Hi to everybody...woke to clouds this morning and didn't lose them and haven't yet so looks like our lovely Indian summer has gone but it's still warm...got up at nine and went shopping at 10.25 for the 10.37 bus and it arrived at 10.45, which is nothing short of a damned miracle...LOL...but it was absolutely full with standing room only, which I thought I can't stand all that time being thrown around and, as there was a young girl sitting in the disabled seating, hubby asked her if I could sit down because nobody offered and she stood up and let me sit down...very different from London when, each time I got on a crowded bus, somebody stood up immediately and offered me a seat...I am really, really impressed by Londoners...have no qualms now about asking somebody to let me have a seat reserved for the disabled...just stupid to stand and suffer...Anyway, had a really good shop and was back on the bus home at 12.20 and indoors by 1 in time for lunch...Hubby's cold seems to have almost gone so looks like it was brought on by the sudden changes of temperatures where he works...
Now, we've had lunch, put the shopping away and will play cards for a while before I cook the dinner...hope you're having some sunshine and a good day, and send great big hugs to one and all for now....
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PurpleDragon
- 13.10.2008 @ 16:38:41
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jenray
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- 13.10.2008 @ 18:43:43
Most of the people on the bus were elderly so didn't expect them to get up, but this young girl could have especially as she'd sat in seats reserved for disabled people and wheelchairs...but she did get up with no protest so I did thank her...GBHs...XXX
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PurpleDragon
- 13.10.2008 @ 18:55:51
But the point is - she //should// have gotten up voluntarily.
I remember when I was heavily pregnant with Anthony. I was on the train into work, about 8 months pregnant, and NO ONE stood to give me their seat. Businessmen, schoolkids, no one. I was nearly in tears by the time I arrived in Edinburgh, and the rest of the day was shot because I was so exhausted.-
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jenray
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- 13.10.2008 @ 19:16:45
Yes, I can understand you being upset...In bloody Malta, not one single person ever stood up for me the entire fortnight we spent on that tip of an island...I was nearly in tears then because the damned bus drivers drove like lunatics and I was hurled all over the place...in the end, we couldn't travel anywhere...just stayed in the hotel until it was time to go home...it's very hurtful when you know that people are studiously ignoring your presence and that it's clear you need a seat, but they just refuse to give up theirs...you should see the dirty looks I've had on occasions when I sat down in a seat in a local bus when one came free here and left an older person standing...but it was that or frigging collapse in a heap on the floor...it's incredibly obvious I'm disabled but because my legs work, it seems nobody considers me so here...
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freeasthewind
- 13.10.2008 @ 22:38:17
This my pet peeve. I have a handicapp sticker I carry with me so that when I am with someone who drives and we have to stop I can use it. Then I have stupid people ask me where the handicapp person is. And I usually very hateful I might add. Explain that not all disabilities are seen and if they want more information they need to look it up in the dictionary. And unless they walk a day in your shoes they don't know. Sorry for the tangent but it really frosts me
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- 14.10.2008 @ 01:51:21
What card game do you play Jen?
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jenray
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- 14.10.2008 @ 12:20:22
Cribbage...
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I can never understand folk who don't get up, and the folk who park in disabled spaces deserve a good whipping!