feel obliged to point out that I am NOT "PANNtsdown". This is some female netter with a desire to see my perfectly formed lower half. Poor thing.

Soapbox · 27/03/2007 23:40

Blu, you are making me laugh - and I now feel a bit mean for being so po-faced on this thread

Surfermum · 27/03/2007 23:40

I was rammed in the ribs with a shopping trolley a few weeks ago. I was browsing in a corner of the clothing section at Asda and heard someone say "hmmph, we'll go round the other way then, she isn't moving", I turned around to say "oh sorry am I in the way" and to move my trolley. Next thing I knew mad woman appeared on the other side of me, she glared at me and rammed her trolley into my side. I can only assume she'd said excuse me and got no response, but I really, genuinely hadn't heard her. All she had to do was tap me on the shoulder or say excuse me a bit louder in case I hadn't heard, but instead she seemed to get herself in an unnecessary tizz.

Maybe this lady didn't realise her bag was in the way? But even if she did, I'm afraid I would feel really bad that I'd torn her jacket.

Blu · 27/03/2007 23:40

Yes bus drivers are horrid. But people on buses are often v chatty and friendly - and helpful.

shirleymac · 27/03/2007 23:40

Nah - you should meet some of the Dunfermline bus drivers. Father in law once had some kids (deliberately) smack a football off the windscreen right in front of his face when he had a bus chock-full of passengers. The ball bounced into some bushes & FIL stopped the bus, crawled in after the ball & burst it with his pen. I wouldn't mess with some of them lol.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 27/03/2007 23:41

Knew it! HAd to be Brixton or Peckham.....

rowan1971 · 27/03/2007 23:41

Aaaah, I sed to live on Upper Tulse Hill (near Christchurch Road). Fond memories of good old Brixton. Until DP got hit round the head outside the Ritzy by a crack addict in the midst of psychotic delustion (the addict, not DP). Then we decided to move to Brighton.

Pann · 27/03/2007 23:43

shirley - such style!!

Blu · 27/03/2007 23:45

oooh, Rowan, I live very near where you used to

rowan1971 · 27/03/2007 23:46

Nice up there. Brockwell Park cafe - yum.

Blu · 27/03/2007 23:49

There's another Brighton MN-er who used to live in Brixton and go to Brockwell Park cafe!

rowan1971 · 27/03/2007 23:50

Ooooh! Who?

Bet she didn't then move to leafy Surrey, though, eh?

Blu · 27/03/2007 23:52

no...she's still in Brighton!

Bet you miss the buzz outside the ritzy just a bit!

rowan1971 · 28/03/2007 00:02

Oh yes. Tell you what I really miss - the Prince Albert on a summer evening.

Gotta go to bed, but will watch out for Brixton-related info from you, Blu. Give my regards to the Number 2 (arf).

So, in summary, bakedpotato: we think you should have a nice cup of coffee and a cake in Brockwell Park. Just don't get on any buses.

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bakedpotato · 28/03/2007 09:48

I'd have to go on several buses, and a tube, to get to Brockwell Park

You guys! You slay me. Of course she saw me approaching, she was just too lazy/dim to see that she could help by moving her bag, and her vile enormous puffy coat, out of the way

Thought of the rrrriiiippping noise still makes me snort with pleasure

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hoolagirl · 28/03/2007 09:57

Oooh, that was the wrong wrong thing to do.
And I don't know why im feeling so happy for you for doing it

charliegal · 28/03/2007 10:03

This website makes me laugh.You rip someone's jacket, say you don't even feel slightly guilty and ask 'am I being unreasonable'? Good job you don't live in Hackney either

beckybrastraps · 28/03/2007 10:09

Bloody hell. That actually makes me feel pretty . Just as rude and ignorant as the woman who was in your way.

And you did this in front of your children?

wildwoman · 28/03/2007 10:15

It doesn't sound like she actually intended to rip the coat, the stupid woman should have moved her bag and shouldn't have been sitting in those seats in the first place.

powder28 · 28/03/2007 11:14

lol at 'rrriiipppp'
I think i can actually hear it.

OrmIrian · 28/03/2007 13:21

Yes....a teeny leetle bit unreasonable perhaps . I'd have been mortified even if she was an unco-operative and bloody-minded poo-bum (as my Ds#2 would say).

piglit · 28/03/2007 13:27

Probably a bit unreasonable but you've given me a bloody good larf with your "rrriiipppp". Thanks.

Caligula · 28/03/2007 13:29

It was very wrong, but probably the result of some kind of busnbuggy syndrome.

motherinferior · 28/03/2007 13:36

BP hasn't actually asked if her behaviour was unreasonable, she's asked if her lack of guilt is unreasonable.

Pointless stuff, guilt. And I should know, I'm usually awash with it. In this case, you can't do anything about it and frankly it's not as if you stabbed her, is it, so nope I wouldn't bother exercising your guilt muscles on this one.