A question from Sue

When did people become SO DAMN RUDE?

I was at the BP on Woodstock Rd the other day when I witnessed a guy yelling at the poor fellow behind the counter to .. and I quote 'GET IT RIGHT THIS TIME'!.. Have you ever felt like you are witnessing a bad scene from a 1970's movie, or worst still, you are stuck in one of those awkward moments that supposedly pass as comedy on The Office?.. That's what we all felt like!

Then I was in London on Sunday when a guy refused to pay... wait for it.... 90p for a bus ride.. Now he was making a point, because he had paid to go on a train which was not stopping at his stop that day.. But to spend 15 minutes abusing a driver who then shut down the bus, called in a code red, and left us all sitting there thinking  'Will we get off the bus.. or will we be stabbed if we walk by him'?.. Ok.. possible over reaction there.. but this is 2008.. it was London, not Oxford, a gal thinks about these things...

After trying to rally the rest of the stranded people on the bus to donate about 5p each to pay the guys fee so we could just get where we wanted to go, I then realised they were all bigger chickens than I.. (the moment the back door opened and they long jumped a jump an Olympian would be proud of, I knew my plot was doomed).....

Anyway.. my point is WOULD IT HURT US ALL TO SLOW DOWN, TAKE A CHILL PILL AND BE NICER TO EACH OTHER?

Siiiigh... at moments like this I realise I have grown old..

Right... off to watch some Ameriacan TV on an illegal website months ahead of it playing here..

(just joking.. no doubt I will watch something on that BBC iPLAYER thing.. horribly LEGAL.. and once again confirming I have become old.)

x Sue