I was on a bus the other day seated behind a young mixed-race girl and her, very smiley and cute baby.
An old woman with a walking stick wanted to sit down on the inside seat and this "young lady" made no attempt to move, or uncross her legs to allow the old lady to sit, so the old lady squeezed silently into the seat. This whole scenario silently enraged me and I sat thinking venomous thoughts about the uneducated youth of today.
When it was time for the old lady to get off the bus, it was apparent that the youth would neither uncross her legs or move to allow the old lady to pass. I just couldn't keep my mouth shut any longer. I weighed up the likelihood of getting stabbed, punched, spat at or otherwise and realised it would just be verbal,
particularly as she had a baby in a pram. So I leaned forward and said to the youth, "Perhaps you'd like to move your legs to let the lady pass". "Oi, watch yer mouth, it's got nufink to do wiv you!" was her predictable reply. By this time the old lady had had to barge her way past and was off the bus. "Well, I think you could've made it easier for that lady to get off the bus," I replied, "Couldn't you see she was an old lady with a walking stick?"
"She didn't give me any respect!!!!!!!!!!!!" was the bizarre reply.
Ok, I reasoned - what a strange world we live in. We're living in a free world today and not speaking German because the old lady's generation fought in the War for our freedoms only so that she could be dissed by the youth and told to show them some respect! No doubt the mixed-race girl would've been sent to the concentration camps - and now her daughter is going to grow up in a world based on misplaced concepts of "respect"!
I shall wear my poppy with pride and continue to plan my emigration from the UK!
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