Latest Moan From You and Me 2023

I've got a pair of trainers that need the soles re-sticking! PM me your address and the job is yours The Child would approve, I think. They're rather pretty pale blue and silver affairs

 

The BBC weather forecast is for strong winds tonight. The met office forecast says there is going to be a light breeze during the strong winds forecast by the BBC.

Who do you believe?

 

I think you will find the met office has a yellow strong wind weather warning for most of Wales and Southern England.

 

Train due at 1135. Wife and two excited kids in tow.

1125, at the station, the ticket machine is broken. No problem, the office is open, only two people in the queue. One of whom is already being served.

1130, she's still there, debating routes on a journey she isn't even doing today. Despite the staff telling her repeatedly there is no direct train, the route has two changes, the customer insists she only wants to change once.

Our train is announced as the next one in.

1133 our train arrives on the platform, the kids burst into the office to tell me it's here. The customer continues to deliberate in her own sweet time about route options for her journey that is not even today.

1135 our train leaves without us. The customer is still insisting there must be a route with only one change. There isn't.

Eventually, she concedes that she should go away and have a think about it.

I have no issue with people taking their time. But if it was me, aware that people are waiting, aware that a train is coming in, and aware that some excited kids are wanting to get on the train, I'd have suggested to the clerk that they see if the others in the queue maybe have less time to sort their enquiries out.

 

I get the same problem at the doctors, some people just take ages to sort out the simplest of things and the queue is out the door, they even then try to start some general chat after they are sorted.

 

Or people who sit waiting for the bus, when they get on they can't find their bus pass. Being an ex bus driver you just want to smack the old gits......oh I am an old git

 

What blighted my life as a bus driver were the ones who got on each Monday morning with a £20 note for a £12 weekly ticket. I was only given a £30 float. I would get half a dozen of them at the first stop and more as the journey continued.
I would end up telling them to go and sit down and get their weekly ticket on the way home.

 

When I worked for East Kent Bus Co we had to use our own money as float.

 

Luckily I've never had a job that involved working with the public.

I dont think I could have put up with it, I hate the "public" in general.

 

Never been on a bus, i've must of had a sheltered life

 

No you're just lucky.

 

My memories of riding on a bus to work in the early 70s.
Had to go upstairs because I wanted to smoke, all the windows running in water on cold days, someone opens a window and then someone else closes it.
The bus get full and you get someone sitting next to you who rolls his own using Old Holbourn and he picks his nose the whole journey.

If you dont smoke and sit downstairs you have about 8 people standing and falling all over you, that's if your not one of those that cant get a seat.

Best part, jumping off before its stopped.