Is it Really so Much to Ask For to Have a Quiet, peaceful Journey on the Bus Home From Work?.....
It would seem the answer to my question would no! Especially if you live in Lanarkshire in Scotland like I do. I’ll set the scene - I was standing at the bus stop after a long hard backshift last weekend. I’m tired, sweaty, and hungry. All in all I not interested in others people’s nonsense and just want to get home - the sooner the better - to get showered, have something to eat and have a beer to unwind. The last thing I need is some mindless Lambrini drinking meathead trying to noise me up to impress his girlfriend.
That is however exactly what happened. So as already mentioned - I’ve finished work - I’m walking over to the bus stop and I can’t help but notice the obnoxious looking Ned looking slightly worse for wear at the bus stop drinking Lambrini with his girlfriend. The first injustice here is the fact I had to share the same breathing space as these people.
Anyway getting more to the point - I reach the bus stop and the Ned has the brass neck to ask me a pound for his bus fare claiming he has no money. I’m thinking to myself "he has no money but he’s boozing Lambrini in the streets? I don’t think so some how." I could have been cheeky with him but being the nice guy I am I was polite when explained I don’t carry money to work and explained the reason for this. To cut a long story short, he was cheeky with me when faced with the fact I never had any money, so I gave him cheeky answer back. End of story right?
Wrong! The guy proceeded to punch the bus stop in a vain attempt to intimidate me. I turned round at looked at him just to show him I was not in any way fearful of his pitiful antics but he continued to punch the bus stop while the girlfriend, even though she was drunk, had the sense to understand he was acting like a pillock and to try and calm him down. As I’m getting on the bus I hear him sneer "ya fucking baldy bastard" under his breath - notice how cowardly he is even though he was boozed up?
Anyway having got on the bus I thought it was all over, I could relax a bit, I’m finally on my way home. Then some other idiot Ned runs up to the bus unprovoked when it stopped at traffic lights and batters the window where I am sitting and proceeds to shout abuse I can’t understand. Maybe because he was inbred, who knows? I off course just looked ahead and never gave him the airtime he was looking for and just looked straight ahead.
Now I know most people reading this will be thinking that these are trivial matters, but that is the point. Let me put it this way....
Whenever someone gets assaulted in the streets or there is a breach of the peace, it is seen as a minor incident by the courts. The offender is usually let off with a slap on the wrist and let free to continue their inbred ways. This is off course is meant to free up the Police and the courts to fight more serious crime, but think about it for just a minute. Maybe the fact that these people can get away with these things so easily is the reason the have no fear of getting tanked up on booze before going out and causing mayhem. We need tougher laws and we as a society should have a zero tolerance attitude to any kind of anti-social behaviour, no matter how trivial it may seem.
If you give these people an inch they will take a yard, and the only language these people understand is force. Let’s just hope someone high up will take notice of these social injustices that continue to happen week in, week out.
